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Robert Harley [1] best known for his work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing, where he also plays Charles, the CEO of East Hampton Hospital Trust.He has written (with James Henry) The Delivery Man for ITV1.
Robert Harley (mathematician) (1828–1910), English Congregational minister Robert Harley (writer) , British comedy writer Bob Harley (1888–1958), Canadian soccer player
Harley was born in Bow Street, London, in 1661, the eldest son of Sir Edward Harley, a prominent landowner in Herefordshire and his wife Abigail Stephens and the grandson of Sir Robert Harley and his third wife, the celebrated letter-writer Brilliana, Lady Harley.
Harley was the eldest son of Sir Edward Harley and the grandson of the aforementioned Sir Robert Harley. [ 1 ] The style Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was chosen because the ancient earldom of Oxford , held for many centuries by the de Vere family , had become dormant but not extinct in 1703, meaning a descendant could conceivably have ...
Robert Harley (c. 1706–1774), an English Member of Parliament (younger son of Edward Harley (1664–1735)) Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, (1661–1724) British first minister under Queen Anne; Robert Harley, a British comedy writer and performer; Rufus Harley, American jazz musician
H. Alan Hackney; Jonathan Hales; Matthew Hall (writer) Peter J. Hammond; Christopher Hampton; Michael Hankinson; Robert Harley (writer) H. M. Harwood; Mamoun Hassan
Robert Harley, leader of the Tory ministry and suspected of having obtained Defoe's release from prison. Upon its publication, The Shortest Way provoked immediate and passionate reactions from both sides of the debate. Some made use of it as a genuine vindication of the anti-Dissenter opinion, although speculation later occurred over whether it ...
The Bandbox Plot of 4 November 1712, was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the British Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver's Travels), who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford.