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George Charles Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden
George Charles Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden, KG (2 May 1799 – 6 August 1866) was a British peer and Tory politician, styled Viscount Bayham from 1794 to 1812 and Earl of Brecknock in 1812–1840. Pratt's father was John Pratt, Viscount Bayham, eldest son of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. His mother was Frances Molesworth, daughter of William Molesworth of Wembury, Devon (the second son of Sir John Molesworth, 4th Baronet). In 1821, Brecknock became Tory Member of Parliament for Ludgershall, then for Bath in 1830 and finally for Dunwich in 1831. He was also a Lord of the Admiralty from 1828 to 1829. On 8 January 1835, he was called to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Camden and was married later that year, on 27 August, to Harriet Murray (1813–1854), the daughter of George Murray, Bishop of Rochester. His wife was later made a Lady of the Bedchamber and they had eleven children. In 1840, Camden inherited his father's titles. He was appointed a Knight of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Brecknockshire
This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. After 1723, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire. The office was abolished on 31 March 1974 and replaced with the Lord Lieutenant of Powys, with Deputy Lieutenants for Brecknockshire. Lords Lieutenant of Brecknockshire to 1974 *''see Lord Lieutenant of Wales before 1694'' *Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke 11 May 1694 – 7 October 1715 * John Morgan 7 October 1715 – 7 March 1720 *Sir William Morgan 21 June 1720 – 24 April 1731 * Thomas Morgan 18 June 1731 – 12 April 1769 * Thomas Morgan 27 January 1770 – 15 May 1771 * Charles Morgan 23 December 1771 – 24 May 1787 *Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort 8 June 1787 – 11 October 1803 *Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort 4 November 1803 – 2 December 1835 *Penry Williams 24 December 1836 – 16 January 1847 * Lloyd Vaughan Watkins 17 February 1847 – 28 September 1865 *George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden 4 November 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 United Kingdom General Election
The 1830 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV. Fought in the aftermath of the Swing Riots, it saw electoral reform become a major election issue. Polling took place in July and August and the Tories won a plurality over the Whigs, but division among Tory MPs allowed Earl Grey to form an effective government and take the question of electoral reform to the country the following year. The eighth United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 24 July 1830. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 14 September 1830, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. This election was the first since 1708 to cause the collapse of the government.B. Hilton, ''A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?'' Political situation The Tory leader, at the time of the 1830 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Palmer (1777–1851)
Charles Palmer (6 May 1777 – 17 April 1851) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1808 and 1837. Palmer was born at Weston near Bath, the son of John Palmer, who had introduced the use of mail coaches. He was educated at Eton College and Oriel College, Oxford and entered the army as cornet in the 10th Dragoons in May 1796. In 1808 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath. Palmer served with his regiment during the Peninsular war and acted as lieutenant-colonel from May 1810 to November 1814. The Prince Regent appointed him as an aide-de-camp on 8 February 1811, and he held the rank until promoted major-general on 27 May 1825. Palmer held his seat at Bath until 1826. At the 1829 election, there was a double return and in the following by-election he lost. However he was re-elected for Bath in 1830 and held the seat until 1837. Palmer was a large vine-grower at Château Palmer in the Gironde and on the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret
John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret PC (28 December 1772 – 10 March 1849), known as Lord John Thynne between 1789 and 1838, was a British peer and politician. Background and education Carteret was the third son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and Lady Elizabeth Bentinck, daughter of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Political career Carteret was returned to Parliament for Weobly in May 1796, a seat he held until December the same year, and then represented Bath between 1796 and 1832. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1804 to 1812 and was sworn into the Privy Council in 1804. In 1838 he succeeded his childless elder brother George in the barony and took his seat in the House of Lords. Marriage In 1801 Lord Carteret married Mary Anne Master (died February 1863), daughter of Thomas Master. They had no children. Death and succession He died at his house Hawnes Park in March 1849, aged 76. On his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thomas Foley
