Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl of Loreburn (5423 bytes)
1: '''Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl of Loreburn''' ([[3 April]] [[1846]] - [[30 November]] [[1923...
3: ...became [[Lord Chancellor]] under [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Henry Campb...
5: ...ell-Bannerman appointed his cabinet, he appointed Reid Lord Chancellor as a counter to the Liberal Imper...
7: ...r) "defected" onto the Liberal Imperialists. Lord Loreburn's disagreements with Lord Haldane, Sir Grey, Asqu...
9: ..."There has been a serious crisis. Fifteen members of the Cabinet against five. The Entente is decidedl...

Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1787 bytes)
1: ... also frequently refers to the historian [[Robert_of_Gloucester]]''
3: ...y I of England]], and one of the dominant figures of the English [[the Anarchy|Anarchy]] period.
5: ...ough recent scholarship suggests she was a member of the Gay family, minor nobility in [[Oxfordshire]]...
7: ... [[Robert Fitzhamon]], thereby receiving lordship of [[Gloucester]] and [[Glamorgan]].
9: About 1121, he was created Earl of Gloucester.

Earl Loreburn (440 bytes)
1: ..., [[Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Baron Loreburn|Lord Loreburn]]. The title became extinct upon his death in [[...
3: The Earl bore the subsidiary title of ''Baron Loreburn'' ([[1906]]).
5: ==Earls Loreburn ([[1911]])==
6: *[[Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn]] ([[1846]]-[[1923]])

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset (6094 bytes)
1: ...[[James VI of Scotland and I of England|James I]] of England.
3: ...by a flaw which gave the king eventual possession of the property. Acting on Salisbury’s suggest...
5: ...erset, on [[December 23]] was appointed treasurer of Scotland, and in [[1614]] [[Lord Chamberlain]].
7: ...r success, and had been imprisoned in the [[Tower of London|Tower]], was poisoned. No idea seems to ha...
9: ...e [[William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford|1st Duke of Bedford]].

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (5615 bytes)
4: ...l is the one who tore down most of the old palace of [[Hatfield House]] and built the new one.
6: ... what was, in aftertimes, to constitute a portion of his own character..."
8: [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]] is said to have referre...
10: ...iscount Cranborne''' in [[1604]] and then '''Earl of Salisbury''' in [[1605]].
12: ...rained by them in matters of spycraft as a matter of course.

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (2583 bytes)
1: ... of [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] and [[James I of England|Jacobean]] [[England]].
3: ...rl of Leicester]]. He was present at the [[Battle of Zutphen]] where Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wo...
5: ... title having become extinct in 1588 on the death of his uncle, whose property he had inherited.
7: ...arried Sir [[John Hobart]], ancestor of the Earls of Buckinghamshire.
10: ...on | after=[[Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester|Robert Sidney]]}}

Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (3835 bytes)
1: ...d, in [[1743]], Jane, daughter of Sir John Huband of Ipsley, [[Warwickshire]], by whom he had three so...
6: ...align="center"|'''[[Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England|Lord Keeper]]'''<br>1757&ndash;1761<br>''...
7: ... by (Lord Chancellor):<br>'''[[Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden|The Lord Camden]]'''
9: ...''[[Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea|The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham]]'''
10: |width="40%" align="center"|'''[[Lord President of the Council]]'''<br>1766&ndash;1767

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (7417 bytes)
1: ...he long-standing favourite of Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] and almost became her husband.
3: ...ers of her estranged elder sister, Queen [[Mary I of England]]. By this time he was already married, ...
7: ...cause to think that she intended to take the step of making her favourite into her husband. Historian...
10: ...owing year, Elizabeth bestowed on him the earldom of [[Leicester]].
12: ...e nineteen years that had elapsed since the death of his first wife.

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (1470 bytes)
1: ...pont and Viscount Newark in 1627, being made earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in the following year.
3: ... was appointed lieutenant-general of the counties of [[Lincoln]], [[Rutland]], [[Huntingdon]], [[Cambr...
5: ...in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the [[Long Parliament]]; and another was William ...
9: |width="40%" align="center"|'''[[Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull]]'''
10: ...|Followed by:<br/>'''[[Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull|Henry Pierrepont]]'''

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (13387 bytes)
1: ...sh statesman of the [[Stuart dynasty|Stuart]] and early [[Georgian era|Georgian]] periods.
3: ...]gism and [[Nonconformism]] were taught him at an early age, and he never formally abandoned his family'...
5: ...rliament, when he was elected by the constituency of New Radnor, and he continued to represent it unti...
7: ...cond wife was Sarah, daughter of Simon Middleton, of Edmonton.
9: ...ory]] [[Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham|Earl of Nottingham]].

