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| '''Henry St John''' was a [[UnitedKingdom/ToryParty|Tory]] politician and member of [[UnitedKingdom/Parliament|Parliament]] in the [[UnitedKingdom/Democratization|United Kingdom]]. | '''Henry St John''' was a [[UnitedKingdom/ToryParty|Tory]] politician and member of [[UnitedKingdom/Parliament|Parliament]] in [[UnitedKingdom/Monarchs#Kingdom_of_Great_Britain|Britain]]. |
Henry St John
Henry St John was a Tory politician and member of Parliament in Britain.
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St John entered Parliament in 1701, representing the familial rotten borough of Wootton Bassett.
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Anne's strategy for pushing the Treaty of Utrecht through the Parliament was to raise Tories with peerages. As a part of this, St John was created as Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712.
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