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Henry Francis Cockayne Cust
Henry Francis Cockayne-Cust (15 September 1819 – 5 April 1884), was a British Conservative Party politician. Background Born Henry Cust, Cockayne-Cust was the eldest son of Reverend Henry Cust, Canon of Windsor, younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow. His mother was Lady Anna Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He later assumed the additional surname of Cockayne by Royal licence. He was educated at Eton College. Political and military career Cockayne-Cust was a captain in the 8th Hussars and a Major in the Shropshire Yeomanry. In 1874 he entered Parliament as one of two representatives for Grantham, a seat he held until 1880. Family Cockayne-Cust married Sara Jane, daughter of Isaac Cookson and widow of Sidney Robert Streatfield, in 1852. They had two sons and four daughters. Their eldest son was Henry Cust Henry John Cockayne-Cust, JP, DL (10 October 1861 – 2 March 1917) was an English politician and editor who served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cockayne-Cust
Henry Francis Cockayne-Cust (15 September 1819 – 5 April 1884), was a British Conservative Party politician. Background Born Henry Cust, Cockayne-Cust was the eldest son of Reverend Henry Cust, Canon of Windsor, younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow. His mother was Lady Anna Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He later assumed the additional surname of Cockayne by Royal licence. He was educated at Eton College. Political and military career Cockayne-Cust was a captain in the 8th Hussars and a Major in the Shropshire Yeomanry. In 1874 he entered Parliament as one of two representatives for Grantham, a seat he held until 1880. Family Cockayne-Cust married Sara Jane, daughter of Isaac Cookson and widow of Sidney Robert Streatfield, in 1852. They had two sons and four daughters. Their eldest son was Henry Cust Henry John Cockayne-Cust, JP, DL (10 October 1861 – 2 March 1917) was an English politician and editor who served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 3rd Baronet
Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley, 3rd Baronet, DL, JP (18 October 1839 – 14 February 1904) was a British soldier, landowner, and Liberal politician. Career Cholmeley was the eldest son of Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet and Lady Georgiana Beauclerk, fifth daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans. Cholmeley was educated at Harrow School. He then served in the Grenadier Guards and reached the rank of Captain. In January 1868, he succeeded his father as baronet. At a parliamentary by-election on 27 April 1868 in Grantham, Cholmeley stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals, beaten by Edmund Turnor, but at the general election later in the same year he was elected as a Member of Parliament unopposed, with Turnor choosing to stand elsewhere. He held one of the borough’s two seats until the elections of 1880, when he did not stand again. He became High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1885 and was a Justice of Peace and deputy lieutenant for the same county. At the 1889 Kesteven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Officers
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative Party include: Europe Current * Croatian Conservative Party, * Conservative Party (Czech Republic) *Conservative People's Party (Denmark) *Conservative Party of Georgia *Conservative Party (Norway) *Conservative Party (UK) * The Conservatives (Latvia) Historical * Conservative Party (Bulgaria), 1879–1884 * Conservative Party (Kingdom of Serbia), 1861-1895 *German Conservative Party, 1876–1918 *Conservative Party (Hungary), 1846–1849 * Conservative Party (Iceland), 1924–1927 *Conservative Party (Prussia), 1848–1876 * Vlad Țepeș League, in Romania 1929–1938 *Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) * Conservative Party (Romania), 1991–2015 * Conservative Party (Spain), 1876–1931 *Tories, Britain and Ireland 1678–1834; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shropshire Yeomanry Officers
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the southeast, and Herefordshire to the south. A unitary authority of the same name was created in 2009, taking over from the previous county council and five district councils, now governed by Shropshire Council. The borough of Telford and Wrekin has been a separate unitary authority since 1998, but remains part of the ceremonial county. The county's population and economy is centred on five towns: the county town of Shrewsbury, which is culturally and historically important and close to the centre of the county; Telford, which was founded as a new town in the east which was constructed around a number of older towns, most notably Wellington, Dawley and Madeley, which is today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Deaths
Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on historical principles, part 1'' (edited by James A. H. Murray), the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', is published in England. * February 5 – Derby County Football Club is founded in England. * March 13 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins (ends on January 26, 1885). * March 28 – Prince Leopold, the youngest son and the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore. * February 2 – ''Dartmouth College v. Woodward'': The Supreme Court of the United States under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution. * February 6 – A formal treaty, between Hussein Shah of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles, establishes a trading settlement in Singapore. * February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment, barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise). * February 19 – Captain William Smith of British merchant brig ''Williams'' sights Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Savile Roundell
Charles Savile Roundell (19 July 1827 – 3 March 1906) was an English cricketer, lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1895. Roundell was born at Clifton House, County York the son of Rev. Danson Richardson Roundell of Screven and Glestone Yorkshire, and his wife Hannah Foulis, daughter of Sir W Foulis, 7th Baronet. His father had adopted the surname Currer in 1801 on the death of his brother, and Roundell is sometimes referred to as Charles Savile Currer. He was educated at Harrow School where he was captain of the cricket XI and at Balliol College, Oxford. He played cricket as Charles Currer, making his first-class debut for Gentlemen of England in 1846. He played for Oxford University in 1847 and 1848 and for Gentlemen of the North in 1852. He was an occasional wicket-keeper and played nine innings in five first-class matches with an average of 7.87 and a top score of 31. He continued playing cricket for the Old Harrovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Mellor
John William Mellor Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL Queen's Counsel, QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an England, English lawyer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of John Mellor (judge), Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget (politician), Charles Paget, MP. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder (judge), Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom), Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the James McNeill Whistler, Whistler v John Ruskin, Ruskin libel trial. He was Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham (UK Parliament co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set out that ordinary general elections are held on the first Thursday in May, every five years. The Act was repealed in 2022. With approval from Parliament, both the 2017 and 2019 general elections were held earlier than the schedule set by the Act. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Under the Representation of the People Act 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick James Tollemache
Frederick James Tollemache (16 April 1804 – 2 July 1888, Ham House) was a British gentleman and politician. He was the fifth son of William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower and Catherine Gray. Through the interest of his father, he was several times Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1826 to 1874. On 26 August 1831, he married Sarah-Maria Bomford (d. 1835), by whom he had one daughter: *Louisa Maria Tollemache (27 August 1832 – 16 May 1863), died unmarried On 4 September 1847, he married Isabella Anne Forbes (d. 1850), by whom he had one daughter, the writer: * Ada Maria Katherine Tollemache (21 June 1848 – 6 January 1928), married on 9 May 1868 at Ham House to Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley. He was a director of the New Zealand Company, and Manners Street, in Wellington, New Zealand Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
