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Daniel Norton
Sir Daniel Norton (1568 – 4 July 1636) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. Norton was the son of Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield. He was knighted at Whitehall on 23 July 1603. Through his marriage in 1606 he came into possession of Southwick Park He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1607. He built a new house on or near the site of Southwick Priory which was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. He was elected MP for Hampshire in 1624 and for Portsmouth again in 1625. It was while Charles I was the guest of Norton at Southwick Park, that he received the news of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham by John Felton at Portsmouth. In 1626 he served a second term as Sheriff of Hampshire and in 1628 was elected MP for Hampshire again, sitting until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffith (MP For Sandwich)
John Griffith may refer to: Clergymen and monks * John Griffith (Baptist minister) (1622?–1700), English General Baptist minister *John Griffith (monk) (fl. 1553), Welsh præmonstratensian and Cistercian monk * John Griffith (priest) (1818/19–1885), Anglican priest in south Wales * John Griffith (Rev.Dr.) (1789 -1879), academic and clergyman *John Jones (martyr) (died 1598), also known as John Griffith Musicians *John Thomas Griffith (born 1960), American singer-songwriter with the band Cowboy Mouth *Johnny Griffith (musician) (1936–2002), African-American musician Pilots * John H. Griffith (1905–2011), test pilot *John Sharpe Griffith (1898–1974), American First World War flying ace Politicians * John Griffith (died 1580), MP for Flintshire *John Griffith (of Plas Mawr) (died 1609), MP for Carnarvon 1571, 1572 and 1604 *John Griffith (of Llyn), MP for Carnarvonshire 1640 *John Griffith (MP for Beaumaris) (1591–1642), Welsh politician * John Griffith (MP for C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Landowners
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1636 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – ''The Duke's Mistress'', the last play by James Shirley, is given its first performance. * February 21 – Al Walid ben Zidan, Sultan of Morocco, is assassinated by French renegades. * February 26 – Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641. * March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway gives an order, that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers. * March 13 (March 3 Old Style) – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press, as the second of the privileged presses in England. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1568 Births
Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 6– 13 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Trium Nationum to the Diet of Torda make Europe's first declaration of religious freedom, adopted on January 28 as the Edict of Torda. * February 17 – Treaty of Adrianople (sometimes called the Peace of Adrianople): The Habsburgs agree to pay tribute to the Ottomans. * March 23 – The Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots. * May 2 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle. * May 13 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants, under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. * May 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Whatman
Thomas Whatman (1576–1630), of Chichester, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester in 1621 and 1624 and for Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ... in 1626. References 1576 births 1630 deaths 17th-century English lawyers Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford Politicians from Chichester Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Portsmouth English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1626 Members of the Inner Temple {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fullerton (Courtier)
Sir James Fullerton (c. 1563 – 7 January 1631) was a Scottish courtier and politician during the reigns of James I of England and Charles I.Sir James Fullerton History of Parliament Online He was probably the son of John Fullerton. He was a fellow of , one of the first two created at its establishment. Known as "a Scotch gentleman of great learning and very great worth" he was brought to the English court by King James I in 1610 to serve Prince Charles. He was |
Henry Whitehead (MP)
Sir Henry Whitehead, sometimes written as Whithed (3 September 1574 – 27 April 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1629. Whitehead was born on 3 September 1574, the only son of Richard Whitehead of Norman Court, and his wife Christian, daughter of William Jephson of Froyle, Hampshire. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1589. He inherited the estates of Norman Court and Shirley, Hampshire in 1593. He was knighted on 23 July 1603, and in 1609 he was High Sheriff of Hampshire.Sir Egerton Brydges, Stebbing Shaw''The topographer: containing a variety of original articles'', Volume 1, p. 464/ref> In 1625, Whitehead was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire. He was elected MP for Winchester in 1626 and for Stockbridge in 1628. Whitehead was twice married. His first wife, by a settlement dated 20 March 1593, was Anne, daughter of James Weston, the chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield. The couple had three sons and two daughters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wallop
Robert Wallop (20 July 1601 – 19 November 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1621 to 1660. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. Early life Wallop was the only son of Sir Henry Wallop of Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, and his wife, Elizabeth Corbet, daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire. Career Wallop held demesne lands in both Hampshire and Shropshire, including a manor called "Fitch" which has not been identified by historians, but was potentially located in Shropshire. In 1621, Wallop was elected Member of Parliament for Andover and re-elected in 1624. In 1625, he was elected MP for Hampshire and re-elected in 1626. He was elected MP for Andover again in 1628 and sat until 1629, when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Wallop refused to contribute towards the Bishops' War of 1639–40 out of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Oxenbridge (died 1638)
Sir Robert Oxenbridge (1595–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. Oxenbridge was the son of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne He entered Gray's Inn on October 26, 1614. In 1616 he succeeded to the estates at Hurstbourne on the death of his father and was knighted at Newmarket in November 1616. In 1621, Oxenbridge was elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch. He was elected MP for Hampshire in 1624 and for Whitchurch again in 1625 and 1626. In 1636 he sold the estate of Hurstbourne Priors for £1,74712s. 4d. to Sir Henry Wallop, of Farleigh Wallop. Oxenbridge died unmarried at the age of about 42. His sister Ursula married Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet (1599 – December 1683) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626. Monson was born in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jephson
Sir John Jephson (died 6 May 1638) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625. He married into two prominent Anglo-Irish families, and spent much of his career in Ireland. Jephson was the second son of William Jephson of Froyle, Hampshire and his wife Mary Dannett, daughter of John Dannett of Dannett's Hall, Leicestershire. In 1603, he was knighted by Sir George Carew, Lord President of Munster, at Dublin. He served in the English army in Ireland, being praised as a " gallant and worthy captain", and became a major-general. He was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1609, and spent much of his time in Ireland, even after he inherited Froyle, on the death of his elder brother. In 1621, Jephson was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Petersfield and was re-elected MP for Petersfield in 1625. His career was damaged by his fierce opposition to George Villiers, 1st D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wallop (died 1642)
Sir Henry Wallop (18 October 1568 – 14 November 1642) of Farleigh House, Hampshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1597 and 1642. Wallop was the eldest son of Sir Henry Wallop of Farleigh Wallop in Hampshire, vice-treasurer of Ireland, and his wife Katherine, daughter of Richard Gifford. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1588. He acted as his father's deputy at Dublin, and was knighted there in August 1599. Wallop was elected Member of Parliament for Lymington in 1597 and knight of the shire for Hampshire for the last parliament of Queen Elizabeth I in 1601. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1603 and again in 1629, and High Sheriff of Shropshire in between February and November 1606. He was elected MP for Stockbridge in 1614, (although the election was subsequently voided), and was one of the council for the marches of Wales in 1617. In 1621 he was re-elected for Hampshire and in 1623 he was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
