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Old Burghclere
Old Burghclere is part of Burghclere in Hampshire, England, located south of the large town of Newbury near the A34 road. The village of Burghclere, but less so Old Burghclere, was once on the A34 and has now been by-passed, although this section is not really part of the Newbury bypass. Burghclere has been known variously as: Clere Episcopi, Burcler (xiii cent.); Bisshopesclere, Bourghclere, Burghclere (xiv cent.); Boroughclere, Burghcleere, Boroweclere, Burcleare (xvi cent.); Burroughclere, Borough Cleere, and Burgh Cleere (xvii cent.). Burghclere is a large parish five miles west of Kingsclere, and is immediately adjacent to Highclere, which is on its western boundary. In the heart of Old Burghclere, in centre of the whole Burghclere parish stands the old church of All Saints, and close by is Burghclere Manor House, which was formerly the rectory. Burghclere Farm is north of the old church. In 1233 the common fields (campi) of Burghclere comprised Stock (67½ acres), Surland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burghclere
Burghclere is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. According to the 2011 census the village had a population of 1,152. The village is near the border of Hampshire with Berkshire, four miles south of Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury. It is also very close to Newtown, Hampshire, Newtown and Old Burghclere. Work by the 20th-century artist Stanley Spencer can be found in the Sandham Memorial Chapel. The Church of the Ascension is on Church Lane in Burghclere. Community There are community clubs such as Stagecoach Newbury which is held at The Clere School, and there is a Sports and Social club. There are allotments, and a small memorial garden. In addition, there is a large playing field. Transport The nearest railway station is Newbury railway station, Newbury. Burghclere had its own Burghclere railway station, station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway but the station closed in 1960. Limited bus services to Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury are provided by Stageco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission. The school is currently undergoing a transition to become co-educational and to accept day pupils, having previously been a boys' boarding school for over 600 years. The school was founded to provide an education for 70 scholars. Gradually numbers rose, a choir of 16 "quiristers" being added alongside paying pupils known as "commoners". Numbers expanded greatly in the 1860s with the addition of ten boarding houses. The scholars continue to live in the school's medieval buildings, which consist of two courtyards, a chapel, and a cloisters. A Wren-style classroom building named "School" was added in the 17th century. An art school ("museum"), science school, and music school were added ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lucy (died 1640)
Sir Thomas Lucy (1583/86 – 8 December 1640) of Charlecote Park, Warwickshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1640. Early life Lucy was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park and his wife Constance Kingsmill, the daughter of Sir Richard Kingsmill of High Clere, Hampshire. His grandfather Sir Thomas Lucy was an MP and is noted for prosecuting William Shakespeare although there is little evidence to support this claim. Career In 1614, Lucy was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. He held the seat through several elections until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Warwickshire in the Short Parliament. In November 1640 he was elected MP for Warwick in the Long Parliament but died in December. Lucy died after falling from his horse and was buried at St Leonard's Church, Charlecote.Article by Richard Cust. It was said of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kingsmill (MP)
Richard Kingsmill (c. 1528 – 24 September 1600), of Highclere, Hampshire, was an English politician. He was the son of Sir John Kingsmill (c. 1494 – 11 August 1556), Sheriff of Hampshire in 1539. His brother Sir William Kingsmill (c. 1526 – 11 December 1592) was Sheriff of Hampshire in 1563. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Calne in 1559, Heytesbury in 1563, and Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ... in 1584 and 1586. By his daughter Constance Kingsmill, he was the grandfather of Sir Thomas Lucy. References 1520s births 1600 deaths English MPs 1559 English MPs 1563–1567 English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1586–1587 People from Highclere {{1563-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Hare
The Honourable Hugh Hare (1668–1707) was an English translator and politician. Life He was baptised at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, 2 July 1668, the eldest surviving son of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, by his first wife, Constantia, daughter of Sir Richard Lucy, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. He lived at East Betchworth, Surrey. Hare, a Whig, was elected as Member of Parliament for Bletchingley in 1698, with Sir Robert Clayton. He was buried at Tottenham, 1 March 1707. Works Appointed chairman of the general quarter sessions for Surrey, held at Dorking, 5 April 1692, he delivered a "religious, learned, and loyal" charge, which he published by request (London, 1692; 2nd edit. 1696). From the Italian of Agostino Mascardi he translated ''An Historical Relation of the Conspiracy of John Lewis Count de Fieschi, against the City and Republick of Genoua in the year 1547'', London, 1693. He was also one of several who helped in the translation of the ''Works of Lucian'', 4 vols ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reade
