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Fife (UK Parliament Constituency)
Fife was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1885, when it was divided into East Fife and West Fife. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Fifeshire. History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ... system until the seat was divided in 1885. Boundaries The constituency covered the county of Fife. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1830s Elections in the 1840s Elections in the 1850s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fife (Parliament Of Scotland Constituency)
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Fife elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to four in 1690. After 1708, Fife was represented by one Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons at Westminster. List of shire commissioners * 1593: Myreton of Cambo Joseph Foster, ''Members of Parliament, Scotland'' (1882p. 272 * 1600: Kynynmound of Craigie Hall * 1607, 1608, 1609: Sir Andrew Murray of BalvairdFosterp. 263 During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, the sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross were jointly represented by one Member of Parliament in the Protectorate Parliament This is a list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III, when the '' Curia Regis'' developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Oswald (younger)
James Oswald (1715 – 24 March 1769) was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1768. Oswald was the grandson of James Oswald a politician of Kirkcaldy, and son of James Oswald whom he succeeded in c.1725, inheriting his Kirkcaldy home, Dunnikier, now known as the Path House. His brother John was Bishop of Raphoe and another brother Thomas was an army officer.Dictionary Of National Biography, ed. Sidney Lee, Vol. LIII (Smith - Stanger), publ. Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, London, 1898; p. 3 (Adam Smith)http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ entry for: births/baptisms, Old Parish Registers, Surname: Oswald, 1700-1730, Parent name 1: James, Parent name 2: Anne, County: FIFE He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1733. The Oswald family became the dominant force in Kirkcaldy politics in the 18th century and Dysart, the second largest burgh was controlled by the St. Clair interest. The combined Oswald and St. Clair influence often decided who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lindsay (MP For Fife)
James Lindsay may refer to: In the British peerage: * James Lindsay of Crawford (died 1358) (died 1358), Scottish nobleman * James Lindsay of Crawford (died 1395/6) (died 1395/6), Scottish nobleman *James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres (1691–1768), Scottish peer *James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford (1783–1869), Scottish peer In politics: *James Alexander Lindsay (1815–1874), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Wigan *James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913), Victorian astronomer and politician *James Lindsay (Conservative politician) (1906–1997), British Conservative Member of Parliament *James Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker (born 1945), retired Australian diplomat In religion: *James Lindsay (theologian) (1852–1923), Scottish minister, theologian and author *James Gordon Lindsay (1906–1973), revivalist preacher, author, and founder of Christ for the Nations In sport: *Jamie Lindsay (footballer, born 1870) (born c. 1870), Scottish footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital invent ... [...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] |
James Erskine Wemyss
James Erskine Wemyss (9 July 1789 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish MP and Rear-Admiral. He was the son of William Wemyss by his wife Frances, daughter of Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet. In 1820 he succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Fife, sitting until 1831. He represented the county again from 1832 to 1847. By his wife Lady Emma, daughter of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll, he was father of James Hay Erskine Wemyss James Hay Erskine Wemyss (29 August 1829 – 29 March 1864) was a Scottish Member of Parliament, representing Fife from 1859 until his death. Family He was the son of James Erskine Wemyss by his wife Emma, daughter of William Hay, 17th Earl of Er ..., also later MP for Fife. See also * References * http://thepeerage.com/p1087.htm#i10869 * https://web.archive.org/web/20111003160503/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Fcommons.htm External links * 1789 births 1854 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ferguson (MP For Fife)
Robert Ferguson (8 September 17693 December 1840) of Raith, was at various times a Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs, and at the time of his death he was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fife. As an amateur geologist and mineralogist the mineral Fergusonite was named after him. Biography Robert Ferguson was the eldest son of Jane Crauford, daughter of Ronald Craufurd of Restalrig, (sister to Margaret, countess of Dumfries) and William Ferguson of Raith, Fife. General Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson was his brother. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh, 1777–1780. He was also privately tutored by John Playfair. He then studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He qualified as an advocate in 1791. He lived at Raith House near Kirkcaldy. Robert Ferguson was elected to the Whig parliament of 1806 for Fifeshire, but was not afterwards elected until the time of the Reform Bill, upon which he represented the Kirkca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet
