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John Ward (1650–1726)
Sir John Ward (c. 1650–1726), of Hookfield, Clay Hill, Epsom, Surrey and St Laurence Pountney, London, was a British merchant, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1726. He was an original Governor of the Bank of England and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1718. Ward was the second son of John Ward, commissioner of customs, of Tanshelf, near Pontefract, Yorkshire and his wife Elizabeth Vincent, daughter of Thomas Vincent of Barnbrough, Yorkshire. His uncle was Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of London in 1680. He married Mary Bucknell, the daughter of Sir William Bucknall of Oxhey Place, Hertfordshire on 17 April 1684. In 1700 he acquired Hookfield Park on Clay Hill Epsom, with the help of his father in law. Ward was one of the original directors of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1699, served as Deputy Governor from 1699 to 1701 and as Governor from 1701 to 1703. He then resumed his directorship from 1703 to his death. He was also a direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England started to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1800 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1715 British General Election
The 1715 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the 1707 merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. In October 1714, soon after George I had arrived in London after ascending to the throne, he dismissed the Tory cabinet and replaced it with one almost entirely composed of Whigs, as they were responsible for securing his succession. The election of 1715 saw the Whigs win an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, and afterwards virtually all Tories in central or local government were purged, leading to a period of Whig ascendancy lasting almost fifty years during which Tories were almost entirely excluded from office. The Whigs then moved to impeach Robert Harley, the former Tory first minister. After he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years, the case ultimately ended with his acquittal in 1717. Constituencies See 1796 British general electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Shepheard (died 1719)
Samuel Shepheard (c. 1648 – 4 January 1719), of St Magnus-the-Martyr, and Bishopsgate Street, London, was an English Member of Parliament for Newport 8 January to 15 April 1701 and London 1705–1708. Shepheard was a vintner. He went into partnership with Basil Firebrace. Shepheard was elected to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation for Bridge Ward, 1688–9. Shepheard was one of the "interlopers" who organised a syndicate who in 1697 used their political links with the whigs to set up the New East India Company. Shepheard used his connections with Charles Montagu, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to gain royal approval of the establishment of the new corporation through the passage of the East India Company Act 1697 East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (2 January 1652 – 25 January 1733), was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1733. He was a Governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711. Early life Heathcote was the eldest son of Gilbert Heathcote of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and his wife Anne Dickons, daughter of George Dickons of Chesterfield. He began his apprenticeship as a merchant overseas, and returned to England in 1680 to set himself up as a City trader. He became a Freeman of the Vintners' Company in 1681. On 30 May 1682, he married Hester Rayner, daughter of Christopher Rayner, merchant, of London. He was living in the parish of St Dunstan's-in-the-East in 1682 and established a business as a merchant in St Swithin's Lane trading in Spanish wines and other produce. He took his first step in Corporation government when elected Common Councilman for Walbrook ward in 1689. In 1690, he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow
Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow (27 November 1679 – 5 June 1740), of West Clandon, Surrey, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1702 and 1717. He commissioned the building of Clandon Park House in the 1730s. Early life Onslow was the only surviving son of Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow. He was educated at Eton College from 1691 to 1693, and the travelled abroad in Holland and France from 1697 to 1698. He married Elizabeth Knight, the daughter of John Knight, a merchant of Jamaica, and niece of Colonel Charles Knight, and was heir to both their fortunes. Political career He represented a continuous succession of constituencies in the Parliament of England and Great Britain. He first entered Parliament in 1702, aged 22 or 23, as the MP for Gatton, Surrey, an underpopulated rural borough that had once had a market in the medieval period. He was then returned in 1705 to represent the larger settlement of Chich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Evelyn (1678–1724) or DJ E.A.S.E
