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Godolphin and Marlborough
However, Marlborough was convinced of the urgency – " I am very sensible that I take a great deal upon me ", he had earlier written to Godolphin, " but should I act otherwise, the Empire would be undone ..."
* Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough ( 1681 – 1733 ), eldest daughter of the 1st Duke, succeeded her father by Act of Parliament ( 1706 )
Although King William III died in 1702, his successor in England, Queen Anne, continued the vigorous prosecution of the war, under the guidance of her ministers, Godolphin and Marlborough.
Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.
However, as the War of the Spanish Succession went on and became less and less popular with the Tories, Marlborough and Godolphin were forced to rely more and more on the Junto Whigs, so that by 1708 they headed an administration dominated by the Junto.
It was headed by Lord Godolphin and Anne's favourite the Duke of Marlborough, who were considered moderate Tories, along with the Speaker of the House of Commons, Robert Harley.
With no surviving male heir, Henrietta became the Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough | 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.
Sidney Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer | Lord Treasurer, Chief Minister and fellow Tory friend of Marlborough
In 1696 Marlborough, together with Godolphin, Russell and Shrewsbury, was yet again implicated in a treasonous plot with James II, this time instigated by the Jacobite militant John Fenwick.
The moderate Tory ministry of Marlborough, the Lord Treasurer Godolphin, and the Speaker of the House of Commons Robert Harley, were hampered by, and often at variance with, their High Tory colleagues whose strategic policy favoured the full employment of the Royal Navy in pursuit of trade advantages and colonial expansion overseas.
Marlborough and Godolphin, now distanced from Anne, would henceforth have to conform to the decisions of a Whig ministry, while the Tories, sullen and vengeful, looked forward to their former leaders ' downfall.
Harley, now master of the Tory party, did all he could to persuade his colleagues that the pro-war Whigs – and by their apparent concord with Whig policy, Marlborough and Godolphin – were bent on leading the country to ruin.
), in the presence of his wife and two surviving daughters Henrietta Godolphin and Mary Montagu, the 1st Duke of Marlborough died.
When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with Sidney Godolphin, the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a result of his wife's friendship with the queen.
With no surviving male heir, Henrietta became the Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough | 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.
Mary Osborne, Duchess of Leeds ( 1723-3 August 1764 ) ( née Lady Mary Godolphin ), daughter of Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough and Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin.
She was a granddaughter of the powerful government trio during the reign of Queen Anne: the famous general and politician, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, through her mother ; and Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin through her father.

Godolphin and Harley
When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.
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.
Consequently, her chief ministers Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, who were called " Prime Minister " by some, had difficulty executing policy in the face of a hostile Parliament.
The Duke and Godolphin had initially agreed to explore a ' moderate scheme ' with Harley and reconstruct the government, but they were incensed when Harley privately criticised the management of the war in Spain to the Queen, and his associate Henry St John, the Secretary at War, raised the issue in Parliament.
The influence of the Marlboroughs with the queen was, however, gradually supplanted by that of Abigail Masham and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and with the fortunes of the Marlboroughs those of Godolphin were indissolubly united.
The services of both were so appreciated by the nation that they were able for a time to regard the loss of the queen ’ s favour with indifference, and even in 1708 to procure the expulsion of Harley from office ; but after the Tory reaction which followed the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell, who abused Godolphin under the name of Volpone, the queen made use of the opportunity to get rid of Marlborough by abruptly dismissing Godolphin from office on 7 August 1710.
On 8 August 1710 Godolphin was dismissed, and the Harley Ministry took power.
The Junto Pembroke Ministry was removed from power, and Davenant ’ s friends – Godolphin, Nottingham, and Harley – were placed in positions of power in the Coalition Ministry.

