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1744, and resigned on June 25th, 1746. He was the son 

 of the fourth Earl, whom he succeeded in 1739, and was 

 born on October 6th, 1716. Besides the Mastership, he 

 held, at different periods of his life, various other offices of 



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State ; and was Ranger of Bushey Park and a Lord of the 

 Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales. At the time 

 of his death, which happened in January, 1771, his Lordship 

 was principal Secretary of State for the Northern Depart- 

 ment. Walpole, in writing of his Lordship in his " Memoirs 

 of George III.," styles him a "pretty man." 



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