| | | Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 - 18 March 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been... | | Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many... | | Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 - 6 March1754) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743... | | Charles Townshend (August 29, 1725 - September 4, 1767), was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. He was a politician and... | | Sir Stephen Fox, was an English politician. Stephen Fox was the son of William Fox, of Farley, in Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer. At the age of fifteen... | | Richard Rigby, Secretary of Ireland, Paymaster of the Forces, was a member of the Rigby family also known as Rigby of Mistley Hall in Essex, the... | | George Canning (11 April 1770 - 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. | | George Rose (17 June 1744 - 13 January 1818) was a British politician. Born in Brechin, Scotland, he was educated at Westminster School, afterwards... | | Isaac Barré, British soldier and politician. Born in Dublin he was the son of a French refugee. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, e... | | The Lord Charles Henry Somerset (December 2 1767 - February 18 1831) was a British governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa, from 1814 to 1826. He... | |