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Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John Of Bletso
Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso (c. 1540–1618) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1588 until 1596 when he inherited the peerage as Baron St John of Bletso. St John was a son of Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso, and Agnes Fisher. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1585. In 1588 he was elected Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire again in 1589 and was re-elected MP for Bedfordshire in 1593. He succeeded to the barony on the death of his brother John without male issue on 23 October 1596. He was Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire from April 1597 until his death. St John married Dorothy Reid, daughter of Sir John Rede or Reid, of Oddington, Gloucestershire. They had eight sons and seven daughters: *Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke (1580?–1646) *John St John, died young *Sir Anthony St John (c.1585 – by 1651) *Sir Alexander St John (d. 1657) *Sir Rowland St John (1588–1645) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beecher (died 1640)
William Beecher may refer to: *William Beecher (died 1640), MP for Huntingdon *William Beecher (died 1651) (1580–1651), English MP for Dover *Sir William Beecher (died 1694) (1628–1694), English MP for Bedford *William Henry Beecher William Henry Beecher (January 15, 1802 – June 23, 1889) was a dyspeptic minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures. Beecher Family William Beecher was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the eldest son of t ... (1802–1889), dyspeptic minister called "The Unlucky" * William M. Beecher (born 1933), American journalist {{hndis, Beecher, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1540 Births
Year 154 ( CLIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Lateranus (or, less frequently, year 907 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 154 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * King Eupator of Bosphorus pays tribute to Rome, due to the threat posed by the Alani. * The Antonine Wall is completed. Asia * Last (2nd) year of ''Yongxing'' era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Adalla becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla. By topic Religion * Anicetus becomes pope of Rome (approximate date). * Anicetus meets with Polycarp of Smyrna to discuss the Computus, the date of Easter in the Christian liturgical calendar. * Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Euzois to Patriarch La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke Of Lennox
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox (157930 July 1624), KG, 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman and through their paternal lines was a second cousin of King James VI of Scotland and I of England. He was a patron of the playwright Ben Jonson who lived in his household for five years. Origins He was the younger son of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (1542–1583), a Frenchman of Scottish ancestry and a favourite of King James VI of Scotland (of whose father, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, he was a first cousin), by his wife Catherine de Balsac (d.post-1630), a daughter of Guillaume de Balsac, Sieur d'Entragues, by his wife Louise d'Humières. Career At the death of his childless elder brother Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (1574–1624), he inherited their paternal title of Duke of Lennox, the Dukedom of Richmond having become extinct. He was by then already Earl of March (in the peerage of England) (1619) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Cleveland
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (159125 March 1667), was an English landowner and Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, described by one historian as a "much under-rated field commander". A distant relative of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, executed by Parliament in May 1641, his son Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, also served in the Royalist army and predeceased him in March 1665. Early life Thomas Wentworth was born in 1591 in Nettlestead, Suffolk. He was the eldest son of Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558–1593), who owned an estate near Nettlestead, and his wife Anne Hopton (1561–1625). He had a younger brother, Henry, and sister Jane, as well as a number of half-siblings from his mother's second marriage to William Pope, Earl of Downe. Career Wentworth attended Trinity College, Oxford along with his younger brother Henry and was created Knight of the Bath in 1610. He inherited an estate near Toddington, Bedfordsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum Of Bedfordshire
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Bedfordshire. Since 1711, the function of Custos Rotulorum has been carried out by the Lords Lieutenant of the county. * John Mordaunt, 1st Baron Mordaunt bef. 1544 – aft. 1547 * Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso bef. 1558 – 1582 * John St John, 2nd Baron St John of Bletso bef. 1584 – 1596 * Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso 1596–1618 * Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland 1618–1667 * Oliver St John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke 1667–1681 ''jointly with'' * Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1671–1685 * Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury 1685–1689 * Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke 1689–1711 For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. References Institute of Historical Research- Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl Of Sussex
Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex (c. 1559 – August 1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1586 and 1611 and later succeeded to a peerage. Biography Radclyffe was the son of Sir Humphrey Radclyffe and his wife Isabel Harvey. He was the grandson of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex. In 1586, he was elected Member of Parliament for Petersfield. He was elected MP for Bedfordshire in 1588 and for Portsmouth in 1593. He was elected MP for Bedfordshire again in 1597, 1601 and 1604. He was appointed Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1598. Radclyffe was knighted around 1594 and inherited the earldom from his cousin Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex in 1629. Radclyffe had married three times: first, Elizabeth Petre, the daughter of Sir William Petre of Ingatestone, Essex and widow of John Gostwick of Willington; secondly (1594) Jane, daughter of Francis Hynde of Madingley, Cambridgeshire and widow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Snagge
Thomas Snagge (1536–1593) was a Member of Parliament, barrister and landowner who served as Speaker of the English House of Commons, Attorney General for Ireland and as Queen's Sergeant.Bedfordshire Library Website, Local Biographies - Thomas Snagge retrieved 3 January 2009 Life Snagge was born in 1536 in . He was the son of Thomas Snagge, the prosperous of |
George Rotheram
George Rotheram (1541-1599) was a Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire. The son of Thomas Rotheram and Alice Wellesford or Wilsford. He lived at Someries Castle, Luton, Rotheram married Jane Smith, daughter of Christopher Smith, MP of Annables, Hertfordshire. His second wife was Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of London mercer, Richard Barnes. In 1597, he tried to acquire the title of the barony of Ruthin, but failed. He had a family tree drawn up by William Dethick to support his claim. Another branch of the family lived at Farley Hill, Luton, where Anne of Denmark stayed with Sir John Rotherham on 26 July 1605.John Nichols, ''The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James The First'', vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 519. The next day she went to Haynes Park Haynes Park is a Georgian country house which stands in parkland at Haynes Church End, Bedfordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Originally known as Hawnes Park it was built c.1725 for Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Bolingbroke
The title Earl of Bolingbroke has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred on 28 December 1624, when Oliver St John, 4th Baron St John of Bletso, was created Earl of Bolingbroke. His eldest son and heir apparent, Oliver St John, was in 1641 summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron St John of Bletsoe. However, he predeceased his father (killed at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642); nevertheless, the writ of acceleration means that he is formally known as the fifth Baron St John of Bletsoe. The Earl was succeeded by his grandson, Oliver St John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke, who was the son of Sir Paulet St John, younger son of the first Earl. The 2nd Earl died childless in 1688 and was succeeded by his younger brother, Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke, who represented Bedford in the House of Commons. He never married, and on his death, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puckeridge
Puckeridge is a village in East Hertfordshire, England with a population of 3,561 ( 2011 Census). It is in the civil parish of Standon. History The earliest known settlement was founded by the Catuvellauni, Celts from northeastern France. The Celts began to arrive around 250 BC. The Belgae arrived around 180 BC. A Roman town existed just to the north of the existing village and the village is at the crossroads of two major Celtic roads, Ermine Street and Stane Street. By 200AD the Romans had built a town, at the north of the current village, called Ad Fines. It was a regional capital and was also the start point for the roads to St Albans and Baldock – all-important pre-Roman Celtic centres. Ad Fines had a large temple dedicated to Minerva. It also had at least two bath houses on the banks of the River Rib. The town survived until the end of the 5th century. The neighbouring villages of Standon and Braughing are recorded in the Domesday Book, but Puckeridge is not althou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl Of Bath
Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (baptised 1 March 1590Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol II, p. 18 – died 31 March 1636). Origins He was born in Somerset, the eldest son and heir of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath by his second wife Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford by Margaret Long. Education He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge. Marriages and children He married twice: *Firstly on 14 July 1623 to his second cousin Dorothy St John (d.20 August 1632), daughter of Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso by his wife Dorothy Read (''alias'' Rede) daughter and heiress of Sir John Rede. By his wife he had a son who died as an infant and predeceased his father, and three surviving daughters, eventual co-heiresses to the Bourchier estates, but not to the earldom, when his cousin and heir male Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath died childless in 1654: **John Bourchier, styled Lord FitzWarin (21 January 1630 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
