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George Rodney Bridges
George Rodney Brydges or Bridges (after 1649 – 1714), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1690 and 1714. Brydges was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Bridges of Keynsham, Somerset and his wife Anne Rodney, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Rodney of Stoke Rodney, Somerset. He was a captain in the Duke of York's independent company from 1673 until after 1675 serving in the Portsmouth garrison. He got into debt and in 1677 he recovered his fortune by marrying Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury. She was born Lady Anna Maria Brudenell, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, was widow of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and notorious as mistress of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham. In doing so, he brought an action for jactitation of marriage against Ann Smith, a shopkeeper with whom he had been living for some years. Brydges' wife bought him a post as Groom of the Bedchamber in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avington, Hampshire
Avington is a small village in the England, English county of Hampshire. It is located on the banks of the River Itchen, Hampshire, River Itchen to the northeast of the city of Winchester. Administratively it forms part of the Itchen Valley civil parish, which in turn is part of the City of Winchester district. It is mentioned in a folk song, "Avington Pond", on the CD ''Folk Songs of Hampshire''. Governance The village of Avington is part of the civil parish of Itchen Valley and is part of the City of Winchester non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council. Landmarks The house in Avington Park dates back to the late sixteenth century, but was considerably altered in 1670 by the addition of two wings and a classical portico. The owner of Avington at this time was George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, George Brydges, one of Charles II's courtiers. On the death of George Brydges's son in 1751 Avington Park passed to his cousin James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos, James Brydg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1705 English General Election
The 1705 English general election saw contests in 110 constituencies in England and Wales, roughly 41% of the total. The election was fiercely fought, with mob violence and cries of " Church in Danger" occurring in several boroughs. During the previous session of Parliament the Tories had become increasingly unpopular, and their position was therefore somewhat weakened by the election, particularly by the Tackers controversy. Due to the uncertain loyalty of a group of 'moderate' Tories led by Robert Harley, the parties were roughly balanced in the House of Commons following the election, encouraging the Whigs to demand a greater share in the government led by Marlborough Summary of the constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used in England and Wales were the same throughout the period. In 1707 alone the 45 Scottish members were not elected from the constituencies, but were returned by co-option in a part of the membership of the last P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Popham (MP For Winchester) , English politician, MP for Bath
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John Popham may refer to: * John Popham (died 1402), four times MP for Hampshire *John Popham (military commander) (c. 1395–c. 1463), English military commander and speaker-elect of the House of Commons *John Popham (judge) (1531–1607), Speaker of the House of Commons 1580–1583, Attorney General 1581–1592 and Lord Chief Justice of England *John Popham (MP for Winchester), MP for Winchester in 1714 *John Popham (died 1638) John Popham (born 1603, died c. 1638) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. Popham was the first son of Sir Francis Popham of Littlecote House, Wiltshire, and his wife Anne Dudley, daughter of John Dudley o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lewis (died 1736)
Thomas Lewis (c. 1679 – 22 November 1736) of Soberton, Hampshire, was a British Tory and then Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1736. Life Lewis was the eldest surviving son of Richard Lewis, MP, of Edington and Corsham, Wiltshire and his wife Mary James. He attended Salisbury School and succeeded his father in 1706, inheriting estates at Corsham in Wiltshire and The Van in Glamorgan. He married firstly Anna Maria Curll, daughter of Sir Walter Curll, 1st Baronet of Soberton. She died in 1709 and he married secondly in February 1710, Elizabeth Turnour of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, with whom he had a daughter. He lived at Soberton, which he inherited by his first marriage. Lewis was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Whitchurch on 5 May 1708, but was unseated on petition on 21 December 1708. At the 1710 British general election, he was returned as MP for Winchester. He was then returned for Hampshire at the 1713 British general electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord William Powlett
