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	WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The, 2nd earl was ambassador to Vienna and then to Paris;, be was secretary of state for the southern department from 1779 to 1782, and lord president of the council ~n.
		During the heptarchy Mansfield was occasionally the residence of the Mercian Icings, and it was afterwards a favorite resort of Norman sovereigns, lying as it does on the western outskirts of Sherwood Forest.
		Mansfield was laid out in 1808, and was named in honor of Lieut.-Colonel Jared Mansfield (1759-1830), United States surveyor of Ohio and the North-west Territory in 1803-1812, and professor of natural and experimental philosophy at West Point from 1812 to 1828.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANSFIELD_WILLIAM_MURRAY_1ST_EARL_OF.htm (1413 words)

	William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Murray was educated at Perth grammar school and Westminster School, of which he was a king's scholar.
		Murray's nephew became ambassador to Vienna and then to Paris; he was Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1779 to 1782, and Lord President of the Council in 1783.
		Mansfield's ruling was overruled in a later decision by the House of Lords, Donaldson v.
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	Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield is a peer in the Peerage of Great Britain, holding two separate creations of the title of Earl of Mansfield in that peerage, the first created in 1776 and the second in 1792.
		Both creations were in favour of William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield (who had been raised to the peerage in 1756 on his appointment as Lord Chief Justice) but had, under the letters patent creating them, different descents.
		The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount of Stormont (1621) and Lord Scone and Balvaird (1605) in the Peerage of Scotland.
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	WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Murray was educated at Perth grammar_school and Westminster_School, of which he was a king's scholar.
		Murray's nephew became ambassador to Vienna and then to Paris; he was Secretary_of_State_for_the_Southern_Department from 1779 to 1782, and Lord_President_of_the_Council in 1783.
		Mansfield's ruling was overruled in a later decision by the House_of_Lords, Donaldson_v._Beckett.
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	Clan MURRAY
		The great family of Murray or Moray (occasionally in old deeds Murref) is supposed to have descended from Freskine (or Friskin), a Fleming, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I (1122-1153), and acquired from that monarch the lands of Strathbroch in Linlithgowshire, and of Duffis in Moray.
		Earl William arranged that the earldoms of Atholl and Tullibardine should go respectively to his son and his brother Patrick, but on the death of Earl Patrick’s son the earldom of Tullibardine came back to the main line.
		Sir David Murray, 6th of Tullibardine had ten sons: William succeeded as 7th Laird; and Patrick was ancestor of the Earls of Dysart, the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre and the Earls of Mansfield (whose family seat is Scone Pal ace).
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	Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, 2nd Earl of Nottingham (2 July 1647-1 January 1730), son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham.
		He was one of the privy councillors who in 1685 signed the order for the proclamation of the duke of York, but during the whole of the reign of James II he kept away from the court.
		At the last moment he hesitated to join in the invitation to William of Orange, and after the abdication of James II he was the leader of the party who were in favour of a regency.
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	Abolitionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1772, the judge William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield held that slavery had no basis in law.
		A statesman named William Wilberforce led the antislavery movement in England, and in 1807 he helped persuade Parliament to pass a bill outlawing the slave trade throughout the British Empire.
		A concerted campaign led by William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and members of the Clapham Sect led to the abolition of all slavery throughout the empire in 1833.
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	Early life and career. (from Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, Earl Of Mansfield, Baron Of Mansfield, Lord ...
		William Murray was the son of the 5th Viscount Stormont.
		Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, Earl Of Mansfield, Baron Of Mansfield, Lord Mansfield...
		The town of Mansfield, in Tolland County, northeastern Connecticut, lies 11 miles (18 kilometers) east of Vernon on the Willimantic River.
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	NPG 172; William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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		William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793), Judge.
		Mansfield was a judge renowned for the quickness and depth of his understanding of complex legal matters and for the strict impartiality of his judical conduct.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lord Chief Justice
		Jeffreys, George, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648-1689), English judge under Kings Charles II and James II, who was notorious for his severity in...
		Murray, William, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793), British jurist.
		Murray was known as a fair and scrupulous representative of the law.
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	Articles - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The elder Essex was daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich.
		Mary was also a lover of William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax, mother of Lady Dorothy Saville and mother-in-law of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.
		She married William Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland, a son of Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland and Anne Poultney.
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	Scone Arms- a little bit of its history
		William Brough built it well and has done a great service to the generations of joyful characters qnd visitors who still come to enjoy the atmosphere and hospitality of an old traditional Scottish Hostelry.
		Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, Earl Of Mansfield, Baron Of Mansfield, Lord Mansfield b.
		Because of the limitations on the patent in 1776, he was granted a new patent in 1792, as the Earl of Mansfield of Caen Wood.
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	Dr_John
		William Robinson's portrait which is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
		This William Robinson is not the Robinson (1799-1839) who was a pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
		A copy is owned by Sir William Arbuthnot, Bt, inscribed u.l., "John Arbuthnot M.D." which may once have been at Warthill and subsequently sold.
	www.arbuthnot.org /dr_john.htm (577 words)

	Abolitionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The abolitionist movement was begun by the activities of African-Americans, especially in the fl church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament.
		African-American activisits and their writings were rarely heard outside the fl community; however, they were tremendously influential to some sympathetic whites, most prominently the first white activist to reach prominence, William Lloyd Garrison, who was its most effective propagandist.
		In a 1772 case, the judge William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield held that slavery had no basis in law.
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	Henderson Prize for the Advancement of Liberty
		(He was elevated to Earl in 1776.) Lord Mansfield pioneered British mercantile law, and gained notoriety as the judge who convicted John Wilkes of the capital crimes of obscene and seditious libel against the Crown; the sentence was later rescinded upon appeal.
		Serjeant William Davy (note: "serjeant" is a peerage, not a military rank), working on behalf of Somerset's benefactors, requested that the full hearing be postponed until 1772 to allow proper time for case preparation.
		Mansfield ruled that throwing the slaves overboard was unnecessary, thus rejecting the insurance claim - but he refused to charge Collingwood with murder.
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	RICHARD MANSFIELD - LoveToKnow Article on RICHARD MANSFIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		(i85719o7), American actor, was born on the 24th of May 1857, in Berlin, his mother being Madame ~rminia] Rudersdorff (1822-1882), the singer, and his father, Maurice Mansfield (d.
		He was 0ne of the earliest to produce G. Bernard Shaws plays in America, appearing in 1894 as Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, and as Dick Dudgeon in The Devils Disciple in 1897.
		As a manager and producer of plays Mansfield was remnrkable for his lavish staging.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANSFIELD_RICHARD.htm (253 words)

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		David Murray, 4th Viscount of Stormont (1665-1731) was a Scottish politician.
		The title had been granted in 1621 by James I to his friend and helper, Sir David Murray (d.
		Stormont's elder son was William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
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	Oxford DNB
		Nelson spoke no foreign tongue, and there is room to suspect Sir William and Lady Hamilton, his interpreters, of deceit; they both had personal reasons to hate the rebels, and long residence in Naples had accustomed them to chicanery which was quite foreign to his nature.
		He was also in discussions with the ministers of William Pitt's new administration, for his reputation as a strategist now stood nearly as high as his fame as a tactician and fighter.
		Death and glory are depicted with unfeigned emotion—but the figure of Hardy is a caricature of George III, the seaman is Prince William Henry, and the corpulent, theatrical Britannia is unmistakably Emma Hamilton.
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	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Murray (November 8, 1756 - June 4, 1788) (Earl of Mansfield from 1776)
		Charles Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen (July 11, 1894 - August 10, 1900) (died in office)
		Peter Murray Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (April 27, 1992 -June 4, 1996)
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		Kenwood House in Hampstead, London, was re-modelled in the neo-classical style by Robert Adam (1728-92) between the years 1764 and 1779 for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
		The console tables are of a similar, but not matching, design, and retain their original fl marble slabs.
		The style suggest they were commissioned by the 1st Earl of Mansfield in the 1750's or 1760's, which makes these pieces an important link with the earlier house as it appeared before Adam's alterations.
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	AllRefer.com - Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of (Law, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of, Law, Biographies
		Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of 1705–93, English jurist.
		His wide learning and forceful thinking greatly influenced Sir William Blackstone.
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	Junius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This administration had been formed in October 1768, when the William Pitt the Elderearl of Chatham was compelled by ill health to retire from office, and was a reconstruction of his cabinet of July 1766.
		He then went on to pour acrimonious abuse on Graf ton, on the duke of Bedford, on George III of the United KingdomKing George III himself in the letter of December 19, 1769, and ended with a most malignant and ignorant assault on William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldLord Chief Justice Mansfield.
		William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of PortlandDuke of Portland/
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	American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Mansfield’s argument was directed against the colonial position of no taxation without representation.
		And it was misinterpreted by Charles Townshend, longtime critic of the American assemblies and now chancellor of the Exchequer in the government headed by William Pitt.
		Muster rolls for troops commanded by General William Smallwood of Maryland show that they were either poor American-born youths or older foreign-born men, often former indentured servants.
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	Kenwood House, London NW3: tourist information from TourUK
		The 1st Earl purchased the house in 1754 when he was Attorney General, and two years later he became Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
		In 1764 - 73 the 1st Earl commissioned Robert Adam to remodel and furnish the early-18th century house.
		Through Lady Mansfield's Dressing Room and the Housekeeper's Room is the Orangery, a plain room used for concerts, with a portrait by Van Dyck and works by Gainsborough.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_houses/kenwood_house1.htm (616 words)

	BARRY ROSE
		Lord Mansfield: A Biography of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield: Edmund Heward
		William Murray was in his way, the Lord Denning of our own times.
		The Marvellous Years - Pages from a Scrapbook, Sir Desmond Heap The late Sir Desmond Heap (he died mid- 1998) was a towering figure in the field of Planning, but here he regales us with his experiences and adventures in the field of public service for 40 years.
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of (1705-1793)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of (1705-1793)@ HighBeam Research
		He was called to the Bar (1730) and became KC (1742).
		He became a serjeant-at-law and created Baron Mansfield (1756).
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	The American Revolution (Encarta Encyclopedia Article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Howe, who had succeeded Gage as the British commander because Gage was criticized for heavy British casualties at Bunker Hill, evacuated his troops from Boston.
		In Britain, Lord North was deeply troubled by the inability of his generals to defeat the Patriot armies and had decided to seek a negotiated settlement of the rebellion.
		William Paterson of New Jersey proposed a limited reform of the existing Articles of Confederation.
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	David Martin
		David Martin was a major Scottish portrait painter of the 18th century who captured on paint a number of the most important men of his age.
		He was born in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland on the 1st of April 1737, the son of a local schoolmaster and came to the attention of Allan Ramsay, the great Scottish portrait painter of his day.
		A number of other notable portraits included William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Lady Frances Chateris.
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