Henry Pelham

This piece depicted Copley's 16-year-old half-brother, Henry Pelham, seated at a table playing with a pet squirrel.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

From Parma, Italy, Copley wrote to his brother Henry Pelham, urging that the whole family leave America at once since, "if the Frost should be severe and the Harbour frozen, the Town of Boston will be exposed to an attack; and if it should be taken all that have remained in the town will be considered as enemys to the Country and ill treated or exposed to great distress."

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

Meantime, an application was made in favour of Lovat by a Mr. Painter, of St. John's College, Oxford, in the form of three letters, one of which was addressed to the King, another to Lord Chesterfield, a third to Henry Pelham.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

Singular, indeed, must have been the contrast between Lord Lovat and the polished assembly around him: the Lord High Steward, Hardwicke, comely, and endowed with a fine voice, but "curiously searching for occasions to bow to the Minister, Henry Pelham," and asking at all hands what he was to do.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

The dedication, dated January 19, is to Henry Pelham, then Chancellor of the

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Henry Pelham, one of the last prime ministers to owe his position to the king's favour, receives four lines, while forty are given to John Howard, a pioneer in the new path of philanthropy.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Secretary of State in Walpole's Administration, and continued in office until 1756, having on the death of his brother, Henry Pelham, in 1754, become First Lord of the Treasury.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

Walpole's successors, -- Henry Pelham and the duke of Newcastle, -- like him represented the oligarchy of Whig nobles and millionaires, and even outdid him in corrupt methods.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

It cost him thirty guineas, and Copley, who saw it, told Henry Pelham that he thought it well worth the money.

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

England would remain supine, because Henry Pelham could hardly hold the ministry together, even now; Newcastle was a fool; and Ormskirk would be dead.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918