The Peerage Bill was a 1719 measure proposed by the British Whig government led by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope and Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland which would have largely halted the creation of new peerages, limiting membership of the House of Lords. The Bill led to a public dispute between Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, former friends and collaborators and both Whig members of the Kit-Kat Club. Addison supported the Bill while Steele opposed it.
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| - The Peerage Bill was a 1719 measure proposed by the British Whig government led by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope and Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland which would have largely halted the creation of new peerages, limiting membership of the House of Lords. The Bill led to a public dispute between Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, former friends and collaborators and both Whig members of the Kit-Kat Club. Addison supported the Bill while Steele opposed it. (en)
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| - The Peerage Bill was a 1719 measure proposed by the British Whig government led by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope and Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland which would have largely halted the creation of new peerages, limiting membership of the House of Lords. It was inspired by a desire to prevent a repeat of the 1711 creation of twelve Tory peers, known widely as "Harley's Dozen", in order to secure the passage of the peace treaty with France through the Whig-dominated Lords. Following the Whig Split of 1717 there was also a wish to stop Prince George, once King, from packing the house with his own supporters. The proposal had an attraction to existing aristocrats both Tory and Whig. However, Robert Walpole rallied opposition to it and successfully appealed to MPs by arguing the bill would deny them and their families the opportunity of ever being allowed to join the aristocracy. He also mocked Stanhope, who had recently been made a Lord, for being "desirous to shut the door after him". Tories also strongly opposed the measure, including Robert Harley who criticised the proposal as potentially undermining Britain's constitution. The Bill led to a public dispute between Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, former friends and collaborators and both Whig members of the Kit-Kat Club. Addison supported the Bill while Steele opposed it. The proposal was finally defeated in the House of Commons on 8 December 1719. The following year Walpole and his opposition Whig allies rejoined the government, ending the party's split. (en)
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- Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet
- Richard Steele
- Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
- Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet
- William Guidott
- Whig Split
- 1719 in Great Britain
- George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery
- Nathaniel Rogers (MP)
- Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet
- William Wilmer
- George I of Great Britain
- Crewe Offley
- Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet
- Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell
- Harley's Dozen
- Henry Drax
- Josiah Diston
- Nicholas Philpott
- Owen Buckingham (1674–1720)
- Tories (British political party)
- Whigs (British political party)
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
- Gabriel Roberts
- James Cocks (died 1750)
- John Hardres
- Barnham Rider
- Edward Jeffreys
- Edward Norris (physician)
- History of the British peerage
- John Roberts (Denbigh MP)
- John Weaver (Bridgnorth MP)
- Joseph Addison
- Richard Du Cane
- Thomas de Grey (1680–1765)
- Sir Edmund Prideaux, 4th Baronet
- Robert Furnese
- Richard Coffin (1684–1766)
- James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
- Samuel Tufnell
- Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
- Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
- Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton
- John Jennings (Royal Navy officer)
- George Pitt (died 1745)
- George Trenchard (MP for Poole)
- Henry Pelham (of Stanmer)
- Hereditary peer
- Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet
- Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet
- Thomas Gordon (writer)
- Thomas Smith (died 1728)
- Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet
- Sir William Pynsent, 2nd Baronet
- William Betts (MP)
- William Bray (MP)
- Grey James Grove
- Grey Neville
- Walter Plumer
- Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney
- Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
- Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet
- Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney
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