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	William Petty Fitzmaurice Lansdowne - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WILLIAM PETTY FITZMAURICE LANSDOWNE, 1ST Marquess Of (1737-1805), British statesman, better known under his earlier title of earl of Shelburne, was born at Dublin on the 10th of May 1737.
		Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), son of the 1st marquess by his second marriage, was born on the 2nd of July 1780 and educated at Edinburgh University and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
		He married Louisa (1785-1851), daughter of the 2nd earl of Ilchester, and was succeeded by his son Henry, the 4th marquess 0816-1866).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Petty_Fitzmaurice_Lansdowne (1205 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Petty
		William Petty was born in Romsey on the 26th of May 1623 to a family of middle income, his father being a Hampshire clothier, as was his grandfather.
		Petty counted among his many scientific interests naval architecture: he had become convinced of the superiority of double-hulled boats, although they were not always successful; the Experiment reached Porto on 1664, but sank on the way back.
		Petty thus carved a niche for himself as the first dedicated economic scientist, amidst the merchant-pamphleteers, such as Thomas Mun or Josiah Child, and philosopher-scientists occasionally discussing economics, such as Locke.
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	William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was a British Whig statesman.
		In June 1768 the General Court incorporated the district of Shelburne, Massachusetts from the area formerly known as "Deerfield Northwest" and in 1786 the district became a town.
		John, Earl of Shelburne (1765–1809), his son by the first marriage, succeeded as 2nd Marquess, after having sat in the House of Commons for twenty years as member for Chipping Wycombe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne (1043 words)

	William Petty Summary
		Sir William Petty was a sailor, physician, professor, inventor, surveyor, and member of Parliament, as well as a political economist and statistician.
		Petty built a wooden model of his ship, wrote a treastise on ship building, and gave them to the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge, of which he was a founder.
		Petty was an originator of political arithmetic, which he called the art of reasoning with figures about things that relate to government.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Petty (4436 words)

	William Petty Fitzmaurice Biography
		William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne before 1784, (20 May 1737-7th May 1805), British statesman, was born at Dublin.
		William Petty was a descendant of the lords of Kerry (dating from 1181), and his grandfather Thomas Fitzmaurice, who was created earl of Kerry (1723), married the daughter of Sir William Petty.
		Shelburne joined the Grenville ministry in 1763 as President of the Board of Trade, but, failing in his efforts to include Pitt in the cabinet, he in a few months resigned office.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Fitzmaurice_William_Petty.html (736 words)

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		The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl on the Roll in the Peerage of England (the more senior Earldom of Arundel being held by the Duke of Norfolk).
		The fourth earl is particularly notable as the last British peer to die a felon's death, in 1760, havin...
		Lord Lansdowne holds the subsidiary titles of Earl Wycombe, of Chipping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham (1784), Earl of Kerry (1723), Earl of Shelburne (1753), Viscount Calne and Calstone (1784), Viscount Clanmaurice (1723), Viscount Fi...
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	Kenmare Ireland - The Official website of the Tidiest town in Ireland 2000
		Petty moved to Oxford 1648 to study medicine becoming M.D. and a fellow of Brasenose being appointed Professor of Anatomy and Vice-principal of Brasenose 1651.
		Earl of Kerry forebears of the historical "Petty Fitzmaurice's".
		This Earl was to become Prime Minister of Britain in 1782 and to remain in office to conclude the Treaty of Paris 1783 which ended the war of the American Revolution.
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	Montagu William 2nd Earl of Salisbury - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Montagu, William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328-1397), English soldier and nobleman.
		Montagu, William, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1301-1344), English soldier, born 3rd Baron Montagu (Montacute).
		Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd Earl of (1737-1805), British prime minister who was sympathetic to the American colonies, born in Dublin.
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		The title of Earl of Durham was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1833 for John Lambton, 1st Baron Durham, a prominent Whig politician and author of the famous Report on the Affairs of British North America known in Canada as the Durham Report.
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	SHELBURNE, 2nd earl of @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		William Fitzmaurice (from 1751 Petty) came from the Fitzmaurices, an Irish family who had been ruling the county of Kerry since the 12th century.
		He was a supporter of the Earl of Chatham, sharing many of his views and not placing much value on political party.
		Shelburne formed a Cabinet with the best of talents rather than one of strong party allegiance, believing that ministers should be personally responsible to the Sovereign.
	www.archontology.org /nations/uk/bpm/shelburne.php (502 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Shelburne,
		Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2d earl of 1737-1805, British statesman.
		Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of see Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2d earl of.
		Pitt, William 1759-1806, British statesman; 2d son of William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham.
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	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 3; Ch. 4 - Loyalists At Shelburne.
		At Shelburne there was to be in place by November a large store of food: biscuit, flour, pickled pork and beef (tons of it), butter, rice, oatmeal, pease, vinegar, rum (3,200 gals.) and molasses (7,700 gals.).
		Overall, the conclusion is bound to be that the settlement of Loyalists at Shelburne was a failure.
		They had failed to see that Shelburne lacked a natural hinterland and that the surrounding land was poor farming country..."34 Most, were soon of the view, that things back home could not possibly be worse then what they were experiencing in Shelburne.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part3/Ch04.htm (1350 words)

