… patronage of his first cousin once removed, the Earl of Sandwich. On this he observed to a friend that ‘chance without merit brought me in, and that diligence only keeps me so’. 1 He set himself to master the business of the Navy Board, …
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… gain Opposition supporters, recorded the event: ‘On Thursday at Ly Hervey’s to meet a very amiable young Man, of great Merit — Lord Charlemont —’. 3 3 . British Library, Add. Ms. 51,416, fol. 57, ‘Henry Fox to Lady Caroline Fox’, Pay …
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… Hell-Fire Club Man by the Throat’. 5 On May 13 th , the same publication insisted that members of such clubs ‘do not merit the Title of Men, but should be used like Brutes’. 6 Broadsheets were distributed, decrying the demonic nature of …