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Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell
Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell (19 June 1689 – 19 August 1756), known as Sir Montague Blundell, Bt, between 1707 and 1720, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Blundell was the son of Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet, by Anne Ingoldsby, daughter of Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet and Anne Waller. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1707. In 1715 he was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Haslemere, a seat he held until 1722. In 1720 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Blundell, of Edenderry in the King's County, and Viscount Blundell. Lord Blundell married Mary Chetwynd, daughter of John Chetwynd, of Grendon, Warwickshire, in 1709. He died in August 1756, aged 67. He had no surviving sons and all his titles died with him. Lord Blundell had secured the permission of the House of Lords in 1742 to pass his estates to his daughter Mary. Lady Blundell died in December 1756. Their daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister. Other parliaments have also had a lower house called a "House of Commons". History and naming The House of Commons of the Kingdom of England evolved from an undivided parliament to serve as the voice of the tax-paying subjects of the counties and of the boroughs. Knights of the shire, elected from each county, were usually landowners, while the borough members were often from the merchant classes. These members represented subjects of the Crown who were not Lords Temporal or Spiritual, who themselves sat in the House of Lords. The House of Commons gained its name because it represented communities (''communes''). Since the 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet
Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet (30 January 1643 – 1707) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the son of Sir George Blundell, 2nd Baronet and his wife Sarah Colley, daughter of Sir William Colley. In 1675, he succeeded his father as baronet. The year before he and his two brothers William and Winwood killed Thomas Preston, 3rd Viscount Tara, but were acquitted of his murder and subsequently pardoned by the king. Following the Glorious Revolution in 1689, he was attainted by the Parliament of King James II of England. In 1692, Blundell was returned to the Irish House of Commons for King's County, and represented the constituency until his death in 1707. On 1 December 1671, Blundell married firstly Ursula Davys, daughter of Sir Paul Davys and his second wife Anne Parsons.Belmore, Earl of (1887) ''Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone 1631-1885''Dublin Alexander Thom and Co p.23 She died two years later, and he married secondly Anne Ingoldsby, only daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet (1622–1701) was an English military commander and landowner. He was born in Lethenborough, Buckinghamshire, the 5th son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby and his wife Elizabeth Cromwell. She was the daughter of Sir Oliver Cromwell (died 1655), who was the uncle and godfather of Oliver Cromwell. He had four sisters and seven brothers, including Francis Ingoldsby and the regicide Richard Ingoldsby. He became an officer in the army under King Charles I of England but changed his loyalty to become a colonel in the Parliamentarian army under Oliver Cromwell. He volunteered to join Cromwell in his 1649 Irish campaign and fought under him at Drogheda and under Henry Ireton at Limerick. He was subsequently appointed Governor of Limerick and was rewarded by large grants of land in County Clare and County Meath. He was MP for counties Clare, Limerick and Kerry in the Protectorate Parliaments of 1654, 1656 and 1659. Foreseeing the imminent Restoration of Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haslemere (UK Parliament Constituency)
Haslemere was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electo .... Members of Parliament 1584-1640 1640-1832 Notes References * Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807* D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) * ''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808* J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) * He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peerage Of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisions of Peerages in the United Kingdom. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland extant: two dukedoms, ten marquessates, 43 earldoms, 28 viscountcies, and 52 baronies. The Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland continues to exercise jurisdiction over the Peerage of Ireland, including those peers whose titles derive from places located in what is now the Republic of Ireland. Article 40.2 of the Constitution of Ireland forbids the state conferring titles of nobility and an Irish citizen may not accept titles of nobility or honour except with the prior appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grendon, Warwickshire
Grendon is a civil parish which includes both Old Grendon and New Grendon in North Warwickshire, England.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : Old Grendon is a village situated three miles (5 km) west of Atherstone and five miles (8 km) east of Tamworth centred on the A5 (Watling Street). It lies on the north-western tip of Warwickshire, divided from Leicestershire by a small stream and by the River Anker. Also, Grendon has since enlarged and has a population of 1000. History Grendon is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'': "Henry de Ferrers holds Catmore and five and a half hides in Grendon and Turstin holds on him. There is land for 16 ploughs. There are 24 villans and sixteen bordars with eight ploughs. There is a watermill rendering 5 shillings and of meadow, woodland - one and a half leagues long and one league broad. It was worth 40 shillings. Siward Barn held it."''Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.663 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hill, Marchioness Of Downshire
Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire and ''suo jure'' 1st Baroness Sandys (19 February 1764 – 1 August 1836), was a British peeress. She was born Mary Sandys, daughter of Colonel Martin Sandys (fourth son of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys) and his wife Mary Trumbull (only child and heiress of William Trumbull, son of Sir William Trumbull). On 29 June 1786, she married Arthur Hill, Viscount Fairford (who succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Downshire in 1793). They had seven children: * Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire (1788–1845) *Lt.-Gen. Arthur Moyses William Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792–1860) *Lady Charlotte Hill (1794–1821) *Lady Mary Hill (1796–1830) * Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798–1863) *Lord Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill (1800–1831) *Major Lord George Augusta Hill (1801–1879) The last son, Lord George Hill, was born on 9 December 1801, three months after his father the Marquess of Downshire had died by suicide, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vernon (1661-1735)
George Vernon (1661–1735) was an English politician for a Surrey constituency in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Vernon was born in Farnham. His father had been the M.P. for Haslemere The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere i ... from 1685 to 1689. He too served on three separate occasions as the town's MP. Notes People from Farnham 1661 births 1735 deaths 17th-century English people 18th-century English people English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1702–1705 British MPs 1713–1715 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet
Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet (6 February 1687 – 18 March 1727), of Beddington, near Croydon was a landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1727. Carew was only surviving son and heir of Sir Francis Carew (died 1689) and his wife Anne Boteler, daughter of William Boteler. His father was a great-grandson of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had changed his name to Carew on inheriting the Beddington estate from his maternal uncle, Sir Francis Carew (died 1611). Carew was two years old when he succeeded to Beddington on the death of his father aged 26 on 29 September 1689.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 26 By this time the house was in a state of neglect. He was admitted at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge in April 1703. He married Elizabeth Hackett, daughter of Nicholas Hackett of North Crawley, Buckinghamshire (with £2,000) on 2 February 1709. Carew's uncle Nicholas was political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British soldier, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia in what was then British America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's "worthy poor" in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons. Born to a prominent British family, Oglethorpe left college in England and a British Army commission to travel to France, where he attended a military academy before fighting under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718), Austro-Turkish War. He returned to England in 1718, and was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in 1722. His early years were relatively undistinguished until 1729, when Oglethorpe was made chair of the Gaols Committee that investigated British debtors' prisons. After the report was published, to widespread attention, Oglethorpe and others began publicizing the idea o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Burrell (1692–1756)
Peter Burrell (6 August 1692 – 16 April 1756), of Langley Park, Beckenham, Kent, and Mark Lane, Fenchurch St., London, was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1756. Early life Burrell was the son of Peter Burrell of Kelseys, Beckenham, Kent and his wife Isabella Merrik, second daughter of John Merrik, and older brother of Sir Merrik Burrell, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from 1704 to 1707. He became a merchant in trade with Portugal. On 14 March 1723, he married Amy Raymond, daughter of Hugh Raymond. Career Burrell was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Haslemere in a contest at the 1722 British general election. He voted with the Government, except on the Excise Bill, which he opposed. He was sub-governor of the South Sea Company from 1724 to 1733 and a Director of Exchange Assurance from 1726 to 1738. He was returned unopposed at the 1727 British general election. In 1730, he introduced a bill, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
