Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth

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Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth was an influential early 18th-century British Whig politician and Cornish landowner who was elevated to the peerage for his political services.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Whig politician
human
landowner
peer of Great Britain
birthDate c. 1680
birthPlace Cornwall
centuryOfActivity 18th century
child Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 25 October 1734
deathPlace London, England
surface form: London
elevatedToPeerageFor political services
elevationToPeerageDate 1720
familyName Boscawen
father Edward Boscawen
givenName Hugh
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Whig Party
monarchServed George I of Great Britain
George II of Great Britain
mother Jael Godolphin
nobleFamily Boscawen family
nobleTitle Viscount Falmouth
notableFor early 18th-century British politics
influence in Cornish parliamentary boroughs
ordinalOfTitle 1
parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented Cornwall
Penryn
Tregony
Truro
parliamentaryServiceStart early 1700s
peerage Peerage of Great Britain
positionHeld Comptroller of the Household
Lord Warden of the Stannaries
Member of Parliament
Vice-Treasurer of Ireland
regionOfActivity Cornwall
City of Westminster
surface form: Westminster
regionOfLandholdings Cornwall
relative Edward Boscawen
surface form: Edward Boscawen (admiral)
religion Church of England
residence Cornwall
Tregothnan
spouse Charlotte Godfrey
titleCreatedBy George I of Great Britain
surface form: King George I

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Edward Boscawen father Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
Boscawen hasNotableBearer Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
this entity surface form: Hugh Boscawen
Old Dreadnought father Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
subject surface form: Edward Boscawen
Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth child Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth