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John Strangways (died 1676)
John Strangways (15 October 1636 – 6 April 1676) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1661 to 1676. Origins He was the eldest son of Giles Strangways (d.1675). His brothers were Thomas Strangways (1643–1713), Thomas Strangways (1643–1713), MP, and Wadham Strangways, MP. Career He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford (founded by the son of his ancestor John Wadham (d. 1578)) on 25 July 1655 and was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1658. In 1661 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Bridport (UK Parliament constituency), Bridport, Dorset, in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Dorset from 1661 to 1674. In 1662 he was made a freeman of Lyme Regis. He succeeded his father in 1675 and in that year he became commissioner for recusants for Dorset 1675, colonel of the foot militia, Deputy Lieutenant and steward of the manors of Fordington and Ryme. Marriage and children Strangways married twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1661–1679
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1676 Deaths
Events January–March * January 29 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. * January 31 – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the oldest institution of higher education in Central America, is founded. * January – Six months into King Philip's War, Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Algonquian tribe known as the Wampanoag, travels westward to the Mohawk nation, seeking an alliance with the Mohawks against the English colonists of New England; his efforts in creating such an alliance are a failure. * February 10 – After the Nipmuc tribe attacks Lancaster, Massachusetts, colonist Mary Rowlandson is taken captive, and lives with the Indians until May. * February 14 – Metacomet and his Wampanoags attack Northampton, Massachusetts; meanwhile, the Massachusetts Council debates whether a wall should be erected around Boston. * February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1636 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – ''The Duke's Mistress'', the last play by James Shirley, is given its first performance. * February 21 – Al Walid ben Zidan, Sultan of Morocco, is assassinated by French renegades. * February 26 – Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641. * March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway gives an order, that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers. * March 13 (March 3 Old Style) – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press, as the second of the privileged presses in England. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bowerman (MP)
George Oliver Bowerman (born 6 November 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cradley Town. He began his career with Walsall, and spent brief periods with non-League clubs Redditch United and Woking before joining Accrington Stanley in October 2013. Career Walsall Bowerman was born in Sedgley, West Midlands, and came through the Walsall youth academy to sign professional forms with the club in summer 2010. In February 2011, he joined Conference North club Redditch United on loan to gain first team experience. Despite not featuring for the Saddlers in 2010–11, he was given a new six-month contract at the end of the season. He made his Walsall debut at the Bescot Stadium on 9 August 2011, replacing Ryan Jarvis 81 minutes into a 3–0 defeat to Middlesbrough in the League Cup. He scored his first professional goal after coming on as a substitute in a 4–2 home defeat to Bury on 19 November. Bowerman began 2012–13 with six goals from eleven g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Bishop
Humphrey Bishop (c 1612 - 1675) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661. Biography Bishop was the eldest son of John Bishop of Chilcombe, Dorset and his wife Elizabeth Hawley, daughter of Francis Hawley of Buckland Sororum, Somerset and Corfe Castle, Dorset. He succeeded his father to the estate at Chilcombe before 1641. He was commissioner for assessment for Dorset from August 1660 to 1674. He was a colonel of foot militia by November 1660 when he became a Freeman of Poole. He was one of those nominated to become Knight of the Royal Oak with an estate valued £800 per annum. In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bridport in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for corporations from 1661 to 1663. In 1662, he became a Freeman of Lyme Regis, a commissioner for loyal and indigent officers The Commissioners for loyal and indigent officers were a body formed by a 1662 Act of the Parliament of England (14 Car. 2 c. 8) to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Henley
Henry Henley (1612–1696) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1653 and 1681. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Henley was the eldest surviving son of Henry Henley of Leigh and his wife Susan Bragge, daughter of William Bragge of Sadborow, Thorncombe, Devon. On his father's death in 1639 he inherited estates at Leigh, Winsham, Somerset and Colway, Lyme Regis, Dorset. He became a colonel in the Parliamentary army in around 1643 and was a commissioner for sequestrations, assessment and levying of money for Somerset in 1643. In 1644 he was assessment commissioner for Somerset and Dorset and in 1646 became J.P. for Somerset until 1654. He was commissioner for rebuilding at Beaminster in 1647 and was JP for Devon from 1647 to 1657. He became High Sheriff of Dorset in 1648. In 1653, Henley was nominated Member of Parliament for Somerset in the Barebones Parliament. He was commissioner for execution of ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet
Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet (4 April 1625 – 6 July 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Drake was the son of Sir John Drake of Mount Drake and Ashe, and his wife Eleanor Boteler, daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield. In 1660, Drake was elected Member of Parliament for Bridport in the Convention Parliament. He was created baronet of Ashe, in the County of Devon on 31 August 1660. Drake died at the age of 44. Drake married, firstly, Jane Yonge, daughter of Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet, and, secondly, Dionysia Strode, daughter of Sir Richard Strode of Newnham. Drake was succeeded by his three sons from both marriages in turn. His sister Elizabeth married Sir Winston Churchill and was the mother of the first Duke of Marlborough General (United Kingdom), General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shroton
Iwerne Courtney (), also known as Shroton, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies approximately north-west of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the small River Iwerne between Hambledon Hill to the south-west and the hills of Cranborne Chase to the east. In 2001 the parish had 187 households and a population of 400. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 410. Toponymy The names Iwerne Courtney and Shroton both have long histories. Iwerne () is a Celtic rivername that perhaps refers to a goddess or may mean "yew-river". The village was recorded as ''Ywern'' in 877 AD, and in 1086 in the Domesday Book it was ''Werne''. The addition of Courtney is a result of land by the Iwerne stream being owned in the 13th century by the Courtenay family, the Earls of Devon. The name Shroton derives from the Old English ''scīr-rēfa'' and ''tūn'', meaning "sheriff's estate" or "sheriff's town",North Dorset District Council, ''Official District Guide'', Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell Of Hadham
Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell (20 February 16089 March 1649), of Hadham Hall and Cassiobury House, Watford, both in Hertfordshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Capell. He supported the Royalist cause in the Civil War and was executed on the orders of parliament in 1649. Life Capell was the only son of Sir Henry Capell, of Rayne Hall, Essex, and his wife Theodosia Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton House, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire in the Short Parliament, and was re-elected MP for Hertfordshire for the Long Parliament in November 1640. At first, he supported the opposition of the arbitrary government of King Charles I of England. On 5 December 1640, he delivered the "Petition from the county of Hertfordshire", outlining grievances against the King, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall, known as The Cobb, appears in Jane Austen's novel ''Persuasion'', the John Fowles novel ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and the 1981 film of that name, partly shot in the town. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis joined Jamestown, Virginia in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census gave the urban area a population of 4,712, estimated at 4,805 in 2019. History In Saxon times, the abbots of Sherborne Abbey had salt-boiling rights on land adjacent to the River Lym, and the abbey once owned par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
