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William Shippen (MP)

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26: 149:'s speech as "rather...calculated for the Meridian of Germany, then for Great Britain" and called King George "a Stranger to our Language and Constitution". The House resolved that Shippen had said words "highly dishonourable to, and unjustly reflecting on, his Majesty's Person & Government" and he was sent to the 161:
in Newcastle in order to come to an agreement on the best way to correspond. In 1740, however, Shippen was dropped from the Pretender's correspondence with English Jacobites for a French-backed rising due to the way he "trembles, and infuses his fears into the gentlemen to whom the King wrote". In
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In the Commons Shippen often 'distinguished himself, speaking forcefully in debates...His purpose throughout was to advance the Stuart cause by any means that seemed likely to prove effective'. In 1717 Shippen criticised
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Shippen made several contributions to the fierce propaganda war between Tories and Whigs in the early 18th century. In reign of
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on 16 July 1687. Shortly one year after his matriculation he was elected king's scholar at Westminster. Admitted a pensioner of
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in 1693 and graduated with a BA the year after and was called to the bar in 1699., On 17 July 1712 he married Frances Stote (
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February 1741 Shippen absented himself from the Commons rather than vote for
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on 26 June 1691 he became a scholar there the next year. Shippen went to the
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on 4 December 1717. In March the next year he wrote to the Old Pretender,
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William Shippen (disambiguation)

Enoch Seeman
Jacobite
Tory
House of Commons
Stockport Grammar School
Brasenose College, Oxford
Trinity College, Cambridge
Middle Temple
Northumberland
Queen Anne
Charles I
Member of Parliament
Bramber
Sussex
Lord Plymouth
Saltash
Cornwall
1713 general election
1715 general election
Newton, Lancashire
George I
Tower of London
James Francis Edward Stuart
George Lockhart
Samuel Sandys
Robert Walpole
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