Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: George Bubb Dodington


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

  
  Encyclopedia: George Grenville
George Grenville (October 14, 1712—November 13, 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of nine years (reaching the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain); Sir Robert Walpole served as Prime Minister alone for twenty-one years, for example.
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (17 June 1753 - 1813) was a British statesman; he was the second son of George Grenville and a brother of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), was the son and successor of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham and the grandson of prime minister George Grenville.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Grenville   (2755 words)

  
 George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe (1691-July 28, 1762) was an English politician and nobleman.
Christened simply George Bubb, he acquired the surname Dodington around the time his uncle died in 1720 and left him his estate.
Dodington is said to have been involved in a spy-ring, collecting valuable information about Jacobite activities.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /George_Dodington%2C_1st_Baron_Melcombe   (149 words)

  
 George Bubb Dodington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
George Bubb Dodington (1691 - July 28, 1762) was an English politician and nobleman.
george saint george george soros george smith george orwell george neumayr george mitchell george michael george mason george jones george herbert george spirides george stella
George Area Map Shows where St. George is in relation to New Ulm.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-George_Bubb_Dodington.html   (438 words)

  
 §9. "Memoirs" of Lord Waldegrave and Melcombe (George Bubb Dodington). IX. Memoir-Writers, 1715–60. Vol. 9. ...
James, second earl of Waldegrave, a great-grandson of James II, became a favourite with George II, was nominated lord of the bedchamber in 1743 and governor of the prince of Wales, afterwards George III, by whom he was not liked.
Thus, in his portrait of George II, Waldegrave insists, as upon the two really salient features in the likeness, on the king’s passion for business and his keen knowledge (surpassing that of any of his ministers) of foreign affairs.
Among the Tapers and Tadpoles of the “broad-bottom administration,” we are fortunate in possessing a three-quarter length portrait of so typical a fortune-hunter as George Bubb Dodington, who, by a long course of “disagreeable compliances” and grotesque contortions, raised himself to £5000 a year and a peerage as baron Melcombe.
www.bartleby.com /219/0909.html   (608 words)

  
 Ancestors of Sven Henry Marriott Dodington George Bubb Dodington
Ancestors of Sven Henry Marriott Dodington George Bubb Dodington
Patron and Place-Hunter: George Bubb Dodington - This was a bio written by Lloyd Sanders in 1919.
Wales (son of George II and heir apparent until his death in 1751).
www.dodingtonfamily.org /321.htm   (413 words)

  
 [No title]
George and Martha Newhook were both buried in the churchyard of Tollard Royal.
George on the 28th of November, 1723 and Martha on the 13th of January, 1733/4.
On November 30, 1735 George married a local girl, Sarah Sansome or "Sarry" as she was known in the village.
members.lycos.co.uk /spadespages/family/ref_new_lopez.html   (2115 words)

  
 chapfour
George II had had several mistresses and his Queen was reputed to be the lover of Lord Bute.
George III was always scared that he may have inherited a "mad" or nervous condition which nowadays would be called porphyria.
George III never enjoyed a robust health and he was ill in 1762 and 1765, but his first serious bout of "madness" did not happen until the winter of 1788/89.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~wykedh/webgeorge/Chapters%204.htm   (3658 words)

  
 Famous people of Weymouth & Portland
George had been advised that sea bathing would help cure his ‘nervous disorder’ so, between 1789 and 1805, he and his royal retinue spent a total of 14 holidays.
George Bubb Dodington was created the 1st Baron Melcombe Regis, and was one of the most powerful local men of the first half of the 18th century.
Dodington was a typical product of his era; graft, corruption and a measure of worthy deeds all combined.
www.weymouth.gov.uk /main.asp?svid=141&svaid=192&svapid=1699   (828 words)

  
 [No title]
George I. had no conception of anything abstract: taste, erudition, science, art, were like a dead language to his common sense, his vulgar profligacy, and his personal predilections.
George Augustus Selwyn, then, famous for his wit, and notorious for his love of horrors, was the second son of a country gentleman, of Matson, in Gloucestershire, Colonel John Selwyn, who had been an aide-de-camp of Marlborough's, and afterwards a frequenter of the courts of the first two Georges.
It appears that being at a certain club in Oxford, at a wine party with his friends, George sent to a certain silversmith's for a certain chalice, intrusted to the shopkeeper from a certain church to be repaired in a certain manner.
www.gutenberg.net /1/0/7/9/10797/10797.txt   (15727 words)

  
 George Bubb Dodington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Now rich he became a friend of Frederick Prince of Wales who took advantage of their acquaintance obtain loans that helped clear his debts on being thrown out of St James's by his father King George II of Great Britain moved into a London house belonging to Dodington.
Dodington is to have been involved in a spy-ring valuable information about Jacobite activities.
I am a fan of Savage Garden, The Eurythmics, and George Michael - all of them did a great job with and without Pavarotti....And the man who sang O SOLE MIO - Darren Hayes (formerly of Savage Garden)...
www.freeglossary.com /George_Bubb_Dodington   (531 words)

