Michael Harvey (died 1748)
Michael Harvey (10 May 1694 – 3 October 1748), of Coombe, Surrey. and Clifton Maybank, near Milborne Port, Dorset was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1717 and 1747. Harvey was the only surviving son of Edward Harvey of Coombe and his first wife He married after a settlement dated 23 April 1715, Rebecca Wolstenholme, daughter of Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet, MP, of Edmonton, Middlesex. He inherited the Clifton Maybank estates from the widow of his cousin, Michael Harvey MP, in 1717. Harvey, was initially declared elected as Tory Member of Parliament for Milborne Port at a by-election of 10 June 1717, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and on 6 July 1717 his opponent was declared elected instead. He was returned unopposed at the 1722 general election but faced contests in subsequent elections which he won in 1727 and 1734 but was defeated in the 1741 gen ...
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Coombe, Kingston Upon Thames
Coombe is a historic neighbourhood in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south west London, England. It sits on high ground, east of Norbiton. Most of the area was part of the former Municipal Borough of Malden and Coombe before local government re-organisation in 1965. It now shares borders with the boroughs of London Borough of Merton, Merton and London Borough of Sutton, Sutton with, to the north, the small, inter-related neighbourhoods of Kingston Vale, Kingston Hill and Kingston Vale, beyond which is Richmond Park in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Richmond; and Roehampton/Putney Vale in London Borough of Wandsworth, Wandsworth. To the east are public playing fields and Wimbledon Common. History Coombe centres on what was originally Coombe House, a large residence built in the 1750s. The house, now demolished, was located at the southwest corner of the junction of Coombe Lane (A238) and Traps Lane. Its red brick boundary walls can still be seen on the west ...
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James Medlycott
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British MPs 1727–1734
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British MPs 1722–1727
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British MPs 1715–1722
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For Milborne Port
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1748 Deaths
Events January–March * January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore. * January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks at Kinsale, in Ireland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 prisoners are safely conducted to another prison."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p51 * February 7 – The San Gabriel mission project begins with the founding of the first Roman Catholic missions further northward in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in what is now central Texas. On orders of the Viceroy, Juan Francisco de Güemes, Friar Mariano Marti establish the San Francisco Xavier mission at a location on the San Gabriel River in what is now Milam County. The mission, located northeast of the future site of Austin, Texas, is attacked by 60 Apache Indians on May ...
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1694 Births
Events January–March * January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War. * January 18 – Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France. * January 21 (January 11 O.S.) – The Kiev Academy, now the national university of Ukraine, receives official recognition by Tsar Ivan V of Russia. * January 28 – '' Pirro e Demetrio'', an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London. * January 29 – French missionary Jean-Baptiste Labat arrives in the "New World", landing at the Caribbean ...
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Jeffrey French (MP)
''Sweet Valley High'' is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series. The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in the fictional Sweet Valley, California, a suburb near Los Angeles. The twins and their friends attend Sweet Valley High. The series began in 1983, and concluded twenty years later after the publication of 181 books. The books are generally classified as young adult or children's fiction and belong mostly to the genre of soap opera, romance novel or fantasy-adventure. The series quickly gained popularity and spawned several spin-off series, including '' Sweet Valley Senior Year'' and ''Sweet Valley University'', as well as a television adaptation. In July 2017, a film adaptation was also announced. The novels ''Sweet Valley Confidential'' and ''The Sweet Life'', which follow the characters as adults, were published in 2011 ...
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Thomas Medlycott (died 1763)
Thomas Medlycott may refer to: * Thomas Medlycott (1628–1716), MP for Abingdon *Thomas Medlycott (1662–1738), Chief Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland, MP for Milborne Port and Westminster, 2nd son of the above * Thomas Medlycott (1697–1763), MP for Milborne Port from 1747 to 1763, nephew of the above. See also * Medlycott Baronets The Medlycott Baronetcy, of Ven House in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 October 1808 for William Medlycott, Member of Parliament for Milborne Port from 1790 to 1791. The family ...

Thomas Medlycott (died 1738)
Thomas Medlycott may refer to: * Thomas Medlycott (1628–1716), MP for Abingdon *Thomas Medlycott (1662–1738), Chief Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland, MP for Milborne Port and Westminster, 2nd son of the above * Thomas Medlycott (1697–1763), MP for Milborne Port from 1747 to 1763, nephew of the above. See also * Medlycott Baronets The Medlycott Baronetcy, of Ven House in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 October 1808 for William Medlycott, Member of Parliament for Milborne Port from 1790 to 1791. The family ...

George Speke (died 1753)
George Speke (c.1686–1753), of White Lackington and Dillington, Somerset, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1747. Speke was the only son of John Speke of White Lackington and Dillington, MP, a wealthy and influential Somerset landowner and his second wife Elizabeth Pelham, daughter of Robert Pelham of Compton Valence, Dorset. He married Alicia Brooking, daughter of Nicholas Brooking. Speke stood unsuccessfully for Somerset at the 1715 general election. At the 1722 general election, he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Milborne Port. He was next returned unopposed as MP for Taunton at the 1727 general election. At the 1734 general election, he stood at Wells, where he was defeated at the poll but seated on petition on 25 March 1735. He voted consistently with the Administration and spoke in debates on the army and the national debt. At the 1741 general election he was returned unopposed for Wells a ...
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