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| 16831748, Irish peer, associate of James E. Oglethorpe in founding Georgia. Elected (1727) to the British House of Commons, he served on Oglethorpes committee investigating penal conditions. He was first president of the trustees of Georgia and kept a journal of their transactions, most of which has been published. |
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