Sir Everard Fawkener was an English merchant and diplomat. The philosopher Voltaire stayed in Fawkener's house in Wandsworth while in England. François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778) better known by the Pen name Voltaire, was a French This article refers only to the town of Wandsworth For the wider area generally referred to as Wandsworth see the separate article on London Borough of Wandsworth.

Born into a family of silk merchants, Fawkener was knighted in 1735 and sent as English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1737-1744, replacing Lord Kinnoull. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish George Henry Hay 8th Earl of Kinnoull (1689 - 29 July 1758) was a British aristocrat and diplomat styled Viscount Dupplin from 1709 to 1719 Upon his return he became secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, and in 1745 postmaster general. Duke of Cumberland is a peerage title that was conferred upon junior members of the British royal family named after the county of Cumberland. In this period he was closely involved in the foindation of the Chelsea China factory.

Bust of Tiberius found at Athens; Fawkener's heirs sold it to Lyde Browne^[1] (Hermitage Museum)

A portrait of his wife, Harriet Churchill, by Constantinople-based artist Jean-Etienne Liotard hangs in Compton Verney. Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (or Tiberius I) born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16 42 BC – March 16 AD 37) was the second Roman Lyde Browne may be Lyde Browne (antiquary, 18th century antiquarian Lyde Browne (officer, his son The State Hermitage Museum (Государственный Эрмитаж Gosudarstvennyj Èrmitaž) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS Jean-Étienne Liotard (born 1702 at Geneva; died 1789 in Geneva) was a Swiss-French painter. Compton Verney is a manor and parish in the county of Warwickshire, England

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References

• Sir Everard Fawkener, Friend and Correspondent of Voltaire by Norma Perry

Links

• http://www.jamesboswell.info/Biographies/William_Fawkener/