The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.

A bitter rivalry between the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil, son of Lord Burghley, and their respective adherents, for the most powerful positions in the state marred politics.

Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

The usual wording of official announcements of this nature was " The King has been pleased to appoint ...", but on this occasion the announcement said merely " The King has appointed ...", and his Private Secretary Lord Stamfordham asked the Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, to make sure Scullin was aware of the exact wording.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, the next strongest claimant, accepted this outcome with reluctance.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

Lord Abinger was twice married ( the second time only six months before his death ), and by his first wife ( d. 1829 ) had three sons and two daughters, the title passing to his eldest son, Robert.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

* Robert Kite, Lord Mayor of London in 1766

A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon or The Haunted Honeymoon ( US title ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers ' writing.

* Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey ( 2000 ) by Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis ISBN 0-87338-665-5

In 1921, Lord Robert Cecil proposed the introduction of Esperanto into state schools of member nations, and a report was commissioned.

Henry Mildmay, Mr. Robert Wallop, the Lord Mounson, Sir.

He was succeeded, as the 4th Lord Rayleigh, by his son Robert John Strutt, another well known physicist.

* Lord, Robert H. " Bismarck and Russia in 1863 ," American Historical Review, Vol.

* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.

Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote in 1713 about " those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us ", referring to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurers and chief ministers.

A member of the Manners family headed by the Duke of Rutland, Manners-Sutton was born at Screveton, Nottinghamshire, the son of the Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.

His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Thoroton, of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, while Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was his uncle.

* Lord George Manners-Sutton ( 1723 – 1783 )

Manners-Sutton was the fifth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.

* Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners ( 1756 – 1842 ), British lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

" Lord Althorp, a fellow Radical, supported Littleton's non-partisan view but William Cobbett gave a bitterly-partisan speech, claiming that the election of Manners-Sutton would be " an open declaration of war against the people of England.

* 1722 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( d. 1770 )

By 1722, congestion was becoming so serious that the Lord Mayor decreed that " all carts, coaches and other carriages coming out of Southwark into this City do keep all along the west side of the said bridge: and all carts and coaches going out of the City do keep along the east side of the said bridge.

* 1682 – 1722: Lord Churchill of Eyemouth

* Lord Braxfield ( 1722 – 1799 ), High Court Judge

The Duke's subsidiary titles are: Marquess of Montrose ( created 1644 ), Marquess of Graham and Buchanan ( 1707 ), Earl of Montrose ( 1503 ), Earl of Kincardine ( 1644 & 1707 ), Earl Graham of Belford ( 1722 ), Viscount Dundaff ( 1707 ), Lord Graham ( 1445 ), Lord Aberruthven, Mugdock and Fintrie ( 1707 ) and Baron Graham of Belford ( 1722 ).

: Other titles ( Lord Graham & 2nd Duke onwards ): Earl Graham and Baron Graham ( 1722 )

These include: Marquess of Atholl ( created 1676 ), Marquess of Tullibardine ( 1703 ), Earl of Atholl ( 1629 ), Earl of Tullibardine ( 1606 and 1676 ), Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle ( 1703 ), Viscount of Balquhidder ( 1676 ), Lord Murray of Tullibardine ( 1604 ), Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask ( 1676 ) and Baron Percy ( 1722 ).

Charles Yorke ( 1722 – 1770 ), became, like his father, Lord Chancellor

* Carr Hervey, Lord Hervey ( 1691 – 1723 ), who was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds from 1713 to 1722.

Charles Yorke ( 30 December 1722 – 20 January 1770 ) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton KG PC ( 1661 – 21 January 1722 ) was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Member of Parliament for Hampshire and a supporter of William III of Orange.

Lord Hardwicke married Lady Jemima Campbell, only daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane, and granddaughter and heiress of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, who succeeded her grandfather as Marchioness Grey in 1722 ( a title which became extinct on her death ).

However, Alexander Nisbet, writing as far back as 1722 states: " this family was dignified with the title of Lord Borthwick in the beginning of the reign of King James II " which commenced in 1437, which is closer to Brown's assertion.

William Byron, 5th Baron Byron ( 5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798 ), also known as " the Wicked Lord " and " the Devil Byron ", was the poet George Gordon Byron's great uncle.

Their daughter, Isabel ( or Isobel ), succeeded as 5th Lady Ruthven of Freeland in 1722 ( see Lord Ruthven of Freeland for further history of this title ).

He was Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1722 to 1727, 1727 to 1734 and 1734 – 7 ; He was chief adviser of Lord Ilay's opponents.

He was styled Master of Jedburgh until 1722, Lord Jedburgh from 1722 to 1735, and Earl of Ancram from 1735 to 1767.

The new king reappointed him as First Lord of the Treasury from 23 May 1715 to 10 October 1715 and made him Constable of the Tower of London between 1715 and 1722.

After inheriting his father's titles in 1721, Scarbrough became Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and Colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1722 and Master of the Horse in 1727, having been made a Knight of the Garter and admitted to the Privy Council.