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- Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, KG, PC (15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712) was an English Tory politician and peer. He was a Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for the Northern Department before he attained real power as First Lord of the Treasury.
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Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, KG, PC (15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712) was an English Tory politician and peer. He was a Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for the Northern Department before he attained real power as First Lord of the Treasury.
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (baptized June 15, 1645, Breage, Cornwall, Eng.—died Sept. 15, 1712, St. Albans, Hertfordshire) was a British politician and administrator who did much to stabilize British financial administration during the 20 years after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Jun 8, 2018 · The English statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645-1712), was head of the Treasury during the first great 18th-century war against France and successfully financed the most costly military and naval operations undertaken by England to that time.
Politician and courtier, whose financial and administrative ability largely sustained British efforts in the French wars; MP 1668, 1679, 1681; groom of the bedchamber 1670-78; envoy extraordinary to Louis XIV 1672, and to the Spanish Netherlands and William of Orange 1678; secretary of state (south) 1684; created Baron Godolphin 1684; lord chamb...
Mar 17, 2015 · Sidney Godolphin, 1 st Earl of Godolphin, was a senior politician whose career spanned the reigns of Charles II, James II, William III and Anne. Godolphin was primarily a political manager and his links to any political party was tenuous.
SIDNEY Earl of GODOLPHIN, Lord High Treasurer of Great BRITTAN and Chief minister dureing the first nine glorious years of the reign of Queen Ann he dyed in the year 1712 the 15 day of Sept. aged 67 and was burried near this place to whose memmory this [monument] is offer'd with the utmost gratitude affection and honour by his much obliged daugh...
Baptized: Jan. 15, 1610. Died: Feb. 9, 1643, Chagford, Devon, Eng. Sidney Godolphin (baptized Jan. 15, 1610—died Feb. 9, 1643, Chagford, Devon, Eng.) was an English poet and Royalist during the reign of Charles I. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford (1624–27), and at one of the Inns of Court, Godolphin traveled abroad and also became friends ...
