Other rumours claimed she was courted by Lord Mulgrave ( later made Duke of Buckingham ), although he denied it.

His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole ( 1775 ) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave ( 1744 – 1792 ).

This was a good start for the young artist, who shortly received a commission from Lord Mulgrave and an introduction to Sir George Beaumont.

By his first wife, Mary, daughter of Edmund Sheffield ( afterwards 1st Earl of Mulgrave ), he had six daughters and two sons: Thomas, who succeeded him as the third Lord Fairfax, and Charles, a colonel of horse, who was killed at Marston Moor.

* Lord Mulgrave — First Lord of the Admiralty

* Lord Mulgrave – First Lord of the Admiralty

* May, 1810 – Lord Mulgrave succeeds Lord Chatham as Master-General of the Ordnance.

Charles Philip Yorke succeeds Mulgrave as First Lord of the Admiralty.

* Lord Mulgrave – Master-General of the Ordnance

* January 1819 – The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Mulgrave as Master-General of the Ordnance.

Lord Mulgrave becomes minister without portfolio

* 1820 – Lord Mulgrave leaves the cabinet

His grandson, the 3rd Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626, also in the Peerage of England.

Buckingham, who is better known by his inherited titles as Lord Mulgrave, was the author of An Account of the Revolution and some other essays, and of numerous poems, among them the Essay on Poetry and the Essay on Satire.

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave GCB, PC ( 14 February 1755-7 April 1831 ), styled The Honourable Henry Phipps until 1792 and known as The Lord Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812, was a British soldier and politician.

Lord Mulgrave was a younger son of Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave, by his wife the Hon.

Lord Mulgrave entered the army in 1775, and eventually rose to the rank of General.

In 1784 Lord Mulgrave was elected to the House of Commons for Totnes.

Following an accident suffered by Lord Harrowby, Mulgrave took his place as Foreign Secretary, in which position he helped Pitt to form the Third Coalition against Napoleon.

With the death of Pitt and the formation of the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806, Mulgrave, along with the other Pittites, went into opposition, but when the Pittites returned to power in 1807, Mulgrave served in various major offices, first as First Lord of the Admiralty ( 1807 – 1810 ), then as Master-General of the Ordnance ( 1810 – 1819 ), and finally as Minister without Portfolio ( 1819 – 1820 ).

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

Bentinck was succeeded by Lord Granby ; Disraeli's own speech, thought by many of his own party to be blasphemous, ruled him out for the time being.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

The third earl was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl, who was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.

A head of state can be empowered to designate his successor, such as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, who was succeeded by his son Richard.

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.

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers ' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit.

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

If he succeeded and built the Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered the dispersed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together, as it is stated: " For then I shall turn for the nations a clear tongue, so that they will all procalim the Name of the Lord, and to worship Him with a united resolve ( Zephaniah 3: 9 ).

When George I succeeded to the British throne in 1714, his German ministers advised him to leave the office of Lord High Treasurer vacant because those who had held it in recent years had grown overly powerful, in effect, replacing the Sovereign as head of the government.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

In 1775 Lord North, who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, succeeded in passing a bill that reiterated the legal deposit provisions and granted the universities perpetual copyright on their works.

Many within Parliament were also worried by the failure of the bill to take into account the public interest, including Lord Macaulay, who succeeded in defeating one of Talfourd's bills in 1841.

Walpole was instead succeeded as Prime Minister by Lord Wilmington, though the real power in the new government was divided between Lord Carteret and the Pelham brothers ( Henry and Thomas, Duke of Newcastle ).

Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary who succeeded Wellington, decided mainly on the " suggestions " of Jardine to wage war on China.

The Act which finally succeeded was proposed by the Whigs, led by the Prime Minister Lord Grey.

After the death of Cromwell in 1658, Charles's chances of regaining the Crown at first seemed slim as Cromwell was succeeded as Lord Protector by his son, Richard.

* January 1919 Law becomes Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons, and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain ; both remaining in the War Cabinet.