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Honyman
Honyman is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Andrew Honeyman aka Andrew Honyman (died 1676), Scottish priest, Bishop of Orkney 1664–1676 * John Honyman (1613–1636), English actor * Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet (1756–1835), also known as Lord Armadale, Scottish landowner and judge from Orkney * George Honyman (1819–1875), English judge * Robert Honyman (Royal Navy officer) (1765–1848), Royal Navy Admiral, Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland 1796–1806 * Robert Honyman (British Army officer) (1781–1808), Lt Colonel in the Army, MP for Orkney and Shetland 1806–07 * Sir Richard Honyman, 2nd Baronet (1787–1842), MP for Orkney and Shetland 1812–18 See also * Honeyman (other) *Honyman baronets The Honyman Baronetcy, of Armadale in the County of Orkney, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 May 1804 for William Honyman, a Lord of Session under the judicial title ''Lord A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet
Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet (December 1756 – 5 June 1835), also known by his judicial title Lord Armadale, was a Scottish landowner, and judge from Orkney. On his lands in Sutherland he was one of the first landlords to evict tenants in order to create sheep farms, a process which grew to become the Highland Clearances. He used his political power in Orkney to return as Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland first his brother Robert, then his son Robert, and finally a younger son Richard. Early life His father, Patrick Honyman of Graemsay, was a great grandson of Andrew Honyman, a 17th-century Bishop of Orkney. The family claimed maternal descent from Sir Robert Stewart, an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. His mother Margaret MacKay, was the elder daughter of Captain. John MacKay, 5th Laird of Strathy (died 1783) and descendant of John MacKay, 2nd Lord Reay & 15th Chief of Clan MacKay (c1612-80) Legal career Honyman was called to the bar i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Honyman, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Bempdé Johnstone Honyman, 2nd Baronet (4 May 1787 – 23 February 1842) was a Scottish people, Scottish official of the British East India Company who served for six years in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland. Early life Honyman was the second son of Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet, SCJ (Lord Armadale), of Armadale, Sutherland, Armadale in Sutherland and Graemsay in Orkney. His mother Mary was a daughter of the notorious judge Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield. The family claimed maternal descent from Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Sir Robert Stewart, an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. He was educated in England at Eton College, Eton, and in 1806 he joined the British East India Company as a British East India Company#Writers, writer (junior clerk). After several promotions he became deputy commercial resident in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Honyman (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Robert Honyman ( 1765 – 31 July 1848) was a Scottish people, Scottish admiral in the British Royal Navy who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and in the Napoleonic Wars. A native of Orkney, he also held office for ten years as a member of parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland. Early life and family Honyman was born in about 1765, the oldest son of Patrick Honyman of Graemsay, Orkney. His mother Margaret, a daughter of Patrick Sinclair of Durwin, was his father's second wife. His older half-brother William Honyman, William Honyman, Lord Armadale was a Lord of Justiciary. The family claimed maternal descent from Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Sir Robert Stewart, an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. He married before 1808 Margaret Henrietta Knight, the granddaughter of Admiral John Knight (Royal Navy officer), Sir John Knight. They had one son and one daughter. Royal Navy Honyman joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Honyman
Sir George Essex Honyman, 4th Baronet (22 January 1819–16 September 1875) was an English judge. Life Honyman was born at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 22 January 1819. His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red. She died at Boulogne 28 October 1864. The eldest son, George Essex, was received in 1838 into the office of ''Martineau, Malton, & Trollope'', solicitors, of Lincoln's Inn. In 1840 he became a pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and afterwards read with David Octavius Gibbons, the special pleader. In 1842 he commenced practice as a pleader. For seven years he had few clients, but studied hard, and mastered commercial law. On 8 June 1849 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and went the home circuit, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Honyman (British Army Officer)
Colonel Robert Honyman ( 1781 – 20 November 1808) was a British Army officer from Orkney, Scotland, who briefly held office as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland. Honyman was born in about 1781, the oldest child of the lawyer William Honyman (later the Lord of Session Lord Armadale) and his wife Mary, the daughter of Lord Braxfield. He served as Major (British Army), major in Reay’s Fencibles from 1794 to 1798, and was then on half-pay with the Yorkshire Fusiliers until 1802. He served as a volunteer during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt, where he impressed senior officers including John Moore (British Army officer), Sir John Moore. He was brevet (military), brevet Lieutenant Colonel in 1802, and the following year was a major in the 93rd Foot, which he led in 1806 in the successful attack on the Cape of Good Hope under Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, Sir David Baird. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Honyman
John Honyman (1613 – April 1636), also Honeyman, Honiman, Honnyman, or other variants, was an English actor of the Caroline era. He was a member of the King's Men, the most prominent playing company of its era, best known as the company of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage. Honyman belonged to the generation that followed Shakespeare and Burbage. He was christened on 7 February 1613, in the parish of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. An apprentice of John Shank, he started his career as a boy player filling female roles; in his teens he was playing leading female parts, Domitilla in '' The Roman Actor'' (1626) and Sophia in '' The Picture'' (1629), both plays by Philip Massinger, and Clarinda in Lodowick Carlell's '' The Deserving Favourite'' (also 1629). Some boy actors of Honyman's era made successful transitions from filling lead female roles as boys to lead male roles as young men; Stephen Hammerton and Richard Sharpe are two examples of this successful transitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Honeyman
Andrew Honeyman or Honyman (1619–1676) was a Scottish priest: he was Bishop of Orkney from 1664 until 1676. Life He was born in 1619, the son of David Honeyman of Pitairchney, a baker of St Andrews. His brother was Rev Dr Robert Honyman DD, minister of St Andrews. He was a graduate of the University of St Andrews in 1635, and was presented to the parish of Ferry-Port on Craig in 1641. In 1664 he succeeded Thomas Sydserf as Bishop of Orkney based at Kirkwall Cathedral. Answering ''Naphtali'', a Covenanter pamphlet of 1667, Honeyman became involved in a polemic exchange with James Stewart, one of the presumed authors. He was injured in the arm in the assassination attempt made by James Mitchell on James Sharp on 9 July 1668. He died at Kirkwall on 21 February 1676. He is buried in Kirkwall Cathedral. His position as bishop was filled by Murdoch MacKenzie. Family He married firstly Sept. 1642, Euphan (died 27 March 1668), daugh. of Samuel Cunningham, min. of Ferry-P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeyman (other)
Honeyman may refer to: In people: * Aaron Honeyman (born 1972), Australian basketball player *Andrew Honeyman, Bishop of Orkney 1664-76 * Ben Honeyman (born 1977), Australian former football (soccer) player *George Honeyman (born 1994), English footballer * James Honeyman-Scott (1956 – 1982), commonly referred to as "Jimmy", English rock guitarist, songwriter * John Honeyman (1729 - 1822), American spy and British Loyalist double agent *John Honeyman (1831-1914), architect, partner in Honeyman and Keppie * Katrina Honeyman (1950-2011), British economic historian * Nan Wood Honeyman (1881 – 1970), American politician * Tom Honeyman (1891–1971), director of the Glasgow Art Gallery * Victoria Honeyman (born 1978), British politics academic In places: * Honeyman Island, Nunavut, Canada In other uses: * '' Honeyman: Live 1973'', album by Tim Buckley * Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park, Florence, Oregon, USA * " Honeyman"; a song written and sung by Cat Stevens and Elto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
