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Charles Compton (c. 1624–1661)
Sir Charles Compton (c. 1624–November 1661) was a Northamptonshire landowner, a Cavalier in the First English Civil War, and briefly an MP for Northampton after the Restoration. Family Compton was the second son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton of Castle Ashby and his wife Mary. He was educated at Eton College and accomplished at music and mathematics. Compton's father and brothers James (3rd Earl), William, and Spencer were also Cavalier officers, while his brother Henry became bishop of London. According to David Lloyd, Charles and William were identical twins. Another source gives their birth years as 1623 and 1625, with Spencer and Francis both 1629. The seven younger children of the 2nd Earl shared £30,000 after his 1643 death, Charles buying land at Grendon with his portion. He was married twice; first to Mary, sister of Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire; and secondly (c. June 1661) to Felicia, daughter of Thomas Pigott of Chet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is known as "The Rose of the Shires". Covering an area of 2,364 square kilometres (913 sq mi), Northamptonshire is landlocked between eight other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east – England's shortest administrative county boundary at 20 yards (19 metres). Northamptonshire is the southernmost county in the East Midlands. Apart from the county town of Northampton, other major population centres include Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden and Daventry. Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip. The Soke of Peterborough fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easton Neston
Easton Neston is situated in south Northamptonshire, England. Though the village of Easton Neston which was inhabited until around 1500 is now gone, the parish retains the name. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish remained less than 100 and was included in the town of Towcester. The villages name means 'Eadstan's farm/settlement' or ' Aethelstan's farm/settlement'. The rural civil parish has a population of about 70 and about of mainly farmland and woods around the South Northamptonshire communities of Easton Neston House, and the hamlets of Hulcote and Showsley. The ecclesiastical parish of Easton Neston is much larger, with a population of approximately 1200. Location The parish is adjacent to the north-east side of Towcester. Showsley can be accessed by a left turn off the A43 road between Northampton and Towcester about half a mile south of the Tiffield and Blisworth junctions. Alternatively, it can be approached in the other direction from Shutlange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knight Of The Burning Pestle
''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'' is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and published in a quarto in 1613. It is the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to ''Don Quixote'', and a parody of Thomas Heywood's ''The Four Prentices of London'' and Thomas Dekker's ''The Shoemaker's Holiday''. It breaks the fourth wall from its outset. Text It is most likely that the play was written for the child actors at Blackfriars Theatre, where John Marston had previously had plays produced. In addition to the textual history testifying to a Blackfriars origin, there are multiple references within the text to Marston, to the actors as children (notably from the Citizen's Wife, who seems to recognise the actors from their school), and other indications that the performance took place in a house known for biting satire and sexual innuendo. Blackfriars specialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercurius Politicus
''Mercurius Politicus'' was a newsbook that was published weekly from June 1650 until the English Restoration in May 1660. Under the editorship of Marchamont Nedham, it supported the republican governments. From 1655 until 1659 it had a monopoly on news publication. History ''Mercurius Politicus'' was Marchmont Nedham's most significant enterprise, which he used as a platform for the Commonwealth regime. (Nedham received a government payment of £50 in May 1650, probably to start this venture.) This third Nedham weekly began in June 1650, on a light note: "Why should not the Commonwealth have a Fool as well as the King had?" – but soon settled into a more serious vein as a voice of the republican movement of the day. He rested the case for the Commonwealth on arguments similar to those of Hobbes: that "the Sword is, and ever hath been, the Foundation of all Titles to Government", and that it was hardly likely that the Commonwealth's adversaries would ever succeed in their design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Collins (antiquarian)
Arthur Collins (1682–1760) was an English antiquarian, genealogist, and historian. He is most known for his work ''Peerage of England''. Personal life Collins was born in 1682, the son of William Collins, Esq., a Gentleman Usher to Queen Catherine, and Elizabeth Blythe. His father managed to spend his way through his fortune of some £30,000, but despite this he was able to give his son a liberal education, after which Arthur worked for at least some of his life as a bookseller across from St Dunstan's Church on Fleet Street. He married around 1708, and died in 1760, at the age of 78. He was buried in Battersea, then part of Surrey. His son, Major General Arthur Tooker Collins, was the father of David Collins, the first Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania. ''Peerage of England'' The first two editions of Collins's ''Peerage'' were published as single volumes in 1709 and 1712. Subsequent editions included an increasing number of added volumes, such that the fifth edition, published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant Colonel (United Kingdom)
