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A serving PM who lived in Streatham

1/5/2020

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On This Day 2 May 1737 the Prime Minister William Petty, 1st Marquis of Landsdowne and The Earl of Sherbourne was born.
He lived in Streatham for 3 years from 1782 at "Streatham Park" the home of the Thrales as a tenant.
Peace with France, with whom Britain was then at war, was negotiated at the Thrale's Streatham Park whilst Prime Minister Shelburne was in residence.

​Jeremy Beptham tells of meeting the Viscount de Vergennes, son of the French Prime Minister, in Henry Thrale's library, and hearing him ask, "Are there any such people in England as authors?" while 
Sir Joshua Reynolds portraits of Samuel Johnson and the Streatham worthies looked down upon him as sufficient answer (Source Thrale.com)

Artist Jean-Laurent Mosnier

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