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John Parnell (other)
John Parnell may refer to: * John Parnell (1680–1727), Irish MP for Granard 1713–22 * Sir John Parnell, 1st Baronet (c. 1720–1782), Irish M.P. for Maryborough * Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet (1744–1801), Irish M.P. for Queen's County 1783–1801 * John Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton (1805–1883) * John Parnell (cricketer) (1811–1859), Irish-born English cricketer with amateur status * John Howard Parnell (1843–1923), Parnellite Nationalist MP for South Meath * John Parnell Thomas (1895–1970), stockbroker and politician * Jack Parnell John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English musician and musical director. Biography Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London, England. His uncle was the theatrical impresario Val Parnell. During hi ... (John Russell Parnell, 1923–2010), English bandleader and musician * John A. Parnell (born 1964), professor of management at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke {{hndis, Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parnell (1680–1727)
John Parnell (1680–1727) was an Irish politician and judge. He was the brother of the poet Thomas Parnell and ancestor of Charles Stewart Parnell. He was considered to be one of the less gifted members of a remarkable family. He was born in Dublin, second son of Thomas Parnell (died 1685) of Portlaoise, originally from Congleton Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The town is by the River Dane, south of Manchester and north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 26,482. Top ... in Cheshire, and his wife Anne Grice (died 1709) of Kilosty, County Tipperary, whom he married in 1674.Ball pp.196-7 He went to school in Dublin and matriculated from Trinity College Dublin in 1694. He entered the Inner Temple in 1698 and was called to the Irish Bar in 1706. He became King's Counsel in 1715 and was appointed counsel to the Revenue Board. He was a member of the King's Inns and became its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granard (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Granard was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. History In the Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ... of 1689 summoned by James II, Granard was not represented. Members of Parliament, 1679–1801 1689–1801 Notes References Bibliography * * {{coord missing, County Longford Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Longford 1679 establishments in Ireland 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies established in 1679 Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Parnell, 1st Baronet
Sir John Parnell, 1st Baronet (c. 1720–1782), was an Irish politician and a baronet. Biography He was the only son of John Parnell (1680–1727), Esq., MP and later Judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland), and Mary, sister of the Lord Chief-Justice William Whitshed. His uncle, the Rev. Thomas Parnell was the archdeacon of Clogher in 1705, prebendary of Dublin in 1713, vicar of Finglas in 1718, and poet, friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He was appointed High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1753. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Maryborough in 1761, and was created a Baronet of Rathleague, Queen's County, on 3 November 1766. Sir John married Anne, second daughter of Michael Ward, of Castle Ward, County Down, one of the judges of the court of King's Bench in Ireland and Anna Catherine Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangor, County Down. Anne was the sister of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor. Sir John Parnell died in 1782, and was succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet (25 December 1744 – December 1801) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament. Biography A Church of Ireland landowner, his family had originally migrated to Ireland from Congleton in Cheshire. Although not from a Roman Catholic Irish background, Parnell is renowned in Irish history for his efforts to bring about a more emancipated country and was the great-grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Home Rule campaign. Parnell first served in the Parliament of Ireland as one of the members for Bangor, from 1767 to 1768. He later sat for Queen's County from 1783 until the Union with Great Britain created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. After the Union, he gained a seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for a short time as member for Queen's County, but died in December of the same year. From a line of politically astute ancestors who had moved to Ireland in the 17th century, Parnell rose to the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton
John Vesey Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton (16 June 1805 – 23 October 1883) was the son of Sir Henry Brooke Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton (3 July 1776 – 8 June 1842) and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Dawson-Damer (died 16 February 1861). Life Parnell was educated in France, then at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Congleton, of Congleton, Chester, on 8 June 1842. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baronet Parnell, of Rathleague, Queen's County on 8 June 1842. He was related to the Irish patriot Charles Stewart Parnell. Parnell's life was marked by simplicity: when he lived in Teignmouth, Devon he took a modest house for the annual rent of £12.00. His uncarpeted home was furnished with simple wooden chairs, a plain, unvarnished deal table, steel cutlery and pewter teaspoons, and generosity: he was accustomed to devoting half his income to Christian works. Among his friends he counted George Muller, the well-known Brethren philanthropist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parnell (cricketer)
John Henry Parnell (14 August 1811 – 3 August 1859) was an Anglo-Irish cricketer with amateur status who was active in 1831. He was born in Avondale, County Wicklow and died in Dublin. He made his first-class debut in 1831 and appeared in one match as an unknown handedness batsman whose bowling style is unknown, playing for Cambridge University. He scored 25 runs with a highest score of 22 * and took no wickets. A grandson of Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet, Parnell was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1834 he married Delia Tudor Stewart (1816–1898), daughter of Commodore (later Admiral) Charles Stewart, U.S. Navy. They had eleven children including the Irish nationalist politicians Charles Stewart Parnell and John Howard Parnell. John Parnell was High Sheriff of Wicklow The High Sheriff of Wicklow was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wicklow, Ireland from Wicklow's formation in 1606 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howard Parnell
John Howard Parnell (1843 – 3 May 1923) was an older brother of the Irish Nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and after his brother's death was himself a Parnellite Nationalist Member of Parliament, for South Meath from 1895 to 1900. From 1898 he was also Dublin City Marshal. Biography John Howard Parnell was the fifth child of John Henry Parnell of Avondale, Co. Wicklow and of his wife Delia, daughter of Commodore Charles Stewart of the US Navy. They met when the twenty year old John Henry Parnell, now owner of Collure in Armagh and Clonmore in Carlow, decided, after the death of his father, to go on a long tour in America and Mexico with his cousin, Lord Powerscourt. Soon after they arrived in America they met in Washington Delia Tudor Stewart, a girl of seventeen, conspicuous in the social and political life of the city. In 1834 they were married in New York, and returned to Ireland. John Howard Parnell was educated in Paris, Chipping Norton and School of Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican. He was later a convicted criminal who served nine months in federal prison for corruption. Early life and career Born as John Parnell Feeney Jr. in Jersey City, New Jersey, he changed his name in 1919 to John Parnell Thomas. Raised Catholic, he later became an Episcopalian. After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he served overseas with the United States Army. Following his discharge from the military in 1919, Thomas worked in the investment securities and insurance business in New York City for the next eighteen years. He entered Allendale, New Jersey, municipal politics in 1925 and was elected councilman and then Mayor of Allendale, New Jersey from 1926 to 1930. He was elected to a two-year term to the Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Parnell
John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English musician and musical director. Biography Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London, England. His uncle was the theatrical impresario Val Parnell. During his military service in the 1940s he became a member of Buddy Featherstonhaugh’s Radio Rhythm Club Sextet and played drums with Vic Lewis and other servicemen who were keen on jazz. From 1944 to 1946 Parnell recorded with Lewis, and the Lewis-Parnell Jazzmen’s version of "Ugly Child". During the 1940s and 1950s, he was voted best drummer in the ''Melody Maker'' poll for seven years in succession. He composed many television themes, including '' Love Story'' (for which he won the Harriet Cohen Award), ''Father Brown'', ''The Golden Shot'' and ''Family Fortunes''. He was a regular judge on the ATV talent show ''New Faces''. He was also the musical director for ''The Benny Hill Show''. He was appointed as the musical director for ATV in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
