Born in 1678, died in 1751; his name, before he was a peer,
Henry St. John; entered Parliament in 1701, acting with the
Tories; Secretary of War in 1704-08; Secretary of State in
1710-14; created Viscount Bolingbroke in 1714; opposed the
accession of the House of Hanover, and on the death of Queen
Anne in 1714, fled to France, entering the service of the
Pretender, by whom he was soon dismissed and then returned
to England; a friend of Pope and Swift, Pope's "Essay on
Man" being addrest to him.
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