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Lord Lonsdale's Ninepins
Lord Lonsdale's ninepins, Sir James's ninepins, or Lowther's ninepins, was a derogatory label applied to certain Members of Parliament during the Georgian era who owed their Parliamentary seats to the patronage of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736–1802). Sir James Lowther, who was ennobled as Earl of Lonsdale in 1784, was the scion of an old Cumberland family. He succeeded his father in his baronetcy and estates in 1745 and inherited the wealth and estates of two other branches of the family on the death of a cousin in 1756. He thus became the richest commoner in England while still in his minority, and wielded enormous power in the northwestern counties of England. Under his mother's tuition, he began his involvement in Parliamentary affairs in 1753 with a struggle with Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet over the borough of Appleby in Westmorland, where both had inherited a Parliamentary interest. This was to develop into an obsessive campaign to control Parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set out that ordinary general elections are held on the first Thursday in May, every five years. The Act was repealed in 2022. With approval from Parliament, both the 2017 and 2019 general elections were held earlier than the schedule set by the Act. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Under the Representation of the People Act 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Knubley
Edward Knubley (aft. 1749 – 22 April 1815) was a British Member of Parliament, one of " Lord Lonsdale's ninepins". A client of Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet (later Earl of Lonsdale), he was twice returned as member for Carlisle through Lonsdale's influence, only to have his election overturned on petition each time. He held local office and rank in northwestern England through Lonsdale's influence. Knubley was born after 1749, the son of Edward Knubley of Fingland Rigg, Bowness-on-Solway, and his wife Ann Stoddart, of Wigton. Before 1784, Knubley married Margaret Carr, by whom he had a son and a daughter. He was commissioned a captain in the Westmorland Militia in 1780 by Lowther, then the Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland. Lowther (Lord Lonsdale after 1784) arranged to have him pricked High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1785. This made him returning officer for Cumberland, a position of advantage to support Lowther's electioneering. Lonsdale had gained control of the corporation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749–1822)
Walter Spencer-Stanhope (4 February 1749/50 – 10 April 1821), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire, was a British industrialist (whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade) and a politician who sat in the House of Commons for various constituencies between 1775 and 1812. Background and education Spencer-Stanhope was born Stanhope, only surviving son of Walter Stanhope, one-time merchant of Leeds, and his second wife Ann Spencer, daughter of William Spencer of Cannon Hall. Church records show that he was born on 4 February 1749 (Old Style, corrected now to 1750) and baptized on 9 March of the same year. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London. In 1775, Stanhope inherited Cannon Hall from his uncle, John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope family, Spencer-Stanhope by Royal licence. Political career Spencer-Stanhope was elected Member of Parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Senhouse (politician)
Humphrey Senhouse (1731–1814) was a British Tory politician from a Cumberland family. He was the eldest son of Humphrey Senhouse (1705–1770), a landowner and High Sheriff who had founded the port of Maryport,Angus J. L. Winchester‘Senhouse, Humphrey (1705–1770)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 and the heiress Mary, daughter of Sir George Fleming, Bt, Bishop of Carlisle. Humphrey junior was elected at a by-election in 1786 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cockermouth, which was generally regarded as a pocket borough. He held that seat until the 1790 general election, when he was returned as an MP for Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ....Stooks Smith, page 51 He did not contest the seat at the 1796 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Clarke Satterthwaite
James Clarke Satterthwaite (1746–1825) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Satterthwaite was a placeman for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (5 August 173624 May 1802) was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 27 years from 1757 to 1784, when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Lonsdale. .... He died on 1 May 1825. References 1746 births 1825 deaths Cumbria MPs Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies British MPs 1796–1800 British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1784–1790 UK MPs 1801–1802 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Carlisle {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Postlethwaite (MP)
Thomas Postlethwaite was a British politician. One of " Lord Lonsdale's ninepins", he represented the pocket borough of Haslemere, in Surrey, from 1784 to 1786. Postlethwaite's identity is uncertain. He may have been the son of Rev. James Postlethwaite of Fleckney, Leicestershire, or a member of a Cumberland family. He was a client of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, a peer notorious for his attempts to control Parliamentary representation in the northwest of England, and who had bought up the burgages at Haslemere in 1780 to obtain sole control over its elections. Returned by Lonsdale in the 1784 British general election, he was, like Lonsdale's other members, expected to rigidly adhere to his patron's line in politics, which at the time amounted to support for Pitt's ministry and its measures. He vacated the seat by taking the Chiltern Hundreds in 1786 to make way for Lonsdale's relative, John Lowther, who had been ousted from a seat at Carlisle on petition A petition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Penn
