Hoadley, Bishop, political excellence, i. 148.
Holbourn, Admiral, commands on the American station, iii. 40.
Holderness, Earl of, character and accession to power, i. 198; disgrace at court for playing at blindman’s buff, 289; becomes secretary of state in Pitt’s administration in 1757, iii. 31; extraordinary notification to Lord G. Sackville, on his demand of a court martial, 251; further proceedings, 252.
----, extraordinary change of politics there, on the death of the Prince of Orange, i. 207; disputes with, in 1758, iii. 139, 169.
Holmes, Captain Charles, unhappy misunderstandings on the question of Byng’s court-martial, ii. 340, 342.
Home, Lord, parliamentary quarrel with A. H. Campbell, i. 19.
Home, the author of _Douglas_, pensioned by the Princess dowager, iii. 39.
Horn Tavern, the, remarkable as the first place of meeting of the Tories, as a distinct political party for general purposes, ii. 12.
Howe, Captain, commences the naval war with France by the capture of three ships of war, ii. 27; naval and political character, expedition to Rochfort, iii. 50, 51.
Howe, Lord, succeeds to the title, on the fall of his brother, iii. 135; gallantry in Hawke’s action, 232.
Hume of Munderson, Mr., a furious jacobite in Scotland, yet patronized, i. 266.
Hutchinson, Hely, his Irish politics, iii. 245, 246.
Hutton, Archbishop, i. 148; promoted to Canterbury, ii. 374.
Invasion of England threatened by a French armament in the Isle of Rhée, ii. 20; threats of, by France, in 1759, iii. 186; general plan of, defeated by Hawke’s victory, 232; French measures pursued in Ireland in aid of it, 239, 244.
Ireland, removal of Lord Harrington from viceroyship, i. 5; appointment thereto of the Duke of Dorset, 5; judicious observations of Lord Hillsborough on the Protestant settling of mountain districts, 260; affairs in 1752, and history of the factions there, 278, et seq.; further troubles, 354; intrigues in parliament, 356; factious disputes, 362, 363; successes of opposition, 367, et seq.; theatrical and political riots, 389; results of the Newcastle administration, 390; Lord Hartington succeeds the Duke of Dorset, ii. 3, 18; its state in 1755, 23; general politics on the arrival of Lord Hartington, 23, et seq.; division of the vice-treasurership, 153; state of, in 1756, 183; a change of ministry gives the viceroyship to the Duke of Bedford, 271; affairs in 1757, iii. 14, 68, 69; violence of parties in 1758, 91; proposed union in 1759, 239; Thurot’s piratical expedition, 262, et seq.