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Edward Prideaux Gwyn
Edward Prideaux Gwyn (c.1698–1736) of Llansannor Court, Glamorgan. and Forde Abbey, Dorset was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1724 to 1729. Gwyn was the eldest son of Francis of Llansannor, Glamorgan and his wife Margaret Prideaux, daughter of Edmund Prideaux, MP of Forde Abbey, Dorset. His brother Francis was also an MP. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 9 December 1713, aged 15, and was admitted at Middle Temple on 22 July 1714. Gwyn was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Christchurch at a by-election on 22 February 1724 when his father who had been returned in 1722 decided to sit for Wells Wells most commonly refers to: * Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England * Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground * Wells (name) Wells may also refer to: Places Canada *Wells, British Columbia England * Wells ... instead. At the 1727 general election Gwyn was himself returned as MP for Wells in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llansannor Court
Llansannor Court is a Grade I listed building in Llansannor, near Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 16 December 1952. It is believed to have been built during the Elizabethan era. The walls are of rubble and the roof is slate. The house has two storeys in some places and three in others, is L-shaped, and has stone mullioned windows. During the 18th century it was owned by the politician Francis Gwyn, who inherited it from his father, Edward Gwyn. On Francis's death it passed to his son, Edward Prideaux Gwyn. Although the fabric of the house is mostly of the 16th and 17th centuries, it was enlarged and refurbished during the Georgian period. However, when the last member of the Gwyn family died in 1846, the entire contents of the house were sold to a wealthy merchant who used only five rooms, allowing the rest of the house to deteriorate. It subsequently passed through several generations of the Roper family, who helped restore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1727 British General Election
The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of King George I; at the time, it was the convention to hold new elections following the succession of a new monarch. The Tories, led in the House of Commons by William Wyndham, and under the direction of Bolingbroke, who had returned to the country in 1723 after being pardoned for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1715, lost further ground to the Whigs, rendering them ineffectual and largely irrelevant to practical politics. A group known as the Patriot Whigs, led by William Pulteney, who were disenchanted with Walpole's government and believed he was betraying Whig principles, had been formed prior to the election. Bolingbroke and Pulteney had not expected the next election to occur until 1729, and were consequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1736 Deaths
Events January–March * January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain. * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed in Sweden. * January 26 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. * February 12 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor marries Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler of the Habsburg Empire. * March 8 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran on a date selected by court astrologers. * March 31 – Bellevue Hospital is founded in New York. April–June * April 14 – The Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh (Scotland), after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later. * April 14 – German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King Theodore of Corsica, 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20. His reign ends on No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1690s Births
Year 169 ( CLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris (or, less frequently, year 922 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 169 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 * Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia. * Northern African Moors invade what is now Spain. * Marcus Aurelius becomes sole Roman Emperor upon the death of Lucius Verus. * Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus. * Galen moves back to Rome for good. China * Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Piers (MP)
William Piers (20 May 1686 – 1755) of West Bradley, Somerset was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1716 and 1741. Early life Prers was the eldest son of William Piers of Wells and his wife Catherine Coward, daughter of William Coward, recorder of Wells. Career Piers was one of the leading Whigs at Wells and he stood for Wells several times, but was only returned three times on petition after being defeated at the poll four times. Following the 1715 British general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Wells on petition on 30 May 1716. He was defeated at the 1722 British general election. He was defeated again at the 1727 British general election but was this time seated on petition on 18 April 1729. At the 1734 British general election when he had the active support of Walpole, he was defeated at the poll, but returned on petition on 25 March 1735. He did not stand in 1741. He stood at the 1747 British general election but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edwards (1673-1743)
