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Thomas Erskine, first baron Erskine
(1750-1823)
NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
NRA:    Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823) 1st Baron Erskine, Lord Chancellor
DNB:    Erskine, Thomas, first Baron Erskine (1750-1823), lord chancellor
LBT ID: LdErski1    VIAF ID: 59154307    LOC ID: n50012295		B/BAP:   1750-01-10
DIED:   1823-11-17
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07).
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