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Leverington
Leverington is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England. The settlement is to the north of Wisbech. At the time of the 2001 Census, the parish's population was 2,914 people, including Four Gotes, increasing to 3,339 at the 2011 Census. History Leverington - an estate linked with a man called Leofhere. The 13th century church of St Leonard is a Grade I listed building, noted for its spire, restored 15th-century, a Tree of Jesse window, and carved font. Rectors of the parish have included John Ailleston, Richard Reynolds, James Nasmith, Thomas Yale and John Jenkinson. Dramatist Edmund John Eyre (1767–1816), was a son of a rector. Leverington Hall, originally constructed in the 17th century, is also Grade I listed. In the middle of the 19th century a peppermint distillery was located in the parish. Until 1870, Parson Drove and Gorefield were part of Leverington parish. Whirling Sunday The Foods of England website states "The ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leverington Hall
Leverington Hall is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Leverington, Cambridgeshire, England. The house is Grade I listed and is privately owned. History The parish of Leverington was not mentioned in the ''Domesday Book''. It is believed that an earlier building, Durham's Place, was on the site. Durham's Place was the property and residence of William Everard, son of Sir Lawrence Everard. The main body of the current house was built , with a crosswing added to the south end in the early 18th century. The first owner was Robert Swaine (d. 1705), son of Thomas Swaine of Wisbech. Robert Swaine is believed to have inherited substantial wealth through the deaths of his father and brother (also Thomas Swaine), and through his marriage in 1640 to Mary Freeman, daughter of London merchant William Freeman. Swaine added considerably to the property. Leverington Hall was passed into the hands of his only surviving son, Thomas (1645-1728), a justice of the peace. A lead rainwat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Stoops To Conquer
''She Stoops to Conquer'' is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is still regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled ''Mistakes of a Night'' and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, '' Tony Lumpkin in Town''. The play is notable for being the origin of the common English phrase, ''"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies."'' (appearing as 'fibs' in the play). Plot Act I Act I begins at the Hardcastles’ home in the countryside. Mrs. Hardcastle complains to her husband that they never leave their rural home to see the new things happening in the city. Hardcastle says he loves everything old, including his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorefield
Gorefield is a village and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 1,064 people, increasing to 1,184 at the 2011 census. The name Gorefield first appears in a manuscript from 1190. Gorefield as a developing village dates to the 19th and 20th centuries. The Church of St Paul was built in 1870 at a cost of £2,000 with the formation of the ecclesiastical parish of Gorefield from Leverington under the Leverington Rectory Act. In 2004, Gorefield won the Fenland District Award in the Cambridgeshire Village of the Year contest. History The corner-stone of the new church was laid on 28 April 1870 by Edward Bowyer Sparke, Esq., son of the late rector of Leverington. The church was built of flint with freestone dressings, the whole cost of the building having been provided for by the late Canon Sparke. Designed to accommodate nearly 300 persons. The contractors were Messrs. S. and W. Pattinson, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Cambridgeshire
A civil parishes in England, civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 264 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, most of the county being parished; Cambridge is completely unparished; Fenland District, Fenland, East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire are entirely parished. At the 2001 census, there were 497,820 people living in the parishes, accounting for 70.2 per cent of the county's population. History Parishes arose from Church of England divisions, and were originally purely ecclesiastical divisions. Over time they acquired civil administration powers.Angus Winchester, 2000, ''Discovering Parish Boundaries''. Shire Publications. Princes Risborough, 96 pages The Highways Act 1555 made parishes responsible for the upkeep of roads. Every adult inhabitant of the parish was obliged to work four days a year on the roads, providing their own tools, carts and horses; the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Nasmith
James Nasmith (1740–1808) was an English clergyman, academic and antiquary. Life The son of a carrier who came from Scotland, and plied between Norwich and London, he was born at Norwich late in 1740. He was sent by his father to Amsterdam for a year to complete his school education, and entered in 1760 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1764, M.A. 1767, and D.D. 1797. In 1765 he was elected to a fellowship in his college, he acted for some time as its sub-tutor, and in 1771 he was the junior proctor of the university. Having been ordained in the English church, he served for some years as the minister of the sequestrated benefice of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. He was nominated by his college in 1773 to the rectory of St Mary Abchurch with St Laurence Pountney, London, but before he could be instituted he exchanged for the rectory of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire. When the headship of his college became vacant in 1778; but he declined the offer of it, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Lumpkin
Tony Lumpkin is a fictional character who first appeared in Oliver Goldsmith's play, ''She Stoops to Conquer''. He may have been based on one of Goldsmith's friends. The story goes that Oliver Goldsmith wrote the play while staying with the Lumpkin family at Park House in Leverington, near Wisbech and that he lampooned his friend, Nicholas Lumpkin, by turning him into his famous creation, Tony Lumpkin. Tony Lumpkin is the son of Mrs Hardcastle and stepson to Mr Hardcastle. It is as a result of his practical joking that the comic aspects of the play are set up. When he accidentally meets Charles Marlow and his friend Hastings, who are coming to see Tony's parents in order to put Marlow forward as a suitor to Tony's stepsister Kate, he deliberately misdirects them, causing them to believe that the house where they are bound is an inn and that the Hardcastles are its landlord and landlady. Tony is promised in marriage to his cousin, Constance Neville, which he despises, and therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reynolds (bishop)
Richard Reynolds (1674–1743) was an English bishop of Lincoln. Life He was baptised at Leverington, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 17 July 1674, son of Richard Reynolds (1631–1682), rector of Leverington (parish register). After private education at Moulton and Peterborough, Reynolds became pensioner of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge on 31 December 1689, and was elected foundation scholar in 1690. Unusually, he left Sidney Sussex College to be admitted, on 12 November 1694, a fellow commoner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated LL.B. in 1695. He proceeded LL.D. from Sidney Sussex College in 1701. Taking holy orders, and marrying Sarah, daughter of Richard Cumberland, Reynolds was instituted rector of St. Peter's, Northampton, and chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough. He was promoted to the deanery at the close of 1718, in succession to White Kennett. On 3 December 1721 he was consecrated bishop of Bangor at Lambeth chapel; he left a strongly Protestant and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenland District
Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. It was historically part of the Isle of Ely and borders the city of Peterborough to the northwest, Huntingdonshire to the west, and East Cambridgeshire to the southeast. It also borders the Lincolnshire district of South Holland to the north and the Norfolk district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk to the northeast. The administrative centre is in March. The district covers around of mostly agricultural land in the extremely flat Fens. The population of the district was 98,262 at the 2011 Census. It was formed on 1 April 1974, with the merger of the Borough of Wisbech, Chatteris Urban District, March Urban District, Whittlesey Urban District, North Witchford Rural District and Wisbech Rural District. In 2022 the council was reported to be the second most complained about in the county. Settlements in Fenland District Its council covers the market towns of Chatteris, March, Whittlesey and Wisbech (which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jenkinson (bishop)
John Banks Jenkinson (2 September 1781 – 7 July 1840) was an English bishop who was the Bishop of St David's from 1825. Life The second son of John Jenkinson, by Frances, daughter of Rear-admiral John Barker of Guildford, he was born at Winchester on 2 September 1781. His father was the brother of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, a colonel in the army, joint secretary for Ireland and gentleman-usher to Queen Charlotte; he died on 1 May 1805. Jenkinson was educated at Winchester College, where he was elected scholar in 1793. On 22 December 1800 he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduated B.A. in 1804 and proceeded M.A. in 1807 and D.D. in 1817. He became a prebendary of Worcester Cathedral on 30 August 1808, rector of Leverington, Cambridgeshire, on 8 July 1812, Dean of Worcester on 28 November 1817 and Master of St. Oswald's Hospital, Worcester, on 8 January 1818. During his time as master, the hospital's running came under scrutiny. On 23 July 1825, Jenkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Yale
Thomas Yale (1525/6–1577) was the Chancellor, Vicar general and Official Principal of the Head of the Church of England : Matthew Parker, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury, and later on, of Edmund Grindal, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury, during the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. He was also Dean of the Arches, and High Commissioner to Queen Elizabeth Tudor at the Court of High Commission. Early life Dr. Thomas Yale was born in 1525 or 1526 to David Lloyd ap Ellis of Plas-yn-Yale, son of Baron Ellis ap Griffith, member of the Royal House of Mathrafal. This Ellis was a cousin of the Tudors, and a grandson of Lord Tudur ap Gruffudd, brother of Owen Glendower, the last native Prince of Wales. Thomas's brother, Roger Lloyd Yale ap Ellis of Brynglas, was Secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, along with Thomas Cromwell, and was married to Katherine, a daughter of William ap Griffith Vychan, Baron of Edeirnion and Lord of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion. Cardinal Wolsey was the King's chief minister, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund John Eyre
Edmund John Eyre (1767–1816), was an English actor and dramatist. Early life Eyre, son of Mary (née Underwood) (c1740-c1796) and the Rev. Ambrose Eyre (c1740 - c1796), rector of Leverington and Outwell, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, was born 20 May 1767. He had two brothers and four sisters. He entered Merchant Taylors' School when ten years old. In 1785 he was appointed exhibitioner — first on Parkin's and afterwards on Stuart's foundation — at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, but left the university without graduating to join a theatrical company. Career Eyre's Farce ''The Dreamer Awake; or, Pugilist Matched'' was performed at Covent Garden in 1791. The dedication inside the book includes a reference to Eyre, of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Wolverhampton theatres, having spent a short period on the island of Jamaica. It appears that Eyre underwent a marriage ceremony with an Elizabeth Bolton, widow on 14 May 1793 at St.Martins, Birmingham witnessed by Joseph Neale & Sam'l Broo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ailleston
John Ailleston (or Ayleston) ( fl. 1410s - 1410s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1404 to 1405''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Career He was appointed: *Prebendary of the third stall in St Stephen's, Westminster 1404 - 1414 *Vicar of Leverington, Cambridgeshire 1414 *Prebendary of Newark College, Leicester 1405 *Rector of Towcester 1408 - 1414 *Rector of Stanwell, Middlesex 1408 - 1414 *Master of St Mary’s Hospital, Chichester 1412 *Rector of Worthen, Shropshire 1412 *Prebendary of Ely 1414 He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ... in 1404 and held the canonry until 1405. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Ailleston, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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