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Obituary and Election News From London and Kent
London reports a noble lord’s sudden death by apoplexy at Fair lawn Kent as election news spread. Notes honor Lord Vane and discuss upcoming county nominations, proxy votes, and recent parliamentary contests with various peers, appointments, and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairlawn
Kent
Viscount Vane
Edward Dering
House of Commons
Alaidstone
Kensington
County of
Lancaster
Sir Edward Stanley, Bart
Richard Shuttleworth
Theophilus Fostescue
Lord Clinton
John Chichester
Bart
Barnstaple
Wiltshire
Cornwall
Earl of Buchan
Edinburgh
Chancery
Westminster
Duke of Kingston
France
Paris
Martin Folks
F.R.S
Italy
Earl of Chesterfield
Bath
Trinity College
Cambridge
Hacket
Walker
William Leggin
Earl of Northampton
Marston
Gloucester
Beoley
Worcester
William Ashburnham
Prince of Wales
Gameston
Nottingham
York
Cromwell
John Fortune
William Gyles
West End
Gloucestershire
Wickman
Duke of Richmond
Lenox
Scotland
John Lord Bellendine
James Rocke
Meff
Fowler and Simpson
Fleet-street
Miss Smithson
Fortune
Hugh Smithson
Barther
John Lambroke
Great Wenlock
Shropshire
Thomas Ward
All-Souls College
Oxon
Broken Wharf
Thames-street
Richard Bishop
Court of Common-Pleas
John Norris
Britannia
Nicholas Haddock
Dover
Harry Farnese
Ely
Excise Office
Pinchbeck
St. Martin’s Lane
Dubois
David Fullerton
Middleburgh
Streights
Fullerton
Whitehall
Sir Brocas Gardiner
John Shorter
Richard Shelly
William Fisher
Burrington Golds
Miles Stapleton
Edward Wortley Montagu
Chalmly Turner
Rowland Wynne
Montagu