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Francis Mundy
Francis Mundy (bapt. 29 Aug 1771 – 6 May 1837) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament for the Derbyshire constituency and, in 1820, Sheriff of Derbyshire. Life Francis Mundy was the elder of two sons of the magistrate and poet Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and his wife Elizabeth Mundy (née Burdett). His younger brother Charles Godfrey Mundy is the direct patrilineal ancestor of the Massingberd-Mundy family, who had formerly held the manor of South Ormsby. He was the direct descendant and heir of Sir John Mundy, who had first bought the manors of Markeaton (the principal seat of the Mundy family), Allestree and Mackworth from Lord Audley in 1516. To these was added the manor of Osbaston, which the Mundys had inherited through a female ancestor- Philippa Mundy (née Wrightson), who was the daughter and heiress of Michael Wrightson of Osbaston. Though his father and paternal ancestors had held all of these manors, Francis inherited only Markeaton, as all of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment. Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Life Joseph Wright was born in Irongate, Derby, to a respectable family of lawyers. He was the thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William The Conqueror
William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Normandy, king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle to establish his throne, his hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands, and by difficulties with his eldest son, Robert Curthose. William was the son of the unmarried Duke Robert I of Normandy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Coke (1758–1837)
Edward Coke (1758–29 Jul 1836), born Edward Roberts, was a British politician and landowner. Edward was the second son of Wenman Coke and younger brother of Thomas Coke, the celebrated "Coke of Norfolk" and later Earl of Leicester. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1819.''The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby'' Vol 1 (1831) Stephen Glover Appendix p 13 Google Books He married Grace Colhoun in 1792, and they had three children: * Thomas William Coke (born 1793) * Edward Ralph Coke (born 1795) * Eliza Grace Coke (born 1797), married Henry Venables-Vernon, son of Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon His principal interests were in Derbyshire, where he lived at Longford Hall, and he was Member of Parliament for Derby from 1780 until 1817, with a brief interruption in 1807 to substitute for his brother in Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon
George John Warren Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (22 June 1803 – 31 May 1866), was a British politician. He was one of the last members of parliament for Derbyshire and the first for South Derbyshire. Vernon had a lifetime enthusiasm for Italian literature, particularly Dante after visiting Italy as a child. Vernon county is named after him in Australia. Early life and education Vernon was born at Stapleford Hall in Nottinghamshire, the only son of George Charles Venables-Vernon, 4th Baron Vernon (1779–1835) of Sudbury, Derbyshire, and Frances Maria, only daughter of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren. Sir Richard Vernon, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1425 to 1426, was an ancestor. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Politics Vernon entered public life in 1831, as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire. As a result of the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which Vernon supported) the parliamentary seat for Derbyshire was divided in two, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Miller Mundy (1750–1822)
Edward Miller Mundy (18 October 1750 – 18 October 1822) was an English landowner and Tory politician who was MP for the Derbyshire constituency. Early life Edward Miller Mundy was born on 18 October 1750 in Heanor, Derbyshire. He was the son of Edward Mundy and his wife Hester Mundy (née Miller). His father, who was the Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1730, was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mundy and his wife Ellen (née Slack). Robert was the son of Gilbert Mundy who was the first of the Mundys of Allestree- a cadet branch of the Mundys of Markeaton. He was a direct male-line descendant of Sir John Mundy, who had purchased the manors of Markeaton (the principal seat of the Mundy family), Allestree and Mackworth from Lord Audley in 1515, he was later appointed Lord Mayor of London in 1522. He was educated at Eton College. Career He was appointed Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1772 and was later elected as the Tory MP for the Derbyshire constituency in 1783, a seat which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE Royal Astronomical Society, FRAS (; 11 February 180017 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the Salt print, salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He published ''The Pencil of Nature'' (1844–46), which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype Negative (photography), negatives and made some important early photographers of York, early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, Berkshire, Reading, and York. A polymath, Talbot was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Fox Talbot
