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Clerk Of The Deliveries Of The Ordnance
{{Infobox official post , post = Office of the Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance , body = , nativename = , insignia = File:Badge of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on a RML 10 inch 18 ton gun in Gibraltar.jpg , insigniasize = 150px , insigniacaption = Board of Ordnance Arms preserved on a gun tampion in Gibraltar , image = , imagesize = , incumbent = , incumbentsince = , department = , member_of = Board of Ordnance (1597-1830) , reports_to = Master-General of the Ordnance , nominator = , appointer = ''Prime Minister'' , appointer_qualified = Subject to formal approval by the King-in-Council , termlength = Not fixed (typically 3–9 years) , inaugural = Brian Hogg , formation = 1570-1830 , website= The Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance from its con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Of Ordnance
The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities were 'to act as custodian of the lands, depots and forts required for the defence of the realm and its overseas possessions, and as the supplier of munitions and equipment to both the Army and the Navy'. The Board also maintained and directed the Artillery and Engineer corps, which it founded in the 18th century. By the 19th century, the Board of Ordnance was second in size only to HM Treasury among government departments. The Board lasted until 1855, at which point (tarnished by poor performance in supplying the Army in Crimea) it was disbanded. Origins of the Board The introduction of gunpowder to Europe led to innovations in offensive weapons, such as cannon, and defences, such as fortifications. From the 1320s a member of the Royal Household, the 'Keeper of the Privy Wardrobe in the Tower of London', became increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bridges (MP)
William Bridges (died 30 October 1714), of Wallington, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1714. Bridges was the son of Robert Bridges and his wife Mary (née Woodcock). Bridges was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liskeard, Cornwall at the 1695 English general election and sat until 1714. He was a member of the Board of Ordnance. He acquired the estate of Kenwood House Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. The house was originally constructed in the 17th century and served as a residence for the Earls of Mans ... from Brook Bridges, rebuilding the house, and selling it in 1705 to John Walter of London. References 1714 deaths Year of birth missing Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Wilkinson (British Politician)
Andrew Wilkinson (1697–1784), of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, was a British estate manager and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 35 years between 1735 and 1772. Wilkinson was the son of Charles Wilkinson of Boroughbridge and his wife Deborah Cholmley, daughter of Richard Cholmley of Bramham, Yorkshire. He was admitted at Clare College, Cambridge on 2 July 1715 and at the Middle Temple on 8 July 1719. He married Barbara Jessop, daughter of William Jessop of Broom Hall near Sheffield on 2 September 1723. Wilkinson's father was the Yorkshire estate agent of successive Dukes of Newcastle, and from 1718 was the receiver-general of the land tax for Yorkshire, Northumberland and Durham until he resigned in 1727. Wilkinson then became receiver of the land tax for West Rising. Shortly afterwards it was discovered that Wilkinson's father was in debt to the Government for over £30,000 and consequently spent the rest of his life as a crown debtor in Newgate prison. Wilk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rawlinson Earle
William Rawlinson Earle (7 April 1702 - 10 August 1774), of Eastcourt House, Crudwell, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 40 years between 1727 and 1768. Earle was the eldest son of Giles Earle and his wife Elizabeth Rawlinson, daughter of Sir William Rawlinson of Hendon House, Middlesex and widow of John Lowther of Lowther, Westmorland. He married, with £20,000, Susannah White, daughter of William White of Somerford, Wiltshire on 4 January 1731. Earle was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Malmesbury together with his father at the 1727 British general election. He was a strong government supporter, and was appointed Clerk of deliveries to the Ordnance in 1732. He was returned unopposed again with his father at the 1734 general election and was promoted to Clerk of the Ordnance in 1740. At the 1741 British general election he was returned unopposed again with his father for Malmesbury and after the fall of Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Smelt (politician)
Leonard Smelt ( – 30 May 1740) of Kirkby Fleetham, North Riding of Yorkshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1740. Early life Smelt was the eldest son of Leonard Smelt of Kirkby Fleetham and his wife Grace Frankland, daughter of Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet. He was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1700. His brother was William Smelt. He married Elizabeth Whitaker. Career In 1709, in an unopposed by-election on 6 May for Thirsk, Smelt became the first person in his family to be an MP. This was thanks to an agreement between Ralph Bell and Smelt's mother's brother Thomas Frankland, the two main interests in the constituency, whereby Bell agreed to support Smelt in return for Frankland supporting Bell's nominee at the next election. In 1710 Smelt succeeded his father to Kirkby Fleetham. In Parliament, he voted in favour of the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell. He stood down from Thirsk at the 1710 British general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet (c. 1685 – 17 April 1747), of Thirkleby in Yorkshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for over 30 years between 1708 and 1741. Early life Frankland was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Russell (through whom he was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell). He was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1700. Between 1704 and 1705 he travelled abroad in Italy and studied at Padua University in 1705. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1707. Political career Frankland was elected Member of Parliament for Harwich at the 1708 general election and was returned unopposed in 1710. He was returned unopposed as MP for the family borough of Thirsk at the 1713 and 1715 general elections. In 1715 he was appointed to the post of Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance which he held until 1722. He was returned unopposed for Thirsk at the 1722 general election an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard King (Ordnance)
