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Free entry to National Trust properties throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, plus discounted admission to National Trust for Scotland properties.
This cartoon character humourously reprsented the essence of an Englishman
The character was invented by John Arbuthnot, a political pamphleteer
He first appeared in the History of John Bull, in 1712
18 May, 1152
Prince Henry, son of Queen Matilda, marries Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor was divorced from Louis VII of France only a few weeks earlier
This monarch put down the 1715 Jacobite Rising of James Stewart, The Old Pretender
He followed Anne to the throne of England
He spoke no English