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unusual facts about Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset


Addled Parliament

Parliament saw no reason for a further grant: they had agreed to raise £200,000 per annum as part of the Great Contract and as the war with Spain had reached its resolution with the 1604 Treaty of London, they saw the King's continued financial deficit as a result of his extravagance (especially on Scottish favourites such as Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset) and saw no justification for continued high spending.


Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester

He exchanged marbles for paintings with Rubens, served as an intermediary for collectors like Lord Somerset, Lord Pembroke, Lord Buckingham and sent Lord Arundel paintings by Daniel Mytens and Gerard van Honthorst.

Intention to be legally bound

The Industrial Relations Act 1971, introduced by Robert Carr (Employment Minister in Edward Heath's cabinet) provided that collective agreements were binding, unless a contact clause in writing declared otherwise.

Lord Carr

Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born 11 November 1916) was a British Conservative politician.

Richard Nicolls

Soon after the Restoration he became Groom of the Chamber to the Duke of York, through whose influence he was appointed in 1664 on a commission with Sir Robert Carr (d. 1667), George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick, to conquer New Netherlands from the Dutch and to regulate the affairs of the New England colonies and settle disputes among them.


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