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Prolonged Grand Tour form August 1712 to May 1718 with his tutor Dr Thomas Hobart, when he began collection many and varied pieces, pictures, books, manuscripts which form part of the collecitons of Holkham Hall.
University of Turin
Career:
Member of Parliament for Norfilk (1722-1728(; one of the original Knights of the Bath when the Order was revivied by George I in 1725. Joint Postmaster General (1733-1745, 1745-1758); Postmaster General (March - May 1745 and 1758-1759)
Freemason, Grand Master, Premier Grand Lodge [nicknamed 'the Moderns' founded 24 Jmune 1717] 21 March 1731-1732, Presided, November 1731, at Extraordinary Lodge, held by WM and Brethren, Lodge no 30 at maid's Hed, Cook Row, subsequently magdalen Street, Norwich, constituted 11 May 1724 by Martin Folkes FRS
Honours:
KB 1725; Baron Lovell 1728; Earl of Leicester and Viscount Coke 1744
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