Godolphin and who
Despite his personal clout, however, Walpole could not stop Lord Godolphin and the Whigs from pressing for the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell, a minister who preached anti-Whig sermons.
The Whigs, who were the main prop of the war, had been laying siege to Godolphin.
The Queen, who loathed Sunderland and the Junto, and who refused to be dominated by any single party, bitterly opposed the move ; but Godolphin, increasingly dependent on Whig support, had little room for manoeuvre.
Sunderland was dismissed in June, followed by Godolphin ( who had refused to sever his ties with Sarah ) in August.
The design was altered by the Marlboroughs ' friend the Earl of Godolphin, who placed the high altar in defiance of religious convention against the west wall, thus allowing the dominating feature to be the Duke's gargantuan tomb and sarcophagus.
The Godolphin Arabian ( c. 1724 – 1753 ), also known as the Godolphin Barb, was an Arabian horse who was one of three stallions that were the founders of the modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock ( the other two are the Darley Arabian and the Byerley Turk ).
then sold to Francis, Earl of Godolphin, who maintained a stud in Suffolk, near the racing town of Newmarket.
They had one child, Francis Godolphin Osborne ( styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later 5th Duke of Leeds and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ), who was born on 29 January 1751.
After Fenwick's confession in 1696 regarding the attempted assassination of William III, Godolphin, who was compromised, tendered his resignation ; but when the Tories came into power in 1700, he was again appointed lord treasurer and retained office for about a year.
John Somers was against such a measure ; but Sidney Godolphin, who was believed to be personally alluded to in one of these harangues under the nickname of " Volpone ," urged the necessity of a prosecution and gained the day.
He also manages to trick his brother, whom he also bought, to tell the truth about who killed Peter Godolphin in front of Rosamund.
The Three Crowns Hotel dates to the 13th century and is reportedly haunted by the ghost of the cavalier poet, Sidney Godolphin, who died in the English Civil War.
The race was created in 1996 by the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who owns Darley Stud & Godolphin Racing, one of the world's leading thoroughbred breeding and racing operations.
The Chaloner Lodge of Freemasons ( no. 2644 ) was named after its first Worshipful Master Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough, who, when not in London, resided at Melksham House.
We know by name some of those who were toasted: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; Lady Godolphin, Lady Sunderland, Lady Bridgewater, and Lady Monthermer, all daughters of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, except Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who was the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and but 8 years old when toasted ; the Duchess of Bolton, the Duchess of Beaufort, the Duchess of St. Albans ; Anne Long, a daughter of Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet and friend of Jonathan Swift ; Catherine Barton, Newton's niece and Charles Montagu's mistress ; Mrs. Brudenell and Lady Wharton, Lady Carlisle and Mrs. Kirk and Mademoiselle Spanheim, among them.

Godolphin and had
In despair, Anne finally relented and Sunderland received the seals of office ; but the special relationship between Godolphin, Sarah, and the Queen had taken a severe blow and she began to turn increasingly to a new favourite – Sarah's cousin, Abigail Masham.
Sir Oliver is betrothed to Rosamund Godolphin, but her brother Peter, a young hothead, detests the Tressilians, as there had been a feud between their fathers, and therefore tries to drive a wedge between his sister and Sir Oliver.
Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.
Upon the death of the 7th Duke of Leeds in 1859, the dukedom passed to his cousin, the 2nd Baron Godolphin, whose father ( the second son of the 5th Duke of Leeds ) had been created Baron Godolphin, of Farnham Royal in the County of Buckingham, in 1832.
On Sky Sports TV coverage, he joked that he retired twice in one day, as the inaugural Dubai Gold Cup in which he was racing had to be re-run, due to a fall by a Godolphin horse, Fox Hunt.
John Long, one of the original partners, had by then become sole proprietor with the financial backing of his elder brother Richard Godolphin Long MP.
He has had many successes in his role of stable jockey to Godolphin Racing.
In 1684 he had already been created Baron Godolphin, of Rialton, also in the Peerage of England.
It had six prominent members: Montagu ( who emerged as overall leader in 1697, the same year that the last Tory, Godolphin, was removed from office ), Somers, Wharton, Romney, Orford, and Shrewsbury.
The betting suggested that the race would be a match between Galileo ( 1 / 2 favourite ) and the Godolphin five year-old Fantastic Light ( 7-2 ), who had won Group One races in four different countries.
* Lady Mary Godolphin ( 1723 – 1764 ), married the 4th Duke of Leeds and had issue.
Returning to New Zealand after the Cox Plate, the mare's owners revealed that Sunline had been part of a bidding war from five different countries, including the powerful Godolphin stables in the United Arab Emirates.

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