- Jeremiah Dyson
Jeremiah Dyson (1722 –
16 September 1776 ) was a British civil servant and politician.He studied at
Edinburgh University and matriculated atLeiden University in 1742. He settled a pension on his friendMark Akenside , the poet and physician, and later defended Akenside's "The Pleasures of the Imagination " againstWilliam Warburton . He was a friend ofSamuel Richardson .He purchased the clerkship of House of Commons in 1748, and became a Tory after George III's accession. He discontinued the practice of selling the clerkships subordinate to his office. He was Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1762–8, for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 1768–74, and for Horsham, 1774. He was appointed a commissioner for the
Board of Trade , 1764–8; aLord of the Treasury , 1768–74; and a Privy Counsellor in 1774.He supported Lord North's treatment of the American colonies; nicknamed "Mungo" (the ubiquitous negro slave in
Isaac Bickerstaffe 's Padlock) from his omnipresence in parliamentary business.
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