Robert Harley, first earl of Oxford

(1661-1724)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, 1661-1724 NRA: Harley Robert (1661-1724) 1st Earl of Oxford statesman DNB: Harley, Robert, first earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1661-1724), politician LBT ID: LdOxfor1 VIAF ID: 25397613 LOC ID: n78087623	B/BAP: 1661-12-05 DIED: 1724-05-21
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English statesman, Queen Anne's Tory leader in Parliament (1711-1714), negotiated the conclusion to the War of the Spanish Succession (1713).
REFERENCES TO Robert Harley, first earl of Oxford: Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleuch, 11 January 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1817 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 9