Constance Talbot (née Mundy, 30 January 1811 – 9 September 1880) was an English artist credited as the first woman ever to take a photograph – a hazy image of a short verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. Constance, who came from Markeaton in Derbyshire, was the youngest daughter of Francis Mundy (1771–1837), Member of Parliament for that county from 1822 to 1831. She married William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the key players in the development of photography in the 1830s and 1840s, in 1832. In 1833, during their honeymoon in Italy, her husband realised that her artistic abilities were superior to his, and began to develop a method to capture a view without draughtsmanship, which led to the negative-positive process of photography. She briefly experimented with the process herself as early as 1839. Her watercolours and drawings remained hidden at Lacock Abbey Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mundy (MP)
William Mundy (bapt. 14 September 1801 – 20 April 1877) was an English landowner, magistrate, member of parliament for the South Derbyshire constituency and, in 1844, Sheriff of Derbyshire. Biography William Mundy was born in 1801 in Mayfield, Staffordshire. He was the son of Francis Mundy, MP for the Derbyshire constituency and Sarah Mundy (née Newton, the daughter of John Leaper Newton of Mickleover). His paternal grandfather was the magistrate and poet Francis Noel Clarke Mundy who was the son of the politician Wrightson Mundy, MP for the Leicestershire constituency. William was the direct male-line descendant and heir of Sir John Mundy, who first bought the manors of Markeaton (the principal seat of the Mundys), Allestree and Mackworth in 1516 from Lord Audley. To these was added the manor of Osbaston, which the Mundys had inherited through a female ancestor- Philippa Mundy (née Wrightson), who was the daughter and heiress of Michael Wrightson of Osbaston. Thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickleover
Mickleover is a large suburban village of Derby, in Derbyshire, England. It is west of Derby city centre, northeast of Burton-upon-Trent, west of Nottingham city centre, southeast of Ashbourne and northeast of Uttoxeter. History The earliest recorded mention of Mickleover (and its close neighbour, Littleover) comes in 1011, when an early charter has King Aethelred granting Morcar, a high-ranking Mercian Thegn, land along the Trent and in Eastern Derbyshire, including land in the Mickleover and Littleover areas, consolidating estates he had inherited in North-East Derbyshire from his kinsman through marriage, Wulfric Spot, who founded Burton Abbey on the Staffs-Derbys border. The village appears in Domesday Book when it was still owned by the abbey. At the time of the Domesday Survey, 1086, Mickleover was known as Magna (the Old English version of this is Micel) Oufra. Magna, in early Latin means Great; oufra coming from Anglo Saxon ofer, flat-topped ridge. The oldest p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Mead Priory
King's Mead Priory was a Benedictine Priory situated west of Derby, in the area currently known as Nun's Street, or Nun's Green. It was the only Benedictine Nunnery in Derbyshire. The Priory was dedicated to "St Mary de Pratis": ''St Mary of the Meadows''. It became a popular place for Derbyshire's noble families to send their daughters to be educated. History King's Mead Priory was founded c. 1160 by Abbot Albinus of nearby Darley Abbey; it was located a mile from Darley Abbey, West of Derby: "in a meadow by the side of the Oddebrook". It was placed under the abbot's care by Walter Durdent who was then Bishop of Coventry. Excavations during development work in the early 19th century revealed the location had previously been the location of a Roman (or less likely Saxon) baths; however it's unclear what, if anything, remained when the priory was founded. The priory was home to a convent of Benedictine Nuns: it was dedicated to "St. Mary de Pratis" and was under the control of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cavendish, 1st Earl Of Burlington
George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington (31 March 1754 – 9 May 1834), styled Lord George Cavendish before 1831, was a British nobleman and politician. He built Burlington Arcade. Background Cavendish was the third son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire and the former Lady Charlotte Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington of the first creation, whose title had become extinct upon his death in 1753. Political career Cavendish sat as Member of Parliament for Knaresborough from 1775 to 1780, for Derby from 1780 to 1797 and for Derbyshire from 1797 to 1831. On 10 September 1831 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cavendish of Keighley, in the County of York, and Earl of Burlington, a revival of the title held by his maternal grandfather. Horseracing He had horseracing interests. His racing silks were straw colour with a black cap. Family In 1815, Lord Burlington bought Burlington House in Piccadilly from his nephew, the 6th Duke of Devonshire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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