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George Duckett (Calne MP)

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George Duckett (19 February 1684 – 6 October 1732) was a British Member of Parliament (MP), attorney, and literary combatant of Alexander Pope. [1]

32 relations: Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Benjamin Haskins-Stiles, British people, Calne (UK Parliament constituency), Charles Hedges, Dictionary of National Biography, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edmund Curll, Edward Bayntun, HM Customs and Excise, Homer, James Johnston (Secretary of State), John Dennis (dramatist), John Oldmixon, Joseph Addison, Lawyer, Lionel Duckett, Lord Mayor of London, Member of parliament, Middle Temple, Monastery, Oxford University Press, Patronage, Richard Chiswell, Satire, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet, The Dunciad, Thomas Burnet (judge), Trinity College, Oxford, Whigs (British political party), Wiltshire.

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

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Ambrose Philips

Ambrose Philips (167418 June 1749) was an English poet and politician.

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Benjamin Haskins-Stiles

Benjamin Haskins-Stiles (c.1684-1739), of Bowden Park, near Chippenham, Wiltshire and Moor Park, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Calne (UK Parliament constituency)

Calne was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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Charles Hedges

Sir Charles Hedges (1649/50 – 10 June 1714), of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, an English lawyer and politician, was a judge in Admiralty Court who later served as one of Queen Anne's Secretaries of State.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Edmund Curll

Edmund Curll (c. 1675 – 11 December 1747) was an English bookseller and publisher.

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Edward Bayntun

Sir Edward Bayntun (148027 November? 1544), of Bromham, Wiltshire, was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England.

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HM Customs and Excise

HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (or His as appropriate), often abbreviated to HMCE) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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James Johnston (Secretary of State)

James Johnston (baptised 9 September 1655 – 3 May 1737 Bath), was envoy extraordinary to Prussia 1690–92, Secretary of State, Scotland, 1692–96 and Lord Clerk Register 1704–05.

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John Dennis (dramatist)

John Dennis (16 September 1658 – 6 January 1734) was an English critic and dramatist.

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John Oldmixon

John Oldmixon (1673 – July 9, 1742) was an English historian.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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Lionel Duckett

Lionel Duckett (1511August 1587) was one of the Merchant adventurers of the City of London.

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the City of London's mayor and leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Middle Temple

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

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Richard Chiswell

Richard Chiswell (1673 – 14 May 1751) was a wealthy English merchant and politician.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (27 April 1678 – 5 December 1746) was a British baronet and Whig politician.

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The Dunciad

The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743.

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Thomas Burnet (judge)

Thomas Burnet (1694–1753) was an English wit, barrister and judge, from a Scottish-Dutch background.

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Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Duckett_(Calne_MP)

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