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1975 bytes)
3: '''Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton''' ([[November 8]], [[1831]] - [[November ...
5: ...ent to the [[United States]] as private secretary of his uncle, Sir [[Henry Bulwer-Lytton|Henry Bulwer...
7: ...ed in [[London]] a volume of poems under the name of Owen Meredith. He went on to publish several othe...
9: ...1880]] he was [[Viceroy of India|Governor General of India]].
11: ...m his father's death in 1873 until he was created Earl Lytton in 1880.

Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent (1751 bytes)
1: ...[Ireland|Irish]] [[politician]] and [[poet]], son of Michael Nugent, was born at [[Carlanstown]], [[Co...
3: ... Craggs the Younger|James Craggs]], the secretary of state, a lady who had already been twice given in...
5: ...ry from 1754 to 1759 and [[President of the Board of Trade]] from 1766 to 1768.
7: ...e was created in 1767 Viscount Clare, and in 1776 Earl Nugent, both Irish peerages.
9: ...to his successors, the [[Duke of Buckingham|dukes of Buckingham and Chandos]].

Robert R. Reid (1218 bytes)
1: ... of East Florida. He died on [[July 1]], [[1841]] of [[Yellow Fever]] in [[Tallahassee, Florida]].
7: ... Governor's portrait and biography from the State of Florida]
12: ...List of Governors of Florida|Territorial Governor of Florida]]
16: [[Category:1789 births|Reid, Robert R.]]
17: [[Category:1841 deaths|Reid, Robert R.]]

1st Earl of Clarendon (149 bytes)
1: There have been two "'''1st Earl of Clarendon'''":
3: *[[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]]
4: *[[Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon]]

1st Earl of Clanricarde (723 bytes)
1: ...tion, was [[Richard Sassanach Burke]], [[2nd Earl of Clanricarde]].

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (6827 bytes)
2: ...onservative]] [[statesman]] and [[lawyer]] of the early [[Twentieth Century]]. He was a skilled [[orator...
4: ... soon a prominent leader of the [[Unionist]] wing of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]...
6: ...nor, [[Frederick Winston Furneaux-Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead|Frederick]] and Pamela.
8: ... he worked to secure the conviction and execution of the Irish nationalist [[Roger Casement|Sir Roger ...
10: ...ns (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], angered some of his former Unionist associates, notably [[Edward ...

Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton (2255 bytes)
1: ...(d. [[1076]]) was the last of the [[Anglo-Saxon]] earls, remaining in [[England]] for a decade after the...
3: ...ece, Judith, and in [[1072]] was appointed [[Earl of Northampton]].
5: ... part of the city of [[Sheffield]], in the county of [[South Yorkshire]]).
7: ...altheof's grandsons was Waltheof (d. 1159), abbot of Melrose.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (7516 bytes)
1: ...r]] of [[Great Britain]], was a leading proponent of [[civil liberties]] in [[eighteenth century]] [[E...
3: ==Early life==
4: ...s degree of [[BA]]. Having adopted his father's profession, he had entered the [[Middle Temple]] in [[...
6: ==Early years at the bar==
7: ...r a libel on the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. His speech for the defence contribute...

John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (2231 bytes)
1: '''John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury''' (died [[1453]]) was an important [[...
3: ...bot, by Ankaret, heiress of the last Lord Strange of Blackmere.
5: ...y the death of his niece he acquired the baronies of Talbot and Strange. From 1404 to [[1413]] he serv...
7: ...e fighting, and had a sharp quarrel with the earl of Ormonde. Complaints were made against him both fo...
9: ...exploits were those of a good fighter rather than of a general, and it was his stubborn rashness that ...

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16798 bytes)
1: ...ed Lord Reading as Governor General and [[Viceroy of India]] on April 1926, a post he held till 1931.
4: ==Early Career==
8: ...5 when he was elevated to the peerage. As a young officer in the Yorkshire Dragoons he saw some active...
10: ... apparently equally undistinguished as [[Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food|Minister for Agri...
12: ==Viceroy of India==

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