Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

(1661-1724)

British politician

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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721.

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Born	5 December 1661 Covent Garden, Middlesex, Kingdom of England
Died	21 May 1724 (aged 62) Westminster, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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