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Mordaunt (other)
Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Charles Mordaunt (other), several earls and baronets *Harry Mordaunt (1663–1720), English lieutenant-general * Henry Mordaunt (Royal Navy officer) (died 1710), English politician and Royal Navy captain * David Mordaunt (born 1937), English former cricketer *Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), English author and traveler *Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer * Harriet Mordaunt (1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII * Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621–1697), English soldier, peer, and courtier *Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (1867–1939), English cricketer * John Mordaunt (other), numerous persons * Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (1538-1601), English peer and politician *Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company Mordaunt-Short * Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1842 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mordaunt (other)
Charles Mordaunt may refer to: *Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth, English soldier * Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough and 2nd Earl of Monmouth *Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet, MP Warwickshire *Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Baronet Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Baronet (5 January 1771 – 30 May 1823) was an English politician. He represented the constituency of Warwickshire in 1804–1820. He was one of the Mordaunt Baronets, succeeding Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Baronet Sir J ..., MP Warwickshire * Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, MP South Warwickshire {{hndis, name=Mordaunt, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Mordaunt
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (; born 4 March 1973) is a British politician who has been Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council since September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North since May 2010. She served as a junior minister under Boris Johnson, having previously served in Theresa May's Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2017 to 2019, and as Secretary of State for Defence from May to July 2019. She ran twice for the Conservative party leadership in July–September, and October 2022, losing to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak respectively. Mordaunt read philosophy at the University of Reading, before working in the public relations industry. She held roles within the Conservative Party under party leaders John Major and William Hague, and also worked for George W. Bush's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004. Mordaunt was elected to the House of Commons in May 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of Cloomber
''The Mystery of Cloomber'' is a novel by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1888 in the ''Pall Mall Gazette''. Plot summary The book is narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scot who has moved with his family from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the estate of his father's half brother, William Farintosh. Near their residence, Branksome, is Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom he has offended somehow. People hear a strange sound, like the tolling of a bell, in his presence, which seems to cause the general great discomfort. Every year his paranoia reaches its climax around the fifth of October, after which date his fears subside for a while. After some time there is a shipwreck in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore (Scottish Physician)
John Moore FRSE (1729 – 1802) was a Scottish physician and travel author. He also edited the works of Tobias Smollett. Life He was born on 10 October 1729 in Stirling, the son of Rev Charles Moore of Rowallan (d,1735) and his wife, Marion Anderson. The family moved to Glasgow in his youth and he was educated at Glasgow Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to Dr. John Gordon in Glasgow 1745 to 1747. After taking a medical degree at University of Glasgow, Glasgow, he served as a Surgeon's Mate with the army in Flanders during the Seven Years' War, then proceeded to London to continue his studies, and eventually to Paris, where became surgeon to the household of the British ambassador there. In 1751 he returned to Glasgow to rejoin Dr. John Gordon (also then practising with Dr. Thomas Hamilton). From 1769 to 1778 he accompanied the Duke of Hamilton (who was linked to Thomas) on a Grand Tour of Europe. On his return he took up residence in London. In 1792 he accompanied James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty Years After
''Twenty Years After'' (french: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of ''The d'Artagnan Romances'', it is a sequel to ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (which includes the sub-plot ''Man in the Iron Mask''). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the ''idea'' of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. Synopsis D'Artagnan and Mazarin The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Shairp
Mordaunt Shairp (13 March 1887 Р18 January 1939) was an English dramatist and screenwriter born at Totnes. Educated at St Paul's School, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he spent much of his life as a schoolmaster in London and wrote many plays for pupils to perform. His adult plays dealt with darker interpersonal relationships and ''The Green Bay Tree'' (premi̬red at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End on 25 January 1933 and also performed on Broadway) was originally controversial because of its gay subtext. Shairp also spent a short spell in Hollywood as a screenwriter. He died at Hastings. Selective filmography * '' The Dark Angel'' (1935, directed by Sidney Franklin; cowritten with Lillian Hellman) * '' The White Angel'' (1936, directed by William Dieterle) * ''Wee Willie Winkie'' (1937, directed by John Ford) Plays *''The Crime at Blossoms'' (1932) *''The Green Bay Tree ''The Green Bay Tree'' is a 1933 three-act drama written by Mordaunt Shairp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet
Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740 – 24 September 1815) was son of Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet and Sophia Mordaunt. He inherited his baronetcy from his father, who was the third Martin Baronet, upon his death in 1762. He lived in Burnham Market in Norfolk Career Sir Mordaunt was a marshal of the vice admiralty court in Jamaica. In 1808 he purchased Burnham Westgate Hall, which he built onto. In particular he built a number of farm buildings. A keen agriculturalist, he wrote many letters and articles on the relative benefits of the mangel wurzel as a crop and is documented as the first person to introduce the plant, as well as sainfoin to the county and greatly improved the growth of potatoes and other vegetables. On his death he left the hall-described by White as "a hand-some mansion, beautified with pleasure grounds and shrubberies, and situated near the church", to his son and heir Roger Personal life On 29 July 1765 Sir Mordaunt married Everilda-Dorothea Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Hall
Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for ''The New York Times'', working from October 1924 to September 1934.Mordaunt Hall, Wrote of Screen , ''New York Times'', July 4, 1973, p. 18. His writing style was described in his ''Times'' obituary as "chatty, irreverent, and not particularly analytical. €¦The interest of other critics in analyzing cinematographic techniques was not for him." Biography Born Frederick William Mordaunt Hall in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Doll
Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll (5 April 1888 – 30 June 1966) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of Charles Fitzroy Doll, he was educated at Charterhouse School where he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer between 1905 and 1907. He scored 195 runs against Westminster School in his final year at school as he and RLL Braddell put on a Partnership (cricket), stand of 214 in the last hour. From Charterhouse he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a hard hitting right-handed batsman who represented Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC (1907–1920), Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University (1908), Demobilised Officers cricket team, Demobilised Officers (1919), Etceteras XI (1910), Hertfordshire County Cricket Club, Hertfordshire (1907–1909), Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex (1912–1919) and Plum Warner, PF Warner's XI (1919). Doll scored 102 not out in a county record eighth wicket stand of 182 in two hours with Joe Murrell for Middlesex against Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Cracherode
General Mordaunt Cracherode (died 20 June 1773 or 1768 by some accounts) as a lieutenant-colonel was commanding officer of the marines during George Anson's voyage round the world. He held the post of Governor of Landguard Fort until he was appointed to succeed Lieutenant-General Churchill as Lieutenant Governor of Fort St. Philip in 1753. His son, Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, was an important benefactor to the British Museum. Despite leaving them his large collections of books, prints and other artworks, his home-made will left his sister Ann his land and residual fortune; she was then 79, and without children or close relations. Clayton's friend, Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham descended upon her, and after exercising what many later felt was undue influence, persuaded her to make a new will, in which he was named sole executor, with wide power over the disposition of the funds. After bequests, some £30,000 was left for the executor to spend on "such objects of benevolen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Bisset
Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (1825 – 7 July 1884) of Bagborough in Somerset, 22nd Scottish feudal baron of Lessendrum in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament and a famous west-country Master of Staghounds. Origins He was the only son of the Venerable Maurice Fenwick Bisset (1797–1879), Rector of Drumholm and Archdeacon of Raphoe, both in County Donegal, Ireland, son of William Fenwick of Lemmington Hall, Edlingham, Northumberland, by his wife Elizabeth Bisset. Maurice had married his first cousin Jane Harriot Bisset (d.1866), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Maurice George Bisset (1757–1821) of Knighton Gorges House on the Isle of Wight, and of Lessendrum in Aberdeen, Scotland, 18th Scottish feudal baron of Lessendrum, (which barony and estate had been held by the Clan Bisset since 1252) by his wife Harriat (sic) Mordaunt (b.1753) one of the illegitimate children of Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough (1708–1779) by his mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809) was a British officer and poet, known for "The Call". Mordaunt was the son of Charles Mordaunt, also a soldier. His grandfather, Brigadier-General Lewis Mordaunt, was the younger brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, sometime First Lord of the Treasury. He was commissioned ensign and lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards on 27 January 1753, and promoted captain-lieutenant in the 10th Regiment of Dragoons on 25 December 1755. He is recorded as having ultimately achieved the rank of major general. Mordaunt is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem "The Call", written during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763: : "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! : Throughout the sensual world proclaim, : One crowded hour of glorious life : Is worth an age without a name." For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemporary, Sir Walter Scott. Scott had merely quoted a stanza of the poem at the begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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