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Henry Cornewall (died 1717)
Colonel Henry Cornewall (c. 1654 – 22 February 1717) was an English soldier, courtier and Member of Parliament. Early life He was born the eldest son of Edward Cornewall of Moccas Court and Frances ( Pye) Vaughan, daughter of Sir Walter Pye and the widow of Henry Vaughan of Moccas Court and Bredwardine. From his mother's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Roger Vaughan, a courtier and MP for Hereford. He succeeded his father in 1709. Career In 1685 he raised a regiment of foot, which later became the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot. He resigned this command following the Glorious Revolution, as he personally opposed William III of England taking the throne. He was replaced by Colonel John Cunningham who led the regiment to Ireland to try and relieve the Siege of Derry. In the House of Commons, he represented Weobley from 1685 to 1689, Hereford from 1689 to 1695, Herefordshire from 1698 to 1701 and Weobley again in 1701, from 1702 to 1708, and from 1710 to 1713. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moccas Court
Moccas Court is an 18th-century country house which sits in sloping grounds overlooking the River Wye north of the village of Moccas, Herefordshire, England. It is now a luxury guest house and function venue. The house was built in 1775–81 by the architect Anthony Keck for Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet, Sir George Armyand Cornewall to replace the existing Manor house near the church. Built in three storeys to a rectangular plan, it was constructed of brick with stone dressings and a stone tile roof. It has a seven bay frontage with a single storey semi-circular plan porch which was added in 1792. The grounds were landscaped to plans by Capability Brown. The house is a Grade I listed building. The Cornewall family occupied Moccas until 1916 when Geoffrey Cornewall, Sir Geoffrey Cornewall, the 6th Baronet, moved to a smaller house on the estate, after which the house was let on a long lease. After death of Sir William Cornewall, the 7th Baronet in 1962, the estate passed to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cornewall
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cornewall (1698 – 11 February 1744) was an officer in the British Royal Navy who became a national hero following his death at the Battle of Toulon (1744), Battle of Toulon in 1744. His monument in Westminster Abbey was the first ever to be erected by Parliament at public expense. Early life and career He was born in 1698, the youngest son of Henry Cornewall (died 1717), Henry Cornewall and his second wife Susanna, and was baptised at Moccas on 17 November 1698. His naval career began as a Volunteer-per-order, serving first upon from March 1721 before transferring to in December of the same year. Three years later he was given his first independent command, being promoted to become captain of the Fifth-rate on 3 April 1724. He spent four years aboard this ship, principally in the waters off Boston, protecting trade and suppressing piracy. John Knox Laughton compares this phase of his life to "the opening chapters of James Fenimore Cooper, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet ( – 3 November 1720) was a British politician. Family Croft was the only son of the Right Reverend Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford and Anne Browne, the only daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Jonathan Browne and Anne Barne Lovelace. Her half-brothers were Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) an English poet in the seventeenth century and Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), who was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by James, Duke of York (later King James II). The great nephew of both George Sandys (2 March 1577 – March 1644), the traveller, colonist and poet, and of Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 – October 1629), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company, he was also the great great grandson of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester (1559–1570), Bishop of London (1570–1576), and the Archbishop o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Harley (Parliamentarian)
Sir Edward Harley, 21 October 1624 to 8 December 1700, was an English politician from Herefordshire. A devout Puritan who fought for Parliament in the First English Civil War, Harley belonged to the moderate Presbyterian faction, which opposed the involvement of the New Model Army in the peace negotiations that followed victory in 1646. Elected MP for Herefordshire in 1646, he was one of the Eleven Members forced into temporary exile by the army in 1647. Harley's refusal to support the Trial of Charles I led to his exclusion from the Long Parliament by Pride's Purge in December 1648, while his opposition to the king's execution in January 1649 meant he played little part in public affairs under the Commonwealth. After the Stuart Restoration in May 1660, he was appointed Deputy lieutenant of Herefordshire, and Governor of Dunkirk, which was occupied by England from 1658 to 1661. However, his strong Presbyterian beliefs meant Harley was never entirely accepted by the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gorges
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregory (1625–1696)
Sir William Gregory (1 March 1625 – 28 May 1696) was a British judge and politician. Born the son of the vicar of Fownhope, he was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and All Souls College, Oxford and was then called to the Bar from Gray's Inn. In 1653 he married Katharine, only daughter and heiress of James Smith of Tillington, by whom he had an only son, James, who died in 1691 before his father. It was not until 1677 that William gained prominence, being elected a Serjeant-at-law. In March 1677 the election of Sir Thomas Williams as a Member of Parliament for Weobly was called into question and declared void, so William Gregory offered himself as a candidate and was elected without opposition on 9 March. After only a year in Parliament he was elected to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons in the Habeas Corpus Parliament, as a compromise between Parliament, who wished to reelect Sir Edward Seymour and the King, who was averse to him. During his time in Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Foley (ironmaster)
