The Duke of Chandos | |
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Member of Parliament for Hereford | |
In office 1707–1714 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Scudamore |
Personal details | |
Born | Herefordshire, England | 6 January 1673
Died | 9 August 1744 Little Stanmore, Middlesex, Great Britain | (aged 71)
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Children | |
Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, PC, DL, FRS (6 January 1673 – 9 August 1744) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Chandos, and vacated his seat in the House of Commons to sit in the House of Lords. He was subsequently created Earl of Carnarvon, and then Duke of Chandos in 1719.[2]
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