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Henry Drax (born 1641)
Henry Drax (c. 1693–1755) of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire and Charborough, near Wareham, Dorset was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1718 and 1755. Drax was the eldest son of Thomas Drax (formerly Shatterden) of Pope's Common, Hertfordshire, Ellerton Abbey and Barbados and his wife Elizabeth Ernle, daughter of Edward Ernle of Etchilhampton, Wiltshire. He is also a grandson of James Drax, a wealthy planter in Barbados, who pioneered the cultivation of sugar with the use of African slave labour. Slave owner Thomas Shatterden inherited the estates of his mother's brother Colonel Henry Drax at Ellerton and in Barbados. By 1680, this Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantation in Barbados, then in parish of St. John. A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired 'proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown.' Shatterden changed his name to Drax in about 1692. This was a common practice among the heirs of wealthy planters in the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton Abbey
Ellerton Abbey is a civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Swale in lower Swaledale, south-west of Richmond. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2016. The parish consists of farmland, a few scattered houses and an area of moorland which is part of the army training area associated with Wathgill Camp. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Ellerton, not to be confused with the modern village of Ellerton-on-Swale 11 miles to the east, but there is no modern village in the civil parish. The parish includes Ellerton Abbey House and the adjacent ruins of Ellerton Priory. Etymology The place-name ''Ellerton'' derives from the Old English words ''elri'' "alder" and ''tun'' "farm or enclosure". The place was mentioned in the Domesday Book, as ''Elreton'', when it was held by Count Alan of Brittany. History Ellerton appears to have been a village in the Middle Ages. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1741 British General Election
The 1741 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw support for the government party increase in the quasi-democratic constituencies which were decided by popular vote, but the Whigs lost control of a number of rotten and pocket boroughs, partly as a result of the influence of the Prince of Wales, and were consequently re-elected with the barest of majorities in the Commons, Walpole's supporters only narrowly outnumbering his opponents. Partly as a result of the election, and also due to the crisis created by naval defeats in the war with Spain, Walpole was finally forced out of office on 11 February 1742, after his government was defeated in a motion of no confidence concerning a supposedly rigged by-election. His supporters were then able to reconcile partially with the Patriot Whigs to form a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Gould (died 1738)
Nathaniel Gould (–1738), of Crosby Square, London, was a British financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1729 to 1734. Gould was the second son of John Gould of Woodford, Essex. He was a Director of the Bank of England between 1722 and 1737, with statutory intervals. Gould was returned as Member of Parliament for Wareham at a by-election on 12 February 1729. He consistently supported the Administration. He was a member of Samuel Holden's dissenting deputies committee who discussed the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts with Walpole in November 1732 and December 1734. He lost his seat at the 1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Robert Walpole's incr ..., and did not stand again. Gould married Jane Thayer, daughter of Humphrey Thaye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tower (MP)
Thomas Tower (1698? – 2 September 1778) of Weald House, Essex was a British lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was born the second son of Christopher Tower, snr and the younger brother of Christopher Tower. After being educated at Harrow School (c.1711) and Trinity College, Oxford (1717) he entered the Inner Temple in 1717 to study law, being called to the bar in 1722 and becoming a bencher in 1751. In 1728 Tower succeeded his father to Mansfield, Buckinghamshire, and uncle Richard Hale to his Buckinghamshire and Essex estates. He was elected to Parliament for Wareham in 1729, sitting until 1734, after which he represented Wallingford from 1734 to 1741. In 1732, he became an active trustee and councilman for the newly formed colony of Georgia on the east coast of America. He bought Weald House near Brentwood, Essex, in 1759 and was High Sheriff of Essex for 1760–1761. He died unmarried in 1778. See also * Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scrope (MP)
John Scrope (circa 1662 – 9 April 1752) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1752. Early life Scrope was the son of Thomas Scrope, a Bristol merchant, the third son and ultimate heir of Colonel Adrian Scrope of Wormsley in Oxfordshire, the latter hung drawn and quartered after the restoration as one of the regicides of Charles I. Scrope was educated at the Middle Temple and called to the bar in 1692. In May 1708, following the Act of Union, he was appointed a Baron (judge) of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. In this capacity he was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal from 26 September 1710 (following Lord Cowper's resignation) to 19 October 1710, when Sir Simon Harcourt was appointed Lord Keeper. Secretary to the Treasury Scrope was elected to the Parliament of Great Britain for Ripon at the general election of 1722 He exchanged his office of Baron of the Exchequer for that of Secretary to the Treasury. He later sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burridge (died 1753)
