Francis Annesley (1663-1750)
Francis Annesley may refer to: * Francis Annesley (1663–1750), British member of parliament for Preston and Westbury * Francis Annesley (1734–1812), English member of parliament for Reading * Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia (1585–1660), English statesman during the colonisation of Ireland * Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley (1740–1802), Anglo-Irish politician and peer * Francis Annesley, 6th Earl Annesley Francis Annesley, 6th Earl of Annesley (25 February 1884 – 6 November 1914), styled Viscount Glerawly between 1884 and 1908, was an Anglo-Irish peer, Royal Navy officer and pioneer aviator who died in a plane crash at sea. Biography He was the ...

Francis Annesley (1663–1750)
Francis Annesley, FRS (October 1663 – 7 April 1750) was an Irish lawyer and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1714, in the English House of Commons from 1705 to 1708 and in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1734. Early life Annesley was the eldest son of the Hon. Francis Annesley of Castlewellan, County Down and his wife Deborah Jones, daughter of Henry Jones (bishop), Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1679 and qualified BA in 1682 and LL.B. and LL.D in 1725. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1684 and remained in London during the conflict in Ireland. He was called to the bar in 1690. He made a financially beneficial marriage to Elizabeth Martin, the daughter of Joseph Martin (Ipswich MP), Joseph Martin, a London merchant, on 5 July 1695. In 1700 he became a Director of the New East India Company. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1704. Political career Annesley was originally an ...
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Francis Annesley (1734–1812)
Francis Annesley (2 May 1734 – 17 April 1812) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 32 years from 1774 to 1806, and was the first Master of Downing College, Cambridge. Early life Annesley was the son of Martin Annesley D.D. of Bucklebury and Frilsham, Berkshire, and his wife Mary Hanbury, daughter of William Hanbury of Little Marcle, Herefordshire. He was educated at Reading School and was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1753 to study law. Career Annesley was elected Member of Parliament for Reading in the 1774 general election, and retained the seat until 1806. In 1800 he was elected the first Master of Downing College, and awarded an LL.D. degree by Cambridge. He died unmarried on 17 April 1812. Family Annesley had a family connection to Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, founder of Downing College. Frances Downing, the 3rd Baronet's aunt as sister to Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet ( – June 1711) was a British civil serv ...
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Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia
Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia, (1 February – 22 November 1660) was an English statesman during the colonisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century. He was a Member of Parliament for both the English and Irish houses, was elevated to the Irish peerage as Baron Mountnorris, and later gain the additional title Viscount Valentia. He is best remembered for his clash with the Lord Lieutenant, Thomas Wentworth, who in order to render Annesley powerless had him sentenced to death on a spurious charge of mutiny, although it was clearly understood that the sentence would not be carried out. Biography Rise to power Annesley, descended from the ancient Nottinghamshire family of Annesley, was the son of Robert Annesley, high constable of Newport, Buckinghamshire, and his wife Beatrice Cornwall, daughter of John Cornwall of Moor Park, Hertfordshire, and was baptised 2 January 1586. As early as 1606 he had left England to reside at Dublin, and he took advantage of the f ...
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Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley
Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley (27 November 1740 – 19 December 1802) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. He was the son of William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly and Lady Anne Beresford, the daughter of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone.''The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland Et Ireland'', Volume 2 (1790), 191. He held the office of Member of Parliament for Downpatrick between 1761 and 1770. On 12 September 1770 he succeeded his father as Viscount Glerawly and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. On 17 August 1789, Annesley was created Earl Annesley, of Castlewellan in the County of Down, in the Peerage of Ireland. The earldom was created with special remainder to his brother, Richard, as Annesley had no legitimate children.''Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage'' - 'Annesley, Earl (I, 1789)' http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/annesley1789.htm References {{DEFAULTSORT:Annesley, Francis Annesley, 1st Vis ...
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