Edward Thomas Foley (21 December 1791 – 30 March 1846), of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, was an English Tory Party (UK), Tory (and later Conservative Party (UK), Conservative) politician. He was the eldest son of Hon. Edward Foley (1747–1803), Edward Foley and his wife Eliza Maria Foley Hodgetts and elder brother of John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley and inherited the Stoke Edith estate from his father in 1803. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (1809) and appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1815–16. Foley was one of the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MP) for Ludgershall (UK Parliament constituency), Ludgershall from 1826 to 1832 and for Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Herefordshire from 1832 to 1841. Family He married in 1832 Lady Emily Foley, Lady Emily Graham daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, but died childless in 1846. His widow survived him until 1901. Foley's will enabled his widow to dispose of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover
George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover PC FRS FSA (14 January 179710 July 1833) was a British politician and man of letters. He was briefly First Commissioner of Woods and Forests under Lord Grey between 1830 and 1831. Background and education Agar-Ellis was the only son of Henry Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden, and Lady Caroline, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and Royal Society in 1816. Political career Agar-Ellis was returned to Parliament for Heytesbury in 1818, a seat he held until 1820. He afterwards represented Seaford between 1820 and 1826, Ludgershall between 1826 and 1830 and Okehampton between 1830 and 1831. He supported George Canning's motion in 1822 for a bill to relieve the disabilities of Roman Catholic peers, and consistently supported liberal principles. He took little interest in party politics bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 United Kingdom General Election
The 1826 United Kingdom general election saw the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win a substantial and increased majority over the Whigs. In Ireland, liberal Protestant candidates favouring Catholic emancipation, backed by the Catholic Association, achieved significant gains. The seventh United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 2 June 1826. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 25 July 1826, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. As of 2021, the Earl of Liverpool remains the most recent Prime Minister to have won four successive elections. Political situation The Tory leader was the Earl of Liverpool, who had been Prime Minister since his predecessor's assassination in 1812. Liverpool had led his party to three general election victories before that of 1826. The Tory Leader of the House of Commons until 1822, when he committed suicide, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1821 Ludgershall By-election
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Sandford Graham
Sir Sandford Graham, 2nd Baronet (1788–1852) was an English army officer and politician. A university friend of Lord Byron, he took part in Byron's voyage to Greece in 1810-11. Life He was the son of Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Kirkstall and his wife Anne Moore, daughter of the Rev. John Moore of Kirkstall. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1806, graduating B.A. in 1810 and M.A. in 1813. He was with Byron in Athens in the winter of 1810. Graham joined the Grenadier Guards and achieved the rank of captain. In 1812 he was elected as Member of Parliament for . The constituency was controlled by Philip Champion Crespigny. Graham replaced John McMahon there, and held the seat for half a year to the 1812 general election. He was not a candidate in that election: while his father considered that his support for the new Liverpool administration should have meant a seat being found for Graham, Charles Long excused the Tory omissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl Of Carhampton
General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was the son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and brother-in-law of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn. He had command in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion, and was renowned for a violent counter-insurgency untrammelled by legal considerations for him. In his last years as a Member of the Westminster Parliament he opposed reform and defended the violent suppression of democratic agitation in the Peterloo Massacre. Early years Luttrell was the scion of an Anglo-Irish landed family, descendants of Sir Geoffrey de Luterel, who established Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin, in the early 13th century. His grandfather, Henry Luttrell, had been a pardoned Jacobite commander murdered on the street in Dublin--it was suspected by his former comrades--in 1717. His father, Simon Luttrell, was successively titled Baron Irnham, Visc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Complete Peerage
''The Complete Peerage'' (full title: ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs ''et al.'') is a comprehensive and magisterial work on the titled aristocracy of the British Isles. History ''The Complete Peerage'' was first published in eight volumes between 1887 and 1898 by George Edward Cokayne (G. E. C.). This version was effectively replaced by a new and enlarged edition between 1910 and 1959 edited successively by Vicary Gibbs (Cokayne's nephew), H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. The revised edition (published by the St Catherine Press Limited), took the form of twelve volumes with volume twelve being issued in two parts. Volume thirteen was issued in 1940, not as part of the alphabetical sequence, but as a supplement covering cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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