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James Craggs the Younger (
9 April 1686 -
16 February 1721), son of
James Craggs the Elder, was born at
Westminster. Part of his early life was spent abroad, where he made the acquaintance of
George Louis,
Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I. In
1713 he became member of parliament for
Tregony, in
1717 Secretary at War, and in the following year
Secretary of State for the Southern Department. Craggs was implicated in the
South Sea Bubble, but not so deeply as his father, whom he predeceased, dying on
16 February 1721. Among Craggs's friends were
Alexander Pope, who wrote the epitaph on his monument in
Westminster Abbey,
Joseph Addison, and
John Gay.
James Craggs left an illegitimate daughter
Harriot Craggs by the noted dancer and actress
Hester Santlow. Harriot married firstly in 1726
Richard Eliot, having 9 children including
Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and secondly in 1749 to
John Hamilton by whom she'd a son.
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