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47: 120:, but failed to carry it through the house. In February 1738 he took part in the debate on the reduction of the army, and in May following was appointed a commissioner for victualling the navy. During the discussion of the navy estimates in February 1740 he defended himself from a personal attack, and invited scrutiny of his conduct at the victualling office. In December 1747 he brought in a bill for the relief of the poor by voluntary charities, which passed through the Commons without opposition, but was dropped in the House of Lords. 616: 148: 93:, which seriously affected his eyesight. In 1718 he travelled through many parts of England and Scotland, and in 1720 he made a tour through France, Germany, and Holland. On his return he settled down at Glyndebourne and became an active county magistrate, and in 1733 was appointed chairman of quarter sessions for the eastern division of Sussex. 20: 215:
Remarks on the Laws relating to the Poor; with Proposals for their better Relief and Employment. By a member of parliament. First published in 1735 … with an Appendix containing the Resolutions of the House of Commons on the same subject in
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None of his five children produced offspring and on the death in 1824 of Frances, the younger of his two daughters, Glyndebourne passed to his nephew, the Rev. Francis Tutté, son of his sister Barbara, and eventually to
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Hay's collected works were published at the expense of his two daughters, under the editorship of their cousin, the Rev. Francis Tutté, in 1794, London, 2 vols. His parliamentary journal has been published.
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Religio Philosophi, or the Principles of Morality and Christianity, illustrated from a View of the Universe and of Man's Situation in it
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from March 1768 to September 1780, and died on 9 February 1786. His second son, William, a member of the supreme council at
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Tory and Whig: The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, Third Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, MP for Seaford, 1716–1753
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An Essay on Civil Government, treating summarily of its necessity, original, dissolution, forms, and properties
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Martialis Epigrammata Selecta. Anglicè reddidit Gulielmus Hay, appendicem sibi vendicant Couleius et alii
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At a by-election in January 1734 Hay was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for
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of Catsfield Place, Sussex, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. Pelham was a cousin of the
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William Hay, engraving published 1794, with his sons Thomas and Henry, and note on his son William
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Hay was born on 21 August 1695, the second but on[y surviving son of William Hay of
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The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey From Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation
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in 1761, 1762, 1765, and 1771. This was Hay's reflection on his own life as a
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on 5 October 1763. His youngest son, Henry, died on 24 October 1754, aged 18.
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Mount Caburn. A Poem humbly inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of Newcastle
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Leaving university without a degree, Hay was admitted in 1715 to the
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In 1735 Hay headed a parliamentary committee that reported on
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In 1731 Hay had married Elizabeth, the second daughter of
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London, 1754. This was a poem translated from the Latin
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Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects by Several Authors
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Index


Glyndebourne
House of Commons

Glyndebourne
John Stapley
Patcham
Newick
Lewes
Christ Church, Oxford
Middle Temple
called to the bar
smallpox
Seaford
Sir Robert Walpole
prison reform
poor relief
keeper of the records in the Tower of London
apoplexy
Glynde
scoliosis

Thomas Pelham
Duke of Newcastle
Thomas
Lewes
Calcutta
Patna
William Langham Christie
Robert Dodsley

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