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Marlborough meanwhile was in the Low Countries, things were not going well. He failed to take the French port of Toulon and the British fleet was wrecked off the Scillies. 1,500 sailors drowned including one of England's finest admirals, Sir Cloudesley Shovell.

Thomas Wharton, Marquess of Wharton

THOMAS WHARTON (FIFTH BARON AND FIRST MARQUESS OF WHARTON) (1648-1715)

• A 17th-century statesman
• Became an MP in 1673
• Went to the Lords on his father's death in 1696
• Remembered as the author of Lilliburlero, the popular song much sung by English troops and in the 20th Century, the signature tune of the 91热爆 World Service news
• Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1708-1710
• Lord Privy Seal under George I

Abigail Hill was a cousin to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland.

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• White's (the very smart later, and still, a gentleman's club)
• Lloyd's (a Chocolate House in Lombard Street run for the commercially and financially minded by a man called Edward Lloyd).
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