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Aldenham Park, Morville
Aldenham Park, also known as Aldenham Hall, is a late 17th-century country house in Morville, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England which stands in 12 hectares of parkland. It is a Grade II* listed building. The house is built of ashlar in two-storeys with an 11 bay frontage and a raised parapet. It is approached via a lime-lined avenue through a set of ornate gates surmounted by the Acton family crest. The surrounding parkland is Grade II listed. History The manor of Morville was acquired in 1465 by Thomas Acton, who built a fortified manor house. That house was replaced in the early 17th century by his descendant Walter Acton. Walter's son, Sir Edward, was created a baronet in 1643 and was succeeded in turn by Sir Walter and Sir Edward. All three baronets served as MPs for Bridgnorth. The third baronet married a wealthy heiress and in the late 17th century started to remodel the early 17th century house. The work was continued after Sir Edward's death in 1716 by his son, Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldenham Park, Morville (geograph 3435659)
Aldenham Park, also known as Aldenham Hall, is a late 17th-century country house in Morville, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England which stands in 12 hectares of parkland. It is a Grade II* listed building. The house is built of ashlar in two-storeys with an 11 bay frontage and a raised parapet. It is approached via a lime-lined avenue through a set of ornate gates surmounted by the Acton family crest. The surrounding parkland is Grade II listed. History The manor of Morville was acquired in 1465 by Thomas Acton, who built a fortified manor house. That house was replaced in the early 17th century by his descendant Walter Acton. Walter's son, Sir Edward, was created a baronet in 1643 and was succeeded in turn by Sir Walter and Sir Edward. All three baronets served as MPs for Bridgnorth. The third baronet married a wealthy heiress and in the late 17th century started to remodel the early 17th century house. The work was continued after Sir Edward's death in 1716 by his son, Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 – 17 January 1731/32) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and the Middle Temple. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1716. Acton lived at Aldenham Park, near Bridgnorth and held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727–28. He married Lady Elizabeth Gibbon, daughter of Matthew Gibbon of Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ..., Surrey and had the following children: * Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 – 20 November 1791) *Elizabeth Acton (b. bef. 1730) *Jane Acton (b. bef. 1732) *Mary Acton (b. bef. 1732) References * * 1670s births 1731 deaths Alumni of St Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Morville, Shropshire
Morville, Shropshire, Morville is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 19 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The oldest listed building is a church that retains some surviving Norman architecture, Norman features. Also listed are two English country house, country houses, together with associated structures. Otherwise the listed buildings include houses, cottages, farmhouses, farm buildings, a mill, and a signpost, the earliest of which are timber framed. Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morville, Shropshire Lists of buildings and structures in Shropshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Shropshire Council (A–G)
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This article comprises a list of these buildings in the county of Shropshire Council. List See also *Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire Grade most commonly refers to: * Grade (education), a measurement of a student's performance * Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope Grade or grading may also ref ... References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Shropshire Council (A-G) Lists of Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20. Early life The scion of an ancient and distinguished Shropshire family, Dalberg-Acton was born in Bavaria, in the then German Empire. He was the first and only surviving son of The 1st Baron Acton, a historian and politician, and his German wife, Marie Anna Ludomilla Euphrosina ''Gräfin'' von Arco auf Valley. He completed his education in England at Magdalen College, Oxford. Diplomatic career Dalberg-Acton entered the British Foreign Office in 1894. He began a career in Europe as Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service at the British Embassy in Berlin in 1896. He was promoted Second Secretary in 1900 and served in the Berlin embassy until 1902, also the year he succeeded to his father's peerage. The 2nd Lord Acton then served as Second Secretary at successive embassies, in Vienna from Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Acton
Baron Acton, of Aldenham in the County of Shropshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 December 1869 for Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, a prominent historian and Liberal Member of Parliament. His son, the second Baron, was a diplomat and also held minor office in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith. In 1919, he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Lyon, which was that of his father-in-law. His son, the third Baron, sold the family home in 1947 and settled in Rhodesia. The fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1989, lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, on 17 April 2000, he was created a life peer as Baron Acton of Bridgnorth, of Aldenham in the County of Shropshire. Consequently, Lord Acton was able to return to the House of Lords, where he sat on the Labour benches. As of 2014, the titles are held by his son, the fifth B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is best remembered for the remark he wrote in a letter to an Anglican bishop in 1887: Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887 Transcript of, published in ''Historical Essays and Studies'', edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907). ''"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…"'' Early life and background The only son of |
Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and all of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States, which covered most of the area of today's Mezzogiorno. The kingdom was formed when the Kingdom of Sicily merged with the Kingdom of Naples, which was officially also known as the Kingdom of Sicily. Since both kingdoms were named Sicily, they were collectively known as the "Two Sicilies" (''Utraque Sicilia'', literally "both Sicilies"), and the unified kingdom adopted this name. The king of the Two Sicilies was overthrown by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, after which the people voted in a plebiscite to join the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia. The annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies completed the first phase of Italian unification, and the new Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet
Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet (3 June 1736 12 August 1811) was a French-born English gentleman who served as Commander of the naval forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and later as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples under Ferdinand IV. He served at Naples during the turbulent times when French Revolutionary fervour under Napoleon was sweeping across Europe and threatening to extinguish the monarchy he served. Origins John was born on 3 June 1736 at Besançon in France, the son of Edward Acton, an English-born physician who had settled in that town, the great-grandson of Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet (1623–1665) of Aldenham Park, Morville, in Shropshire, England. In 1791, aged 55, John succeeded his second cousin once removed as 6th Baronet. Career Service in Tuscany He served under his uncle in the navy of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. In 1773, while serving as Captain of the Tuscan frigate ''Austria'', he destroyed several vessels in the Gulf of Tunis. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgnorth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bridgnorth was a parliamentary borough in Shropshire which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1295 until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1885. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one Member of Parliament (MP). Boundaries According to the 1881 census, the borough of Bridgnorth comprised the parishes of Quatford, part of Quatt, St. Leonard and St Mary (in Bridgnorth town), Astley Abbotts, Eardingdon, Oldbury, Romsley and Tasley. This was smaller than the municipal borough, which only contained the first four. History By the eighteenth century Bridgnorth had one of the widest franchises in England, consisting of "the burgesses and freement within and without the borough". There were more than a thousand voters in the contested elections of 1727, 1734 and 1741Pages 242 to 243,Lewis Namier, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morville, Shropshire
Morville is a village and civil parish about 3 miles west of Bridgnorth, in the Shropshire district, in the county of Shropshire, England. In 2011, the parish had a population of 392. The parish touches Acton Round, Astley Abbotts, Aston Eyre, Barrow, Bridgnorth, Chetton, Tasley and Upton Cressett. Landmarks There are 20 listed buildings in Morville. Morville has a church called St Gregory the Great. History The generic part of the name "Morville" means 'open land'. Morville was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Membrefelde''. See also * Morville Priory Morville Priory was a small Benedictine monastery in Shropshire, England, a cell of Shrewsbury Abbey. Location Morville today is a hamlet on the road between Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock, with Morville Hall, owned by the National Trust, the most ... References External links Parish council Villages in Shropshire Civil parishes in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet (c. 1650 – 28 September 1716) was a British MP. He was born the son of Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet and succeeded to the baronetcy and Aldenham Park near Bridgnorth on the death of his father in 1665. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he was awarded MA on 4 May 1666ACTON, Sir Edward, 3rd Bt. (c.1650-1716), of Aldenham Hall, Salop Historyofparliamentoneline.org, Retrieved 12 March 2018 and entered the in 1670 to study law. He became a barrister and |
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