Henry St John

Henry St John was a Tory politician and member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.


History

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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