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Henry Campion (Parliamentarian)
Henry Campion (c. 1680 – 17 April 1761), of Combwell, Goudhurst, Kent, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1715. He later became an active Jacobite. Early life Campion was the son of William Campion of Combwell, Kent, and his wife Frances Glynne, daughter of Sir John Glynne of Henley Park, Surrey. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 2 December 1697. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in January 1698. On 8 June 1702, he married Barbara Courthope, the daughter and heiress of Peter Courthope of Danny Park, Sussex. Career Although his father was a Whig lawyer, Campion was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for East Grinstead at the 1708 British general election. He told for the Tories several times and voted against the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. He did not stand at the 1710 British general election, but was returned as MP for Bossiney at a by-election on 22 December 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England started to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1800 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Toke
John Toke (1 June 1671 – 1746) of Godinton, Kent was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer. He was a member of the Middle Temple. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Grinstead East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the extreme northeast of the county, the civ ... from 1702 to 1708. He died in 1746, aged 75. References 1671 births 1746 deaths People from East Grinstead Place of birth missing English MPs 1702–1705 English MPs 1705–1707 British MPs 1707–1708 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Child (Devizes MP)
Sir Robert Child (bap. 6 June 1674 – 6 October 1721) was an English banker and politician. The heir to his father's banking business, the London-based Child & Co., he was Chairman of the East India Company in 1715. He also served as a member of parliament (MP) for Helston from 1710 to 1713, and for Devizes from 1713 to 1715. Personal background Robert Child was eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Child, MP, Lord Mayor of London in 1698 and Jeweller to King William III. His father took Osterley Park, after a default on its mortgage, which Child subsequently inherited. It then became Child's principal seat. Member of Parliament Child was Member of Parliament for Helston between 1710 and 1713. He then stood for his father's old constituency of Devizes, where he was Member of Parliament between 1713 and 1715. He was knighted in 1714. He was an alderman in London from 1713 to his death. On his death (unmarried) the estate passed to his brother Francis. It is Child's nep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Godolphin (colonel)
Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Godolphin (1652–1732) was an English soldier, politician and Member of Parliament for various seats between 1685 and 1732, becoming Father of the House in 1730. He also reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was Governor of Scilly from 1700 until his death in September 1732. Personal details Baptised on 12 January 1652 in London, Sidney Godolphin was the only surviving son of John Godolphin (1617–1678), an English jurist and author, and his second wife Mary Tregose, daughter of William Tregose of St Ives, Cornwall. His father married four times and had a total of eleven children, of whom only Sidney and two others survived childhood; his older half-brother Francis (1642-after 1679) and a half-sister Rebecca (1676-after 1699). A member of one of the wealthiest families in Cornwall, John Godolphin supported Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, unlike his Royalist cousins Sidney, killed in 1643, and Francis. During the Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl Of Wilmington
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, (2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1742 until his death in 1743. He is considered to have been Britain's second prime minister, after Robert Walpole, but worked closely with the Secretary of State, Lord Carteret, in order to secure the support of the various factions making up the government. Early life Compton was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Northampton and his wife Mary Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden. He was educated at St Paul's and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 28 February 1690, aged 15. Thereafter he was admitted into Middle Temple in 1687. Political career English House of Commons Although his family were High Tories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Butler (1680–1741)
James Butler (1680 – 17 May 1741), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1705 and 1741. Butler was the son of James Butler of Amberley Castle and his wife Grace Caldecott, daughter of Richard Caldecott of Hawkhurst, Kent. His father, who had been MP for Arundel died in 1696. He was probably admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1698. He married Elizabeth Bennet, widow of Sir Richard Bennet, 3rd Baronet and daughter of Sir Charles Caesar of Bennington, Hertfordshire on 31 January 1704. He bought the estate of Warminghurst in 1792 or 1707, from William Penn. A Whig supporter, he returned as Member of Parliament for Arundel at the 1705 general election but did not stand in 1708. He was elected MP for Sussex at the 1715 general election but did not stand in 1722. However he returned as MP for Sussex at a by-election on 22 February 1728 and retained the seat during the elections of 1734 and 1741. Butler died of smallpox aged 61 on 17 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fuller (1680-1745)
