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Fulke Greville (1717–1806)
Fulke Greville (1717–1806) of Wilbury House, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England, was an English landowner and diplomat. He was the son of Algernon Greville and Mary Somerset, daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset, the youngest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. His father was a son of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke.''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition), ''s.v.'' Warwick, Earl. For a time around 1731 he was educated as a gentleman commoner at Winchester College. His wife was the poet Frances Greville,Betty Rizzo, ‘Greville , Frances (1727?–1789)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 accessed 15 September 2008. daughter and coheir of James Macartney (1692–1770), James Macartney, Irish MP for Longford and Granard and his wife Catherine Coote. They eloped on 26 January 1748. They had several children, including: * Frances Anne Greville (born November 1748), married John Crewe, lat ...
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Wilbury House
Wilbury House or Wilbury Park is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian English country house, country house in the parish of Newton Tony, Wiltshire in South West England, about northeast of Salisbury. It is a Grade I listed building, and the surrounding park and garden are Grade II listed. The park is immediately north of Newton Toney village, on both banks of the River Bourne, Wiltshire, River Bourne, and extends north beyond the house into Cholderton parish. Architecture The house was built around 1710 by and for William Benson (architect), William Benson, a country esquire and amateur architect, in the style of Inigo Jones. It was a modest country villa, single-storey with basements and attics. The south front was based on John Webb (architect), John Webb's 1661 Amesbury Abbey (house), Amesbury Abbey, where Benson had been a tenant. The original design for the house was featured in ''Vitruvius Britannicus'' in 1715. Nikolaus Pevsner, Pevsner describes Benson's design as "the first ...
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Henry William Greville
Henry William Greville (28 October 1801 – 12 December 1872) was an English aristocrat and diarist. He was the youngest son of Charles Greville, grandson of the fifth Lord Warwick, by Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck, eldest daughter of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. He was born on 28 Oct. 1801, and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 4 June 1823. Much of his boyhood was spent on the continent, chiefly at Brussels, where his family resided. He thus learned to speak French and Italian with fluency. He was taken by the Duke of Wellington to the celebrated ball given by the Duchess of Richmond at Brussels on the night before the battle of Waterloo. He became private secretary to Lord Francis Egerton, afterwards earl of Ellesmere, when Chief Secretary for Ireland. From 1834 to 1844 he was attaché to the British embassy in Paris. He afterwards held the post of gentleman usher at court. Greville was fond ...
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1717 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender to the British throne, James Francis Edward Stuart. * January 4 (December 24, 1716 Old Style) – Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic sign the Triple Alliance, in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17) 1716. * February 1 – The Silent Sejm, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, marks the beginning of the Russian Empire's increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth. * February 6 – Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge with Pope Clement XI. * February 26–March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region. * March ...
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William Gordon (diplomat)
Sir William Gordon (1726–1798) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1783. Early life Gordon was the eldest of William Gordon, a merchant and planter of St Mary's, Kingston, Jamaica, and his wife Susanna Gordon. He was educated at Glasgow University from 1739 to 1745 and at Leyden University from 1745 to 1746. He undertook a Grand Tour with William Dowdeswell from 1746. After his father died, he passed the plantations and mercantile business in the West Indies to his brothers, and settled in London. Career Lord Sandwich appointed Gordon as Minister to the Diet at Ratisbon in April in 1764 and then envoy to Denmark on 28 June 1765. However he never took up the post and was instead Minister at Brussels from November 1765 to 1777. He was created Knight of the Bath on 3 February 1775. He married Mary Phillipps, widow of Samuel Phillipps of Garendon Park, and daughter of Thomas Allsopp of Ashbourne, Derbyshire on 2 July 1776. Gordon ...
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Benjamin Bathurst (1693–1767)
Benjamin Bathurst FRS (1692– 5 November 1767) of Lydney, Gloucestershire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 54 years from 1713 to 1767. Bathurst was a younger son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, MP and his wife Frances Apsley, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley. His father was heavily involved in the slave trade through the Royal African Company and the East India Company. Bathurst was himself a supporter of the slave trade, in his position as MP. He was educated at Eton College in 1699 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford 30 June 1708, aged 16. He inherited the estates at Lydney, Gloucestershire and Mixbury, Oxfordshire on the death of his father in 1704. Bathurst was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cirencester on the family interest at the 1713 British general election He was returned again in 1715 and 1722. At the 1727 British general election, he transferred to Gloucester where he was caught up in a double return. He was decl ...