Richard King may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Richard King (artist) (1907–1974), Irish stained glass artist and illustrator *Richard King (sound designer), American sound designer and editor *Ricky King (born 1946), German guitarist *Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), author of children's fiction Military and politics *Dick King (politician) (1934–2018), American politician *Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet (1730–1806), British admiral, Commodore Governor for Newfoundland and Labrador *Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet (1774–1834), son of the above and British admiral who served at the Battle of Trafalgar *Richard King (MP) (died c. 1640), English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643 Sports *Dick King (American football) (1895–1930), All-American and early professional football player *Rich King (basketball) (born 1969), American basketball player * Richard King (baseball) (1904–1966), Negro league baseball player * Richard King (Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdigate Ousley
Newdigate is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley borough of Surrey lying in a relatively flat part of the Weald to the east of the A24 road between Dorking and Horsham, ESE of Guildford and south of London. Neighbouring parishes are Charlwood, North Holmwood, South Holmwood, Leigh and Capel. History Etymology The name of Newdigate refers to a place at the gate or path to a wood. Surviving manuscripts such as manorial rolls, Assize Rolls and Feet of Fines give forms including Newdegate (13th century), Newedegate and Neudegate (15th century) and Nudgate (16th century). The name ''Ewood'' (''Iwode'' in Feet of Fines 1312) occurs in the parish and might derive from Old English for a forest of yew-trees, in which case the 'N' survives from a prefix such as 'in' (''O.E.'' 'on') or 'at the' (''O.E.'' 'be þane'). Alternatively, the word may refer to a 'New wood'. Early history In early history Newdigate was at the western heart of the Weald a much more dense wooded for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Craggs The Elder
James Craggs the Elder (1657 – 16 March 1721), of Jermyn Street, Westminster and Charlton, Lewisham, Kent, was an English financier and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 to 1713. Life Craggs was baptized on 10 June 1657, the eldest son of Anthony Craggs of Wolsingham, county of Durham, and his wife Anne Morcroft, daughter of Rev. Ferdinando Morcroft, DD, of Goswich, Lancashire, rector of Stanhope-in-Wardell, county Durham and prebendary of Durham. He was educated at Bishop Auckland grammar school. After following various callings in London, Craggs, who was a person of considerable financial ability, entered the service of the Duchess of Marlborough. Through her influence he was returned at the 1702 English general election as Member of Parliament for Grampound. He retained the seat until the 1713 British general election. Craggs was in business as an army clothier and held several official positions, becoming joint Postmaster-Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pulteney
John Pulteney (before 1668 – 2 May 1726), of St James's, Westminster and Harefield, Middlesex, was an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1710. Early life Pulteney was the son of Sir William Pulteney, and his wife Grace Corbet, daughter of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke, Shropshire. He was educated at Westminster School under Dr Busby. He married before 1674 Lucy Colville of Northamptonshire. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1676 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1677. He was called to the Bar in 1682. Career Pulteney was nominated as deputy-lieutenant of Middlesex in 1689. He had no previous experience in the higher levels of government when he was appointed by Lord Shrewsbury as under-secretary of the Southern Department in 1689, holding the post to June 1690. He was then appointed under-secretary of the Northern Department from December 1690 to March 1692. When Lord Sydney became one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet
Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, FRS (1673 – 2 January 1755) was an English landowner, industrialist and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 54 years between 1694 and 1755. His ownership and development of coal mines around Whitehaven in Cumberland gave him substantial revenues, and he was reputed the richest commoner in England. Early life Lowther was baptised on 5 August 1673 at St Giles in the Fields, London, the second son of Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet and Jane Leigh. Educated privately in London, he attended Queen's College, Oxford and the Middle Temple. On the death of his father in 1706, the baronetcy was inherited by James's elder brother Christopher, but Christopher (whose drinking and gambling had led his father to disinherit him) was cut off with an annuity of about £100 a year and the family properties passed to James, who subsequently inherited the baronetcy in 1731, when his brother died without children. Politics In 1694, Lowther was returne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Musgrave (administrator)
Christopher Musgrave may refer to: *Christopher Musgrave (born c.1553), MP for Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (1631–1704), Tory politician and MP, teller of the Exchequer *Christopher Musgrave (administrator) (1664–1718), British Ordnance officer and son of the 4th Baronet, MP for Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir Christopher Musgrave, 5th Baronet (1688–1736), MP and grandson of the 4th Baronet, MP for Cumberland and Carlisle See also * Musgrave (surname) Musgrave is a surname originating in the former county of Westmorland, now part of Cumbria in Northern England, where there are two villages called Great Musgrave and Little Musgrave. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Musgrave, philos ... * Musgrave baronets * {{hndis, Musgrave, Christopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
