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(Encyclopedia) Hyde, Edward: see Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Finch, Heneage: see Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fitzgibbon, John: see Clare, John Fitzgibbon, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bentinck, William: see Portland, William Bentinck, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) St. Vincent, John Jervis, earl of: see Jervis, John, earl of St. Vincent. ...

(Encyclopedia) Wilmington, Spencer Compton, earl of, 1673?–1743, British politician. He was a member of Parliament (1695–1710, 1713–30) and served as speaker of the House of Commons (1715–27). He was paymast...

(Encyclopedia) Mortimer, Roger de, 4th earl of March and 2d earl of Ulster, 1374–98, English nobleman. He succeeded (1381) his father, Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March, and was brought up as a royal ward. In 1...

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, William, 6th earl of Douglas, 1423?–1440, Scottish nobleman, eldest son of Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of Douglas. In answer to an invitation from the young James II, who was at that time c...

(Encyclopedia) Burgh, Ulick de, earl of Clanricarde: see Clanricarde, Ulick de Burgh, 5th earl and marquess of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Leveson-Gower, Sir Francis: see Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, 1st earl of. ...