	William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		William Petty received John Fitzmaurice, 1 after the death of its father.
		Earl OF Shelburne 1784 its titles Earl of an OF Shelburne.
		After it had likewise had to withdraw when its dissolution 1768, showed it as most violent opponents of the ministerial policy backobviously the measures against the North American colonies, became 1782 undersecretary of state of the foreign one and began immediately the peace negotiations with the United States.
	cleverpedia.com /William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne (238 words)

	thePeerage.com - General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and others
		She married General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and Mary FitzMaurice, on 3 February 1765 in Chapel Royal, St. James's, London, England.
		She married General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and Mary FitzMaurice, on 19 July 1779 in St.
		She married, secondly, John Henry Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne, son of General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and Lady Sophia Carteret, on 27 May 1805 in 33 Mount Street, St. George Hanover Square, London, England.
	www.thepeerage.com /p3843.htm (2797 words)

	William Petty, Lord Shelburne Papers
		William Petty, earl Shelburne was born into an ancient Anglo-Irish family.
		In spite of a long public career, during which he served on the Board of Trade in 1763, as secretary of state for the Southern Department, 1766-1768, and finally as prime minister, 1782-1783, his merits are difficult to assess.
		Papers of William Petty, 2nd earl of Shelburne, 2nd baron Wycombe, 1st marquess of Lansdowne, British statesman.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/S/Shelburn.html (632 words)

	Who's Who within the Waller Family
		Shelburne, as he was known since all references to his government are made accordingly, was a statesman, and like Pitt the Elder, an opponent of the American policy of George III.
		Born in King William County, Virginia, Waller was a student at the College of William and Mary and later studied law using Sir John Randolph's law library.
		David J. Wailer, Jr., was graduated from Lafayette, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873; was a tutor in the college, 1870-71; attended Princeton Theological seminary, 1871-72, was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Northumberland in 1873, and was graduated from Union Theological seminary in 1874.
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	The Lansdowne Club -
		William Petty (1737-1805) the 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque
		The Lansdowne Club is delighted to announce that William Petty, the 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne was commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on Tuesday 28th October 2003.
		Shelburne and Benjamin Franklin drafted the Treaty of Paris in the Round Room, which remains intact today.
	www.lansdowneclub.com /home/about_the_club/news/test2 (350 words)

	Secretary of State for the Home Department
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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Wilson, Richard (i) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Through William Hodges, a former pupil who published a short essay on Richard Wilson in 1790, and through other ex-pupils (notably Joseph Farington and Thomas Jones), the status of Wilson’s work improved; gradually it began to influence the artists of J. Turner’s generation.
		Petty, William (Fitzmaurice), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
		Petty: (1) William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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	1737 - Open Encyclopedia
		May 20 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British statesman (d.
		January 29 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b.
		September 27 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b.
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	George III
		Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower and Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth both resigned rather than suffer the indignity of being associated with the war.
		Charles James Fox, however, refused to serve under Lord Shelburne, and demanded the appointment of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland.
		In 1783, the House of Commons forced Lord Shelburne from office and his government was replaced by the Fox-North Coalition.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Europe/England/Royal_Family/georgeiiia.html (1410 words)

	List of University of Oxford people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield was a novelist as well as Prime Minister; some theologians could equally well be considered as philosophers), in these cases an attempt has been made to put them in the category for which they were most famous.
		William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne 1782-1783 (Christ Church)
		William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1783, 1807-1809 (Christ Church)
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	Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2d earl of — Infoplease.com
		Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2d earl of — Infoplease.com
		Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2d earl of, 1737–1805, British statesman.
		Shelburne concluded the Treaty of Paris in 1783, granting independence to the new United States, but he was driven from office (1783) by the coalition of Charles James Fox and Lord North.
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	Wikinfo \| First Lord of the Treasury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eventually, the First Lord of the Treasury came to be seen as the natural head of any ministry, and from Robert Walpole on, began to be known, unofficially, as the prime minister.
		William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne: July 4, 1782 - April 2, 1783
		William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland: April 2, 1783 - December 19, 1783
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	Lansdowne House
		William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, UK Prime Minister (1782-83)
		Croke Park is the only stadium big enough in all of Ireland, and it belongs to the Gaelic Athletic Association, whose constitution until recently did not allow foreign games to be played on their grounds.
		The courtesy title for the Lord Lansdowne's eldest son and heir alternates between ''Earl of Kerry'' and ''Earl of Shelburne''.
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	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
		However, in practice, a strong Prime Minister can so dominate government that they become a 'semi-president', that is they fulfil the leadership role in a country in the same way as a president, but not carry out the ceremonial duties of a Head of State.
		However, when in 1766 Pitt, created Earl of Chatham, was asked by the King to form a ministry, he chose to take the lesser office of Lord Privy Seal, rather than taking over the Treasury.
		Nevertheless, he is generally considered to have been Prime Minister, due to his having been asked by the King to form a ministry.
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	Lansdowne Resort
		The English Civil War battle of Lansdowne (or Lansdown) was fought on July 5, 1643, near Bath.
		The Royalists under Lord Ralph Hopton charged the Roundheads under Sir William Waller, routing them, but at such a cost in casualties that Hopton retired to Devizes in Wiltshire, and only decided the issue at Roundway Down a few days later.
		Lansdowne Road is the name of both a neighborhood in Dublin and a major sport stadium located in that neighborhood.
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