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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, PC (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806), was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1778 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow.
The title means "Truculent (or Surly)", referring to the bad-tempered slave who tries to prevent his young master Strabax from wasting money on his love affair with the courtesan Phronesium, but who later himself falls for the charms of her maid Astaphium. According to Cicero, the Truculentus was written in Plautus's old age.
Portrait of Lord Thurlow is an 1803 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. [1] It depicts Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow the former Lord Chancellor who held the post from 1778 to 1792. When he sat for Lawrence he was at the end of a long career.
Baron Thurlow, of Thurlow in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. [1] It was created on 11 June 1792 for the lawyer and politician Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow , with remainder to his younger brothers and the heirs male of their bodies.
Thomas Thurlow (1737–1791) was an English Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Lincoln and as Bishop of Durham in the late eighteenth century. Life
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Taran Killam, Ana Gasteyer, John Mulaney, Kristen Wiig, Kenan Thompson, Paul Davidson, Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, and Jason Sudeikis perform during the "SNL50" live special.
It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...