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of a Royal Chaplain, ed. by Alfred Hartshorne, letter lxxvii: 10 July
1755). Nonetheless the sermon was printed with corrections and
available to the public in June [L.M., XXIV (1775), p. 303].
Mr Tucker: Josiah Tucker (1712-1799), who had been domestic
chaplain to Bishop Butler and was appointed dean of Gloucester in
1758. He wrote extensively on economic and political questions, and in
1755 privately published a fragment of The Elements of Commerce, and
Theory in Taxes which was intended for the instruction of the future
George III (D.N.B.)
Dr Churches Analysis was An analysis of the Philosophical Works of the late
Viscount Bolingbroke by Thomas Church.
Ld Newnham: George Simon Harcourt (1736-1809), styled Viscount
Nuneham from 1749, who did his grand tour in Germany and Italy
1754-56. He sat as Whig M.R for St. Albans 1761-68, and succeeded as
second earl Harcourt in 1777. In 1754 the first earl was a supporter of
the "New Interest" (Namier and Brooke, H.C, II, p. 580).
Ld Fitzmaurice: William Petty (1737-1805), styled Viscount Fitzmaurice
1753-61. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1755
but left the university without taking a degree. He may have needed
some mature guidance since he was described as having "foolish"
parents, "of whose management he always talked with horror. . . ."He
was M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1760-61, and in the latter year
succeeded his father as second earl of Shelburne. He was created
marquess of Lansdowne in 1784. A keen reformer and liberal in his
opinions, he supported toleration for nonconformists and a conciliatory
policy toward the American colonists (G.E.C., Complete Peerage; Namier
and Brooke, H.C, III, pp. 271-72).
Bp Hume: John Hume (1706-1782), who was successively bishop of
Bristol 1756-58, of Oxford 1758-66 and of Salisbury 1766-82. He began
his ecclesiastical career as a protege of the duke of Newcastle to whose
nephew he was tutor, and was appointed canon residentiary, then dean
of St. Paul's (1758). Seeker believed that he would make a good bishop
(B.L. Add. MS 32,858 fol. 108: 11 August, 1755) and loaned him the
£400 presumably towards the expenses of his promotion to Bristol. As
archbishop, Seeker described him as the "good steady and valuable
bishop of Oxford" (B.L. Add. MS 32,949 fol. 210: 3 June, 1763).
Hume acted as spiritual adviser to Newcastle for whom he drew up a set
of private devotions (Sykes, Church and State, pp. 164, 278-82, 437-39).