George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne PC, of Stowe, Cornwall, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 until 1712, when he was raised to the peerage
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Harley's Dozen
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Harley's Dozen were twelve new peerages created in December 1711 by the British Tory government of Robert Harley which was struggling to gain a majority in the Whig-dominated House of Lords. This came
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
…the peerage on 1 January 1712 as Baron Lansdown of Bideford in the Peerage of Great Britain and vacated his seat in the House of Commons. He was one of Harley's Dozen created at once to change the political balance in the Whig-dominated Lords. He expended time and money in an ultimately futile effort to secure the…
Robert Harley in 1711
House of Lords being addressed by Queen Anne