Edward Harley (Parliamentarian)
Sir Edward Harley KB (21 October 1624 – 18 December 1700) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1695.
He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer( 2 June 1689 – 16 June 1741), styled Lord Harley between 1711 and 1724, was a British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley (1664–1735)
Edward Harley( 7 June 1664 – 30 August 1735), of Eywood, Titley, Herefordshire was a British Member of Parliament and Auditor of the Imprests.
He was second son of Edward Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire and the younger brother of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
He was educated at Westminster School and the Middle Temple( 1681), where he was called to the bar in 1688.
He represented Droitwich in Parliament from 1695 to 1698, after which he was a member for Leominster, almost continuously until 1722.
He was appointed Recorder of Leominster for 1692- 1732 and joint Auditor of the Imprests for life in 1702.
He purchased the Eywood estate at Titley, Herefordshire and there around 1705 built a new house, which was demolished in 1958.
He married Sarah Foley, third daughter of Thomas Foley.
Their eldest son( Edward) succeeded as 3rd Earl of Oxford on the death of his brother Robert's son Edward, the 2nd earl, without male issue.
Their second son Robert died in infancy, after which came a daughter named Abigail and finally another son Robert Harley, Recorder of Leominster and twice Member of Parliament for that town.
Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer( 20 February 1773 – 28 December 1848) was an English nobleman.
Harley was the son of John Harley( dean of Windsor) and Roach Vaughan.
Edward succeeded to the titles and estates( including the Harley family seat at Brampton Bryan) of his father's elder brother Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer on the 4th Earl's death without issue in 1790.
In 1803 Henry Bickersteth became the Earl's medical attendant whilst the Earl was on a tour of Italy, staying with him until 1805.
Edward became Bickersteth's friend and patron and in 1835 Bickersteth married the earl's eldest daughter.
In 1804 Edward sold the Ewyas Lacy tithes by auction.
He commissioned work from the architect Robert Smirke.
Alfred Harley, 6th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Alfred Harley, 6th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer( 10 January 1809 – 19 January 1853), styled Lord Harley between 1828 and 1849, was a British peer and the last holder of the title of Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
Harley was the second but eldest surviving son of Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, by Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend James Scott.
He became known by the courtesy title Lord Harley on the death of his elder brother in 1828.
In 1848 he succeeded his father in the earldom and the family seat at Brampton Bryan Hall in Herefordshire.
Due to his mother's numerous love affairs, doubts were often raised about his paternity: he and his siblings were often called" the Harleian Miscellany".
Lord Oxford married Eliza Nugent[ 1806- 1877], the illegitimate daughter of George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath, on 17 February 1831.
He died in January 1853, aged 44, when the title became extinct.
His estates passed to his sister Jane, who was married to Lord Langdale, from whom they eventually passed to a distant relative, William Daker Harley.
John Harley (bishop, died 1788)
John Harley( 29 September 1728 – 7 January 1788) was a British bishop.
Harley was the second son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
He was Archdeacon of Shropshire from 1760 to 1769 and then Archdeacon of Hereford from 1769 to 1787.
He was Dean of Windsor, Registrar of the Order of the Garter and briefly, at the end of his life, the Bishop of Hereford.
His son Edward( by his wife Roach Vaughan, daughter of Gwynne Vaughan of Trebarry, Radnorshire) succeeded Harley's elder brother( Edward) as 5th Earl of Oxford.
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull( 23 June 1689 – 28 July 1758), styled as Viscount Dupplin from 1709 to 1719, was a British peer and diplomat.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull and Elizabeth, daughter of William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan.
In 1708, he came under the wing of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, whose position was equal to that of prime minister.
He married Oxford's daughter in 1709, and his position as his son-in- law proved advantageous.
He was a member of the so- called Tory" October Club."
In 1710, George Hay became the Member of Parliament for Fowey until 1711.
He was created Baron Hay of Pedwardine, Herefordshire on 1711.
He then became the Teller of the Exchequer between 1711 and 1714.
William Bromley wrote, on the occasion of Viscount Dupplin accepting the role in 1711, that he was" so pretty a gentleman, so generally well beloved."
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1712.
In 1713, he bought Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire from the Wentworth family and rebuilt the house.
During the Jacobite rising of 1715, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for suspected Jacobite sympathies from 21 September of that year to 24 June 1716.
He was accused of conspiracy in the Atterbury Plot of 1722 but a motion for an inquiry failed in the House of Lords, 64 to 29, even though the earl himself voted in favor of the inquiry.
He succeeded to the title of 8th Viscount of Dupplin on 5 January 1718/ 19.
On 5 January 1718 he succeeded to the title of 8th Lord Hay of Kinfauns.
In 1720, he lost heavily in the South Sea Bubble.
The earl was appointed British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire on 16 May 1729.
He arrived at Constantinople on 15 April 1730.
Recalled on 19 August 1735, he left Turkey in the autumn of 1736.
He died in Ashford, Surrey, on 28 July 1758.
Anne Asquith
Anne Mary Celestine Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith( 14 November 1916 – 19 August 1998) was a British code breaker who became the Countess of Oxford and Asquith upon her marriage in 1947 to Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods.
He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry.
He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711.
Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister.
He has been called a "Prime Minister", although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721.
The central achievement of Harley's government was the negotiation of the Treaty of Utrecht with France in 1713, which brought an end to twelve years of English and Scottish involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1714 Harley fell from favour following the accession of the first monarch of the House of Hanover, George I, and was for a time imprisoned in the Tower of London by his political enemies.
He was also a noted literary figure and served as a patron of both the October Club and the Scriblerus Club.
Harley Street is sometimes said to be named after him, although it was his son Edward Harley who actually developed the area.
Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer( c. 1699 – 11 April 1755, in Bath) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Harley was the son of Edward Harley and his wife Sarah Foley and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
He succeeded his father in 1735 to the Eywood estate at Titley, Herefordshire and his cousin Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer in 1741 to the earldom and the family seat at Brampton Bryan.
One of his first acts on succeeding his brother was to auction off his predecessor's art and coin collection through the auctioneer Cock, at an art sale held under the Piazza, Covent Garden, on 8 March 1741/ 2 and the five following days, with six more days being required by the coins.
Nearly all the leading men of the day, including Horace Walpole, attended or were represented at this sale, and the prices varied from five shillings for an anonymous bishop's" head" to 165 guineas for van Dyck's group of" Sir Kenelm Digby, lady, and son".
He was returned to Parliament as the member for Herefordshire in 1727, sitting until 1741.

Question: When did Robert Harley, 1St Earl Of Oxford And Earl Mortimer's father die?
Answer: 18 December 1700