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Fleetwood Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Fleetwood family, an old Lancashire family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. Fleetwood baronets, of Caldwick (1611) The Fleetwood Baronetcy, of Caldwich in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England by James I on 19 June 1611 for Richard Fleetwood, a direct descendant of William Fleetwood of Hesketh, Lancashire. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1614 and built the Grade I listed Wootton Lodge at Ellastone''The Baronetage of England'' Vol I. Rev. William Betham (1801). pp120-123 Google Books The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1780. *Sir Richard Fleetwood, 1st Baronet (died 1649) *Sir Thomas Fleetwood, 2nd Baronet (1609–1670) *Sir Richard Fleetwood, 3rd Baronet (1628–1700) *Sir Thomas Fleetwood, 4th Baronet (died 1739) *Sir John Fleetwood, 5th Baronet (died 1741) *Sir Thomas Fleetwood, 6t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetwood (noble Family)
Fleetwood is an Anglo-Swedish Baronial family. The lineage was introduced with number 49 in the House of Nobility (Sweden), also known as the ''Riddarhuset''. English origins Descent and claims The House was founded in the 14th century by William Fleetwood from whom all members descend. Married to ''Gwlladis'' in 1320, only daughter and heir to ''Meredith'', son of ''Canuan'', son of ''Conan'', son of ''Owain Gwynedd''. The later, was King of Gwynedd and reigned in 1137 to his death in Nov. 1169 with ''Gwladys ap Llywarch'', a daughter and heir of ''L'Loworth''. Rise to wealth As such, the English family originates in Heskin, Lancashire, but it was of little importance until the 16th century, when Thomas Fleetwood (of the Vache) and his three brothers moved south. The eldest, John Fleetwood, a clerk of Chancery by 1535, acquired a large estate mainly in Staffordshire and Lancashire, in each of which counties he was twice High sheriff, and of the two others the elder, Edm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Fleetwood
Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire (died 8 March 1641) was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641. Biography Fleetwood was the son of Sir William Fleetwood (died after 1610) of Ealing and Cranford, Middlesex, who was receiver-general of the court of wards and liveries until he was sequestered from this office in 1609. Fleetwood was admitted to Gray's Inn on 9 January 1588. In 1602 he was knighted in Dublin by Lord Blount, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. In 1604 Fleetwood had been granted a reversion on the office of receiver-general of the court of wards and liveries on the death of his father, but because of the sequestration he obtained the position on 22 March 1610 which was before his father's death. Fleetwood made the office profitable enough that by 1618 he was lending money to the Crown. In 1614 Fleetwood was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon, in 1621 for Westbury and in 1624 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetwood (surname)
Fleetwood is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Fleetwood, British racing driver * Charles Fleetwood (died 1692), English Parliamentary General and Lord Deputy of Ireland * Charles Fleetwood (theatre manager) (died 1747), manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane * Christian Fleetwood (1840–1914), American army officer * Daniel M. Fleetwood (born 1958), American engineer * Folke Fleetwood (1890–1949), Swedish Olympic discus thrower * Francis Fleetwood (1946-2015), American architect * Frederick G. Fleetwood (1868-1938), U.S. politician, representative from Vermont * Sir George Fleetwood (regicide) (), English soldier, signatory of King Charles I's death warrant * George Fleetwood (other), several people * Gerard Fleetwood (before 1604 – after 1650), member of the House of Commons of England * Henry Fleetwood (other), several people * Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944), British writer and painter * James Fleetwood (1603–1683), Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetwood (baronial Family)
Fleetwood is an Anglo-Swedish Baronial family. The lineage was introduced with number 49 in the House of Nobility (Sweden), also known as the ''Riddarhuset''. English origins Descent and claims The House was founded in the 14th century by William Fleetwood from whom all members descend. Married to ''Gwlladis'' in 1320, only daughter and heir to ''Meredith'', son of ''Canuan'', son of ''Conan'', son of ''Owain Gwynedd''. The later, was King of Gwynedd and reigned in 1137 to his death in Nov. 1169 with ''Gwladys ap Llywarch'', a daughter and heir of ''L'Loworth''. Rise to wealth As such, the English family originates in Heskin, Lancashire, but it was of little importance until the 16th century, when Thomas Fleetwood (of the Vache) and his three brothers moved south. The eldest, John Fleetwood, a clerk of Chancery by 1535, acquired a large estate mainly in Staffordshire and Lancashire, in each of which counties he was twice High sheriff, and of the two others the elder, Edm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fleetwood (Swedish General)
