A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
n, he issaid to have affected contemptfor the profession itself. Theanecdote of his telling Voltairewhen he came to visit him, thathe desired to be considered as agentleman solely, and not in thelight of an author, is one of themortifying proofs that the highestgifted minds are not always… … This family, one of the most eminent inthe county of Stafford, was settled at Con-greve soon after the Conquest, and thencederived its surname. Richard Congreve, esq. of Congreve,was one of the thirteen Staffordshire gentle-men upon whom King Charles II. intendedto have conferred the order of the…
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