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George William Bridges
George Brydges or Bridges (1678–1751), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, 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 (UK Parliament constituency), Whitchurch at the 1708 British general election, 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 British general election, 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 ... [...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] |
Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke Of Chandos
Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, KB (17 January 1708 – 28 November 1771), known from 1727 to 1744 by the courtesy title Marquess of Carnarvon, was the second son of the 1st Duke of Chandos and his first wife Mary Lake. He was the Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1727 to 1734, for Steyning between 1734 and 1741, and Bishop's Castle between 1741 and 1744. Career and titles Henry Brydges was born the second son of the Hon. James Brydges, eldest son of the 8th Baron Chandos. He was educated at Westminster School and St John's College, Cambridge. On his father succeeding as 9th Baron Chandos in 1714 (and shortly thereafter being created Earl of Carnarvon), he became The Hon. Henry Brydges, and in 1719, on his father being created Duke of Chandos, he became Lord Henry Brydges. His elder brother died without male issue in 1727, at which point he became heir to the dukedom and acquired the courtesy title Marquess of Carnarvon. From 1729 to 1735 Carnarvon was Master of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From The City Of Winchester
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1751 Deaths
In Britain and its colonies (except Scotland), 1751 only had 282 days due to the British Calendar Act of 1751, which ended the year on 31 December (rather than nearly three months later according to its previous rule). Events January–March * January 1 – As the American colony in Georgia prepares the transition from a trustee-operated territory to a British colonial province, the prohibition against slavery is lifted by the Board of Trustees. At the time, the African-American population of Georgia is about 400 people who have been kept as slaves in violation of the law. By 1790, the slave population increases to over 29,000 and by 1860 to 462,000. * January 7 – The University of Pennsylvania, conceived 12 years earlier by Benjamin Franklin and its other trustees to provide non-denominational higher education "to train young people for leadership in business, government and public service". rather than for the ministry, holds its first classes as "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1678 Births
Events January–March * January 10 – England and the Dutch Republic sign a mutual defense treaty in order to fight against France. * January 27 – The first fire engine company (in what will become the United States) goes into service. * February 18 – The first part of English nonconformist preacher John Bunyan's Christian allegory, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', is published in London. * March 21 – Thomas Shadwell's comedy '' A True Widow'' is given its first performance, at The Duke's Theatre in London, staged by the Duke's Company. * March 23 – Rebel Chinese general Wu Sangui takes the imperial crown, names himself monarch of "The Great Zhou", based in the Hunan report, with Hengyang as his capital. He contracts dysentery over the summer and dies on October 2, ending the rebellion against the Kangxi Emperor. * March 25 – The Spanish Netherlands city of Ypres falls after an eight-day siege by the French Army. It is later return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Penton (the Elder)
Henry Penton (c.1705 – 1 Sep 1762) was a British Member of Parliament. He first entered Parliament on his wife's stepfather's interest for a Cornish borough, and then represented his home city of Winchester for fourteen years before giving place to his son, dying the following year. The eldest son of John Penton of Winchester, Penton was educated at New College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1724. In 1733, he married a Miss Simondi, the daughter of the Swedish consul at Lisbon by his wife Anne. She was the sister of Joseph Gulston, and later made a second marriage to John Goddard; both were merchants engaged in Portuguese trade and Members of Parliament. The Pentons were an old Winchester family, and Henry was recorder of Winchester during his career, but he was first returned to Parliament on Goddard's interest for the Cornish borough of Tregony at the 1734 British general election. He was a dutiful supporter of the Walpole ministry and the succeeding Whig mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Powlett (MP)
William Powlett (c. 1693–1757), of Chilbolton and Easton, Hampshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1729 and 1757. Powlett was the eldest son of Lord William Powlett and his first wife Louisa, daughter of Armand-Nompar de Caumont, Marquis de Montpouillon, and granddaughter of Henri-Nompar de Caumont, 3rd Duc de La Force. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 27 October 1710, aged 17. In 1718 and again in 1721, he was Mayor of Lymington. He married Lady Annabella Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville, on 10 February 1721. In 1729, he succeeded to the estates of his father. Powlett was returned as Member of Parliament for Lynington on the interest of his cousin, Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, at a contested by-election 13 May 1729. He supported the Government until 1734, when he followed the Duke into opposition, voting against the Government on the repeal of the Septennial Act. He stood un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Paulet St John, 1st Baronet
Sir Paulet St John, 1st Baronet (7 April 1704 – 8 June 1780) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1734 and 1754. Life He was born the eldest son of Ellis St John (formerly Mews) of Farley Chamberlayne by his second wife Martha, the daughter and eventually heiress of Edward Goodyear of Dogmersfield Park, Dogmersfield, Hampshire. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford (1722) and inherited his father's estates in 1729. He completed the building, started by his father, of the new house at Dogmersfield. He was pricked High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1727–28, appointed woodward of the New Forest in 1764 and elected Mayor of Winchester for 1772–73. He was also created a Baronet in 1772. He was returned to Parliament as the member for Winchester in 1734, sitting until 1741. He was elected to serve Hampshire from 1741 to 1747 and Winchester again from 1751 to 1754. He died in 1780. Family He married three times: firstly Elizabeth, the daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton Powlett (died 1750)
Norton Powlett (c. 1705–1759), of Rotherfield Park, near Alton and Amport, Hampshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1730 to 1734. Powlett was the eldest son of Norton Powlett MP of Rotherfield Park, near Alton and Amport, Hampshire and his wife Jane Morley, daughter of Sir Charles Morley of Droxford, Hampshire. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 17 December 1722, aged 17. Powlett was returned as Member of Parliament for Winchester at a by-election on 26 January 1730 on the interest of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton. He voted against the Administration on the Hessians in 1730 but with them on the army in 1732. He voted for the Excise Bill in 1733 and abstained from the division on the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. He did not stand at the 1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merge ... [...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] |
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 Vernon (1666-1726)
Thomas Vernon may refer to: * Thomas Vernon (died 1556), MP for Shropshire * Thomas Vernon (1631-1711), merchant and MP for City of London * Thomas Vernon (lawyer) (1654–1721), Chancery lawyer and MP for Worcestershire * Thomas Vernon (MP for Worcester) (1724–1771), landowner and MP for Worcester * Thomas Vernon (engraver) (c. 1824–1872), engraver * Thomas Shrawley Vernon (1759–1825), High Sheriff of Worcestershire 1825 * Tom Vernon (1939–2013), British broadcaster and writer * Roy Vernon (Thomas Royston Vernon, 1937–1993), Welsh footballer See also * * * Vernon Thomas (born 1935), Anglo Indian author * Vernon Thomas (wrestler) (1914–1957), New Zealand wrestler {{hndis, Vernon, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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