the Prime Ministers, pre C20th

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*The Earl of Shelburne, William Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, "the remotest parts of the south of Ireland"/Oxford

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Darth Sidmouth

Voting Chatham

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I knew I could count on Michael White.

Am I wrong?

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Dizzy!

Got to be Disraeli, Palmerston or Pitt the Younger, IMO. I think Dizzy.

looking at them en masse, disraeli really stands out

Spencer Perceval, for being assassinated.

I expect Lord Rockingham to walk this, but am personally tickled by thrice-lame Archie Primrose/Dalmeny/Roseberry

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big into footy

Disappointed this isn't 'Robert WalPOLL'

big into footy

Also boys

didn't want to do too big a disservice to the gravitas/self-importance of these curiousities. see how much gladstone et al want to admonish impudent little anime earl grey.

Really disappointed in the internet that I could not find the Simpsons clip of the Lord Palmerston/Pitt the Elder fight between Barney Gumble and Wade Boggs.

I think Pitt the Younger is an interesting man, but I can possibly vote for a guy who was Prime Minister at 24 because he makes me feel shitty about having achieved nothing at 30.

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Duke of WHAT?

of having a tiny head

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marquess of salisbury

pitt jr robbed imo

overall I think the pms have a higher calibre of name than the us presidents - despite grover cleveland - but the presidents also feel more individuated & relatable. to my 2011 mind, it's the commonalities rather than points of difference between pms that seem most striking & their authority & power is derived from all the hallmarks of their class. w/ a few exceptions, the PMs feel like variations on a theme, all starchy, overbearing & probably w/ ludicrous pronunciation

I'm sorry I missed this! I only learned about Spenser Perceval a few weeks ago while reading Henry Adams' History of the United Sates: 1801-1809, in which his belligerence almost provokes an an Anglo-American war neither side could afford to wage.

xp to myself - and yeah they're probably all bad guys but any contemporary standard, no one seems to keen to champion them or even really give them much thought. but they still have an oppressive presence today I think.

also, don't gis blackrod, what was I thinking.

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"A large head, as round as a football, adorned with red hair, very straight, and which had a great resemblance to the bristles of a hog; an extremely short forehead, furrowed with wrinkles; two little blear eyes, edged round with a border of bright carnation, and over-shadowed by a pair of large eyebrows, which upon occasion might be made use of as brushes; a flat red nose, resembling an extinguisher; a wide mouth, from which proceeded two long crooked teeth, not unlike the tusks of a boar, and pointing to a pair of ears like those which formerly belonged to Mydas; a lip of a monstrous thickness, which hung down on a chin that seemed to sink under the load of a beard, thick, straight, and bristly; a very short neck, which nature had adorned with a kind of necklace, formed of ten or twelve small wens. The rest of his body was perfectly agreeable to the grotesque appearance of his visage; so that, from head to foot he was a kind of monster, who by his deformity and the hair with which he was covered had a greater resemblance to a bear half licked into form than to a human creature. But though nature had treated him so ill with respect to his body, she had recompensed him by the subtlety, the agreeableness, and the solidity of the mind she had united to it."