Lieutenant colonel (Lt Col), is a rank in the British Army and Royal Marines which is also used in many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. The rank is superior to Major (United Kingdom), major, and subordinate to Colonel (United Kingdom), colonel. The comparable Royal Navy rank is Commander (Royal Navy), commander, and the comparable rank in the Royal Air Force and many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth air forces is Wing commander (rank), wing commander. The rank insignia in the British Army and Royal Marines, as well as many Commonwealth countries, is a crown above a Order of the Bath, four-pointed "Bath" star, also colloquially referred to as a British Army officer rank insignia, "pip". The crown has varied in the past with different monarchs; the current one being the St Edward's Crown, Crown of St Edward. Most other Commonwealth countries use the same insignia, or with the state emblem replacing the crown. In the modern British Armed forces, the establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Baronet (c.1655 – 15 April 1721) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was the son of Sir William Domville (1609-1689) and Brigid Lake, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lake. On 21 December 1686, Domvile was created a baronet, of Templeogue in the Baronetage of Ireland. He was granted the forfeited manor of the Jacobite the late James Talbot at Templeogue in 1694. He was the Member of Parliament for Mullingar in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1693. His first wife (and cousin) Elizabeth Lake, was the daughter of Sir Lancelot Lake,Cokayne, G. E. ''Complete Peerage'' Reprinted Gloucester 2000 Vol.1, p. 448 their daughter, Bridget, married Henry Barry, 3rd Baron Barry of Santry. He was succeeded in his title by his son, Compton Domvile from his second wife Anna Domville (nee Compton), with Anna he also had a daughter Elizabeth Pocklington (Domville), the mother of Charles Pocklington-Domvile. He married for a third time Frances Cole the daughter of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant Of The Tower Of London
The Lieutenant of the Tower of London serves directly under the Constable of the Tower. The office has been appointed at least since the 13th century. There were formerly many privileges, immunities and perquisites attached to the office. Like the Constable, the Lieutenant was usually appointed by letters patent, either for life or during the King's pleasure. The Lieutenants had custody of many eminent prisoners of state, including Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I) and Sir Walter Raleigh. At least five of the Lieutenants, Sir Edward Warner, Sir Gervase Helwys, Isaac Penington, Colonel Robert Tichborne, and Sir Edward Hales, themselves later became prisoners in the Tower. History The earliest known Lieutenant was Giles de Oudenard at the beginning of the reign of Edward I, while Anthony Bek, later Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatton Compton
Hatton Compton (died Wright 1963 p. 3) was an English army officer who served as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1713 to 1741Williamson and Fox 191p. 21/ref> and Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets from 1715 to 1717. Family and personal life Hatton Compton was one of three sons and two daughters of Sir Charles Compton, of Grendon and Sywell in Northamptonshire, and his first wife, Mary, sister of Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet of Easton Neston, also in Northamptonshire. Sources differ on Hatton's date of birth: Dalton says 1661,Dalton 191 p.97 note 2/ref> Edwards that he was the eldest son of a father who died in 1661; Adam Williamson that he was "in his ninetieth year" in 1741, giving a birth year of 1651–2; Arthur Collins that he died "aged upwards of 80"; an 1887 marriage licence index gives his age as 35 on 17 May 1698. Sir Charles Compton was the younger brother of the 3rd Earl of Northampton. Hatton Compton inherited Grendon Hall from his father and substantia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viscount Lanesborough
Viscount Lanesborough is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came on 31 July 1676 in favour Sir George Lane, 2nd Baronet. The titles became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Viscount, on 2 August 1724. The Lane Baronetcy, of Tulske in the County of Roscommon, had been created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 9 February 1661 for Richard Lane. The second creation came on 12 August 1728 in favour Brinsley Butler, 2nd Baron Newtown-Butler. His son Humphrey was created Earl of Lanesborough in 1756. See the latter title for more information on this creation. The Honourable Frances Lane, daughter of the first Viscount of the first creation, married as her second husband Henry Fox. Their son George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley assumed the additional surname of Lane and was created Baron Bingley in 1762. Lane Baronets, of Tulske (1661) *Sir Richard Lane, 1st Baronet (died 1668) *Sir George Lane, 2nd Baronet (–1683) (created Visco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beaumont (died 1701)
John Beaumont (c. 16363 July 1701) was an English soldier at the time of the Glorious Revolution and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1695. Beaumont was born at Burton, Lincolnshire, the son of Sapcote Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont of Swords and his wife Bridget Monson. He was educated at school at Market Bosworth and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge aged 17 on 3 November 1653. He attended King Charles II in exile and was commissioned a captain in Our Holland Regiment, becoming lieutenant-colonel by 1685. In 1685, Beaumont was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham and held the seat until 1689. In 1688, Beaumont's regiment was marched to Portsmouth under the Duke of Berwick. Beaumont was one of the officers involved in Portsmouth Captains affair when they refused to accept Irish recruits into the regiment against King James instructions for all regiments to accept a quota of Irish troopers. On 10 September 1688 the officers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilmer
William Wilmer (c. 1692–1744), of Sywell Hall, Northamptonshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1744. Wilmer was the eldest son of William Wilmer of Sywell Sywell is a village and civil parish in North, Northamptonshire, England. At the time of the 2011 census, the population was 792. The name Sywell is thought to mean seven wells. Facilities The facilities found in the village include: *The c ... and his wife Dinah Lancaster. In 1706 he succeeded his father to Sywell Hall, where family had been seated since the beginning of the seventeenth century. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford on 16 May 1711, aged 18. He married Lady Mary Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville, on 5 August 1720. Wilmer was returned as Whig Member of Parliament for Northampton (UK Parliament constituency), Northampton at a by-election on 7 June 1715 by Lord Halifax who had vacated the seat on succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