Lord William Powlett (baptized 18 August 1666 – 25 September 1729) was an English Member of Parliament. He was the younger son of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, and his second wife, Mary Scrope. Career Lord William held a number of offices, including: * Freeman, Winchester 1689, Lymington, 1689 * Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, 1689–1729 * Commissioner for assessment, Hampshire and Yorkshire (West Riding), 1689–90 * Captain of militia foot, Winchester, by 1697 * Recorder, Grimsby, 1699–1729 * Justice of the Peace, Hampshire and Lincolnshire, 1699–1729 * Mayor of Lymington, Hampshire, 1701–5, 1724–5, 1728–1729 * Keeper of Rhinefield walk, New Forest, 1718–1729 * Farmer of green-wax fines, 1690–1706 * Teller of the Exchequer, 1714–1729 He served as Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1689 to 1710, for Lymington from 1710 to 1715 and for Winchester from 1715 until his death in 1729. Lord William became Father of the House of Commons in 1724, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Tylney
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans Baden * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden Bohemia * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia Britain * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain Brandenburg/Prussia * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Margrave of Brandenburg * Frederick Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vernon (1661-1735)
George Vernon (1661–1735) was an English politician for a Surrey constituency in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Vernon was born in Farnham. His father had been the M.P. for Haslemere The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere i ... from 1685 to 1689. He too served on three separate occasions as the town's MP. Notes People from Farnham 1661 births 1735 deaths 17th-century English people 18th-century English people English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1702–1705 British MPs 1713–1715 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus Oglethorpe
Theophilus is a male given name with a range of alternative spellings. Its origin is the Greek word Θεόφιλος from θεός (God) and φιλία (love or affection) can be translated as "Love of God" or "Friend of God", i.e., it is a theophoric name, synonymous with the name ''Amadeus'' which originates from Latin, Gottlieb in German and Bogomil in Slavic. Theophilus may refer to: People Arts * Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber * Theophilus Clarke (1776?–1831), English painter * Theophilos Hatzimihail (ca. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos * Theophilus Presbyter (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, and author of the best-known medieval "how-to" guide to several arts, including oil painting — thought to be a pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen Historical * Theophilos (emperor) (800 to 805–842), Byzantine Emperor (reigned 829–842), the second of the Phrygian dynasty * Theophilus (geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Woodroffe
George Woodroffe (1625 - 1688) was an English politician for a Surrey constituency in the late seventeenth century. Woodroffe was born at Poyle in Stanwell and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1668 and was knighted on 19 May 1681. Woodroffe sat as M.P. for Haslemere The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere i ... from 1681 to 1687. He died on 6 December that year. His son also sat as MP for Haslemere. Notes People from Stanwell 1625 births 1688 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 17th-century English people English MPs 1681 English MPs 1685–1687 High Sheriffs of Surrey English knights {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denzil Onslow (of Pyrford)
Denzil Onslow of Pyrford (c.1642 – 27 June 1721) was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1679 and 1721. Through advantageous marriages, he obtained a country estate and became prominent in Surrey politics of the Hanoverian era, although his great nephew Arthur Onslow, as Speaker, judged that Denzil knew "no more of the business f the House of Commonsthan one who had been of the standing of a session". Early career and marriage As the sixth son of the Parliamentarian Sir Richard Onslow, he inherited little from his father. He was named after Denzil Holles, who stood as his godfather. Apprenticed in December 1661 to William Peake, of London, he soon turned elsewhere to seek his fortune. His elder brother Arthur had married Mary, the daughter of Sir Thomas Foote, 1st Baronet, a wealthy London grocer. Denzil married Mary's sister Sarah Lewis, the widow of Sir John Lewis, 1st Baronet. The money she brought to the match all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tichborne
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th century, with the advent of neoclassical architecture, white became the most common color of new churches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Brydges
George Brydges or Bridges (1678–1751), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years between 1708 and 1751. Brydges was born in July 1678, the only son of George Rodney Brydges and his wife Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury. He was probably educated at Winchester College from 1686 to 1691 and travelled abroad in Holland in 1696. He succeeded his father to Avington House in 1714 and uncle Harry Brydges at Keynsham, Somerset in 1728. Brydges stood for parliament at Whitchurch at the 1708 general election, and though defeated in the poll, was returned on petition on 21 December 1708 as a Whig Member of Parliament. He did not stand in 1710. He married by licence dated 2 December 1712, Anne Woolfe, daughter of Sir Joseph Woolfe, mercer, of Hackney. His father died in 1714 and he was returned as MP for Winchester in his place at the succeeding by-election on 15 March 1714. Brydges was returned as MP for Winchester t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
