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French, Robert (1716–1779), landowner and politician  

Toby Barnard

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23 September 2004
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French, Robert (1716–1779), landowner and politician, was the eldest son of Patrick French (d. 1744), barrister, and Jane Digby, the daughter of Simon Digby, successively bishop of Limerick and Elphin. The Frenches, of Anglo-Norman origins, had settled originally in the port of ...

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Fuller, Rose (1708–1777), politician, gun-founder, and landowner  

J. S. Hodgkinson

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Ridley, Sir Matthew White, second baronet (1745–1813), land and coal owner and politician  

J. M. Ellis

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23 September 2004
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Ridley, Sir Matthew White, second baronet (1745–1813), land and coal owner and politician, was born on 28 October 1745 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the second of the twelve children of Matthew Ridley (1711–1778) of Heaton Hall and Newcastle, a landowner, coal magnate, and MP, though the eldest of ...

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Stuart, James (1775–1849), landowner, politician, and factory inspector  

Michael S. Moss

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Stuart, James (1775–1849), landowner, politician, and factory inspector, was the eldest son of Dr Charles Stuart (1745/6–1826), of Dunearn in Fife, and Mary, the daughter of the Revd Dr John Erskine. His father was minister of Cramond, on the Firth of Forth, and later a physician in ...