Politician and patron of the arts. MP for Radnor from 1711 to 1714, and for Cambridgeshire from 1722 until he succeeded his father in 1724, and entered the House of Lords as the Second Earl of Oxford. He acquired a considerable amount of land in the west end of London, giving his name to Harley and Oxford Streets.
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Edward Harley
St. Peter's Church, Vere Street, was designed by James Gibbs, built by Edward...
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
Born Joseph James Vaughan in East London. Started work, aged 8, while still at school. As an electrician he entered into trade union politics and as a left-wing Labour supporter became a councillor...
Elected Guardian of the Lewisham Union - Lewisham in 1894.
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