Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke ( 1678 - 1751 )

Baptism: Battersea (10 October 1678) Death: 12 December 1751 Burial: Beside his wife in the family vault at Battersea, Surrey Education: Eton College; ?Christ Church, Oxford; DCL (1702) Career: Travelled in France (1698-1699); MP for Wootton Bassett (1701-1708); MP for Berkshire (1710-1712); Secretary at War (1704-1708); Privy Councillor (1710-1714); Secretary of State for the North (1710-1713); Secretary of State for the South (1713-1714); Director of the South Sea Company (1711-1715); Lord Lieutenant of Essex (1712-1714); Ambassador to Paris (1712); virtually became Prime Minister shortly before the death of Queen Anne (1714), when he fled to France to escape impeachment; put under attainder (1715); hypothetically created Earl of Bolingbroke by the Old Pretender (1715); Secretary of State to the Old Pretender (1715-1716) when he was dismissed and rejected Jacobitism; pardoned and allowed to return to England, although still excluded from the House of Lords (1723); died of cancer of the face Honours: Baron St John of Lydiard Trevoze, Wiltshire, and Viscount Bolingbroke (1712) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 29/01/1713.