THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME.

A New Edition,

RE-ARRANGED AND ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL

ADDITIONAL LIVES,

BY THE

REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTH VOLUME.

Born Died Page

1

LXXXV. Sir Robert Walpole.(1676—1745)

LXXXVI. James Thomson.. (1700-1748) 30

LXXXVII. Henry St. John, Vis-

count Bolingbroke (1678-1751) 50

LXXXVIII. George Berkeley .. (1684-1753) 70

LXXXIX. Major General James

Wolfe......... (1726-1759) 104

XC. Benjamin Hoadly. (1676-1761) 115

XCI. Samuel Richardson.(1689-1761) 129

XCII. Edward Young... (1681-1765) 144

XCIII. John Jortin.... (1698-1770) 165

XCIV. Thomas Gray..... (1716-1771) 185

XCV. Philip Dormer

Stanhope, Earl

.....

of Chesterfield.. (1694-1773) 206

XCVI. Oliver Goldsmith. .(1729-1774) 232

XCVII. William Pitt, Earl

of Chatham.... (1708-1778) 251

XCVIII. Samuel Johnson.. (1709-1784) 301

XCIX. Sir William Jones.. (1746-1794) 363

C. Viscount Nelson.. (1758-1805) 425

Inder....

489

THE

BRITISH PLUTARCH.

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD.*

[1676-1745.]

THIS statesman, whose transactions make a conspicuous figure in the annals of the first two Georges, was born at Houghton in August 1676, of a family which had flourished in the county of Norfolk from the time of the Conquest.

After being initiated in the rudiments of learning in his native county, he was placed on the foundation at Eton, and thence in 1696 elected to King's College, Cambridge.† Here he first became known by

* AUTHORITIES. Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, the New General Biographical Dictionary, and Coxe's Life of Sir Robert Walpole.

† A collection being made, after he was Prime Minister, for the New Building at this place, he subscribed 500l.; saying, “I deserve no thanks, I have only paid for my board." Neither