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Claudius Amyand (MP)
Claudius Amyand (10 August 1718 – 1 April 1774) was an English Whig politician and government official. He was the eldest son of Claudius Amyand, a distinguished surgeon and Huguenot, born on 10 August 1718. Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he attended Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1742. Appointed Keeper of the King's Library in 1745, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tregony in the general election of 1747. He was appointed junior under secretary to the Duke of Newcastle in 1750, becoming senior under-secretary to the Earl of Holderness the following year. He was offered the seat at Bossiney for the election of 1754, but declined due to a lack of funds. Instead, he was elected at Sandwich. He retained his office under Thomas Robinson and Henry Fox until William Pitt removed him to the Board of Customs in 1756. He served on that board until 1765 when he became Receiver of the Land Tax for Middlesex and London, a post he held unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whigs (British Political Party)
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the new Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s, and other Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Liberals' rival, the modern day Conservative Party, in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic Emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism with a parliamentary system. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 by Tory rebels. The Whig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, (c. 169530 September 1770), of Newby, Yorkshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1761. Early life Robinson was a younger son of Sir William Robinson, Bt (1655–1736) of Newby-on-Swale, Yorkshire, who was Member of Parliament for York from 1697 to 1722. His elder brother was Rear Admiral Sir Tancred Robinson. He had been a scholar and minor fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Career Robinson gained his earliest diplomatic experience in Paris. At the 1727 British general election he was returned as Member of Parliament for Thirsk on the Frankland interest, after his eldest brother, for whom the seat had originally been intended, resigned his pretensions to him. He was absent, presumably on account of his diplomatic duties, from all the recorded divisions of that Parliament. After Paris he went to Vienna, where he was English ambassador from 1730 to 1748. During 1741 he sought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet
Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet (26 October 1694 – 20 January 1775) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1754. Early life Oxenden was the son of George Oxenden LLD master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and his wife Elizabeth Dixwell daughter of Sir Basil Dixwell Bt. In April 1720 he succeeded his brother Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet in the baronetcy and in May 1720, he married Elizabeth Dunch, daughter of Edmund Dunch of Little Wittenham then in Berkshire. Political career Oxenden was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich at a by-election on 9 May 1720 and was re-elected at the 1722 general election. He was appointed Lord of Admiralty in 1725. In 1727 he was re-elected MP for Sandwich and became Lord of Treasury in that year. He contested Kent as well as Sandwich in 1734. He was defeated at Kent but elected again for Sandwich. He lost his post as Lord of Treasury in June 1737 and became a supporter of the Prince of Wales facti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clevland (1706–1763)
John Clevland, ( – 19 June 1763), of Tapeley in the parish of Westleigh, North Devon, was Secretary to the Admiralty and was twice a Member of Parliament for Saltash in Devon and for Sandwich in Kent. Early life Clevland was the eldest son and heir of Commander William Clevland, Royal Navy, of Tapeley, a Scotsman by birth, and the former Ann Davie of an old Devonshire family. His brother, William Clevland, became King of the Banana Islands, Sierra Leone, after being shipwrecked. His father was born in Lanarkshire, and became Controller of the Storekeepers' Accounts for the Navy Board. His maternal grandfather was the prominent merchant John Davie of Orleigh Court near Bideford. He was educated at Westminster in 1718 and called to Middle Temple in 1723. Upon the death of his father in 1734, he inherited Tapeley Park in north Devon. The elder Clevland had acquired Rayhouse, the principal estate at Woodford Bridge in Essex, at some time before 1700, which the younger Clevla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fuller (1732–1804)
John Fuller may refer to: *John Fuller (Massachusetts politician), representative to the Great and General Court *John Fuller (college head) (died 1558/9), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge *John Fuller (died 1744), British Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1728–1734 *John Fuller (1680–1745), British Member of Parliament for Sussex, 1713–1715 *John Fuller (1706–1755), British Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge (UK Parliament constituency), Boroughbridge, 1754–1755 *John Fuller (1732–1804), British Member of Parliament for Tregony (UK Parliament constituency), Tregony, 1754–1761 *Mad Jack Fuller (John Fuller, 1757–1834), English politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts, and Squire of the hamlet of Brightling *John W. Fuller (1827–1891), Union general *John Fuller (bushranger) (1830–1865), Australian bushranger *Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet (1864–1915), British Liberal politician and Governor of Victoria *John G. Fuller (1913–1990), New Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cooke (died 1768)
