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James Harington (lawyer)
Sir James Harington of Exton (c. 1511 – 1592) was a 16th-century English public servant who fulfilled a number of legal, legislative and law enforcement duties and was knighted in 1565. Public career James Harington's legal career began at a young age when he was called to the Inner Temple in 1536. He served as Justice of the Peace in Kesteven, Lincolnshire in 1547, and in Rutland he became sheriff in 1553 and Justice of the Peace circa 1559. He continued to fulfill the duties of sheriff in 1560-61 and, following his knighthood in June 1565, returned to those duties in 1566–67, 1578–79 and, near the end of his life, in 1586–87. Additionally, by 1569, he served as Rutland Commissioner Musters. He was elected as a knight of the shire (MP) for Rutland in seven Parliamentary elections between 1554 and 1589. Harington attended the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots. Parentage, marriage and descendants Sir James Harington was the son of John Harington of Exton (died 1554) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone. It is the fifth most populous county in England, the most populous non-Metropolitan county and the most populous of the home counties. Kent was one of the first British territories to be settled by Germanic tribes, most notably the Jutes, following the withdrawal of the Romans. Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, the oldest cathedral in England, has been the seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury since the conversion of England to Christianity that began in the 6th century with Saint Augustine. Rochester Cathedral in Medway is England's second-oldest cathedral. Located between London and the Strait of Dover, which separates England from m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teversal
Teversal is a small village in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, west of Mansfield, close to Sutton-in-Ashfield and the boundary with Derbyshire. Former names include ''Tevershalt'', ''Teversholt'', ''Tyversholtee'', ''Teversale'', ''Tevershall'' and ''Teversall''. History Teversal (called Tevershall) is the site of fictional Wragby Hall, the home of Lady Chatterley in the novel ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' by D. H. Lawrence. As part of the history of Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield in 1190-1225 William Barry, Lord of Teversal was granted two tofts and crofts in Stanley, a hamlet within the Teversal area. The grant meant that there was sufficient area for a farm. The land now is now Stanley Grange Farm. In 1525 Thomas North owned the Grange, where he kept his sheep. In 1537 William Bolles owned the Grange, he was a receiver of the governments dissolved monasteries at the time. Bolles later owned Felley Priory after the priory was dissolved in 1536, as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Molyneux, 1st Baronet
Sir John Molyneux of Teversal ( fl. 1611-1640), High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Molyneux was the son of Thomas Molyneux (d. 1597) and Alice Cranmer of Aslockton, daughter of Thomas Cranmer, a great-nephew of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. After the death of Thomas Molyneux, Alice married Sir John Thorold of Syston. He may have attended Christ's College, Cambridge, listed as fellow-commoner in 1598. Molyneux was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1609 and 1611, and became the first of the Molyneux baronets of Teversal on 29 June 1611. Molyneux's first wife was Isobel Markham of Sedgebrook. His second wife was Anne Harington (d. 1644), widow of Sir Thomas Foljambe of Aldwark (d. 1604), and daughter of Sir James Harington of Ridlington and Frances Sapcote. In 1609 Molyneux was the administrator of the will of Bridget Markham, who was both his sister-in-law and his second wife's sister. She had been a lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark. In 1612 he remodelled Teversal Manor which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Markham
Bridget Markham (1579–1609), was a courtier to Anne of Denmark and subject of poems. Bridget was a daughter of Sir James Harington (1542–1614) of Ridlington, Rutland, and Frances Sapcote (d. 1599) daughter and co-heir of Robert Sapcote of Elton, Huntingdonshire. She was a cousin of the influential courtier Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford. Marriage and the court In 1598 she married Sir Anthony Markham (1577-1604) of Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire. He had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn. They were married at Ridlington, in Rutland, by the Rector, Thomas Gibson. She had four children. He was knighted by James VI and I at Belvoir Castle on 23 April 1603. He died on 10 December 1604. After her husband's death, Bridget became a lady of the bedchamber to Anne of Denmark, Queen consort of King James VI and I. This appointment was due to the influence of her cousin the Countess of Bedford. She continued to manage her lands at Sedgebrook. Bridget, Lady Markham, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Harington (1542-1614)
James Harington or Harrington may refer to: * Sir James Harrington (Yorkist knight), 15th century MP for Lancashire * James Harrington (priest) (16th century), dean of York * Sir James Harington (lawyer) (c. 1510–1592), English public servant * James Harrington, Lord Mayors of York in 1560 * James Harrington (author) (1611–1677), sometimes spelled Harington, English political philosopher, known for ''Oceana'' * James Harrington (1664–1693), lawyer and poet * James Harrington (Georgia politician), American politician who ran in the 2000 US House of Representatives elections in Georgia * James Harrington, former mayor of Brockton, Massachusetts * James C. Harrington, Texas civil rights lawyer Five Harington baronets have had the name James including: * James Harington (1542–1614) of Ridlington, brother of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington, MP for Rutland, high sheriff of Rutland and Oxfordshire * Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet (1607–1680), officer in the New Model A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pilkington (bishop)
