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Henry Oxenden (poet)
Henry Oxenden, or Oxinden (18 January 1609 – June 1670), was an English poet. Early life Oxenden was the eldest son of Richard Oxinden (1588–1629), of Little Maydekin in Barham, Kent and Katherine, daughter of Sir Adam Sprakeling of Canterbury. He was born in the parish of St. Paul's, Canterbury. His grandfather was Sir Henry Oxinden (d. 1620) of Dene in Wingham, Kent. His first cousins included Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet, who was M.P. for Sandwich in 1660, and who was created a baronet, and Sir George Oxenden, governor of Bombay. He matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 10 November 1626, and graduated B.A. 1 April 1627. He was appointed rector of Radnage Radnage is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills about two miles north east of Stokenchurch and six miles WNW of High Wycombe. The parish is set in folds of the Chilter ... in Buckinghamshire in 1663, and held that benefi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barham, Kent
Barham is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England. Barham village is approximately south-east from Canterbury and north from Folkestone. History The name Barham was spelt ''Bioraham'' in 799, from ''Biora'' (derived from ''Beora'', a Saxon chief) and ''Ham'' ("settlement" or "homestead"). Just outside Barham stood the Black Mill, a windmill which was accidentally burnt down in 1970. Barham Downs Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1890. The club disappeared following the First World War. Geography The land of the village is a mostly rural and wooded right-angled triangle of land (irregular in shape) commencing with the A2 road between Canterbury and Dover on its north-east border, with its housing grouped among wooded hills and pasture of the village. Elevations range between 138 feet (42m) in the north to 427 feet (130m) in the south-west. Barham Downs are wooded hills north-west of the village centre. The Nailbourne, a tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingham, Kent
Wingham is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village lies along the ancient coastal road, now the A257, from Richborough to London, and is close to Canterbury. History A settlement at Wingham has existed since the Stone Age but only became established as a village in Roman times. The ''Domesday book'' tells us that during Anglo-Saxons, Saxon times Wingham manor was in possession by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wingham was the administrative centre of the hundred of Wingham which included Fleet, Kent, Fleet. In 1286, John Peckham, Archbishop Peckham founded a college in Wingham; many other buildings in Wingham date back to this time, including the Grade II listed 'The Dog Inn' and (also listed) 'The Eight Bells'. St Mary's Church, Wingham, St Mary the Virgin, the present Grade I listed church of Wingham, dates from the early 13th century with fabric dating from the Norman to Victorian eras. The East Kent Light Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet
Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet (10 July 1690 – 21 April 1720) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1720. Oxenden was the son of George Oxenden LLD master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and his wife Elizabeth Dixwell daughter of Sir Basil Dixwell Bt. He was admitted at Trinity Hall Cambridge on 6 January 1707. In 1709 he succeeded his uncle Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet in the baronetcy. His inheritance resulted in considerable litigation as the third baronet's will was contested by Sir Henry Penrice. Oxenden married Anne Holloway, daughter of John Holloway a barrister on 27 July 1712. Oxenden inherited from his uncle the family interest at Sandwich, Kent and stood unsuccessfully for parliament there at a by-election on 17 April 1713. At the 1713 general election he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich. He was elected in a contest at Sandwich at the 1715 general election. In Parliament, he voted as a Whig but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sandwich was a parliamentary constituency in Kent, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1366 until 1885, when it was disfranchised for corruption. History Sandwich like most of the other Cinque Ports, was first enfranchised in the 14th century. As a Cinque Port it was technically of different status from a parliamentary borough, but the difference was in most respects purely a nominal one. (The writ for election was directed to the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, rather than the sheriff of the county, and its MPs were termed "barons" rather than "burgesses" as in boroughs.) Until 1832, the constituency consisted of the three parishes making up the town of Sandwich; it had once been a flourishing port but by the 19th century the harbour had silted up and there was only a limited maritime trade. The right to vote was reserved to the freemen of the town, whether or not they were resident within the borough. In 1831 this amounted to 955 qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxenden Baronets
The Oxenden Baronetcy, of Dene in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 6 May 1678 for Sir Henry Oxenden, previously Member of Parliament for Winchelsea, Kent and Sandwich. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich and Kent. His younger brother, the third Baronet, was Deputy Governor of Bombay. The fourth Baronet was the son of George Oxenden, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, who was the third son of the 1st Baronet. He was Member of Parliament for Sandwich for over thirty years. The sixth Baronet inherited the Kentish estate of the Dixwell baronets at Broome Park which became the family seat. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1924. Oxenden baronets, of Dene (1678) * * Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet (1614–1686) * Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet (1641–1708) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet (1645–1709) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet (1690–1720) * Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Oxenden (governor)