Thomas Edwards (c. 1673 – c. 1745) of Filkins Hall, Oxfordshire, was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1735. Edwards was the eldest son of Thomas Edwards of Redland and Broad Street, Bristol, and his first wife. His father was an attorney-at-law, and lawyer for Edward Colston. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 29 October 1691, at the age of 18 and was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1693. He was awarded BCL at Hart Hall, Oxford, and called to the bar in 1698. He married Mary Hayman, the daughter of Sir William Hayman, merchant and mayor of Bristol, in about 1703. Mary Hayman was also Edward Colston's niece and eventual heir. In about 1704 he moved to Broadwell Parish and acquired Filkins Hall. Edwards was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol at the 1713 general election after a turbulent contest, but was defeated at the next election in 1715. He was elected MP for Wells in Somerset ( en, All The People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wither
Charles Wither (24 July 1684 – 1731) ), of Oakley Hall, Hampshire, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly in 1708 and from 1727 to 1731. Early life Wither was the eldest son of Charles Wither of Oakley Hall, Hampshire and his wife Dorothy Smith, daughter of Sir William Smith, 1st Baronet of Redcliff, Buckinghamshire. The family had been seated at Oakley Hall since 1626 and since then had acquired further estates in the neighbourhood, to which Wither succeeded on the death of his father in 1697. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 7 May 1700, aged 15, and travelled abroad in the Netherlands from 1706 to 1707. He married Frances Wavell, daughter of Thomas Wavell of Winchester, Hampshire, on 17 July 1707. Career In 1707, Wither investigated the possibility of standing for Stockbridge at the next general election and secured local Whig support. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire in November 1707, but gave up the of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hinxman
Joseph Hinxman (c. 1701–1740), of the New Forest, Hampshire, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1740. Hinxman was the eldest son of Joseph Hinxman of North Hinton, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College from 1715 to 1719 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 24 June 1720. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 28 February 1721, aged 19 and was called to the bar in 1727. He owned the manor of North Hinton, near Christchurch and married Beata. Hinxman stood unsuccessfully for Christchurch at a by-election in 1724. At the 1727 British general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Christchurch in a contest. He voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. He was returned unopposed for Christchurch at the 1734 British general election. He was sometime woodward and keeper of the New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Banks (MP For Shaftesbury)
Jacob Banks (27 Feb. 1704–1738), of Milton Abbas, Dorset, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1726 and 1738. Banks was the second son of Sir Jacob Bancks (or Banks), of ilton Abbas, and his wife Mary Tregonwell, only surviving daughter of John Tregonwell, MP of Milton Abbas. Banks's father was originally a Swedish diplomat who served in the Royal Navy, and his mother was formerly married to Francis Luttrell (1659–1690)">Francis Luttrell . His father died in December 1724 and when his brother died unmarried in 1725, Banks inherited the manor of Christchurch. Banks was returned as Member of Parliament for Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency), Christchurch at a by-election on 9 April 1726, probably as a Tory, but he lost his seat at the 1727 British general election, 1727 general election and petitioned unsuccessfully. In 1734 British general election, 1734 was returned as MP for Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mews Of Hinton Admiral
Sir Peter Mews (29 August 1672 – 19 March 1726), of Hinton Admiral, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1726. Mews was the son of Colonel John Mews and his wife Sarah Mellish. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford and All Souls College, Oxford. His father was a supporter of Cromwell and a colonel in the London Militia, but Peter Mews and his uncle were fervent royalists. Mews was appointed Chancellor of Winchester Diocese in 1698 by his uncle (Bishop Peter Mews), a post he held until his death in March 1726. He bought the manors of Christchurch and Westover from the Earl of Clarendon in 1708, having previously settled in the area with his purchase of the manor of Hinton Admiral, where he built a mansion in 1720. Mews was returned as Member of Parliament for Christchurch at the 1710 general election. He was returned again in 1713, 1715 and 1722. He was knighted on 13 July 1712. Mews died on 19 March 1726. He married, at Westminste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
Thomas Hearne or Hearn (Latin: ''Thomas Hearnius'', July 167810 June 1735) was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts. Life Hearne was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire, the son of George Hearn, the parish clerk. Having received his early education from his father, he showed such taste for study that a wealthy neighbour, Francis Cherry of Shottesbrooke (c. 1665–1713), a celebrated nonjuror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at Bray "on purpose to learn the Latin tongue". Soon Cherry took him into his own house, and his education was continued at Bray until Easter 1696 when he matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. At the university, he attracted the attention of Dr John Mill (1645–1707), the principal of St Edmund Hall, who employed him to compare manuscripts and in other ways. Havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
