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The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).
Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.
Cockburn's father Archibald Cockburn, a keen Tory, was Sheriff of Midlothian and Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and his mother Janet Rennie was connected by marriage with the influential Lord Melville.
Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.
Lord Melville's first marriage was to Elizabeth, daughter of David Rannie, of Melville Castle, in 1765.
Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is present or a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.
Melville filled various political offices and was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1812 to 1827, and from 1828 to 1830 ; his eldest son inherited his title.
They had four sons and two daughters ; their eldest son, Henry Dundas, later third Viscount Melville, became an army officer while their second son, Richard Saunders Dundas, became First Naval Lord.
The old governing interest in Scotland began to break up, a process which did not halt when Melville returned under Wellington and Sir Robert Peel as President of the Board of Control in 1828, then again at the Admiralty as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.
The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.
* Lord Melville – First Lord of the Admiralty
* The Lord Erskine, Lord Chancellor, for the trial of The Viscount Melville 1806
The positions of official keeper and captain of the palace have been held by ; James Hamilton of Finnart, 1534, Captain and Keeper ; William Danielstoun from 19 November 1540 ; Andrew Hamilton in Briggis, from 22 August 1543 ; Andrew Melville of Murdocairney, later Lord Melville of Monimail, brother of James Melville of Halhill, from 15 February 1567 ; George Boyd, deputy Captain, 1564 ; Andrew Ferrier, Captain of the Palace, 1565, Frenchman ; John Brown, June 1569 ; Andrew Lambie, June 1571 ; Ludovic Bellenden of Auchnoul 22 November 1587.
#* Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross ( Melville Stewart Jameson )
His handling of the impeachment of Lord Melville was generally admired.
With the " country party " in disarray, Lord Melville, Lord Leven, and Lord Shaftesbury, leader of the opposition to Charles's rule, fled to Holland where Shaftesbury soon died.

Lord and died
: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?
: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.
Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.
With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.
His father-in-law, Lord Burghley, died on 4 August 1598 at the age of 78, leaving substantial bequests to Oxford's two unmarried daughters, Bridget and Susan.
Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.
Lord Aberdare died in London on 25 February 1895, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his first marriage, Henry.
At the Catechetical School of Alexandria, Jerome listened to the catechist Didymus the Blind expounding the prophet Hosea and telling his reminiscences of Anthony the Great, who had died 30 years before ; he spent some time in Nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that " city of the Lord ," but detecting even there " concealed serpents ," i. e., the influence of Origen of Alexandria.
While attending the Norfolk circuit on 2 April, Lord Abinger was suddenly seized with apoplexy, and died in his lodgings at Bury.
In speaking with Jesus, both sisters lament that he did not arrive in time to prevent their brother's death: " Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
reads: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, " Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead.
* 1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
His father, Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, died some time before 1370 leaving Glyndŵr's mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth a widow and Owain a young man of maybe 16 years at most.
* Brother Tudur, Lord of Gwyddelwern, born about 1362, died 11 March 1405 at a battle in Brecknockshire in the wars of his brother.
* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.
Weiss died the following year, and John Bassett Moore resigned ; Max Huber was elected Vice-President on 12 September 1928 to succeed Weiss, while a second death ( Lord Finlay ) left the Court increasingly understaffed.
When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.
* William I, Lord of Douglas ( died ca.
** John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England ( died 1607 )
* Patrick Finglas ( died 1537 ), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
Carlisle died shortly after, but his son, the 2nd Earl of Carlisle, leased the patents to Lord Willoughby for 21 years in 1647.
George Canning himself died less than four months later and, after the brief premiership of Lord Goderich, Peel returned to the post of Home Secretary under the premiership of his long-time ally the Duke of Wellington.
The Royal Navy blockaded Villeneuve in Cádiz until he left for Naples on 19 October ; the British squadron subsequently caught and overwhelmingly defeated his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October ( the British commander, Lord Nelson, died in the battle ).
Following the Assize held at Oxford in 1577, later deemed the Black Assize, over 300 died from Epidemic typhus, including Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
There was great national concern, and one of his fellow guests ( Lord Chesterfield ) died.

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