Francis Burdett
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Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet was an English politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, and annua
Portrait by Thomas Phillips, 1834
Burdett addressing the freeholders of the county of Middlesex from the Hustings, 1802
"The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat", caricature of Mary Anne Clarke, the mistress of the Duke of York, Prince Frederick, by Isaac Cruikshank, published 15 March 1809. Frederick would resign as Commander-in-Chief 10 days later.
Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1843
Jane Elizabeth Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer was an English noblewoman, known as a patron of the Reform movement and a lover of Lord Byron.
Francis Burdett
…St James's Place, London. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. When young, he was for a long time the notorious lover of Lady Oxford (according to the journal of Thomas Raikes), and afterwards travelled in France and Switzerland. He was in Paris during the earlier days of the French…
Painting of Jane Elizabeth Scott by John Hoppner (1797)
The Countess of Oxford and her daughter, Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley (follower of John Hoppner)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall