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Gervase Elwes, Junior
Gervase Elwes (–) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 to 1685. Elwes was the son of Sir Gervase Elwes, 1st Baronet and his wife Amy Trigge, daughter of William Trigge, M.D., of Highworth, Wiltshire. In 1679, he was elected Member of Parliament for Sudbury in the two elections that year. He was commissioner for assessment for Suffolk and Sudbury from 1679 to 1680. He was elected MP for Sudbury again in 1681. In 1682 he became freeman of Preston. Elwes died sometime between 13 April 1686 when he was mentioned in a codicil to his father's will and September 1688 when James II's electoral agents reported on Sudbury. Elwes married Isabella Hervey, daughter of Sir Thomas Hervey of Ickworth Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the estate of the National Trust's Ickworth House, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population of the parish was only minimal a ..., Suffo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Gervase Elwes, 1st Baronet
Sir Gervase Elwes, 1st Baronet (bapt. 21 August 1628 – 11 April 1706) was an English Court Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1706. Elwes was the son of Sir Gervase Elwes, of Woodford, Essex and his wife Frances, the daughter of Sir Robert Lee of Billesley, Warwickshire. He was baptised on 21 August 1628, at St Mary's Bothaw, London. He succeeded his father in April 1653, and at the Restoration was created a baronet on 22 June 1660.George Edward Cokayne profile ''Complete Baronetage'' (vol. 3; 1900) In 1677, Elwes was elected for |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudbury (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. History A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, the constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1559 until it was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844, after which it was absorbed into the Western Division of Suffolk. It was probably enfranchised through lobbying from Ambrose Cave the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who had interests in the area and could influence the choice of MPs. Sudbury had in the eighteenth Century been seen as a particularly expensive seat but not under the influence of any patron and in the 1761 general election Horace Walpole the cousin of the outgoing MP, Thomas Walpole, had claimed that Sudbury had openly advertised itself for sale with the new MP, John Henniker having to spend £5,500 from the Duke of Newcastle's funds. but not under the influence of any patron The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hervey (landowner)
Sir Thomas Hervey (1625 – 27 May 1694) was an English Commissioner of the Royal Navy, landed gentleman, and Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds. Life Hervey was born in 1625, the third son of Sir William Hervey (1585–1660) of Ickworth, Suffolk, by his marriage in 1612 to Susan Jermyn, a daughter of Sir Robert Jermyn.George Edward Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, Lord Howard de Walden, eds., '' The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', vol. VI (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), p. 516 On 3 April 1641, aged fifteen, Hervey was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, but did not take a degree. He became a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, an Alderman of the corporation of Bury St Edmunds, and from 1664 to 1668 was a Commissioner of the Royal Navy. In his role at the Navy Board, Hervey held a political appointment and in practice did very little, like the other Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ickworth
Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the estate of the National Trust's Ickworth House, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population of the parish was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Lawshall. Landmarks Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the Grade II* listed park and garden which are: The main park also had the only vineyard on National Trust land, until 2015 when it was grubbed up to allow the walled garden to be reinstated. An orchard of historic fruit trees was planted as the first stage of this plan. History Early history Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 12 heads of household (nine of which villagers (villeins), three as smallholders) and four tied serfs (slaves), Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth £4 per year. Modern history Samuel Lewis's overview o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet (died c. 1680), of Long Melford, Suffolk, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1679. Cordell was the son of Sir John Cordell, of St Lawrence Old Jewry, London and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Bankworth or Barbow of London. Cordell married in or before 1643 Margaret Wright, daughter of Sir Edmund Wright, of Swakeleys House, Ickenham, Middlesex Lord Mayor of London and his first wife, Martha Baron, daughter of Edward Baron, of London. Before 1643, he repurchased from the family of Savage the estate of Long Melford formerly belonging to Sir William Cordell and it became his residence. He was Sheriff of Suffolk from 1653 to 1654. In April 1660, Cordell was elected Member of Parliament for Sudbury but the election was declared void in May. He was created a baronet on 22 June 1660. He was elected MP for Sudbury in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament in 1662. In 167 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Cordell, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Cordell, 2nd Baronet (1646–1690) of Long Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1690. Cordell was the eldest son of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Bury St. Edmunds Grammar School in 1656 and travelled abroad from 1663 to 1666. By 1674, he married Elizabeth Waldegrave, daughter of Thomas Waldegrave of Smallbridge, Suffolk. In 1685 he served a one-year term as High Sheriff of Suffolk. Cordell was returned as a Member of Parliament for Sudbury in 1685 and for Suffolk in 1689. Cordell was buried on 9 September 1690 at Long Melford leaving a son and two daughters. The baronetcy passed to his eldest son John, who was returned for Sudbury in 1701 but who died by a fall from his horse in 1704. The estates then passed to his two sisters, of whom Margaret married Sir Charles Firebrace, 2nd Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wenyeve
Sir George Wenyeve (c.1627 – 26 May 1706) was an English Tory politician. Wenyeve was the eldest son of Edward Wenyeve and Anne Plumsted. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed as a justice of the peace for Suffolk in 1662 and was knighted on 8 May 1663. He became a Deputy Lieutenant for the county in 1685. The same year, Wenyeve was elected as a Member of Parliament for Sudbury as a Tory. In Parliament, he was nominated to ten committees, including those set up to consider expiring laws, wool and corn prices, the prevention of clandestine marriages, the improvement of tillage, and the encouragement of shipbuilding. He opposed James II's policy of repealing the Test Acts and Penal laws, and was removed from local office in the summer of 1688. He did not stand for re-election in 1689 and he refused to sign the Association of 1696 The Association was an instrument created after the failed Jacobite assassinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1657 Births
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] |
1687 Deaths
Events January–March * January 3 – With the end of latest of the Savoyard–Waldensian wars in the Duchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the Waldensians, Victor Amadeus III, Duke of Savoy, carries out the release of 3,847 surviving prisoners and their families, who had forcibly been converted to Catholicism, and permits the group to emigrate to Switzerland. * January 8 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, is appointed as the last Lord Deputy of Ireland by the English crown, and begins efforts to include more Roman Catholic Irishmen in the administration. Upon the removal of King James II in England and Scotland, the Earl of Tyrconnell loses his job and is replaced by James, who reigns briefly as King of Ireland until William III establishes his rule over the isle. * January 27 – In one of the most sensational cases in England in the 17th century, midwife Mary Hobry murders her abusive husband, Denis H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1679
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