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Hardres Court , a village and civil parish near Canterbury, Kent, England
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Hardres may refer to: People *Hardres baronets *John Hardres, MP for Canterbury *Thomas Hardres (1610–1681), English barrister and politician *Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet (1686–1736), British politician *Sir Hardres Waller Places * Lower Hardres, a village and civil parish near Canterbury, Kent, England *Upper Hardres Upper Hardres is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury, in the district of Kent, England. The name of the Hardres family is perpetuated in the twin villages of Upper Hardres and Lower Hardres (pronounced 'hards'), on the Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardres Baronets
The Hardres Baronetcy, of Hardres Court in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 3 June 1642 for Sir Richard Hardres. The fourth Baronet, Sir William Hardres, was Member of Parliament for Kent and Canterbury. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet, William Hardres II, in 1764. Hardres baronets, of Hardres Court (1642) *Sir Richard Hardres, 1st Baronet (1606–1669) *Sir Peter Hardres, 2nd Baronet (1635–1673) *Sir Thomas Hardres, 3rd Baronet (1660–1688) *Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet (25 July 1686 – 7 July 1736) of Hardres Court, Upper Hardres, Kent was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1711 and 1735. Hardres was the son of Sir T ... (1686–1736) *Sir William Hardres, 5th Baronet (1718–1764) References {{reflist Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1642 establishments in England 1764 dises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hardres
John Hardres (2 October 1675 – 14 January 1758) of St Georges, Canterbury was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and then the House of Commons of Great Britain in two periods between 1705 and 1722. Hardres was the son of Thomas Hardres of Canterbury. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. Hardres was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury in 1705 and sat to 1708. He was elected again in 1710 and held the seat until 1722. In 1711, Hardres required an Act of Parliament in order to "sell certain Lands, in the County of Kent, and for settling of others to the Uses therein mentioned". Hardres' political views were considered ambiguous. He voted against the government, except on the Peerage Bill which he supported and received money through Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, KG, PC (23 April 167519 April 1722), known as Lord Spencer from 1688 to 1702, was an English statesman and nobleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hardres
Thomas Hardres (1610–1681) was an English barrister and politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Canterbury, Kent from 1664. Life He was descended from a family owning the manor of Broad Oak at Hardres, near Canterbury, and was fourth son of Sir Thomas Hardres and Eleanor, sole surviving daughter and heiress of Henry Thoresby of Thoresby, a master in chancery. Thomas became a member of Gray's Inn, and was called to the bar. From 1649 until his death he was steward of the manor of Lambeth. In the vacation after Michaelmas term 1669 he became a serjeant-at-law, in 1675 was appointed King's Serjeant A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are wr ..., and in 1679 was elected M.P. for Canterbury. He also received the honour of knighthood. In December 1681 he died, and was buri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet
Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet (25 July 1686 – 7 July 1736) of Hardres Court, Upper Hardres, Kent was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1711 and 1735. Hardres was the son of Sir Thomas Hardres, 3rd Baronet and his wife Ursula Rooke, daughter of Sir William Rooke of Horton, Kent. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father on 23 February 1688. He was described as a person of great and ready wit, and in comfortable circumstances as 'a single gentleman with a £1,000 p.a. estate', and was seen as a man of great potential. Hardres was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent at a by-election on 13 June 1711. In February 1712 he was involved in preparing a bill to facilitate the completion of a chapel of ease at Deal. At the 1713 British general election, he was returned instead as MP for Dover. He was consulted on matters relating to Dover and the Cinque Ports and in March 1714, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Hardres Waller
Sir Hardress Waller (1666), was an English Protestant who settled in Ireland and fought for Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A leading member of the radical element within the New Model Army, he signed the death warrant for the Execution of Charles I in 1649; after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he was condemned to death as a regicide, a sentence commuted to life imprisonment. A prominent member of Protestant society in Munster during the 1630s, Waller fought against the Catholic Confederacy following the 1641 Irish Rebellion. When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, Charles I wanted to use his Irish troops to help win the war in England, and in September 1643 agreed a truce or "Cessation" with the Confederacy. Waller opposed this and defected to the Parliamentarians; in April 1645, he was appointed a Colonel in the New Model Army and fought throughout the final campaigns of 1645 and 1646. An admirer of Oliver Cromwell, Waller became a political an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Hardres
Lower Hardres is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lower Hardres and Nackington, in the City of Canterbury District of Kent, England. History The name of the Hardres family is perpetuated in the twin villages of Upper Hardres and Lower Hardres (pronounced 'hards'), on the Roman road, Stone Street, south-west of the city of Canterbury. The family owned the non-church land of area for 700 years after the Norman Conquest. A legal record in 1381 mentions William Sely, parson of "parva Ardres", & may indicate that a bell at Lower Hardres church was being made or repaired by John Buckingham. A debt of 45 marks is mentioned. John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lower Lardres as: A parish in Bridge district, Kent; on Stane-street, 3 miles ESE of Chartham r. station, and 3¼ S of Canterbury. On the 1st of April 1934 the parish of Nackington was merged into "Lower Hardres", on the 1st of April 2019 the new parish was renamed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
