He met James Edward Oglethorpe in London and because of that meeting became interested in foreign missions.
Eleanor s brother was James Edward Oglethorpe, who was raised at the family s Westbrook estate.
In 1738, he came to Georgia in the United States, with the assistance of governor James Edward Oglethorpe.
A member of the British Parliament, James Edward Oglethorpe, was among the first to articulate the Enlightenment case against slavery.
Watkinsville first appeared in Clarke County records in 1791; only fifty-eight years after James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia.
:" This is Yamacraw Bluff where the Colony of Georgia was founded, February 12, 1733, by General James Edward Oglethorpe.
The armorial crest of General James Edward Oglethorpe, which depicts four boars'heads, serves as the inspiration for this annual tradition ".
One such gentleman, Sir James Edward Oglethorpe, while in Parliament, served on a committee to investigate conditions at prisons in the country.
The colony's founder, James Edward Oglethorpe, fended off repeated attempts by South Carolina merchants and land speculators to introduce slavery to the colony.
After the fort was abandoned, Gen . James Edward Oglethorpe, Georgia's founder, brought a group of Scottish Highlanders to the area in 1736.