Paul Foley (1644/5 – 13 November 1699), also known as Speaker Foley, was the second son of Thomas Foley of Witley Court,''Burke's Peerage'' the prominent Midlands ironmaster. Ironmaster He took over his father's ironworks in and around the Forest of Dean in the early 1670s and continued them until 1685 when he let them to John Wheeler and Richard Avenant, who had managed ironworks for his brother Philip Foley. In 1692, the two brothers entered into a partnership with these managers and John Wheeler's brother, Richard. This lasted until after Paul's death. Gentleman Paul Foley had the resources from his father and the profits of his ironworks to buy himself a substantial estate around Stoke Edith in Herefordshire, part of which still belongs to a descendant. Important purchases included Stoke Edith from the trustees of Sir Henry Lingen in 1670 (made by his father), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Morgan (MP)
James Morgan may refer to: Military * W. James Morgan (died 1866), Union Army recruiter and officer in the American Civil War * James D. Morgan (1810–1896), American Civil War general in the Union Army * James H. Morgan (Medal of Honor) (1840–1877), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Politics U.S. * James Morgan (congressman) (1756–1822), U.S. Representative from New Jersey * James B. Morgan (1833–1892), U.S. Representative from Mississippi * James G. Morgan (1885–1964), Missouri state senator * James H. Morgan (politician), member of the California State Assembly 1861–1862 * Jim Morgan (American politician) (born 1937), member of the West Virginia House of Delegates * James W. Morgan (1891–1971), mayor of Birmingham, Alabama 1953–1961 Elsewhere * Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet (1643–1718), Welsh baronet * James Morgan (MP) (c. 1660–1717), British Member of Parliament for Weobley and Hereford * James Morgan (Queensland politician) (1816–1878), Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Birch (soldier)
Colonel John Birch (7 September 1615 – 10 May 1691) was an English soldier and politician, who fought for the Parliamentarian cause in the First English Civil War, and sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1691. Excluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge of December 1648, he was also prevented from taking his seat for Leominster under the Protectorate. After the 1660 Restoration, he sat on over 122 Parliamentary Committees, particularly those connected with finance. Although Presbyterian by upbringing, he voted in favour of the 1673 and 1678 Test Acts, requiring holders of public office to be members of the Church of England. He himself conformed, supported the exclusion of the Catholic James II in 1679, and backed the 1689 Glorious Revolution. Considered a "great Parliamentarian", his contemporary Gilbert Burnet summarised him as follows; "He was the roughest and boldest speaker in the House, and talked in the language and phrases of a carrier, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Booth (d
John Booth may refer to: Politicians *John Booth (Lancashire politician) (died 1422), Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancashire * John Booth (Appleby politician), MP for Appleby in 1421 * John Booth (Derby politician), MP for Derby in 1432 * John Booth (Weobley politician), MP for Weobly in 1679 *John Booth (1822–1898), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney and East Macquarie * John David Booth (1951–2011), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wakehurst *John Paton Booth (1837–1902), politician in British Columbia, Canada Others * John Booth (architect) (1759–1843), British architect *John Booth (motor racing) (born 1954), former team principal of Marussia F1 Team *John Booth (bishop) (died 1478), churchman and Bishop of Exeter * John Booth (rugby league), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s *John Rudolphus Booth (1827–1925), Canadian lumber and railway baron * John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Price (judge)
200px, Robert Price. Robert Price (14 January 1653 – 2 February 1733) was a British judge and politician. Early life Robert Price, a Welshman, was born in early 1653 (1654 in the Gregorian calendar), the eldest son of Thomas Price of Giler in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, by Margaret, only child of Thomas Wynn of Bwlch y Beudy in the same parish. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, after which he entered Lincoln's Inn before making the Grand Tour. Career On 23 September 1679 Price married Lucy, eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert Rodd of Foxley in Yazor, Herefordshire, by Ann Sophia, only child of Thomas Neale of Warneford, Hampshire. Robert Rodd died two years later and Price inherited the Foxley estate. With her he had two sons and a daughter but in 1690, after her adultery with a cousin of hers (whom she bore a child), the couple separated without divorce, Price providing for her and their children throughout his life and in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and since Edward the Confessor, a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the abbey since 1100. According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, at the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. The church was originally part of a Catholic Benedictine abbey, which was dissolved in 1539. It then served as the cathedral of the Dioce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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