Sir George Fleetwood (1605–1667) was an Englishman who became a Swedish general and baron. He founded a cadet branch of the Fleetwood family in Sweden, with issue until the present time. English origins He was second son of Sir Miles Fleetwood of Cranford and Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, receiver of the court of wards, and brother of Charles Fleetwood, the parliamentary general. George was baptised at Cople, Bedfordshire, 30 June 1605. At the age of 16, George matriculated at the University of Oxford (9 November 1621). He gained a Bachelor of Arts on 6 February 1624. In the Swedish Army In 1629 George raised a troop of horse for Swedish service in Germany during the Thirty Years' War and became a major in Colonel James Spens' regiment. After promotion to lieutenant-colonel he returned to England, by March, and having collected a regiment of foot, he obtained Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna's support to return to Sweden to meet King Gustav II Adolf personally regarding militar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, first as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and then as a politician. A leading advocate of the execution of Charles I in January 1649, which led to the establishment of the Republican Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, he ruled as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658. Cromwell nevertheless remains a deeply controversial figure in both Britain and Ireland, due to his use of the military to first acquire, then retain political power, and the brutality of his 1649 Irish campaign. Educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Cromwell was elected MP for Huntingdon in 1628, but the first 40 years of his life were undistinguished and at one point he contemplated emigration to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (4 October 162612 July 1712) was an English statesman who was the second and last Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and son of the first Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. On his father's death in 1658 Richard became Lord Protector, but lacked authority. He tried to mediate between the army and civil society and allowed a Parliament containing many disaffected Presbyterians and Cavalier, Royalists to sit. Suspicions that civilian councillors were intent on supplanting the army were brought to a head by an attempt to prosecute a major-general for actions against a Royalist. The army made a threatening show of force against Richard and may have had him in detention. He formally renounced power nine months after succeeding. Although a Royalist revolt was crushed by the recalled civil war figure General John Lambert (general), John Lambert, who then prevented the Rump Parliament from reconvening and created a Committee of Safety, Lam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fleetwood
Charles Fleetwood (c. 1618 – 4 October 1692) was an English Parliamentarian soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1652–1655, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. Named Cromwell's Lieutenant General for the Third English Civil War, Fleetwood was thereafter one of his most loyal supporters throughout the Protectorate. After the Lord Protector's death, Fleetwood was initially supportive of his brother-in-law Richard Cromwell, but turned against him and forced him from power. Together with his colleague John Lambert he dominated government for a little over a year before being outmaneuvered by George Monck. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among the twenty liable to penalties other than capital, and was finally incapacitated from holding any office of trust. His public career then closed. Early life Charles Fleetwood was the third son of Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, and of Anne, daughter of Nicholas Luke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fleetwood (regicide)
George Fleetwood (1623–1672) was an English major-general and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. Fleetwood was one of the commissioners for the trial of Charles I, 1648–9; member of last Commonwealth Council of State and M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1653; for Buckingham, 1654; member of Cromwell's Upper House, 1657; joined General George Monck, 1660, and though condemned to death at the Restoration, was never executed. Biography George Fleetwood was the grandson of Sir George Fleetwood (died December 1620), and the son of Charles Fleetwood (died 1628) and inherited the family estate of the Vache, near Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, on the death of his father.Christopher Durston, "Fleetwood, George, appointed Lord Fleetwood under the protectorate (bap. 1623, d. in or after 1664)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 16 November 2009/ref>Some older sources such as Dictionary of National Biography (1889) "Fleetwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Frederick Stuart
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612), was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I, King of England and Scotland; and his wife Anne of Denmark. His name derives from his grandfathers: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and Frederick II of Denmark. Prince Henry was widely seen as a bright and promising heir to his father's thrones. However, at the age of 18, he predeceased his father when he died of typhoid fever. His younger brother Charles succeeded him as heir apparent to the English, Irish, and Scottish thrones. Early life Henry was born at Stirling Castle, Scotland, and became Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland automatically on his birth. His nurses included Mistress Primrose and Mistress Bruce. Henry's baptism on 30 August 1594 was celebrated with complex theatrical entertainments written by poet William Fowler and a ceremony in a new Chapel Royal at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attorney General
In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have executive responsibility for law enforcement, prosecutions or even responsibility for legal affairs generally. In practice, the extent to which the attorney general personally provides legal advice to the government varies between jurisdictions, and even between individual office-holders within the same jurisdiction, often depending on the level and nature of the office-holder's prior legal experience. Where the attorney general has ministerial responsibility for legal affairs in general (as is the case, for example, with the United States Attorney General or the Attorney-General for Australia, and the respective attorneys general of the states in each country), the ministerial portfolio is largely equivalent to that of a Minister of Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
