"I have neither memory to retain, judgment to collect, nor skill to guide, their debates; nor can I boast of any thing that could entitle me to the favor of the Commons, but an unshaken fidelity to the Protestant succession."
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Address to George I in the House of Lords (21 March 1715), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. VII. A.D. 1714–1722 (1811), column 41
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Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
1673 – 1743
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG PC (c. 1674 – 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1742 until his death in 1743.
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