CHARLES

ere: b. 1749,| war. 4. 1806, son of the first Lord Holland, was | depart educated at Eton and Oxford. He) the g¢ travelled and moved when a young man | oye | in the gayest continental society, showing | senten: a strong propensity to gambling. On} prance returning to England he took a prominent | ang th in Parliament, and distinguished | exyceie, aaah: bs a debate: and orator of the} jie bac first rank. In the dispute with the! are no American Colonies (1765-83), he sided | f-ontie: with the colonists, and sai He to! rugeed prevent their es ent. He was! the strongly disliked by Georg Ll. for his| ardes: emencence, more than once! prpj: from office, as a minister, owing apples, to the on ee For twenty-two | nor the: (i841? this great parliamen- | gos jn lary lander was kept out of office. For | nearly: the ter part of this ae ho was}! Wheat, the rival and opponent of Pitt, the Prime | peet ri Fox became Secretary of State for Foreign | mineral Affairs, but he died a few months after-| found j wards, and was buried in Westminster | district, near bis creat rival. iron is: GEORGE, 4. 1624 at Fenny | chief r Drayton, in Leicestershire, d. 1691; the! jewelle founder of the Society of Friends, com- | dyeing, monly known as Quakers. He was the son| jece of Christopher Fox, a Puritan weaver, who | the No “ee him to a shoemaker. He| ¢ hard) a divine call in 1643, after an evening | ahout during which he had resisted the invitation | Prench of his fellows to “drink healths.” For! princip nine months he remained away from | then a home in solitarine , and for the next| dre ed four years he wandered about shunning | the ct any religious e ion. In 1647 he} nations began to, and to show marks of} million a insight that impre ed bis! are thr hearers. His followers became known | their Ic as“Truth’s Friends,” or simply ‘‘ Friends;’’ | yerbial. but their nickname, “Quakers,” they got; PRA in Derby in 1650, after Fox had bidden| ausTR the town magistrates “tremble at the! of the; name of the Lord.” The enthusiasm and | country; of bis early following subsided/ and in before his calmne and “discipline of | subject i silence.” His wife, Margaret Fell, was of | nation a Greatest a istance to bim in the or-| respect of his new society. His labours| him to extraordinary. He travelled in Empire Scotland, Ireland, the West Indies, | succeed America, and Holland, and everywhere | Austria his hearers by his sturdy moral | fatal b “= his “awful, living, reverent, | succe prayer.” superse: | [s. 148]