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Flower Baronets
The Flower Baronetcy, of Lobb in the County of Oxford and of Woodford in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 December 1809 for Charles Flower, Lord Mayor of London from 1808 to 1809. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1850. Flower baronets, of Lobb and Woodford (1809) *Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet (1763–1834) *Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet (14 December 1794 – 17 May 1850) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1842 to 1846. Flower was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1838 to 1839. In June 1841, he was asked by ... (1794–1850) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Flower Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Escutcheon may refer to: * Escutcheon (heraldry), a shield or shield-shaped emblem, displaying a coat of arms * Escutcheon (furniture), a metal plate that surrounds a keyhole or lock cylinder on a door * (in medicine) the distribution of pubic hair * (in archaeology) decorated discs supporting the handles on hanging bowls * (in malacology Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Oxford
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily due to the work of the University of Oxford and several notable science parks. These include the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus and Milton Park, both situated around the towns of Didcot and Abingdon-on-Thames. It is a landlocked county, bordered by six counties: Berkshire to the south, Buckinghamshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south west, Gloucestershire to the west, Warwickshire to the north west, and Northamptonshire to the north east. Oxfordshire is locally governed by Oxfordshire County Council, together with local councils of its five non-metropolitan districts: City of Oxford, Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, and West Oxfordshire. Present-day Oxfordshire spanning the area south of the Thames was hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodford, London
Woodford is a town in East London, within the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located north-east of Charing Cross. Woodford historically formed an ancient parish in the county of Essex. It contained a string of agrarian villages and was part of Epping Forest. From about 1700 onwards, it became a place of residence for affluent people who had business in London; this wealth, together with its elevated position, has led to it being called the ''Geographical and social high point of East London''. Woodford was suburban to London and after being Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford, combined with Wanstead in 1934 it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1937. It has formed part of Greater London since 1965 and comprises the neighbourhoods of Woodford Green, Woodford Bridge, Woodford Wells and South Woodford. The area is served by two stations on the Central line of the London Underground: Woodford tube station, Woodford and South Woodford tube station, South Woodford. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Greater London to the south and south-west. There are three cities in Essex: Southend, Colchester and Chelmsford, in order of population. For the purposes of government statistics, Essex is placed in the East of England region. There are four definitions of the extent of Essex, the widest being the ancient county. Next, the largest is the former postal county, followed by the ceremonial county, with the smallest being the administrative county—the area administered by the County Council, which excludes the two unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea. The ceremonial county occupies the eastern part of what was, during the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. As well as rural areas and urban areas, it forms part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of England, King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of Pound sterling, £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union 1707, Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the #Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706), Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the #Baronetage of Great Britain, Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Mayor Of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powers, rights, and privileges, including the title and style ''The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London''. One of the world's oldest continuously elected civic offices, it is entirely separate from the directly elected mayor of London, a political office controlling a budget which covers the much larger area of Greater London. The Corporation of London changed its name to the City of London Corporation in 2006, and accordingly the title Lord Mayor of the City of London was introduced, so as to avoid confusion with the mayor of London. However, the legal and commonly used title remains ''Lord Mayor of London''. The Lord Mayor is elected at ''Common Hall'' each year on Michaelmas, and takes office on the Friday before the second Saturday i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet (18 February 1763 – 15 September 1834) was a merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1808–09. Flower traded in salt meat, butter and cheese, and was described as having acquired "an ample fortune" by the time of his ascendency to the mayoralty. He was created a baronet, of the Flower baronets, ''of Lobb in the County of Oxford and of Woodford, London, Woodford in the County of Essex'', on 1 December 1809. Flower was appointed an Court of Aldermen, alderman in the City of London's Cornhill, London, Cornhill Wards of the City of London, ward in 1801. He had previously been elected one of the Sheriffs of the City of London in 1799. Flower was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters. Flower's daughter, Anne Mary Perceval, Anne Mary, became a noted horticulturist in Canada. His son Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet inherited the baronetcy, which became extinct upon his death without heirs in 1850. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet (14 December 1794 – 17 May 1850) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1842 to 1846. Flower was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1838 to 1839. In June 1841, he was asked by some of the electors in the borough of Thetford in Norfolk to contest the seat at the imminent general election. Nominations took place on 29 June, when Flower was nominated by Andrew Young and W. Watts Wickes. A show of hands declared to be in favour of Flower and his fellow Conservative Bingham Baring, but the third candidate and sitting Liberal MP Earl of Euston Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particular ... demanded a poll. Voting took place the following day, on 30 June, and the result was that Flower and Euston tied for second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); the remaining three are in the Republic of Ireland. It is the second-largest (after Munster) and second-most populous (after Leinster) of Ireland's four traditional provinces, with Belfast being its biggest city. Unlike the other provinces, Ulster has a high percentage of Protestants, making up almost half of its population. English is the main language and Ulster English the main dialect. A minority also speak Irish, and there are Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking regions) in southern County Londonderry, the Gaeltacht Quarter, Belfast, and in County Donegal; collectively, these three regions are home to a quarter of the total Gaeltacht population of Ireland. Ulster-Scots is also spoken. Lough Neagh, in the east, is the largest lake i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotton-Sheppard Baronets
The Sheppard, later Cotton-Sheppard Baronetcy, of Thornton Hall in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 September 1808 for Thomas Sheppard. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend The Reverend is an style (manner of address), honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and Minister of religion, ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and c ... William Cotton, through which marriage Thornton Hall came into the Sheppard family. Their son, the second Baronet, assumed by Royal sign manual the additional surname of Cotton in 1806. The title became extinct on his death in 1848. Sheppard, later Cotton-Sheppard baronets, of Thornton Hall (1809) *Sir Thomas Sheppard, 1st Baronet (died 1821) *Sir Thomas Cotton-Sheppard, 2nd Baronet (1785–1848) References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cotton-Sheppard Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cable-Alexander Baronets
The Alexander, later Cable-Alexander Baronetcy, of the City of Dublin, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 December 1809 for William Alexander, Lord Mayor of Dublin. The second Baronet was a Director of the Bank of Ireland. The third Baronet was Attorney-General to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The seventh Baronet assumed in 1931 by deed poll the additional surname of Cable. As of 31 December 2013 the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant. This branch of the Irish Alexander family is descended from William Alexander, whose brother Nathaniel Alexander was the ancestor of the Earls of Caledon and the Earls Alexander of Tunis. Alexander, later Cable-Alexander baronets, of the City of Dublin (1809) * Sir William Alexander, 1st Baronet (1743–1809) * Sir Robert Alexander, 2nd Baronet (1769–1859) * Sir Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
