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James Du Pré
James Du Pré (1778–1870), of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician. He was the son of Josias Du Pre (1721-1780), former Governor of Madras and educated at Eton College (1791) and Christ Church, Oxford (1796-1800). He succeeded his father to Wilton Park in 1780. Du Pré was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain (and then the Parliament of the United Kingdom) for Gatton 29 Apr. 1800–1802, for Aylesbury 1802–1804 and for Chichester 1807–1812. He was selected High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for 1825–26. He married in 1801 Madelina, the daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 4th Bt., of Monreith, Wigtown, a niece of the Duchess of Gordon. They had 3 sons and 8 daughters, one of whom was the mother to the well-known politician Henry Labouchère Henry Du Pré Labouchère (9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilton Park Estate
The Wilton Park Estate is located in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. History The Wilton park estate once belonged to the monks of Burnham Abbey. It is mentioned in 1412, with John Amond as farmer. In 1702 it was acquired by the Basill family, who built a house on the estate. Sometime between 1760 and 1770 they sold the estate to Josias Du Pré, the future Governor of Madras. He commissioned the building of a mansion house on the estate, also known as the "White House", from Richard Jupp which was completed in 1779. In 1939 the house was taken over by the War Office and used as an interrogation centre for Nazi prisoners of war: German refugees working for the Allies would listen in secret into prisoners' conversations. After the Second World War the house was used by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to re-educate prisoners of war into the British way of life: between January 1946 and June 1948 approx 4,500 Germans were made to attend re-education classes there. The house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet
Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet (24 June 1758 – 25 August 1832) was an English banker and politician. He was born in Philadelphia the son of Captain Walter Stirling, RN of Faskine, Lanark and his wife Dorothy Willing of Philadelphia. He was Captain commandant then Major commandant of the Somerset Place Volunteers in 1798, Lieut-Col. of the Prince of Wales's Loyal Middlesex Volunteers in 1803-08 and a member of the London and Westminster Light Horse in 1803–07. He was a director of the Globe Insurance Co. and a junior partner in the bank of Hodsoll and Michel (later Hodsoll and Stirling) in the Strand. He was elected Member of Parliament, MP for Gatton (UK Parliament constituency), Gatton, Surrey from 1799 to 1802 and St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), St Ives, Cornwall from 1807 to 1820. He was created a baronet in 1800 and appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1804–05. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Society of Antiquaries and elected a Fellow o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke Of Richmond
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, (3 August 179121 October 1860), of Goodwood House near Chichester in West Sussex, was a British peer, soldier and prominent Conservative politician. Origins He was born "Charles Lennox", the son and heir of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond (1764-1819) by his wife Lady Charlotte Gordon, the eldest child of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon. Until his father's death in 1819 he was styled Earl of March, a courtesy title, being one of his father's subsidiary titles. Education He was educated at Westminster School in London and Trinity College, Dublin. Military career As Earl of March, he served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War, during which time he volunteered to join the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot's advance storming party on the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo.Moorsom, W.S. ''Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)'', London: Richard Bentley, 1860, p. 443 He formally joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George White-Thomas
George White-Thomas (1750 – 24 June 1821) was a British politician and the Member of Parliament for Chichester Chichester () is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only ci ... from 1784 to 1812. See also * List of MPs in the first United Kingdom Parliament References 1750 births 1821 deaths British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800 UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies {{England-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Steele (British Politician)
Thomas Steele (17 November 1753 – 8 December 1823) was a British politician at the turn of the nineteenth century. He was born the eldest son of Thomas Steele, Recorder of Chichester and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After studying law at the Middle Temple he was elected as MP for Chichester in 1780, holding the seat until 1807. He held the post of Joint Secretary to the Treasury from 1783 to 1791, Joint Paymaster of the Forces from 1791 to 1804, and King's Remembrancer from 1797 to 1823. He was a friend of William Pitt the Younger. He died in 1823. He had married Charlotte Amelia, the daughter of Sir David Lindsay, 4th Baronet, of Evelick, Perth and had a son and two daughters. Steel(e) Point, on Sydney Harbour, Australia, was named for him when he was Joint Secretary to the Treasury during the time of Arthur Phillip Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cavendish (Aylesbury MP)
Hon. George Henry Compton Cavendish (14 October 1784 – 22 January 1809) was an English Whig politician and British Army officer, the son of Lord George Cavendish, later Earl of Burlington. He was educated at Eton College. History of Parliament online article by R.G. Thorne. He was commissioned Cornet in the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, 7th Dragoons in 1801, and subsequently promoted Lieutenant in 1802, Captain in 1804, and Major in 1808, when in the latter year he joined his regiment serving in the . He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet
Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB (10 June 1757 – 11 March 1849) was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer in the American Revolutionary War, he fought with the Coldstream Guards under the Duke of York during the Flanders Campaign. He then commanded the Buckinghamshire Volunteers in the actions of St. Andria and Thuyl on the river Waal and participated in the disastrous retreat from the Rhine. He went on to be commander of the northern district of Ireland, in which post he played an important part in placating the people of Belfast during the Irish Rebellion, and then became Adjutant-General in Ireland. He went on to be Governor of Jamaica, commander of the Western District in England, commander of the Kent District in England and finally Commander-in-Chief, India. Early life Born the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. Edmund Nugent (who was the only son of Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent) and a Ms. Fennings. His father had another ille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cavendish (1783–1812)
William Cavendish MP (10 January 1783 – 14 January 1812) was an English nobleman and Whig politician. He was the son of Lord George Cavendish, later Earl of Burlington. He was educated at Eton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1800 and 1803. He went on a continental Grand Tour in 1803–04, during which he visited Berlin to see the Prussian Army reviews. Although this was during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, his own military service was at home; he was commissioned Captain in the Derbyshire Militia in 1803, was promoted Major in 1804, and was its Colonel from 1811 until his early death. History of Parliament online article by R.G. Thorne. He was elected MP for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bent
Robert Bent (c. 1745 – 1832), of 46 Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex and West Molesey, Surrey, was an English politician. He was a member of parliament for Aylesbury 1802 to 29 February 1804. He was unseated for petition on the grounds of bribery. Bent and his wife had two sons- Jeffery Hart Bent and Ellis Bent Ellis Bent (1783 – 10 November 1815) was the Deputy Judge Advocate between 1810 and 1815 of the Australian colony of New South Wales, which was eventually to become an Australian state. The Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales was the sen ..., both judges- and three daughters. References 1745 births 1832 deaths People from the London Borough of Camden People from Molesey Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1802–1806 {{England-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 United Kingdom General Election
The 1806 United Kingdom general election was the election of members to the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. This was the second general election to be held after the Acts of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The general election took place in a situation of considerable uncertainty about the future of British politics, following the sudden death of William Pitt the Younger and the formation of the Ministry of all the Talents. The second United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 24 October 1806. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 13 December 1806, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. Political situation Since the previous general election fighting in the Napoleonic Wars with France had resumed in 1803. Tories (British political party), Tory Prime Minister Henry Addington had resigned in 1804. William Pitt the Younger for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (27 July 1744 – 20 February 1808) was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the military in British India. Background He was the son of Lancelot Charles Lake (d. 1751) of Harrow-on-the-Hill and his wife Letitia Gumley, daughter of John Gumley. He was educated at Eton College. Lake entered the foot guards in 1758, becoming lieutenant (captain in the army) in 1762, captain (lieutenant-colonel) in 1776, major in 1784, and lieutenant colonel in 1792, by which time he was a general officer in the army. He served with his regiment in Germany between 1760 and 1762, and with a composite battalion in the Battle of Yorktown of 1781. After this he was equerry to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. His younger brother Warwick served as a groom of the bedchamber for the Prince, and later oversaw his stables of racehorses. In 1790, he became a major-general, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrope Bernard
Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland, 4th Baronet (1 October 1758 – 18 April 1830) was a British politician and baronet. Background Born Scrope Bernard in Pestel Amberg in New Jersey, he was the sixth and youngest son of Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet and Amelia Offley, daughter of Stephen Offley. In 1818, he succeeded his older brother Thomas as baronet. Bernard-Morland was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1779 and was promoted by seniority to Master of Arts two years later. In 1788, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws (DCL). One year later, Bernard-Morland became a member of the College of Laws in London, and in 1795, he was promoted Judge of the Episcopal Court of Durham. In 1811, by Royal Licence, he assumed the surname of Bernard-Morland to inherit the estates of his father-in-law. Career In 1782, Bernard-Morland was appointed Private Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, an office he held until 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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