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Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet
Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, 5th Baronet (19 May 1710 – 25 April 1785), of Halswell House, near Bridgwater, Somerset and Cefn Mably, Glamorganshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1745 and 1774. Tynte was a younger son of Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet of Halswell, Somerset, and his wife Jane Kemys, daughter of Sir Charles Kemys, 3rd Baronet, MP of Cefn Mably, Glamorgan. He added the name of Kemys before his own when he inherited Cefn Mably in 1735 from his uncle, Sir Charles Kemeys, 4th Baronet. He married Anne Busby, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Busby of Addington, Buckinghamshire on 9 March 1738. In 1740 he succeeded his brother Sir John Tynte 4th Baronet to the Tynte baronetcy and to Halswell House in Somerset. Between 1745 and 1785, Tynte considerably improved the gardens, creating Halswell Park. The grounds contain many fanciful buildings, fish ponds, cascades and bridges, and include the Temple of Harmony which stands in Mill Wood. Completed ...
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Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the fourth-largest city in the State of Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg. From its foundation as an imperial Roman river fort, the city has been the political, economic and cultural centre of the surrounding region; it is still known in the Romance languages by a cognate of its Latin name of "Ratisbona" (the version "Ratisbon" was long current in English). Later, under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, it housed the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg. The medieval centre of the city was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006 because of its well-preserved architecture and the city's historical importance for assemblies during the Holy Roman Empire. In 2014, Regensburg was among the top sights and travel attractions in German ...
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Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)
The Imperial Diet ( la, Dieta Imperii Comitium Imperiale; german: Reichstag) was the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire. It was not a legislative body in the contemporary sense; its members envisioned it more like a central forum where it was more important to negotiate than to decide. Its members were the Imperial Estates, divided into three colleges. The diet as a permanent, regularized institution evolved from the '' Hoftage'' (court assemblies) of the Middle Ages. From 1663 until the end of the empire in 1806, it was in permanent session at Regensburg. All Imperial Estates enjoyed immediacy and, therefore, they had no authority above them besides the Holy Roman Emperor himself. While all the estates were entitled to a seat and vote, only the higher temporal and spiritual princes of the College of Princes enjoyed an individual vote (''Virilstimme''), while lesser estates such as imperial counts and imperial abbots, were merely entitled to a collective vote (''Kuria ...
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Elector Of Bavaria
The following is a list of rulers during the history of Bavaria. Bavaria was ruled by several dukes and kings, partitioned and reunited, under several dynasties. Since 1949, Bavaria has been a democratic state in the Federal Republic of Germany. Rulers of Bavaria Ducal Bavaria (also known as the "Old Stem duchy") Agilolfing dynasty Around 548 the kings of the Franks placed the border region of Bavaria under the administration of a duke—possibly Frankish or possibly chosen from amongst the local leading families—who was supposed to act as a regional governor for the Frankish king. The first duke we know of, and likely the first, was Gariwald, or Garibald I, a member of the powerful Agilolfing family. This was the beginning of a series of Agilolfing dukes that was to last until 788. Carolingian dynasty and dominion from the Holy Roman Empire The kings (later emperors) of the Franks now assumed complete control, placing Bavaria under the rule of non-hereditary governors ...
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List Of Diplomats From The United Kingdom To Bavaria
Below is an ''incomplete'' list of diplomats from the United Kingdom to Bavaria, specifically Heads of Missions sent after the creation of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1805, when diplomatic relations began in 1814 after the Napoleonic Wars.Hadyn, Joseph - ''The Book of Dignities'', 1851 Before the Napoleonic War, Great Britain maintained a diplomatic mission to the Elector of Bavaria and (from 1777) to the Elector of the Palatinate following his succession to the Duchy of Bavaria. This was often commonly combined with a mission to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg (Ratisbon). Heads of Missions Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary To the Imperial Diet *1639 Sir William Curtius '' Nürnberg'' *1642 Sir William Curtius ''Frankfurt'' *1649 Sir William Curtius '' Nürnberg'' *1689–c1694: Hugo Hughes ''Secretary''D. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) *c.1694–1702: ''probably no mission'' *1702–1704: Charles Wh ...
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Monmouth Boroughs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Monmouth Boroughs (also known as the Monmouth District of Boroughs) was a parliamentary constituency consisting of several towns in Monmouthshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliaments of England, Great Britain, and finally the United Kingdom; until 1832 the constituency was known simply as Monmouth, though it included other "contributory boroughs". History and boundaries The area was first enfranchised as the single-member borough of Monmouth or Monmouth Town in the reign of Henry VIII, at the same time as the counties and boroughs of Wales. On official, national-level paper cast as being in England its electoral arrangements from the outset resembled those of the Welsh boroughs rather than those in the rest of England - its single member and its other "contributory boroughs" in the same county, which were required to contribute to the members' expenses and which had the right to send voters to take part in the election at the count ...
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