William Penn ( – ) was an English writer and religious thinker belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, a North American colony of England. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings along the North Atlantic Ocean coast to Penn to pay the debts the king had owed to Penn's father, the admiral and politician Sir William Penn. This land included the present-day states of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Penn immediately set sail and took his first step on American soil, sailing up the Delaware Bay and Delaware River, past earlier Swedish and Dutch riverfront colonies, in New Castle (now in Delaware) in 1682. On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new proprietor, and the first Pennsylvania General A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Penn (governor)
Richard Penn Jr. (1735 – 27 May 1811, Richmond, Surrey, England) served as the lieutenant governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1771 to 1773, and was later a member of the British Parliament. Life Penn, of Laleham in Middlesex, was the second son of Richard Penn Sr. (1706–1771) and his wife Hannah Lardner, daughter of Richard Lardner M.D.; and the grandson of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge before joining the Inner Temple. In 1763 he and his brother John visited Pennsylvania, of which his family were still sole proprietors. He was qualified as a councilor on 12 January 1764. During 1768 he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1771 he returned to Pennsylvania and was appointed lieutenant governor. He soon became acting governor when his brother returned to England to attend to the colony's legal interests. He proved popular with the provincials, taking much car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Norton (MP)
Edward Norton (11 March 1750 – March 1786) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1782 to 1786. Norton was the fourth son of Fletcher Norton, and his wife Grace Chapple, daughter of Sir William Chapple, and was born on 11 March 1750. He matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1766. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1772 and was called to the bar in 1775. Norton was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Haslemere on Sir James Lowther's interest at the 1780 general election. At the 1784 general election he was returned unopposed for Carlisle, again on Lowther's interest. He voted but did not speak in Parliament. Norton died unmarried in March 1786. It was said he was exhausted after acting as chief agent for Lowther at the Lancaster by-election. He had brothers William, Chapple and Fletcher Fletcher may refer to: People * Fletcher (occupation), a person who fletches arrows, the origin of the surname * Fletcher (s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther, 1st Earl Of Lonsdale
William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, KG (29 December 175719 March 1844), also known as Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Little Preston, from 1788 to 1802, and William Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lowther, from 1802 to 1807, was a British Tory politician and nobleman known for building Lowther Castle. Early life Lowther was the eldest son of Rev. Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston and Swillington, and his wife Anne Zouch. His younger brother was Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, who also married a daughter of the 9th Earl of Westmorland. His father, an ordained priest who served as rector of Swillington from 1757 to 1788, inherited the estate of Swillington in 1763, upon the death of his first cousin Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet. His father, a son of Christopher Lowther, was a grandson of Sir William Lowther. His maternal grandparents were Charles Zouch, vicar of Sandal Magna, and the former Dorothy Norton (daughter of Gervase Norton). Through his mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, Of Swillington
Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet (1 April 1759 – 19 March 1844) of Swillington, Yorkshire was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the second son of Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. On 4 September 1790, he married Lady Elizabeth Fane (d. 1844), daughter of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland. They had four children: * Sir John Henry Lowther, 2nd Baronet (1793–1868) *George William Lowther (17 October 1795 – 1805) * Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1803–1894) *Elizabeth Lowther (d. 2 October 1863), unmarried He purchased the estate at Wilton Castle in about 1806 and built a new mansion house there. At some time after his elder brother was created Earl of Lonsdale, the Swillington estate was made over to John, who was himself created a baronet on 3 November 1824. He died in 1844 and was succeeded by his eldest son John Henry Lowther. References Lowther pedigree 2* * External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lowther (1753–1837)
Colonel James Lowther (23 February 1753 – 1837) was a British soldier and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 43 years from 1775 to 1818. He was the second son of Rev. Henry Lowther, rector of Aikton, and Dorothy Tatham. Rev. Henry was the great-grandson of Rev. Lancelot Lowther, rector of Long Marston and son of Sir Christopher Lowther (1557–1617). Rev. Lancelot founded the cadet branch of Lowther of Colby Leathes, the heads of which family were largely clerics with livings in the gift of the more senior branches of the Lowther family. James, however, took a more active role in the service of his fourth cousin, James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale. As one of " Lord Lonsdale's ninepins", he was member of parliament for Westmorland from 1775 until 1812, and then for Appleby from 1812 until 1818. He was also returned for Haslemere in 1790, but preferred to continue to sit for Westmorland. In addition to his political role, Lowther served as second to Lord L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
