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Henry Charles Sturt
Henry Charles Sturt (; 9 August 1795 – 14 April 1866), of Crichel House, Dorset, was a British landowner and politician. Background Sturt was the son of Charles Sturt (1763–1812), who was the son of Humphrey Sturt and his wife Mary Pitfield, daughter of Charles Pitfield and Dorothy Ashley. Political career Sturt was elected to Parliament for Bridport in 1817, a seat he held until 1820. In 1823 he was appointed Sheriff of Dorset and later represented Dorchester in 1830 and Dorset between 1835 and 1846. Family Sturt married Lady Charlotte Penelope, daughter of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan. They had several children, including Henry Sturt, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Alington Baron Alington was a title that was created three times in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 28 July 1642 when William Alington was made Baron Alington, of Killard in the County of Cork. His second son, the th ... in 1876, and Col. Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crichel House
Crichel House is a Grade I listed, Classical Revival country house near the village of Moor Crichel in Dorset, England. The house has an entrance designed by Thomas Hopper and interiors by James Wyatt. It is surrounded by of parkland, which includes a crescent-shaped lake covering . The parkland is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. History The original Tudor house, owned by the Napier family, was largely destroyed in an accidental fire in 1742 and was rebuilt in English Baroque style for Sir William Napier by John Bastard of Blandford and Francis Cartwright, probably the contractor.John Martin Robinson"The magnificent puzzle of Crichel, one of Dorset's grandest Georgian houses" ''Country Life'' 01730 April 2019. Humphrey Sturt, of Horton, acquired the estate in 1765 on his marriage with Diana, the aunt and heir of Sir Gerard Napier, the 6th and last baronet, and with the collaboration of the Bastard family extensively remodelled th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Spurrier
Christopher Spurrier (16 August 1783 – 13 November 1876) was an English politician who was elected Member of Parliament for Bridport in the 1820 general election. He was also High Sheriff of Dorset from 1825 to 1826. Spurrier was born into one of Poole's leading Newfoundland merchant families and built Upton House. References See also * List of MPs elected in the 1820 United Kingdom general election This is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons at the 7th 1820 United Kingdom general election, arranged by constituency. The Parliament was summoned 21 April 1820 and dissolved 2 June 1826. The Prime Minister throughout was the leader ... 1783 births 1876 deaths Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies People from Poole People from Bridport People from Chelmsford UK MPs 1820–1826 19th-century English politicians High Sheriffs of Dorset {{England-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1795 Births
Events January–June * January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659. * January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the first state university in the United States. * January 16 – War of the First Coalition: Flanders campaign: The French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. * January 18 – Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam: William V, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), flees the country. * January 19 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in Amsterdam, ending the Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands). * January 20 – French troops enter Amsterdam. * January 23 – Flanders campaign: Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder: The Dutch fleet, frozen in Zuiderzee, is captured by the French 8th Hussars. * February 7 – The Eleventh Amendment to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Floyer (Dorset MP)
John Floyer (26 April 1811 – 4 July 1887) was an English cricketer with Amateur status in first-class cricket, amateur status who was active from 1832 to 1833. He was later a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in two periods between 1846 and 1885. Life He was born in Stinsford, Dorset, the son of Rev. William Floyer and his wife Elizabeth Barton, daughter of Stephen Barton. He was a member of the old Floyer family of Floyer Hayes in Devon descended from ''Floherus'' (Flohère), the Exon Domesday Book tenant of that estate, a French knight who in 1086 held two estates in Devon. Floyer was educated at Winchester College. He matriculated in 1828 at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1831. He appeared in first-class cricket for the Oxford University Cricket Club, University team in one match in 1832. He appeared in 1833 in one other match subsequently deemed to be first-class. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ker Seymer
Henry Ker Seymer (1807 – 28 May 1864) was a British Conservative politician. Seymer was first elected Conservative MP for Dorset, alongside John Floyer, at a by-election in 1846—caused by the resignations of Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Henry Sturt Henry Charles Sturt (; 9 August 1795 – 14 April 1866), of Crichel House, Dorset, was a British landowner and politician. Background Sturt was the son of Charles Sturt (1763–1812), who was the son of Humphrey Sturt and his wife Mary Pitfiel ...—and held the seat until his death in 1864. References External links * Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 1807 births 1864 deaths {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1800s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bankes