James Pilkington (1520–1576), was the first Protestant Bishop of Durham from 1561 until his death in 1576. He founded Rivington Grammar School and was an Elizabethan author and orator. Early life James was the second son of Richard Pilkington of Rivington Hall, in the parish of Bolton le Moors and Alice Asshaw of Hall oth' Hill, near Heath Charnock in the parish of Chorley in Lancashire. His paternal ancestry is a junior line of the Pilkington family who owned land at Rivington from 1212 where they were Lords of the manor. James Pilkington's early education is speculated to have been at Manchester Grammar School. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1536, and moved to St John's College, Cambridge, from where he graduated B.A. in 1539, and M.A. in 1542. James Pilkington was appointed Vicar of Kendal in 1545. He resigned this position to return to Cambridge. From 1547 he was granted right to preach under the ecclesiastical seal. In 1550 he became president of the college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltinglass
Baltinglass, historically known as Baltinglas (), is a town in south-west County Wicklow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney near the border with County Carlow and County Kildare, on the N81 road. Etymology The town's Irish name, ''Bealach Conglais'' means "the way of Conglas". It was the name of a palace at Baltinglass, where, according to the Irish etymologist Patrick Weston Joyce, the powerful Leinster king Branduff resided in the sixth century. Conglas was a member of the mythological warrior collective, the Fianna. A nineteenth-century explanation is found in Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, where he says that the name, "according to most antiquaries," comes from ''Baal-Tin-Glas'', meaning the "pure fire of Baal," and that this suggests that the area was a centre for "druidical worship". The detailed study, ''The Place-names of County Wicklow'' by Liam Price provides several variations of the town name from the 12th century Book of Leinst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagworth
Bagworth is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bagworth and Thornton, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in Leicestershire, England, west of Leicester. In 1931 the parish had a population of 1568. History The village's name means 'the enclosure of Baecga'. There are records of the manor of Bagworth from the early 14th and early 15th centuries, when it was held by the same feudal lords as the neighbouring manor of Thornton. Bagworth Park is first recorded in 1279 under ownership of the Bishop of Durham. In 1318 Roger de Holland was given permission to fortify his property at Bagworth.Leicestershire Museums Archaeological fieldwork Group 2008, Monograph No 2, p.3 It is recorded under the ownership of Matilda Lovell in 1411. The Lovell family later sold the land to the Hastings family. Development of the site was granted to William, Lord Hastings by Edward IV in 1474 for "crenellation and emparkment of 2000 acres of land" along with the castle develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Harington (d
Henry Harington M.D. (1727–1816) was an English physician, musician and author. Life Born at Kelston, Somerset during September 1727, he was the son of Henry Harington of Kelston, and of Mary, daughter of Richard Backwell. On 17 December 1745 he matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1749, M.A. in 1752. While at Oxford he joined a musical society set up by William Hayes, and restricted to competent sight-readers. Dropping a plan of taking holy orders, Harington studied medicine, and in 1753 established himself as a physician at Wells, Somerset. He accumulated his degrees in medicine in 1762. In 1771 Harington moved to Bath, Somerset, where he composed in spare time, and founded the Bath Harmonic Society. The Duke of York appointed him his physician. He was also an alderman and magistrate of Bath, and served as mayor in 1793. Bath at that time had a substantial population of French exiles caused by the French Revolution, leading to tension, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Chichester (died 1627)
Sir Robert Chichester (1578–1627), (KB), lord of the manor of Raleigh in the parish of Pilton in Devon, was ''Custos Rotulorum'' and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620''. Exeter, 1895, p.174, pedigree of Chichester Biography He was the eldest son and heir of Sir John Chichester (died 1586), of Raleigh, Sheriff of Devon in 1585, by his wife Ann Dennis, the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Dennis (died 1592), of Holcombe Burnell, in Devon. He was a minor aged 8 at the death of his father in 1586 and went into wardship. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of King James I in 1603. He was Custos Rotulorum and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, and was Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, as is recorded on his monument in Pilton Church. Marriages and children Chichester married twice. His first wife was Frances Harington, one of the two daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Russell, Countess Of Bedford
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford ( Harington; 1580–1627) was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet. She was an ''adventurer'' (shareholder) in the Somers Isles Company, investing in Bermuda, where Harrington Sound is named after her. Parentage and marriage Lucy Harington was the daughter of Sir John Harington of Exton, and Anne Keilway. She was well-educated for a woman in her era, and knew French, Spanish, and Italian. She was a member of the Sidney/Essex circle from birth, through her father, first cousin to Sir Robert Sidney and Mary, Countess of Pembroke; she was a close friend of Essex's sisters Penelope Rich and Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, and the latter named one of her daughters Lucy after her. Lucy Harington married Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, on 12 December 1594, when she was thirteen year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
