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Mayors Of Chester
The position of Lord Mayor of Chester was created on 10 March 1992 when the dignity was conferred on the city of Chester, England by Letters Patent as part of celebrations of 40th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. Prior to that the position had been that of Mayor of Chester. The Lord Mayoralty was given to Chester in recognition of its historical and economic importance. In 2009 the role of Lord Mayor of Chester was combined with that of Chairman of Cheshire West and Chester Council, but the two roles were separated again in 2015. The full title of the Mayor is ‘The Right Worshipful, the Lord Mayor of the City of Chester’. Notable Mayors *1484-85: Sir John Savage (Knight of the Garter) *1512–14: Sir Piers Dutton (High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1542) *1540: Sir Lawrence Smith (MP for Cheshire, 1545) *1558: Sir Lawrence Smith (MP for Cheshire, 1545) *1560: William Aldersey (MP for Chester, 1547) *1563: Sir Lawrence Smith (MP for Cheshire, 1545) *1570: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheshire West And Chester Council
Cheshire West and Chester Council is the local authority of Cheshire West and Chester. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It provides a full range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority. The council was first elected on 1 May 2008, a year before coming into its legal powers on 1 April 2009. After an election in May 2019, no party holds overall control. Powers and functions The local authority derives its powers and functions from the Local Government Act 1972 and subsequent legislation. It has a 'general power of competence' as described in the Localism Act 2011, i.e. it is permitted to act in any manner whatsoever which is not unlawful. For the purposes of local government, Cheshire West and Chester is one of the fifty-five unitary authorities in England. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Smith (Chester MP)
Sir Thomas Smith was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1644. Smith was the son of Laurence Smith, of Hatherton, Cheshire and his wife Anne Mainwaring, daughter of Sir Randall Mainwaring of Over Peover. He was knighted on 21 July 1615. In 1622, he was mayor of the city of Chester and in 1623 High Sheriff of Cheshire. Smith was an alderman of Chester and in April 1640, was elected Member of Parliament for City of Chester in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Chester for the Long Parliament in November 1640. Smith was disabled from sitting in parliament on 22 January 1644 for supporting the King. Smith married Mary Smith, daughter of Sir Hugh Smith, of Long Ashton, Somerset, and had twenty-two children. His son Thomas became a baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet
Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet (7 May 1695 – 1 August 1755) of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1755. He was an ancestor of the present Dukes of Westminster. Grosvenor was the youngest surviving son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Davies, daughter of Alexander Davies of Ebury, Middlesex. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1712. In 1716, he was admitted at the Inner Temple. He married Jane Warre, the daughter of John Warre of Swell Court and Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset on 21 May 1730. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1733 after his elder brothers, Richard and Thomas both died without heirs. Having lived in Somerset, on succeeding to the baronetcy he moved to Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Grosvenor was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Chester at a by-election on 24 January 1733 and then at the 1734 British general election. Although a promi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denbighshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Denbighshire was a county constituency in Denbighshire, in north Wales, from 1542 to 1885. History From 1542, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP), traditionally known as the knight of the shire, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then to the Parliament of Great Britain until 1800, and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. These MPs were elected by the first past the post voting system. Under the Reform Act 1832, the constituency's representation was increased to two members, elected by the bloc vote system. The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when Denbighshire was split into two single-member constituencies: the Eastern and Western divisions, each returning one Member of Parliament. Members of Parliament MPs 1542–1604 MPs 1604–1832 MPs 1832–1885 Election results Elections in the 1830s Electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (c. 169226 September 1749) was a Welsh politician and landowner who sat in the British House of Commons from 1716 to 1749, when he died in office. A member of the Tory party, he was also a prominent Jacobite sympathiser. He helped engineer the downfall of Prime Minister Robert Walpole in 1742 and engaged in negotiations with the exiled Stuarts prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745 but did not participate in the rebellion himself. Watkin died in a hunting accident in 1749. Life Williams-Wynn was the eldest son of Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Llanforda near Oswestry in Shropshire and Jane Thelwall. His grandfather, also Sir William Williams was Solicitor General under James II and led the prosecution of the Seven Bishops in 1688. His mother was a descendant of the antiquary Sir John Wynn, In 1719, a later Sir John Wynn died, and through his mother's kinship Watkin inherited the Wynnstay estates on condition he added "Wynn" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (26 June 1689 – 12 July 1732) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1732. He was the brother of Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet, an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. Early life Richard Grosvenor was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet. His two older brothers, Thomas and Roger, pre-deceased their father.Handley, Stuart (2004) (online edition 2008)Grosvenor, Sir Thomas, third baronet (1655–1700), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Retrieved on 8 April 2010. At the time of his father's death in 1700, he was still being educated at Eton College, and was under the guardianship of Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, and Thomas and Francis Cholmondeley. After leaving Eton, he went on the Grand Tour, visiting Switzerland, Bavaria, Italy and the Netherlands. In 1707, he returned to the family home at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Whitley
Roger Whitley (1618 – 17 July 1697) was a royalist officer in the English Civil War, attaining the rank of Major General (2nd in command of their forces in the battle for the Isle of Anglesey) and was closely involved throughout the 1650s in plans for a royalist uprising against the Interregnum and Protectorate regimes. He had accompanied the young King Charles II into exile and carried the kings orders into Cheshire on the rising of forces, under Lord Delamere, at the eve of the Restoration. He was a younger son of Thomas Whitley, of Hawarden, Flintshire and educated at Christ Church, Oxford and entered Gray's Inn in 1637. He was a supernumerary Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber from 1644 and held a number of public offices including that of Quarter-Master General (1667), Knight Harbinger in attendance to the Prince of Orange (1670–71) and of Deputy Postmaster-General from 1672 until 1677. He was elected a Member of the Convention Parliament of 1660, and of every subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Booth, 1st Earl Of Warrington
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (13 January 1652 – 2 January 1694) was a Member of Parliament, Privy Councillor, Protestant protagonist in the Revolution of 1688, Mayor of Chester and author. Life Booth was a son of George Booth, Baron Delamer and Lady Elizabeth Grey. His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter. Booth served as a Member of Parliament for Cheshire in 1678, 1679 and 1679–1681, and was conspicuous for his opposition to Catholics. On 7 July 1670, he married Mary Langham, daughter of Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet. At a treason trial in the House of Lords in January 1685/6, Delamer was accused of participation in the Monmouth Rebellion, and the presiding judge in the case was Judge Jeffreys, as Lord High Steward, sitting with thirty other peers. The defence secured an acquittal. During the Revolution of 1688, Booth declared in favour of William of Orange, and rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (20 November 1656 – 2 July 1700) was an English Member of Parliament, and an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. He was the first member of the family to build a substantial house on the present site of Eaton Hall in Cheshire. Early life and education Grosvenor was born at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the son of Roger Grosvenor by his wife, Christian (or Christine), daughter of Thomas Myddleton of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. He was less than five years old when his father, Roger, was killed in a duel with his cousin, Hugh Roberts, on 22 August 1661. Roger had been the son and heir of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet, and therefore, Thomas succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his grandfather on 31 January 1665. He was eight years old at that time. Grosvenor was educated by a private tutor, who also accompanied him when he undertook the Grand Tour, in his case, a three-year educational tour of France, Italy and the Leva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mainwaring (1642-1695)
George Mainwaring (bapt. 10 December 1642 - 14 August 1695) was an English Member of Parliament and a member of a distinguished family line from Cheshire. George Mainwaring was the third surviving son of Randle Mainwaring and his wife, Elizabeth (née Hawes), both of whom were based in London. He father, who was by profession a mercer, had been a significant figure among the radicals at the time of the English Civil War, commanding a regiment but never becoming particularly prosperous. George was baptised on 10 December 1642 and became a merchant in Chester. On 25 April 1672, he married Elizabeth Bradshaw, daughter of a wealthy alderman of Chester, having become a councilman in the previous year. Mainwaring continued as a councilman until 1676, and served as sheriff in 1672-73. He was an alderman for eight years from 1676 and mayor in 1681-82, as well as being a lieutenant in the militia by that time. He became a contentious figure around the time of a visit by the Duke of Monmou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ince (MP)
William Ince (died 27 January 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Ince was sheriff of Chester in 1635 and as a pro-royalist became mayor of Chester in 1643 after King Charles visited the city. He was described as a yeoman. However he survived the purge of Royalists ro the government of the town in 1646. Ince was described as a moderate and may have been a Presbyterian and in 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for City of Chester in the Convention Parliament. Ince died in 1679 and was buried on the south side of the altar in Holy Trinity Church, Chester The Guildhall, formerly Holy Trinity Church, is a redundant church in Watergate in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The church close .... Ince married twice. His second wife was Anne Thorpe, daughter of Thomas Thorpe. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ince, William Year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ratcliffe (died 1633)
John Ratcliffe (died 30 March 1633) was an English brewer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. Life Ratcliffe was the son of John Ratcliffe who moved to Chester and became active in the government of the city, being mayor of Chester. In 1602 his first wife died. Ratcliffe married as his second wife Jane Brerewood, daughter of John Brerewood of Chester. He was a brewer and became an alderman of the city, and was made mayor for 1611–12 and 1628–29. He was an ardent puritan. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for City of Chester. He was elected MP for Chester again in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Ratcliffe died in 1633. Their son John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
