James Cragg the Elder(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
JamesCraggs the Elder (10 June1657 - 16 March1721), English politician, father of JamesCraggs the Younger, was a son of Anthony Craggs of Holbeck, Durham, and was baptized on the 10th of June 1657.
After following various callings in London, Craggs, who was a person of considerable financial ability, entered the service of the Duchess of Marlborough, and through her influence became in 1702 member of parliament for Grampound, retaining his seat until 1713.
Craggs also increased his wealth by mixing in the affairs of the South Sea Company, but after his death an act of parliament confiscated all the property which he had acquired since December 1719.
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James was born on 19 June 1566 at Edinburgh Castle, and as the eldest son of the monarch and heir-apparent, automatically became Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.
James faced a Roman Catholic uprising in 1588, and was forced to reconcile with the Church of Scotland, agreeing to the repeal of the Black Acts in 1592.
James died at Theobalds House in 1625 of 'tertian ague' probably brought upon by kidney failure and stroke, and was buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
James Craggs the Younger(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
JamesCragg the Younger (9 April 1686 - 16 February 1721), son of JamesCragg the Elder, was born at Westminster.
Part of his early life was spent abroad, where he made the acquaintance of George Louis, Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I. In 1713 he became member of parliament for Tregoney, in 1717 Secretary at War, and in the following year Secretary of State for the Southern Department.
Craggs was implicated in the South Sea Bubble, but not so deeply as his father, whom he predeceased, dying on 16 February 1721.
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Among those implicated were John Aislabie (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), JamesCraggs the Elder (the Postmaster General), JamesCraggs the Younger (the Southern Secretary), and even Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland (the heads of the Ministry).
Craggs the Elder and Craggs the Younger both died in disgrace; the remainder were impeached for their corruption.
Several young politicians, including William Pitt the Elder and George Grenville, formed a faction known as the "Patriot Boys" and joined the Prince of Wales in opposition.
He appears to have died there (on 2 5 February 1723), for a contemporary newspaper states that his body 'was carried from his house in St. James Street Westminster' to St. Paul's Cathedral.
Edward Gibbon, 1793—4; 'My present lodging, a house of Elmsley's, is cheerful, convenient, somewhat dear, but not so much as a Hotel, a species of habitation for which I have not conceived any great affection.' Gibbon died here on 16 January 1794.
James Gillray, probably from 1808 until his death in 1815 at Mrs.
