October Club (Tory Party)
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The October Club was a group of Tory members of Parliament, established after the 1710 general election. The Club was active until approximately 1714. The group took its name from the strong ale they
A Tory satire on Whig loses at the 1710 general election
Henry Campion was a leading voice in the October Club; he later became a Jacobite
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG, PC, FRS was a British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory mi
October Club (Tory Party)
…has been characterised as having High Church tendencies. The 1710 general election produced an overwhelming Tory majority and heralded the return of Robert Harley to high political office as Lord High Treasurer. Within a month of the new parliament assembling, however, Tory backbenchers were expressing dissatisfaction…
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1714
Robert Harley by Jonathan Richardson, c. 1710.
Oxford (right), together with his friend and ally Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and a portrait of Francis Atterbury. Engraving after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Robert Harley pictured carrying the white staff of the Lord High Treasurer. Portrait by Jonathan Richardson.