Major-General Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet (30 March 1770 – 1813) was an officer in the British Army, served as a member of Parliament, and achieved important commands in the Napoleonic Wars under the Duke of Wellington, but ended his service in insanity and suicide. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet and his second wife, Frances. He succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death in 1795.H. M. Stephens, 'Erskine, Sir William, second baronet (1770–1813)', rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200Retrieved 30 May 2008/ref> Early career Erskine was commissioned into the 23rd foot 1785, and transferred to the 5th Dragoons as a lieutenant in 1787, and in 1791 became captain of the 15th King's Light Dragoons (the unit his father had served in with distinction) on 23 February 1791. His first active service was in Flanders 1793–95, during the French Revolutionary Wars, when he ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wemyss (1760—1822)
General William Wemyss of Wemyss (9 April 1760 – 4 February 1822) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army and Member of Parliament. Early life He was the son of the Hon. James Wemyss, third son of the 5th Earl of Wemyss, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Sutherland, only daughter of William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland. Career From 1784 to 1787 Wemyss was MP for Sutherland, succeeding his father, before sitting for Fife from 1787 to 1796 and again from 1807 to 1820. Military career Captain in the Army by brevet, 1 July 1783 DAG in Scotland and Major, 18 November 1786 DAG in Scotland and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 October 1791 Colonel, 22 August 1795 He attained the rank of Major-General on 23 June 1798. Action near Ardee Major-General William Wemyss raised the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders in 1799 for his cousin the 16-year-old Countess of Sutherland, Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower. Men were recruited to the Regiment through a highly original form of conscription. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet
Sir John Henderson FRSE FSA (8 January 1752 – 12 December 1817), fifth of the Henderson baronets of Fordell Castle, Fordell, Fife, was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman and politician. He trained as a lawyer and was also a competent antiquary. Ancestry The Hendersons were an ancient Scottish family; James Henderson, who served as Lord Advocate of Scotland and died at Flodden Field in 1513, was called the first "Laird of Fordell". Fordell Castle was built in 1567, but it was built on the site of a previous structure. John Henderson (d. 1683) was created a baronet in 1664. The Hendersons' considerable wealth came from coalpits on their estates. Life Sir John Henderson was the son of Robert Henderson (d. 1781), the 4th baronet. He was educated at St. Andrews, University of St Andrews and Christ Church, Oxford. He studied law at St Andrews University graduating in 1764, then did further studies at Oxford University gaining a second degree in 1771 before being made an advocate in 1774. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Skene (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Robert Skene (1719–1787) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between1779 and 1787. Early life Skene was the eldest son of David Skene of Pitlour or Hallyards, and his wife Jean Douglas, daughter of John Douglas of Strathendry, Fife. He was a cousin of Adam Smith. Army career Skene joined the army and was an ensign in the 19th Foot in 1743 and lieutenant in 1745. He succeeded to his father’s estates in 1747. In 1756 he became a captain in a newly formed regiment, the 59th Foot. He was lieutenant-colonel and deputy adjutant-general for North Britain in 1758 and adjutant general in 1763. From 1767 to 1789 he was inspector of roads in the Highlands. He became Colonel in 1772, Major-general in 1777 and Lieutenant-general in 1782. He was also Colonel of the short lived 99th Foot (Jamaica) from 1781 to 1783 and Colonel of the 48th Foot from 1783 to his death. Political career Skene was intending to stand for Parliament a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Townsend Oswald
James Townsend Oswald (23 February 1748 – 3 January 1814) was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1779. Oswald was the son of James Oswald, a politician of Kirkcaldy. The Oswald family became the dominant force in Kirkcaldy politics in the 18th century and Dysart, the second-largest burgh was controlled by the St. Clair interest. The combined Oswald and St. Clair influence often decided who was to be elected. Oswald was elected Member of Parliament for Dysart Burghs in succession to his father in 1768 and was Secretary for the Leeward Islands in 1772. He lost the seat in 1774 when to his surprise a rich outsider bribed his way into Parliament. In 1776 Oswald was elected MP for Fife until he resigned on being appointed Auditor of the Exchequer of Scotland on 2 July 1779. About 1790 he had built Dunnikier House, "a handsome mansion beautifully situated in a richly-wooded demesne". Oswald died at age 65. He had married Janet Grey of Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
