George ii Sentence Examples

In 1734 he was appointed under-secretary of state, and he soon gained a position of great personal influence with George II.

In the centre of the principal quadrangle of the hospital there is a statue of George II.

Although he was anxious to marry this lady, the match was rendered impossible by the dislike of George II.

Soon after his father became king in 1727 Frederick took up his residence in England and in 1729 was created prince of Wales; but the relations between George II.

See Horace Walpole, Letters, edited by P. Cunningham (9 vols., London, 1857), many of the letters being addressed to Conway; Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II.

When he returned to London in 1730, Walpole was firmly established as master of the House of Commons, and as the trusted minister of King George II.

In 1701, New York, seeking another claim, obtained from the Iroquois a grant to the king of England of this territory which they claimed to have conquered but from which they had subsequently been expelled, and this grant was confirmed in 1726 and again in 1744 About 1730 English traders from Pennsylvania and Virginia began to visit the eastern and southern parts of the territory and the crisis approached as a French Canadian expedition under Celeron de Bienville took formal possession of the upper Ohio Valley by planting leaden plates at the mouths of the principal streams. This was in 1749 and in the same year George II.

The Distress for Rent Act 1737, however, enables a landlord to recover double rent from a tenant who holds over after having himself given notice to quit; while another statute in the reign of George II.

Although Louis V., who founded the university of Giessen in 1607, was a Lutheran, he and his son, George II.

In the first statute passed for improving the navigation of the river near Oxford (21 Jac. I.) it is called the river of Thames, and it was only in a statute of George II.

The territory on which Utica was built was part of the 22,000acre tract granted in 1734 by George II.

In the clamour for peace following the death of George II.

Its first constitution was granted in 1816 by Prince George II.

The remaining provisions closely followed those of the act of George II.

The park was first formed by the landgrave Frederick II., the husband of Mary, daughter of George II.

Georgia derives its name from King George II.

This was modified by 13 Anne c. 26 (1713), still further by 17 George II.

In 1805 another alteration was effected by the provision that the lineal descendants of George II.

He was twice married, and in addition to his successor John George II.

In 1722 he was appointed physician-general to the army, and in 1727 first physician to George II.

The estate of Kew House about the end of the 17th century came into the possession of Lord Capel of Tewkesbury, and in 1721 of Samuel Molyneux, secretary to the prince of Wales, afterwards George II.

Tiverton was an important centre of the woollen trade in the 16th century, and Risdon, writing in 1608, describes it as thronged with rich clothiers, and the Monday market famous for its kersies, known as "Tiverton kersies," while as late as the reign of George II.

To him has been attributed a work called A History of the Man after God's own Heart (1761), intended to show that George II.

The first and most important of a series of changes which ultimately led to the dissolution of the ministry was the death of George II.

Marble Hill was erected by George II.

The title of " princess royal, " bestowed on the eldest daughter of the sovereign was borrowed by King George II.

The university, the famous Georgia Augusta, founded by George II.

In 1710, in accordance with an arrangement made between the two kingdoms, a board of trustees was appointed to whom a considerable sum was granted annually for the promotion of the linen manufacture; but the jealousy of English merchants interposed to check the industry whenever it threatened to assume proportions which might interfere with their own trade, and by an act of George II.

Like his father, he was very fond of music, but he appears to have been less extravagant than John George II.

He is believed to have been foaled in Barbary about 1724, and to have been imported during the reign of George II.

In '707 a number of English antiquaries began to hold regular meetings for the discussion of their hobby and in 1717 the Society of Antiquaries was formally reconstituted, finally receiving a charter from George II.

In 1727 he died of a cold caught in attending the coronation of George II.

A further change was introduced in 1805 when the Order was extended to include lineal descendants of George II.

David Barclay (the son of the famous apologist for the Quakers) was an apprentice in the house, but he subsequently became master, and had the honour of receiving George II.