George Cooke (c.1705–1768) was an English barrister and politician. Life He was the son of Sir George Cooke, a barrister who became chief prothonotary in the Court of Common Pleas, and his wife Anne, daughter of Edward Jennings, Member of Parliament for . He entered the Inner Temple in 1717, and was called to the bar in 1728. Cooke was in practice as a barrister until his father died, in 1740. He had the life appointment as chief prothonotary, from 1732, and also inherited the family estate, Harefield in Middlesex. In 1742 Cooke entered parliament, as member for , supported by Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth. At this stage, Horace Walpole called him "a pompous Jacobite". Leaving parliament in 1747, he was returned for in 1750. Initially a Tory, he became a follower of William Pitt the elder in the later 1750s. In the 1760s he opposed the Stamp Act 1765 The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. III c. 12), was an Act of the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Penton (the Elder)
Henry Penton (c.1705 – 1 Sep 1762) was a British Member of Parliament. He first entered Parliament on his wife's stepfather's interest for a Cornish borough, and then represented his home city of Winchester for fourteen years before giving place to his son, dying the following year. The eldest son of John Penton of Winchester, Penton was educated at New College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1724. In 1733, he married a Miss Simondi, the daughter of the Swedish consul at Lisbon by his wife Anne. She was the sister of Joseph Gulston, and later made a second marriage to John Goddard; both were merchants engaged in Portuguese trade and Members of Parliament. The Pentons were an old Winchester family, and Henry was recorder of Winchester during his career, but he was first returned to Parliament on Goddard's interest for the Cornish borough of Tregony at the 1734 British general election. He was a dutiful supporter of the Walpole ministry and the succeeding Whig mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Trevanion
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jointure
Jointure is, in law, a provision for a wife after the death of her husband. As defined by Sir Edward Coke, it is "a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands or tenements, to take effect presently in possession or profit after the death of her husband for the life of the wife at least, if she herself be not the cause of determination or forfeiture of it': (Co. Litt. 36b). Legal definition A jointure is of two kinds, legal and equitable. A legal jointure was first authorized by the 1536 Statute of Uses. Before this statute a husband had no legal seisin in such lands as were vested in another to his "use", but merely an equitable estate. Consequently, it was usual to make settlements on marriage, the most general form being the settlement by deed of an estate to the use of the husband and wife for their lives in joint tenancy (or "jointure") so that the whole would go to the survivor. Although, strictly speaking, a jointure is a joint estate limited to both husband and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet
Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766) was a British Whig politician, physician and merchant. Origins He was the second son of Claudius Amyand, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George II, by his wife Mary Rabache, and was baptised at the fashionable St James's Church, Piccadilly. Claudius's father was a Huguenot who had quitted France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Career Amyand was an assistant to the Russia Company in March 1756, an army contractor during the Seven Years' War, who collaborated with Nicholas Magens and Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland. He was a director of the East India Company in 1760 and 1763. In that year, he bought the manor of Frilsham, Berkshire from Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon. Between 1754 and 1766, Amyand sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple, in North Devon. He lived nearby at Great George Street. On 9 August 1764, he was created a baronet, of Moccas Court, in the County of Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Compton, 6th Earl Of Northampton
George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton (1692 – 6 December 1758), known as the Honourable George Compton until 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1754. Compton was the second son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and Jane, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox of Farley, Wiltshire. Prime Minister Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, was his uncle and Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, his first cousin. He was educated at Eton College from 1706 to 1707 and then joined the army. He was cornet in the Royal Horse Guards in 1707 and guidon and major in the 2nd Life Guards in 1713. He was on the reserve list in 1715. Compton was returned as Member of Parliament for Tamworth at a by-election in January 1727. At the 1727 British general election, he was returned as MP for Northampton. He served briefly as a Lord of the Treasury in 1742. In 1754, he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and vacated his seat in the House of Commons to enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring ceremonial counties. Three rivers provide most of the county's boundaries; the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Lea to the east and the River Colne, Hertfordshire, Colne to the west. A line of hills forms the northern boundary with Hertfordshire. Middlesex county's name derives from its origin as the Middle Saxons, Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex, with the county of Middlesex subsequently formed from part of that territory in either the ninth or tenth century, and remaining an administrative unit until 1965. The county is the List of counties of England by area in 1831, second smallest, after Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
