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George Dalston
Sir George Dalston (1581–1657) of Dalston Hall, Cumberland was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England between 1621 and 1643. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Dalston was the eldest son of Sir John Dalston, of Dalston Hall, Cumberland and his second wife Frances Warcop, daughter of Thomas Warcop, of Smardale, Westmorland. He matriculated from Queens' College, Cambridge in about 1596. He was knighted on 26 June 1607. He was appointed Captain of Carlisle Castle, Cumberland from 1608 to at least 1643. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland and Westmorland from 1615 to 1644 and in 1618 was High Sheriff of Cumberland. He was Custos Rotulorum of Cumberland from 1641 to 1644. In 1621 Dalston was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland. He was re-elected MP for Cumberland in 1624. He was awarded BA and MA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1624. In 1628 he was elected MP for Cumberland again and sat until 1629 when K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalston Hall
Dalston Hall is a fortified country house at Dalston in Cumbria, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. History Dalston Hall was built around 1500 by John Dalston and incorporated a Peel tower and a baronial hall. An inscription below the parapet says JOHN DALLSTON ELSABET MI WYF MAD YS BYLDYNG. A west wing was added in 1556. The house remained in the possession of the Dalston family for many generations, of whom several were sheriffs and MPs for the county of Cumberland. During the Siege of Carlisle, Sir George Dalston was forced to flee Dalston Hall when General Leslie requisitioned it as the Covenantor headquarters. In 1761, Monkhouse Davison, a London grocer, bought the house and owned it for 32 years until his death. In 1897, the hall was acquired by Edmund Wright Stead, owner and director of Stead McAlpin, calico printers, who commissioned architect C.J. Ferguson to remodel the frontage in red sandstone in 1899. The hall has been used as a youth training centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Parliament
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640.This article uses the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January – for a more detailed explanation, see old style and new style dates: differences between the start of the year. He intended it to pass financial bills, a step made necessary by the costs of the Bishops' Wars in Scotland. The Long Parliament received its name from the fact that, by Act of Parliament, it stipulated it could be dissolved only with agreement of the members; and those members did not agree to its dissolution until 16 March 1660, after the English Civil War and near the close of the Interregnum.. The parliament sat from 1640 until 1648, when it was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of Queens' College, Cambridge
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1657 Deaths
Events January–March * January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed, in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell, by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London, and arrested. * February 4 – Oliver Cromwell gives Antonio Fernandez Carvajal the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England. * February 23 – In England, the ''Humble Petition and Advice'' offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown. * March 2 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, destroys most of the city and damages Edo Castle, killing an estimated 100,000 people. * March 23 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60): By the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain; England will receive Dunkirk. April–June * April 20 **In the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife during the Anglo-Spanish War, English Admiral Robert Blake attempts to seize a Spanish treasure fleet. ** The Jews of New Amsterdam (later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1581 Births
1581 ( MDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) in the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. Events January–June * March 18 – The Parliament of England's ''Act against Reconciliation to Rome'' imposes heavy fines, for practising Roman Catholicism. * March 25 – Iberian Union: Philip II of Spain is crowned Philip I of Portugal. * April 4 – Following his circumnavigation of the world, Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I of England. July–December * July 14 – English Jesuit Edmund Campion is arrested. * July 26 **The Northern Netherlands (Union of Utrecht) proclaim their independence from Spain in the Act of Abjuration, abjuring loyalty to Philip II of Spain as their sovereign, and appointing Francois, Duke of Anjou, as the new sovereign of the Netherlands; public practice of Roman Catholicism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tolson
Richard Tolson (1622–1689) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1648 and in 1660. Biography Tolson was the son of Henry Tolson of Bridekirk in west Cumbria and his wife Margaret Savile, daughter of Henry Savile of Wath. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 17 October 1639, aged 17. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1641 and also Gray's Inn in 1646. In 1646, Tolson was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland and sat until 1648 when he was secluded under Pride's Purge. He was called to the Bar in 1656. In 1660, Tolson was elected MP for Cockermouth for the Convention Parliament. He was inactive in parliament. In 1667, he was High Sheriff of Cumberland. Tolson was buried at Wath on 2 July 1689. Family Tolson married Anne Gregory, daughter of Gilbert Gregory of Barnby-upon-Don, Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Armine, 2nd Baronet (14 July 1622 – 2 January 1658) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. Armine was born at Ruckholt, the son of Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet and his first wife, Elizabeth Hicks, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks, of Beverstone Castle, Gloucestershire, and of Ruckholt, in Low Leyton, Essex. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 18 November 1639. He served as commissioner of parliament for the Scots in 1643. In March 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland as a recruiter to the Long Parliament. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 10 April 1651.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' (1900) archive.org. Accessed 12 January 2023. Family Armine ma ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Rule
The Personal Rule (also known as the Eleven Years' Tyranny) was the period from 1629 to 1640, when King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland ruled without recourse to Parliament. The King claimed that he was entitled to do this under the Royal Prerogative. Charles had already dissolved three Parliaments by the third year of his reign in 1628. After the murder of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was deemed to have a negative influence on Charles' foreign policy, Parliament began to criticize the king more harshly than before. Charles then realized that, as long as he could avoid war, he could rule without Parliament. Names Whig historians such as S. R. Gardiner called this period the "Eleven Years' Tyranny", because they interpret Charles's actions as authoritarian and a contributing factor to the instability that led to the English Civil War. More recent historians such as Kevin Sharpe called the period "Personal Rule", because they consider it to be a neutral te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricius Curwen
Sir Patricius Curwen, 1st Baronet (c. 1602 – 15 December 1664) of Workington Hall, Cumberland was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1643 and from 1661 to 1664. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War Curwen was the son of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington in Cumberland. The Curwen family owned iron ore mines at Harrington and the account books of Curwen's steward contain many references to iron ore. Curwen was apparently a generous landlord who between 1628 and 1643 paid his harvesters with food and wages and provided a piper to play in the fields for the time of the harvest. In 1627 he was created a baronet, of Workington in the County of Cumberland. Curwen served as a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland from 1624 to at least 1640 and in 1636 was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland. In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland for the Short Parliament and was re-elected in November 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Curwen (died 1623)
Sir Henry Curwen (c. 1581 – 23 October 1623) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. Curwen was the only son of Sir Nicholas Curwen of Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland and his first wife Ann Musgrave. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in about 1595. He succeeded his father in 1605, by which time he had been knighted. Biography He served as a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland from 1617 until his death and was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland for 1619–20. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency), Cumberland. Curwen died in 1624. He is buried in Amersham with a memorial sculpted by Edward Marshall (sculptor), Edward Marshall.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.254 He had married firstly Catherine Dalston, daughter of Sir John Dalston of Dalston, Cumberland, and secondly Margaret Bruskill, daughter of Thomas Brusk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Dalston, 1st Baronet
Sir William Dalston, 1st Baronet (died 13 January 1683) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. Dalston was the son of Sir George Dalston of Dalston Hall, near Carlisle, Cumberland and his wife Catharine Thornworth. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. In April 1640, Dalston was elected Member of Parliament for Carlisle in the Short Parliament and was re-elected in November 1640 as MP for Carlisle in the Long Parliament. Dalston was created a baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ... on 15 February 1641 and supported the King in the Civil War. He was disabled from Parliament in 1644. Dalston married Anne Boles a considerable heiress and had several children. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