George Bankes (1788–1856) was the last of the Cursitor Barons of the Exchequer, the office being abolished by Conservative ministry of the Earl of Derby in 1852. Without any legal experience at the bar, he was the last barrister to be appointed to the post considered to be a medieval anachronism. Early life Bankes was the third son of Henry Bankes, MP of Kingston Hall, Dorsetshire, who represented Corfe Castle for nearly fifty years, and of Frances, daughter of William Woodley, governor of the Leeward Islands. Bankes was a lineal descendant of Sir John Bankes, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of Charles I. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Career Bankes studied law first at Lincoln's Inn, and afterward at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar by the latter society in 1815. In the following year, he entered Parliament as his father's colleague for the family borough of Corfe Castle, which he represented in every succeeding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fox-Strangways
The Honourable John George Charles Fox-Strangways (6 February 1803 – 8 September 1859) was a British diplomat, Whig politician and courtier. Early life Fox-Strangways was the posthumous third son of Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester and his second wife Maria Digby, daughter of The Very Reverend William Digby. The 3rd and 4th Earls of Ilchester were respectively his elder half-brother and brother. Political career Fox-Strangways was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Calne in 1836, a seat he held until 1837. He then represented Dorset until 1841. Fox-Strangways was also in the Foreign Office and served as a Gentleman Usher to Queen Adelaide. Marriage and children Fox-Strangways married Amelia, daughter of Edward Marjoribanks, in 1844. They had two children:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 * Lady Maria Georgiana Julia Fox- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ponsonby, 1st Baron De Mauley
William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley (31 July 1787 – 16 May 1855), was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1826 and 1837. He was raised to the Peerage in 1838. Life Ponsonby was the youngest child of 3rd Earl of Bessborough and his wife Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough. Ponsonby was elected Member of Parliament for Poole in 1826 and held the seat until 1831, when he lost it in a by-election to Lord Ashley. He was then MP for Knaresborough between June and December 1832. At the 1832 UK general election he was elected MP for Dorset and held the seat until 1837. On 10 July 1838 he was created Baron de Mauley, ''of Canford in the County of Dorset''. Whilst an MP for Poole, Ponsonby and Benjamin Lester opened Poole's first public library in 1830. When the marriage of his sister Lady Caroline to William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, began to break up, he strongly supported Caroline.Lord David Cecil, ''Melbourne'', Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Bankes
William John Bankes (11 December 1786 – 15 April 1855) was an English politician, explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer. The second, but first surviving, son of Henry Bankes MP, he was a member of the Bankes family of Dorset and he had Sir Charles Barry recase Kingston Lacy in stone as it is today. He travelled extensively to the Near East and Egypt and made an extensive individual collection of Egyptian artefacts. His work on Egypt, though not acknowledged until the 21st century, is regarded as important. He was a good friend of Lord Byron, Samuel Rogers and Sir Charles Barry. He sat as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro in 1810, for Cambridge University from 1822 to 1826, for Marlborough (the UK parliamentary constituency that his maternal grandfather, William Woodley, for whom he was named, had held from 1780 to 1784) from 1829 to 1832, and finally for Dorset from 1832 to 1835. Early life and education William Bankes was born in 1786 to Frances Woodley (1760–1823 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was a British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer. He was the eldest son of The 6th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife, Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of The 4th Duke of Marlborough, and older brother of Henry Ashley, MP. As a social reformer who was called the "Poor Man's Earl", he campaigned for better working conditions, reform to lunacy laws, education and the limitation of child labour. He was also an early supporter of the Zionist movement and the YMCA and a leading figure in the evangelical movement in the Church of England. Early life Lord Ashley, as he was styled until his father's death in 1851, was educated at Manor House school in Chiswick (1812–1813), Harrow School (1813–1816) and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained first-class honours in classics in 1822, took his MA in 1832 and was appointed DCL in 1841. Ashley's early f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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