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John West, 1st Earl De La Warr

British general (1693-1766)

Lieutenant-General John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB PC FRS (4 April 1693 – 16 March 1766), styled The Honourable John West until 1723 and known as The Lord De La Warr between 1723 and 1761, was a British soldier, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.

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  • Fair Hebe I left, with a cautious design
    To escape from her charms, and to drown them in wine,
    I tried it; but found, when I came to depart,
    The wine in my head, and still love in my heart.
    • "Fair Hebe", st. 1, in W. S. Braithwaite (ed.) The Book of Georgian Verse (1909), p. 27
    • Variants: The Vocal Companion: or, Songster's Delight (1759), p. 117; The Muse's Banquet; or, Compleat Songster (1760), p. 121; The Bull-finch ([1760]), p. 212; Charles Mackay (ed.) The Book of English Songs (1850), p. 63
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