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Arthur Arscott
Arthur Arscott (1683–1762) of Tetcott, Devon, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1747. Arscott was baptized on 3 June 1683, the second (but eldest) surviving son of John Arscott of Tetcott and his second wife Prudence. In 1709 he succeeded to the estates of his father. He married Elizabeth Trefusis, daughter of Francis Trefusis of Trefusis, on 21 September 1704 but she died ten years later and was buried on 1 September 1714. He later married Gwen Yonge, daughter of Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet MP, of Colleton, Devon. In the 1722 general election, Arscott ran unopposed as Member of Parliament for Tiverton at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, Sir William Yonge. He ran unopposed in 1727 and 1734 Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Province of Georgia, Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetcott
Tetcott is a civil parish, small settlement and former manor (once the home of the Arscotts of Tetcott) in Devon, England. The parish lies about five miles south of the town of Holsworthy and is bordered on the north by the parish of Clawton, on the east by a small part of Ashwater, and on the south by Luffincott. It forms part of the local government district of Torridge, and its western boundary is the River Tamar which forms the Cornish border. In 2001 its population was 110, half that of a century earlier (220 in 1901). The settlement of Tetcott itself consists almost solely of the manor house and parish church of Holy Cross, but there are other hamlets in the parish, the largest of which is Lana about half a mile to the south-east. Parish church The parish church was dedicated by the Bishop of Waterford in 1338 or 1339. Before the Reformation it was dedicated to the Trinity. In 1740 the parish feast day was said to have been 3 May (the date of the Invention of the Tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashburton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for the Parliaments of 1295 and 1407, and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP. (currently unavailable ) From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election. Boundaries 1885-1918 The Sessional Divisions of Crockernwell and Teignbridge Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Newton Abbot. Other towns in the district include Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish and Teignmouth. It is named for the old Teignbridge hundred. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1727–1734
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British MPs 1722–1727
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
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1762 Deaths
Year 176 ( CLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Aper (or, less frequently, year 929 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 176 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * November 27 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of ''Imperator'', and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. * December 23 – Marcus Aurelius and Commodus enter Rome after a campaign north of the Alps, and receive a triumph for their victories over the Germanic tribes. * The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is made. It is now kept at Museo Capitolini in Rome (approximate date). Births * Fa Zheng, Chinese nobleman and adviser (d. 220) * Liu Bian, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1683 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – The Brandenburger—African Company, of the German state of Brandenburg, signs a treaty with representatives of the Ahanta tribe (in what is now Ghana), to establish the fort and settlement of Groß Friedrichsburg, in honor of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. The location is later renamed Princes Town, also called Pokesu. * January 6 – The tragic opera '' Phaëton'', written by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault, is premiered at the Palace of Versailles. * January 27 – Gove's Rebellion breaks out in the Province of New Hampshire in North America as a revolt against the Royal Governor, Edward Cranfield. Most of the participants, and their leader Edward Gove, are arrested. Gowe is convicted of treason but pardoned three years later. * February 7 – The opera '' Giustino'' by Giovanni Legrenzi and about the life of the Byzantine Emperor Justin, premieres in Venice. * March 14 – Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Ryder (judge)
Sir Dudley Ryder (4 November 1691 – 25 May 1756), of Tooting Surrey, was a British lawyer, diarist and politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 until 1754 when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Early life Ryder was the second son of Richard Ryder, a draper of Hackney, Middlesex, and his second wife Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of William Marshall of Lincoln's Inn. He studied at a dissenting academy in Hackney and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Leiden University in The Netherlands. He went to the Middle Temple in 1713 (where he kept a diary from 1715–16, in which he minutely recorded “whatever occurs to me in the day worth observing”). In 1719, he was called to the Bar. He married Anne Newnham, daughter of Nathaniel Newnham of Streatham, Surrey in November 1733. Career Ryder was returned as Member of Parliament for St Germans at a by election on 1 March 1733. He was also made Solicitor General by Sir Robert Walpole i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Nelthorpe (MP For Tiverton)
James Nelthorpe (1675–1734), of Lynford, Norfolk, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734. Early life Nelthorpe was baptized on 17 November 1675, the son of Edward Nelthorpe of St. Mary Abchurch, London (second son of Sir Goddard Nelthorpe, 2nd Baronet), and his wife Mary Gostwick (daughter of Sir William Gostwick, 4th Baronet). He was educated at Merchant Taylors School in 1687. Career In 1717 he acquired the manor of Lynford from Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet where he built Lynford Hall. Sir Robert Walpole often spent a night there on his way to Houghton. Nelthorpe was returned as Member of Parliament for Tiverton, at a by election on 1 March 1728, probably on Walpole's recommendation. He voted consistently with the Administration, except when he was absent on the excise bill. Personal life Nelthorpe died unmarried on 20 April 1734, after the dissolution of Parliament but shortly before the 1734 British general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet
Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (c. 169310 August 1755), , of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1715 to 1754. Origins Yonge was the son and heir of Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet, and his second wife Gwen Williams, daughter of Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet of Penryn, Cornwall. He was a great-great-grandson of Walter Yonge (1579–1649), a lawyer, merchant and notable diarist, whose diaries (1604–45) are valuable material for the contemporaneous history of Great Britain. Career In 1715 Yonge was returned as Member of Parliament for his family's Rotten Borough of Honiton, in Devon and held the seat until 1754. He was also returned for Tiverton at the general elections of 1727, 1747 and 1754 but only took the seat in 1754. In the House of Commons he attached himself to the Whigs, and making himself useful to Sir Robert Walpole, was rewarded with a commissionership of the Treasury in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Deane (MP)
George Deane may refer to: * George Deane (cricketer) (1828–1929), English cricketer * George B. Deane Sr. (1818–1903), American politician from New York * George Campbell Deane Sir George Campbell Deane was the Chief Justice of the Gold Coast Colony from 1929 until 1935. He took the office from Sir Philip Crampton Smyly in 1929 and was succeeded by Sir Philip Bertie Petrides Sir Philipos Bertie Petrides (27 June 18 ..., Chief Justice of the Gold Coast Colony, 1929–35 * George Deane (MP) See also * George Dean (1867–1933), ferry boat master in Sydney, Australia, charged with attempting to poison his wife {{hndis, Deane, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bere (1652–1725)
Thomas Bere (1652 – 22 June 1725) of Huntsham, near Tiverton, in Devon, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons in two periods between 1690 and 1725. Early life Bere was the eldest son of Thomas Bere, lord of the manor of Huntsham, Devon, by his first wife Margaret Davie, daughter of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 4 March 1670. He succeeded to Huntsham on the death of his father in 1680. In about 1686, he married Mary Stedman, widow of George Stedman of Midsomer Norton, Somerset and daughter of Robert Lang of Stanton Prior, Dorset.Eveline CruickshanksBERE, Thomas (1652-1725), of Huntsham, nr. Tiverton, Devon.at The History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Accessed 20 July 2014. Political career Bere was elected unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton, at the 1690 English general election. He presented a petition to Parliament from Tiverton on 8 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
