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...
One of the Special Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851.
Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of St Clement Danes Parish in 1897.
One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.
Baptist preacher. Born Glasgow. President of the Baptist Union, 1875-6 and 1901-2. Died Edinburgh.
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Treasurer and Chairman of the Governors of Highgate School 1929 - 1944. Old Cholmeleian (i.e. educated at Highgate School).
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