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John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC (7 April 1648 – 24 February 1721), English statesman and poet, was the son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, and succeeded to that title on his father’s death in 1658. |
 | | Buckingham was succeeded by his son, Edmund (1716–1735), on whose death the titles became extinct. |
 | | Buckingham, who is better known by his inherited titles as Lord Mulgrave, was the author of An Account of the Revolution and some other essays, and of numerous poems, among them the Essay on Poetry and the Essay on Satire. |
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