See also:PRINCE See also:ALEXANDER See also:MAVROCORDATO (1791–1865)
, See also:Greek statesman, a descendant of the hospodars, was See also:horn at See also:Constantinople on the r rth of See also:February 1791
.
In 1812 he went to the See also:court of his See also:uncle Ioannes Caradja, See also:hospodar of See also:Walachia, with whom he passed into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile in See also:Russia and See also:Italy (1817)
.
He was a member of the Hetairia Philike and was among the Phanariot Greeks who hastened to the Morea on the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence in 1821
.
He was active in endeavouring to establish a See also:regular See also:government, and in See also:January 1822 presided over the first Greek See also:national See also:assembly at See also:Epidaurus
.
He commanded the advance of the Greeks into western Hellas the same See also:year, and suffered a defeat at Peta on the 16th of See also:July, but retrieved this disaster somewhat by his successful resistance to the first See also:siege of See also:Missolonghi (Nov
.
1822 to See also:Jan
.
1823)
.
His See also:English sympathies brought him, in the subsequent strife of factions, into opposition to the " See also:Russian " party headed by See also:Demetrius See also:Ypsilanti and Kolokotrones; and though he held the See also:portfolio of See also:foreign affairs for a See also:short while under the See also:presidency of Petrobey (Petros Mavromichales), he was compelled to with-draw from affairs until February 1825, when he again became a secretary of See also:state
.
The landing of See also:Ibrahim See also:Pasha followed, and See also:Mavrocordato again joined the See also:army, only escaping See also:capture in the disaster at Sphagia (Spakteria), on the 9th of May 1815, by See also:swimming to See also:Navarino
.
After the fall of Missolonghi (See also:April 22, 1826) he went into retirement, until See also:President See also:Capo d'See also:Istria made him a member of the See also:committee for the See also:administration of war material, a position he resigned in 1828
.
After Capo d'Istria's See also:murder (Oct
.
9, 1831) and the resignation of his See also:brother and successor, See also:Agostino Capo d'Istria (April 13, 1832), Mavrocordato became See also:minister of See also:finance
.
He was See also:vice-president of the National Assembly at See also:Argos (July, 1832), and was appointed by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Otto minister of finance, and in 1833 premier
.
From 1834 onwards he was Greek See also:envoy at See also:Munich, See also:Berlin, See also:London and—after a short interlude as premier in See also:Greece in 1841—Constantinople
.
In 1843, after the revolution of See also:September, he returned to See also:Athens as minister without portfolio in the See also:Metaxas See also:cabinet, and from April to See also:August 1844 was See also:head of the government formed after the fall of the " Russian " party
.
Going into opposition, he distinguished himself by his violent attacks on the Kolettis government
.
In 1854–1855 he was again head of the government for a few months
.
He died in See also:Aegina on the 18th of August 1865
.
See E
.
Legrand, Genealogic See also:des Mavrocardato (See also:Paris, 1886)
.
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