  
 The Hell-Fire Clubs
Prince of Wales, Frederick, son of George II and Queen Caroline, arrived in England in December 1728.
Dodington committed himself to Prince Frederick as Treasurer of the Chambers early in March of 1749.
Dodington no longer had a focal point for any active government opposition and lost his seat on 17 April, 1754 after holding it for over thirty years.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /history/hellfire/hellfire.html   (3659 words)

  
 Frederick, Prince of Wales -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The motives for the ill-feeling between Frederick and his parents may include the fact that he had been set up by his grandfather, even as a small child, as the representative of the house of Hanover, and was used to presiding over official occasions in the absence of his parents.
He was not permitted to go to England until his father took the throne as King (additional info and facts about George II of Great Britain) George II of Great Britain on 11 June, 1727.
The prince's father refused to make him the financial allowance that the prince considered should have been his, and Parliament was obliged to intervene, resulting in further bad feeling between the two.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frederick,_prince_of_wales.htm   (617 words)

  
 Dodington Family History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
GBD was a politician, spending over 50 years as a Member of Parliament.
GBD inherited a large fortune from a childless uncle, and built a London Mansion (Pall Mall) as well as a huge estate, rivaling Blenheim, at Eastbury Park.
It was said to be "exceeding large and possibly one of the heaviest piles of stone that Sir John Vanbrugh ever erected".
www.dodingtonfamily.org /GBDbiotopPage.htm   (216 words)

  
 Savernake Forest Column, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Its original home for the previous twenty years, was in Hammersmith London, at the home of George Bubb Dodington, or Baron Melcombe as he later became.
Dodington, a politician of some standing, died in 1762 shortly after he erected the column in memory of his late wife.
** Footnote:- King George's illness The illness that the monarch King George 111 had, which caused people to believe him to be mad, is now thought to have been Porphyria, an inherited disorder involving abnormalities in the production of heme pigments, the base material responsible for hemoglobin, the red blood cell pigment.
homepage.ntlworld.com /follies/savernake.html   (569 words)

  
 Gobions Estate North Mymms Hertfordshire - the English Landscape Garden
George London was apprenticed to Rose at St James’s and, on Rose’s death in 1677, became deputy to William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, in charge of the royal gardens for William and Mary.
In 1718 Vanbrugh prepared plans for a house almost on the scale of Blenheim for George Dodington (a cousin of Viscount Cobham at Stowe) at Eastbury, Dorset.
Dodington died in that same year and work was not recommenced by his son, George Bubb Dodington, until 1724.
www.brookmans.com /environment/gobions/ch3.shtml   (1892 words)

  
 George Bubb Dodington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Now enormously rich, he became a friend of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who took advantage oftheir acquaintance to obtain loans that helped clear his debts, and, on being thrown out of St James's Palace by his father, King George II of Great Britain, moved into a London house belonging to Dodington.
Dodington is said to have been involved in aspy-ring, collecting valuable information about Jacobite activities.
In 1761, following the accession of Frederick's son to the throne as George III, he was created Baron Melcombe ofMelcombe Regis.
www.therfcc.org /george-bubb-dodington-43546.html   (150 words)

  
 Voltaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The new king was not fond of "boetry" [poetry?], but Queen Caroline was, and international jealousy was pleased at the thought of welcoming a distinguished exile from French illiberality.
Horace Walpole, George Bubb Dodington, Bolingbroke, William Congreve, the Duchess of Marlborough, and Alexander Pope were among his English friends.
He was quite unacquainted with the history of his own language and literature, and more here than anywhere else he showed the extraordinarily limited and conventional spirit which accompanied the revolt of the French 18th century against limits and conventions in theological, ethical and political matters.
uncover.us /en/wikipedia/v/vo/voltaire.html   (8507 words)

  
 Frederick Prince Of Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He had a will of his own, and there are various stories about his unpleasant habits, but these are not altogether borne out by the known facts: that he was, for example, a lover of music, science and the arts.
He was summoned to England when his father took the throne as King George II of Great Britain, and immediately became a thorn in the side of his parents, thwarting their every ambition and making a point of opposing them in everything.
King George III of the United Kingdom - (June 4, 1738 - January 29, 1820).
www.wikiverse.org /frederick-prince-of-wales   (484 words)

  
 Frederick, Prince of Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The motives for the ill-feeling between Frederick and his parents may include the fact that he had been set up by hisgrandfather, even as a small child, as the representative of the house of Hanover, and was used to presiding over officialoccasions in the absence of his parents.
He wassummoned to England when his father took the throne as King George II of Great Britain, and immediately became a thorn in the side of his parents, thwartingtheir every ambition and making a point of opposing them in everything.
King George III of the UnitedKingdom - (June 4, 1738 - January 29, 1820).
www.therfcc.org /frederick%2C-prince-of-wales-99784.html   (424 words)

