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3 unusual facts about James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury


A Royal Scandal

Lord Malmesbury

Malmesbury, Western Cape

Malmesbury was named after Sir Lowry Cole's father-in-law, the Earl of Malmesbury.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

The final rupture seems to have arisen on the question of the declaration of the armed neutrality of the North, but it is known that Grigori Potemkin and the English ambassador, James Harris (afterwards 1st earl of Malmesbury), were both working against him some time before that.


Earl of Malmesbury

The son of the grammarian and politician James Harris, he served as Ambassador to Spain, Prussia, Russia and France and also represented Christchurch in the House of Commons.

Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley

In 1797 Wellesley accompanied Lord Malmesbury as secretary on his unsuccessful mission to negotiate peace with the French at Lille.

James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury

James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury GCB, PC (25 March 1807 – 17 May 1889), styled Viscount FitzHarris from 1820 to 1841, was a British statesman of the Victorian era.


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