Footnotes

• A barrister, politician and judge, Sir Joseph Jekyll was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Eye, and sat until 1713 when he was re-elected for Lymington. Under Robert Walpole he remained independent of the government in terms of how he voted, and was described by Alexander Pope as 'an odd old Whig, who never changes his principles or wig'. In 1717, Jekyll was appointed Master of the Rolls and in the same year he went on to become a Privy Councillor. Upon his death in 1738 he left £20,000 to help pay off the national debt.

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Category: Fine Art / Old Master Paintings

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