John Burridge (c.1681–1753) of London and Lyme Regis, Dorset was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728. Burridge was the second son. of Robert Burridge merchant of Lyme Regis, and his wife Mary. He established himself as a London merchant and shipowner, trading to the West Indies, Spain and America but kept a business interest in the West country. He married Martha, Ledgingham, daughter of Warwick Ledgingham of Ottery St. Mary Devon in 1695. His wife had inherited the manor of Ottery St. Mary in Devon and his uncle, John Burridge. settled a reversionary life interest in the manor of Thorn Falcon in Somerset on him at the time of his marriage. Burridge later bought from his father the reversion of Charmouth in Dorset. Burridge became a Freeman of Lyme Regis 1704, and obtained a political interest of his own by making a loan of £300 to the corporation and securing a mortgage on the town's waterworks. At the beginning of 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Holt Henley
Henry Holt Henley (died 1748) of Leigh, Somerset, and Colway, Lyme Regis, Dorset, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1748. Henley was the only son of Henry Henley, MP of Leigh and Colway and his wife Catherine Holt, daughter of Richard Holt, MP of Nursted, Hampshire. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1716, and was called to the bar in 1722. He married Sarah Cornish daughter of Henry Cornish, MP of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Henley was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis at the 1722 general election. He was Mayor of Lyme Regis for 1724 to 1725. He was defeated at the 1727 general election but was seated on petition on 28 February 1728 after John Burridge John Burridge (born 3 December 1951), nicknamed Budgie, is an English former goalkeeper who is now working with Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters as their goalkeeping consultant and senior goalkeeping coach for their goalkeeping academ ..., a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gascoigne
Joseph Gascoigne (died 1728) of Chiswick, Middlesex and Weybridge, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1728. Gascoigne may have been related to Joseph Gascoigne (died 1685), chandler, of Chiswick, and Benjamin Gasoigne (died 1731), also of Chiswick who was father of Joseph and Sir Crisp Gascoigne, Lord mayor of London in 1752. Gascoigne was agent victualler for Port Mahon in 1709 and became Receiver-general in Minorca from 1712 until his death. At the 1722 general election he stood as a government supporter and was elected Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... for Wareham where he had no prior connection. He was again successful at the 1727 general election. There is no record of his speaking or votin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pitt (died 1745)
George Pitt (died 1745) of Shroton, Dorset and Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1727. Stratfield Saye House Pitt was born after 1691, the eldest son of George Pitt of Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire, and his first wife Lucy Pile, daughter of Thomas Pile of Baverstock, Wiltshire. and Shroton, Dorset. By 1721, he had married Mary Louisa Bernier, daughter of John Bernier of Strasburg, in Alsace. His mother had died on 17 November 1697 and in 1714 he succeeded to the Dorset estates of his maternal grandfather. Pitt was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Wareham on his family interest at a by-election on 18 April 1715 after his father, elected at the 1715 British general election, chose to sit for Hampshire instead. Like his father, he refused to sign the loyal association in December 1715. He voted against the septennial bill in 1716, but was absent from the divisions on the repeal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Drax
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 British General Election
The 1754 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Owing to the extensive corruption and the Duke of Newcastle's personal influence in the pocket boroughs, the government was returned to office with a working majority. The old parties had disappeared almost completely by this stage; anyone with reasonable hopes of achieving office called himself a 'Whig', although the term had lost most of its original meaning. While 'Tory' and 'Whig' were still used to refer to particular political leanings and tendencies, parties in the old sense were no longer relevant except in a small minority of constituencies, such as Oxfordshire, with most elections being fought on local issues and the holders of political power being determined by the shifting allegiance of factions and aristocratic families rather than the strengt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Erle Drax
Thomas Erle Drax (1721 – December 1789) was an English Tory politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for constituencies in Dorset in the 18th century. He was the son of Henry Drax, British MP and owner of slave plantations in Barbados and Jamaica. Political career Drax was MP for Corfe Castle from 1744 to 1747, and went on to be MP for Wareham between 1761 and March 1768. Slave ownership Drax owned plantations in Barbados and Jamaica, and he represented the interests of the planter class in the House of Commons. Personal life He was a member of the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family and lived at Charborough House Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Grade I listed building, the manor house of the ancient manor of Charborough. The house is between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, w .... References Further reading Charborough House 1721 births 1789 deaths British MPs 1741–174 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
