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Frewen College
Frewen may refer to: People *Accepted Frewen (1588–1664), priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of York from 1660 to 1664 * Alexandra Frewen (born 1934), British public servant *Charles Hay Frewen (1813–1878), known until 1837 as Charles Hay Frewen-Turner, an English land-owner and Conservative Party politician * Clare Consuelo Frewen (1885–1970), British sculptor and writer * John Frewen (divine) (1558–1628), English Puritan divine. *John Frewen (Admiral Sir John Byng Frewen GCB) (1911–1975), Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in the Royal Navy *Moreton Frewen Moreton Frewen (8 May 1853 – 2 September 1924) was and entrepreneur, an Anglo-Irish writer on monetary reform, who served briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Frewen was born the 8 May 1853 in England. He was the fifth son of T ... (1853–1924), Anglo-Irish writer on monetary reform who served briefly as a Member of Parliament. * Thomas Frewen (physician) (1704–1791), English phys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accepted Frewen
Accepted Frewen (baptized 26 May 158828 March 1664) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of York from 1660 to 1664. Life Frewen was born at Northiam, in Sussex, the son of John Frewen who was the rector there. The unusual forename is an example of the type of puritan name not uncommon in the area in the late sixteenth century; his brother was called Thankful Frewen. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1612. Anthony Wood describes him as being at that time "puritanically enclin'd". In 1617 and 1621 the college allowed him to act as chaplain to Sir John Digby, ambassador in Spain. In Madrid he preached a sermon that pleased Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I, who, on his accession, appointed him one of his chaplains. In 1625 he became canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Vice-President of Magdalen College, and in the following year he was elected president. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1628 and 1629, and ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Roche, Lady Roche
Helen Alexandra Briscoe Roche, Lady Roche (née Gully, formerly Frewen; born 8 June 1934), styled as The Honourable Lady Roche, is a British judicial officer, politician, and philanthropist. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, she served as a parish councillor and serves as the president of the Wharfedale (ward), Wharfedale Conservatives. Lady Roche served on the West London bench as a magistrate (England and Wales), magistrate for forty years. She is an honorary patron of the Queen Charlotte's Ball and served on the ethics committee for St Mary's Hospital, London, St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, Charing Cross Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and Cromwell Hospital. She was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire during the 2017 New Year Honours for voluntary services. Early life and family Lady Roche was born The Honourable Helen Alexandra Briscoe Gully on 8 June 1934 to Royal Naval Reserve officer Lieutenant-Commander Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hay Frewen
Charles Hay Frewen (25 May 1813 – 1 September 1878), known until 1837 as Charles Hay Frewen-Turner, was an English land-owner and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1846 to 1857 for East Sussex, and thereafter suffered a series of electoral defeats as he unsuccessfully challenged the political power of the Duke of Rutland in North Leicestershire. Early life Frewen was the second son of John Frewen-Turner (1755–1829) of Cold Overton Hall in Leicestershire, who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Athlone from 1807 to 1812. His mother was Frewen-Turner's second wife Elizabeth, the heir and only daughter of David Hay from Hopes in Haddingtonshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a large landowner in both Leicestershire and Sussex. Frewen was a magistrate for Leicestershire, Sussex and Kent, and for three other counties. He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1866, a post previously held by his father in 1791. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Sheridan
Clare Consuelo Sheridan (née Frewen; 9 September 1885 – 31 May 1970), was an English sculptor, journalist and writer known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and writing diaries recounting her worldly travels. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, with whom she had enjoyed an amicable relationship, though her support for the October Revolution in 1917 caused them to break ranks politically. She enjoyed travelling around the world; and among her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh. Early life Clare Consuelo Frewen was born in London, the daughter of Moreton Frewen, the Anglo-Irish owner of Brede Place in Brede, East Sussex, and his American wife, the former Clarita "Clara" Jerome. Jerome's mother was the elder sister of Lady Randolph Churchill, which made Clare Sheridan a cousin to Winston Churchill. Her godmother and namesake was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frewen (divine)
John Frewen (1558–1628) was an English Puritan divine. Life Frewen was descended from an old Worcestershire family. He is stated to have been baptised on 1 July 1560. His grandfather, Roger Frewen, and his father, Richard Frewen, were both possessed of property in Hill Croome and Earls Croome in Worcestershire. He was ordained priest by Bullingham, bishop of Gloucester, 24 June 1582, and in November of the following year was presented by his father to the rectory of Northiam, Sussex. On his becoming resident at Northiam it is supposed that Frewen occupied a house known as ‘Carriers,’ situated about two hundred yards south of the present rectory-house, and then the property of his friend and neighbour, John White of Brickwall. In 1593 Frewen bought the Church House at Northiam, where he and his descendants continued to reside until their purchase of Brickwall; Church House remained in the family. Frewen's uncompromising puritanism brought him at length into collision with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frewen
Admiral Sir John Byng Frewen GCB (28 March 1911 – 1 September 1975) was Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command. Naval career Frewen joined the Royal Navy in 1924.Sir John Byng Frewen Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served in in the Russian Convoys and as Squadron Navigating Officer for Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific. He also served in the as Commander of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreton Frewen
Moreton Frewen (8 May 1853 – 2 September 1924) was and entrepreneur, an Anglo-Irish writer on monetary reform, who served briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Frewen was born the 8 May 1853 in England. He was the fifth son of Thomas Frewen (1811–1870), MP for South Leicestershire, and the third son of Helen Louisa (née Homan) Frewen (1821-1901). He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained his BA in 1877. Career Frewen was a charming adventurer from an English landed gentry family in Leicestershire and Sussex.Maume, Patrick: ''The long Gestation, Irish Nationalist Life 1891–1918'', "Who’s Who" p. 228, Gill & Macmillan (1999) He was known as a fine shot, often invited to shoot at Sandringham by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII; a good horseman who taught Lillie Langtry to ride; and a keen fisherman. He gambled most of his inheritance on a two-horse race, declaring he would go to America if he lost - which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frewen (physician)
Thomas Frewen, M.D. (1704–1791), was an English physician. Career and works He practised as a surgeon and apothecary at Rye, Sussex, and afterwards as a physician at Lewes, having obtained the M.D. degree previous to 1755. He became known as one of the first in England to adopt the practice of inoculation against smallpox. In his essay on '' The Practice and Theory of Inoculation'' he narrates his experience in three hundred and fifty cases, only one having died by the smallpox so induced. The common sort of people, he says, were averse to inoculation, and "disputed about the lawfulness of propagating diseases"—the very ground on which smallpox inoculation (variolation) was made illegal in 1840. "The more refined studies of our speculative adepts in philosophy", he says, "have let them into the secret that the small-pox and many other diseases are propagated by means of animalcula hatched from eggs lodged in the hairs, pores, &c. of human bodies". In the year of 1759, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frewen (MP)
Thomas Frewen (1630–1702), of Cleybrooke House, Fulham, Middlesex, St. James's, Westminster and Brickwall House, Northiam, Sussex, was a Member of Parliament for Rye Rye (''Secale cereale'') is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to both wheat (''Triticum'') and barley (genus ''Hordeum''). Rye grain is u ... in March 1679 – 1685, 15 January – 1 April 1689, and 9 February 1694 – 1698. References 1630 births 1702 deaths People from Fulham English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1695–1698 People from Northiam {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
