Somers, John Somers, Baron
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▪ English statesman
in full John Somers, Baron Somers of Evesham
born March 4, 1651, Whiteladies, Claines, near Worcester, Worcestershire, Eng.
died April 26, 1716, Brookmans, near Mimms North, Hertfordshire
English statesman, the chief minister to King
William III of England from 1696 to 1700, and a leader of the group of influential Whigs known as the Junto from 1696 to 1716.
Admitted to the bar in 1676, he made his reputation by assisting in the successful defense (1688) of the seven Anglican bishops who were brought to trial for sedition by the Roman Catholic king James II. After James was replaced by William of Orange (later King William III), Somers was elected to Parliament (1689), and he became chairman of the committee that drew up the Bill of Rights. William appointed him attorney general (1692) and lord keeper of the great seal (1693); by 1696 he had become the King's leading adviser and the spokesman for Whig opinion. He became lord high chancellor and was elevated to the peerage in 1697, but the Tory majority in the House of Commons attacked him so vigorously that William asked for his resignation in 1700. In 1701 he was impeached by the House of Commons for abuse of ministerial power and his role in the Partition Treaties, but the House of Lords acquitted him. Although Queen Anne (ruled 1702–14) made him lord president of the Privy Council in 1708, Somers fell from power when the Tories won control of the government in 1710. In 1714 he became a member of George I's privy council. He died two years later without issue, and the barony became extinct.
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