Sir George Oxenden (1620–1669) was the first governor of the Bombay Presidency during the early rule of the British East India Company in India. Early life He was the third son of Sir James Oxenden of Dene, Kent, knight, and of Margaret, daughter of Thomas Nevinson of Eastry, Kent, and was baptised at Wingham on 6 April 1620. He spent his youth in India, and on 24 November 1661 was knighted at Whitehall Palace. At the time the London East India Company had a new charter from Charles II, but the king's marriage to Catherine of Braganza involved the company because the island of Bombay had, under the marriage treaty, been ceded by Portugal to England, and it lay within the company's territories. The court of directors in March 1661 resolved to restore their trade in the East Indies, and appointed, on 19 March 1662, Sir George Oxenden to the post of president and chief director of all their affairs at Surat, and all other their factories in the north parts of India, from Ceylon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Bombay
Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians trace back urban settlement to the late 17th century after the British secured the seven islands from the Portuguese to establish a secure base in the region. The islands provided the British with a sheltered harbour for trade, in addition to a relatively sequestered location that reduced the chances of land-based attacks. Over the next two centuries, the British dominated the region, first securing the archipelago from the Portuguese, and later defeating the Marathas to secure the hinterland. Bombay Presidency was one of the three Presidencies of British India; the other two being Madras Presidency, and Bengal Presidency. It was in the centre-west of the Indian subcontinent on the Arabian Sea. It was bordered to the north-west, north, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12th oldest college in Oxford. The college, situated on Merton Street between Merton College and Christ Church, is one of the smallest in Oxford by student population, having around 250 undergraduates and 90 graduates. It is academic by Oxford standards, averaging in the top half of the university's informal ranking system, the Norrington Table, in recent years, and coming second in 2009–10. The college's role in the translation of the King James Bible is historically significant. The college is also noted for the pillar sundial in the main quadrangle, known as the Pelican Sundial, which was erected in 1581. Corpus achieved notability in more recent years by winning University Challenge on 9 May 2005 and once again on 23 February 2009, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rector (ecclesiastical)
A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations. In contrast, a vicar is also a cleric but functions as an assistant and representative of an administrative leader. Ancient usage In ancient times bishops, as rulers of cities and provinces, especially in the Papal States, were called rectors, as were administrators of the patrimony of the Church (e.g. '). The Latin term ' was used by Pope Gregory I in ''Regula Pastoralis'' as equivalent to the Latin term ' (shepherd). Roman Catholic Church In the Roman Catholic Church, a rector is a person who holds the ''office'' of presiding over an ecclesiastical institution. The institution may be a particular building—such as a church (called his rectory church) or shrine—or it may be an organization, such as a parish, a mission or quasi-parish, a seminary or house of studies, a university, a hospital, or a community of clerics or religious. If a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radnage
Radnage is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills about two miles north east of Stokenchurch and six miles WNW of High Wycombe. The parish is set in folds of the Chiltern Hills to the south of Bledlow Ridge next to the border with Oxfordshire. Although not a large parish, the residential areas known as the City, Bennett End and Town End, are separate hamlets. Radnage (also spelled Radeneach, Rodenache etc. in old documents) meant ‘red oak’ in Old English. History Settlement in the area dates back to Roman times as demonstrated by the excavation of a Romano-British glass ribbed bowl from the village, now in the British Museum. Radnage is not mentioned in Domesday Book and it appears from a 13th-century document to have been royal demesne attached to the manor of Brill. Later, it was divided into two parts. The smaller part was granted by King Henry I to the newly established Fontevrault Abbey in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denton, Kent
Denton is a village in the civil parish of Denton with Wootton, and the Dover District of Kent, England. The village is northwest from the channel port of Dover, and east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone. The A260 road, A260 Barham, Kent, Barham to Folkestone road runs through the village, and the major A2 road (Great Britain), A2 London to Dover road is to the east. Wootton, the other parish village, is 1 mile to the southeast. To the southwest of the village is the Grade II* listed building, listed Jacobean architecture, Jacobean timber framed Tappington (or Tappington-Everard) Hall which dates to the 16th century. The house is where the cleric Richard Barham (1788–1845), under the pen name Thomas Ingoldsby, wrote ''The Ingoldsby Legends''.John Charles Cox, Cox, J. Charles (1903), ''The Little Guides: Kent'', p. 141. Revised by Ronald F. Jessop. Methuen Publishing, Methuen & Co. Ltd. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Gardiner (historian)
Dorothy Gardiner (born Dorothy Kempe) (31 August 1873 – 23 January 1957) was a British non-fiction writer and historian. Life Gardiner was born in London in 1873. Her parents were Mary Jane, Lady Kempe and Sir John Arrow Kempe, who served as Comptroller and Auditor General. Her uncles included the amateur mathematician Sir Alfred Bray Kempe and the electrical engineer Harry Robert Kempe. She benefitted and was later aware of the improvements that had been made in the educational opportunities open to women. She was able to study English in Oxford at Lady Margaret Hall and gained a third class degree. Gardiner wrote poetry which was published in periodicals. She wrote for the Early English Text Society, ''The Legend of the Holy Grail: Its Sources, Character and Development'' in 1905. In the following year she began working for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. She was the honorary secretary of their committee on women's work until 1910. She decided to study the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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