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Harley, Edward, ca. 1700-1755
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ca. 1700-1755
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HARLEY, EDWARD, 3RD EARL OF OXFORD, son of Edward Harley (at school under Busby, qv); b.; at school under Freind (Beresford); references to Harley at school will be found in HMC Portland MSS iv, 459, 492, 533, from which it appears that he was a boarder at Mrs Beresford’s and that he was suddenly sent home during the Sacheverell riots, when the mob “threatened to tear her house down and broke the windows”; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1716/7, aged 17; MA 2 May 1721; DCL 17 May 1737; MP Herefordshire 1727 – 16 Jun 1741; succ. cousin as 3rd Earl of Oxford 16 Jun 1741; High Steward of Hereford from 1746; Trustee, British Museum, from 1753; Busby Trustee 30 Mar 1743; gave £100 for the building of the new College Dormitory; m. 16 Mar 1724/5 Martha, dau. of John Morgan MP, Tredegar, Monmouthshire; d. 11 Apr 1755.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.