  
 Search for Dodington books:
The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis;: From March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761; with an appendix, containing some curious...
The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis; from March 8, 1748-9, to February 6, 1761: With an appendix, containing some curious...
The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, baron of Melcombe Regis: From March 8, 1749 to February 6, 1761 ; with an appendix containing some curious...
www.xmlwriter.org /books/search/1-Dodington.html   (290 words)

  
 [No title]
The _Masquerade_ is a satire on the licentious gatherings organised by the notorious Count Heidegger, Master of the Revels to the Court of George II.
In the first year of Fielding's management in the Haymarket, Davies was cast for a principal part in George Lillo's tragedy _Fatal Curiosity_; and it is to his pen that we owe the only known contemporary reference to the active part taken by Fielding himself in the affairs of his theatre.
Lillo, a jeweller of Moorfields, had captured the town, a few years previously, by his tragedy of common life, _George Barnwell_; and among the dramatists selected by Fielding for representation on his stage the most interesting is undoubtedly this pioneer of the coming revolution in English literature.
public.planetmirror.com /pub/gutenberg/etext05/7hfld10.txt   (11570 words)

  
 WWW.SHROUDEATER.COM - John H Ingram on William Doggett
George Bubb Dodington (afterwards Lord Melcombe) of Diary fame, whose seat it was, and in whose secret bowers and winding walks he and "Night Thoughts" Young were to be so pleasantly arrayed by the Muses, made Eastbury a meeting-place for the wit and literati of the day.
Eastbury was begun by Bubb Dodington in 1718.
And thus Eastbury, with all its much-vaunted magnificence, the palatial home of the vivacious Bubb Dodington, and the erstwhile staying-place of Fielding and Thompson, of Young and his famous contemporaries, is know only now as having been the house where a fraudulent servant committed suicide !
www.shroudeater.com /aingram.htm   (1207 words)

  
 The Hell-Fire Club, Masonic Deism, Dashwood, Franklin, and the Black Mass
Sir Robert Walpole, now "first minister" to King George II (who had succeeded (George I in 1727), had weathered the South Sea scandal with aplomb and set to using bribery and political appointments to jockey himself into a position of unassailable power, forging the off ice that would presently become that of prime minister.
One of their members, probably the satirist George Selwyn, praised the Earl of Sandwich's sexual prowess in an Anglo-Saxon-laced lampoon of Popes Essay on Man. John Wilkes printed a private edition of twelve copies of this "Essay on Woman" for distribution to his Medmenham cronies.
An "Address of Loyalty" to George II was made mandatory; Dashwood proposed an amendment which warned the sovereign not to infringe on the liberty of his subjects.
www.freemasonrywatch.org /hellfire.html   (3894 words)

  
 IX. Memoir-Writers, 1715–60: Bibliography. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
by Knowles, T. Memoirs of the reign of George the Second from his accession to the death of Queen Caroline.
Lady M … y W … y M … e written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa to persons of distinction, men of letters, and c.
Memoirs of * * * commonly known by the name of George Psalmanazar.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/219/0900.html   (474 words)

  
 Pikle - The Diary Junction - George Bubb Dodington
Bubb inherited a large fortune from a childless uncle, and, at the same time, took his family name Dodington.
Dodington is thought to have been involved in a spy ring, and active in suppressing Jacobite activities.
Following the accession of George III, Frederick's son, to the throne, Dodington was created Baron Melcombe.
www.pikle.demon.co.uk /diaryjunction/data/bubb.html   (341 words)

  
 DODINGTON
Date "DODINGTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791.
"DODINGTON" is a common misspelling or typo for: Domingo.
Dodington whom Thomson invokes in his Summer, was George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcomb-Regis, a British statesman, who associated much with the wits of the time.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Do/Dodington.html   (224 words)

  
 Bubb
Bubb Lake Bubb Lake is located in the middle of a group of three
It didn't take long for her to decide that Bubb was where she wanted to be.
But Stephen Bubb tells Tash Shifrin he has a new purpose: to make Stephen Bubb is a man enjoying himself.
www.e377.com /?q=bubb   (1214 words)

  
 che bubb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Bubb ha inoltre affermato che Intel e altre aziende leader del settore hanno iniziato lo sviluppo della Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture, una specifica...
Il Ministro Bubb, che entrerĂ  in carica all'inizio di luglio del 2001, succede al Ministro Charles-Edouard Held.
John Montagu Earl di Sandwich, John Wilkes, George Bubb Dodington, il...
www.abrafind.com /c/che_bubb.html   (251 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.