Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 - 1724 )

Birth: Bow street, Covent Garden, London, England (05 December 1661) Death: His house in Albemarle Street, London (21 May 1724) Burial: Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire Education: Private school at Shilton, near Burford, Oxfordshire; Middle Temple (admitted 1682) Career: Assisted his father in raising a troop of horse for the Glorious Revolution and seizing Worcester (1688); Sheriff of Herefordshire (1689); Major in the Herefordshire Militia (1696); MP for Tregony (1689-1690), Radnor (1690-1711); Commissioner for Public Accounts (1690-1697); Steward of Molynedd and other royal manors in Radnorshire (1691); Speaker of the House of Commons (1701-1705); Privy Councillor (1704-1708, 1710-1714); Secretary of State for the North (1704-1708); Commissioner for the Union of England and Scotland (1706); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1710-1711); stabbed by Antoine de Guiscard (FRS 1706) during an interrogation, but survived (1711); Lord High Treasurer (1711-1714); Governor of the South Sea Company (1711-1714); Steward of Sherwood Forest (1711-1714); imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of high treason (1715), acquitted (1717) but continued to keep in touch with the Jacobite party Honours: Baron Harley of Wigmore, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer 1711; KG 1712 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/03/1712.