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George Evelyn may refer to: * George Evelyn (1617–1699), English politician, MP for Reigate, Haslemere, and Surrey * George Evelyn (1641–1699), English politician, MP for Bletchingley and Gatton (UK Parliament constituency) * George Evelyn (1678–1724), English politician, MP for Bletchingley (UK Parliament constituency) * George Evelyn (1970-), English musician/DJ, known as Nightmares on Wax George Evelyn (born 15 January 1970), better known by his stage name Nightmares on Wax or DJ E.A.S.E., is an English DJ and record producer from Leeds. His music has been released by Warp Records. He is based in Ibiza. Nightmares on Wax were or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Evelyn (1677–1702)
John Evelyn (3 October 1677 – 13 November 1702) was an English politician. A member of a prominent Surrey family, his career in Parliament was cut short after a few months by his premature death from smallpox. John was the eldest son of George Evelyn, of Godstone, and of his second wife Margaret Webb. He succeeded his father in the Godstone estate in 1699. On 5 May 1701, he obtained a marriage license with Ann Glynne, the daughter of John Glynne and granddaughter of the judge John Glynne, but the marriage does not appear ever to have been carried out. At the 1702 election he was returned unopposed at Bletchingley, where his father and grandfather had previously sat. On his journey to take his seat, he visited his second cousin once removed, the diarist John Evelyn, at Wotton, Surrey; the latter referred to him as "a young and very hopeful gentleman". Soon after the opening of Parliament, Evelyn contracted smallpox, and died on 13 November. His entailed estates passed to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Gresham, 2nd Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss. Etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Hare
The Honourable Hugh Hare (1668–1707) was an English translator and politician. Life He was baptised at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, 2 July 1668, the eldest surviving son of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, by his first wife, Constantia, daughter of Sir Richard Lucy, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. He lived at East Betchworth, Surrey. Hare, a Whig, was elected as Member of Parliament for Bletchingley in 1698, with Sir Robert Clayton. He was buried at Tottenham, 1 March 1707. Works Appointed chairman of the general quarter sessions for Surrey, held at Dorking, 5 April 1692, he delivered a "religious, learned, and loyal" charge, which he published by request (London, 1692; 2nd edit. 1696). From the Italian of Agostino Mascardi he translated ''An Historical Relation of the Conspiracy of John Lewis Count de Fieschi, against the City and Republick of Genoua in the year 1547'', London, 1693. He was also one of several who helped in the translation of the ''Works of Lucian'', 4 vols ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Houblon
Abraham Houblon (23 January 1640 – 11 May 1722) was Governor of the Bank of England from 1703 to 1705. He had been Deputy Governor from 1701 to 1703. He replaced John Ward and was succeeded by James Bateman. He was a brother of Sir James Houblon and Sir John Houblon. Abraham was born on 23 January 1640 and baptised at the French Church, Threadneedle Street, London. He married at Westminster Abbey on 2 January 1672, Dorothy Hubert, who was a niece of Henry King, bishop of Chichester, and granddaughter of John King, bishop of London. Abraham died on 11 May 1722 at Langley. His daughter Anne married Henry Temple, later 1st Viscount Palmerston.Edward J. Davies, "The Ancestry of Lord Palmerston", ''The Genealogist'', 22(2008):62-77. See also *Chief Cashier of the Bank of England The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Tench
Nathaniel Tench (died 1710) was Governor of the Bank of England from 1699 to 1701. He had been Deputy Governor from 1697 to 1699. He replaced William Scawen and was succeeded by John Ward. Tench became a landowner in Leyton. A monument to him was placed on the north wall of St Mary's Church, Leyton. On his estate, his son Sir Fisher Tench, 1st Baronet built a mansion, Leyton Great House, demolished 1905. See also *Chief Cashier of the Bank of England The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infrastructure. This person is known to the general ... References Governors of the Bank of England Year of birth missing 1710 deaths British bankers Deputy Governors of the Bank of England {{England-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Cashier Of The Bank Of England
The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infrastructure. This person is known to the general public because since 1870 the Chief Cashier's signature is printed on all bank notes issued by the Bank of England. In 2004 a new post was created, Executive Director of Banking & Chief Cashier, incorporating the title. The post is currently held by Sarah John who was appointed in June 2018. She is the 33rd Chief Cashier since the Bank was founded in 1694. Responsibilities The position has the following responsibilities: * The security and effective operation of real-time gross settlement in the UK’s high value payment systems (CHAPS and CREST). * Along with the Bank’s Sterling Markets Division they are also responsible for the provision of liquidity to the market and settlement banks. * The issuing and effective distribution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
