DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE

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DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE AGAR-ELLIS, BARON
(1797-1833), English man of letters, born on the 14th of January 1797, was the only son of the 2nd Viscount Clifden. He was educated at Westminster school and at Christ Church,

Oxford

. In 1818 he was returned to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

as member for Heytesbury. He afterwards represented Seaford (1820), Ludgershall (1826) and Okehampton (183o). He seconded Canning's motion in 1822 for a bill to relieve the disabilities of Roman Catholic peers, and consistently supported liberal principles. In party politics, however, he took little

interest

INTEREST

, but he zealously advocated in

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

and elsewhere that state encouragement should be given to the cause of literature and the fine arts. In 1824 he was the leading promoter of the grant of 57,000 for the purchase of John Julius

Angerstein

ANGERSTEIN, JOHN JULIUS (1735-1822)

's collection of pictures, which formed the foundation of the National Gallery. On the formation of Lord Grey's administration, in November 183o, he was appointed

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of woods and forests, but was compelled by delicate health to resign it after two months' occupancy. In June 1831, during the lifetime of his father, he was raised to the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Lords, receiving an English peerage with the title of Baron Dover. He was president (1832) of the Royal Society of Literature, a trustee of the British Museum and of the National Gallery, and a

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of public records. He died on the loth of July
1833. Lord Dover's works are chiefly historical, and include The True History of the Iron Mask, extracted from Documents in The French Archives (1826), Inquiries respecting the Character of Clarendon (1827), and a Life of Frederick II. (1831). He also edited the Ellis Correspondence (1829) and Walpole's Letters to Sir

Horace

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Mann (1833).

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