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THE FREEMASONS'MAGAZINE: OR ,
GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR DECEMBER 1795 ,
THIS highly venerated nobleman was the eldest son of Robert third Duke of Manchester , by Harriet his wife , daughter and coheir of Edmund Dunch , Esq . and was bora Aptil 6 , 1737 . On the 23 d October 1762 , he married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Sir James Dashwood , of Kirtlington in Oxfordshire , by whom he had issue four sons and two daughters .
His Grace was the fourth Duke and eig hth Earl of Manchester ; he was elected one of the knights for the county of Huntingdon , in 1761 , succeeded his father as Duke May 10 , 1762 , and was ambassador at the court of France during the negotiation of the late peace . In political life , the Duke of Manchester was one of those characters whose conduct should operate as an example to aU men who interfere
in public concerns . He was firm , but temperate ; and though his opinions were rather favourable to the side of opposition , he never was a party zealot , or made an indiscriminate hostility to ministers the motive of his parliamentary exertions . This manly and reasonable 3 A 3
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THE MOST NOBLE GEORGE MONTAGU , LATE DUKE AND EARL OF MANCHESTER ,
VISCOUNT MANDEVILLE , BARON MONTAGU , of KIMBOLTON , KNIGHT of the GARTER , LORD LIEUTENANT , CUSTOS ROTULOKUM , and COLONEL of the MILITIA of HUNTINGDONSHIRE , HIGH STEWARD of GODMANCHESTER , COLLECTOR of the CUSTOMS OUTWARDS in the PORT ef LONDON , PRESIDENT of the LOCK HOSPITAL , and LL . D . AND GRAND MASTER of MASONS from 1777 to 1782 .
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With A Portrait.
WITH A PORTRAIT .
THE FREEMASONS'MAGAZINE: OR ,
GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR DECEMBER 1795 ,
THIS highly venerated nobleman was the eldest son of Robert third Duke of Manchester , by Harriet his wife , daughter and coheir of Edmund Dunch , Esq . and was bora Aptil 6 , 1737 . On the 23 d October 1762 , he married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Sir James Dashwood , of Kirtlington in Oxfordshire , by whom he had issue four sons and two daughters .
His Grace was the fourth Duke and eig hth Earl of Manchester ; he was elected one of the knights for the county of Huntingdon , in 1761 , succeeded his father as Duke May 10 , 1762 , and was ambassador at the court of France during the negotiation of the late peace . In political life , the Duke of Manchester was one of those characters whose conduct should operate as an example to aU men who interfere
in public concerns . He was firm , but temperate ; and though his opinions were rather favourable to the side of opposition , he never was a party zealot , or made an indiscriminate hostility to ministers the motive of his parliamentary exertions . This manly and reasonable 3 A 3
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THE MOST NOBLE GEORGE MONTAGU , LATE DUKE AND EARL OF MANCHESTER ,
VISCOUNT MANDEVILLE , BARON MONTAGU , of KIMBOLTON , KNIGHT of the GARTER , LORD LIEUTENANT , CUSTOS ROTULOKUM , and COLONEL of the MILITIA of HUNTINGDONSHIRE , HIGH STEWARD of GODMANCHESTER , COLLECTOR of the CUSTOMS OUTWARDS in the PORT ef LONDON , PRESIDENT of the LOCK HOSPITAL , and LL . D . AND GRAND MASTER of MASONS from 1777 to 1782 .