DANBY, THOMAS OSBORNE, EARL OF

1631–1712, English statesman. Under the patronage of the 2d duke of Buckingham, he was appointed treasurer of the navy (1668), a privy councilor (1672), and lord treasurer (1673–78). A staunch royalist, he was also a fervent Anglican and thus opposed to alliance with France. He ended (1674) England's participation in the third Dutch War and arranged (1677) the marriage of Princess Mary to the Dutch William of Orange. However, while telling Parliament that he was raising money for war with France, he was at the same time negotiating reluctantly at Charles II's behest for a French alliance (1677). Impeached for treasonable communications with the French (1678), he was imprisoned (1679–84). Danby's firm Protestantism led him to support the opposition to James II, and he was a signatory of the request (1688) to William and Mary to intervene in English affairs. Despite his suspected Jacobite sympathies, he continued to be influential under the new monarchs; in 1690 he was made president of the council. Impeached again (1695), in connection with a bribe from the East India Company, he resigned. Although exonerated and restored to royal favor, he did not return to office. He was created marquis of Carmarthen in 1689 and duke of Leeds in 1694.

See biography by A. Browning (3 vol., 1944–51).

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Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, 1641-1702
Book by J. P. Kenyon; Greenwood Press, 1975
Subjects: Sunderland, Robert Spencer--Earl Of--1640-1702
...Clancarty, Donogh Maccarty, earl of. 102 - 3 , 242...Castlemaine Clifford, Sir Thomas baron 1672 . 12 , 13...132 , 218 Coningsby, Thomas, lord. 291 Conway...n Cutts, John. 183 Danby, Sir Thomas Osborne, earl of, 1675; also...
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Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II
Book by Violet Barbour; American Historical Association, 1914
Subjects: Arlington, Henry Bennet--Earl Of--1618-1685, Great Britain--History--Charles Ii, 1660-1685
...service, 92 , 138 n.; Dunkirk delivered to, 129. Danby, Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of, later Duke of Leeds, adherent of Buckingham...towards Catholics, 256 n. Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 256 n. Davila, Enrico Catarino, 6 . Dawley...
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The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Book by Harold Love, John Wilmot; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Fiction
...Insolent pretence . The favourite is Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, Charles IIs chief adviser during...at once attempted to impeach Danby, and was successful in having...financial freedom from parliament, Danby pleaded with justification that...
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The Manuscripts of the Earl of Lonsdale
Book by Hugh Cecil Lowther Lonsdale, James Joel Cartwright; 1893
Subjects: Great Britain--History--1714-1837--Sources, Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Sources, Pitt, William--1759-1806
...219 . Norris, --; 8 . Earl; 18 . North, Lord 1763...prebend of; 154 . Nottingham, Earl of. See Finch, Daniel...of; 243 . Orton; 127 . Osborne: Thomas, Earl of Danby, letter of; 95 . Sir Thomas, letter of; 95 . Ossory...
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The Conduct of the Earl of Nottingham
Book by William A. Aiken; Yale University Press, 1941
Subjects: Great Britain--History--William And Mary, 1689-1702
...Mordaunt, Charles, earl of Monmouth and...81 Mulgrave, earl of. See Sheffield...Sheffield Nottingham, earls of. See Finch Nottingham...his Conduct of the Earl of Nottingham...of. See Butler Osborne, Thomas, earl of Danby, marquis of Carmarthen...
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Pardon Me? the Constitutional Case against Presidential Self-Pardons
Journal article by Brian C. Kalt; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 106, 1996
Subjects: Executive power--Laws, regulations, etc., Pardon--Laws, regulations, etc.
...involving the impeachment of the Earl of Danby.(32) The Earl, Thomas Osborne, was a Lord High Treasurer...making deals with the French; Danby was merely acting ministerially...he had issued a pardon for Danby. If Charles had only been...
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The Healing Philosopher: John Locke's Medical Ethics
Journal article by Bradford William Short; Issues in Law & Medicine, Vol. 20, 2004
Subjects: History of medicine, Locke, John, Medical ethics, Philosophy, Physicians, Professional relationships
...that happened one of Thomas patients changed Lockes...and still later first Earl of Shaftesbury, was...of the 1670s was Sir Thomas Osborne, who is better known to history as the Earl of Danby.197 Danby hated the idea of religious...


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Danby, Thomas Osborne, Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DANBY, THOMAS OSBORNE, EARL OF 1631 1712, English statesman. Under the patronage of the 2d duke of Buckingham, he was appointed treasurer of the navy...
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Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke Of
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LEEDS, THOMAS OSBORNE, 1ST DUKE OF see Danby, Thomas Osborne, earl of . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Charles II , King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...included Edward Hyde (later 1st earl of Clarendon ) and Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of...tutored by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes . In 1649, Charles...a peace with the Dutch. Thomas Osborne, earl of Danby , became chief minister on...


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