John Fuller may refer to: *John Fuller (Massachusetts politician), representative to the Great and General Court *John Fuller (college head) (died 1558/9), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge *John Fuller (died 1744), British Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1728–1734 *John Fuller (1680–1745), British Member of Parliament for Sussex, 1713–1715 *John Fuller (1706–1755), British Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, 1754–1755 *John Fuller (1732–1804), British Member of Parliament for Tregony, 1754–1761 *Mad Jack Fuller (John Fuller, 1757–1834), English politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts, and Squire of the hamlet of Brightling *John W. Fuller (1827–1891), Union general *John Fuller (bushranger) (1830–1865), Australian bushranger *Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet (1864–1915), British Liberal politician and Governor of Victoria *John G. Fuller (1913–1990), New England-based American author *John Fuller (poet) (born 1937), English poet and author * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Parker, 2nd Baronet
Sir George Parker, 2nd Baronet (c. 1673 – 14 May 1727), of Ratton, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sussex from 1705 to 1708 and again from 1710 to 1713. He succeeded as second baronet on 30 November 1691. He died on 14 May 1727. He married Mary Bagot (1672-1727) eldest daughter of Sir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet (1644-1704) of Blithfield, Staffordshire in 1692.UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current References 1670s births 1727 deaths British MPs 1710–1713 English MPs 1705–1707 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies 202 Year 202 (Roman numerals, CCII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Antoninus (or, less frequently, year 955 '' ... Year of birth uncertain People from Eastbourne British MPs 1707–1708 {{England-GreatBr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eversfield (MP)
Charles Eversfield (15 September1683 – 1749) of Denne Place, near Horsham, Sussex, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1705 and 1747. Early life Eversfield was the only son. of Nicholas Eversfield of Charlton Court, near Steyning, Sussex and his wife, Elizabeth Gildridge, daughter of Nicholas Gildridge of Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1684, he succeeded to the estates of his father. He married Mary Duncombe, daughter of Henry Duncombe of Weston, Surrey on 21 July 1702. Career In 1695, Eversfield inherited the estate of Denne from his uncle Anthony Eversfield and with it an electoral interest at Horsham. As soon as he came of age, he successfully contested Horsham at the 1705 English general election, being listed as a ‘Churchman’. He was relatively inconspicuous in his first Parliament but voted against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705. He was returned again for Horsham, as a Tory at the 1708 British general election. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet
Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet (1678 – 31 December 1741), of Colcombe Castle, near Colyton and Shute, near Honiton, Devon was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1734. Pole was the eldest son of Sir John Pole, 3rd Baronet, MP and Anne Morice, the daughter of Sir William Morice, MP. He matriculated at New College, Oxford on 7 July 1696, aged 18. He succeeded his father in 1708. Pole was returned unopposed as a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport on the Morice interest at the second general election of 1701. He supported, on 26 Feb. 1702, the motion vindicating the Commons’ proceedings in impeaching the Whig ministers. He was returned as MP for Camelford at a by-election on 17 January 1704 and became a very active member, frequently acting as a teller for the Tories. He voted for the Tack in 1704. At the 1705 English general election, he retained his seat at Camelford and voted against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manley (MP)
John Manley (1699) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1690. He was Postmaster General during the Commonwealth. Life Manley was the son of Cornelius Manley of Erbistock, Denbighshire. He was offered the sum of £8259 19s.11 3/4d. for farming the Post Office, inland and foreign on 29 June 1653 when it was offered for tender. At Midsummer 1653 he was appointed Postmaster General when he took the farm of the Letter Office at a contract of £10,000. Captain John Manley and his servant were granted a pass to go to Holland on 4 April 1655 under a warrant of the Lord Protector and his Council. The Council of State ordered Secretary John Thurloe to manage the Post Office on 24 April 1655. Manley was commissioner for assessment for Denbighshire in 1657. In 1659 he was commissioner for assessment for North Wales, captain of the militia of Denbighshire and a J.P. for Denbighshire. He was also elected Member of Parliament for Denbigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Robartes
Francis Robartes Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (c. 1649 – 3 February 1718) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1718. Early life Robartes was the fourth son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and his second wife Letitia Isabella Smythe (1630–1714). He was baptised at Lanhydrock in Cornwall on 6 January 1650. He was at school at Chelsea under Mr Cary and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 2 May 1663 aged 13. Robartes was known as a musical composer and a writer of the theory of sound. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1673. Political career In 1673, Robartes was elected Member of Parliament for Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency), Bossiney in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. He was elected MP for Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency), Cornwall in 1679 and sat until 1681. He was elected for Cornwall again in 1685 and sat until 1687. In 1689 he was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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