Sir Richard Reade (1511–1576) was an English-born judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Background and early career He was born at Nether Wallop in Hampshire, second son of Richard Reade (died 1555), Lord of the Manor of Wallop, and his wife Margaret. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1528. He took the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1537 and Doctor of Civil Law at the same university in 1540.Gregg, p. 253 He quickly acquired a reputation as "a man of learning and experience". He was made a Master of Chancery and undertook a crucial trade mission to Flanders.Ball, F. Elrington. ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921''. London: John Murray, 1926 He was knighted in 1544. Lord Chancellor of Ireland and later life In 1546 Sir John Alan, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was removed from office on a charge of corruption, and Reade was sent to Ireland to replace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viscount Gormanston
Viscount Gormanston is a Peerage, title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1478 and held by the head of the Preston family, which hailed from Lancashire. It is the oldest Viscount, vicomital title in the British Isles; the holder is Premier Viscount of Ireland. The Preston family descends from Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston, Sir Robert Preston, who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Sometime between 1365 and 1370 he was created Baron Gormanston by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons, writ to the Parliament of Ireland. His son and heir, the second Baron, played a prominent part in public affairs, and was arrested for treason in 1418. His great-grandson, the fourth Baron, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland: in 1478 he was created Viscount Gormanston in the Peerage of Ireland. His son, the second viscount, served as Lord Justices (Ireland), Lord Justice of Ireland in 1525. A later descendant, the seventh Viscount, was a supporter of James II of England, King James II and was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Browne (died 1597)
Thomas Browne (died 9 February 1597), of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was an English politician. Family Browne was a descendant of Sir Thomas Browne, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and related in the male line to the Viscounts Montagu of Cowdray, Sussex, and in the female line to Lord Buckhurst.Browne, Thomas (d.1597) Retrieved 24 March 2013. He was the eldest son of Henry Browne, esquire, of , , and his first wife, Katherine Shelley, the daughter of Sir William Shelley of Michelgrove in |
John White (bishop)
John White (1510 – 12 January 1560) was an English Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Lincoln and later Bishop of Winchester during the reign of Mary Tudor. Life He was born in Farnham in Surrey, the son of Katherine ''née'' Wells and Robert White, a merchant of Farnham. His older brother was Sir John White (c.1500–1573), Lord Mayor of London 1563/4. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1529, M.A. in 1534, and D.D. in 1555.http://www.hamline.edu/brass/pdfs/n_win-coll_c1548.pdf He was Warden of Winchester College from 1541, and wrote verses on the marriage to Philip II of Spain. He was Archdeacon of Taunton from 1551 to 1554 after which he was Bishop of Lincoln from 1554 to 1556. He was then Bishop of Winchester from 1556, but was deprived of his see in 1559 on the accession of Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish mona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary I Of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions. Mary was the only child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to survive to adulthood. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded their father in 1547 at the age of nine. When Edward became terminally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because he supposed, correctly, that she would reverse the Protestant refor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fitzwilliam (died 1559)
Sir William FitzWilliam (1506 – 3 October 1559), of Windsor, Berkshire, was an Irish courtier and Member of Parliament in England. He was Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward VI of England; Deputy Chancellor of Ireland; Lieutenant of Windsor Castle; Keeper of Windsor Great Park and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. Career at Court He was the second son of Thomas Fitzwilliam (1465-1517), of Baggotrath Castle, Co. Dublin; Sheriff of Dublin City. His mother, Eleanor, was the daughter of Sir John Dowdall, of Newtown, Co. Kildare, and co-heir to her mother, Margaret, daughter of Sir Jenico d'Artois of Ardglass Castle and Strangford Castle, Co. Down. His mother was the step-daughter of Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester, father-in-law of Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. In 1532, he was Clerk of the Hanaper. In 1536, he and his brother, Richard, came to England. His brother entered into the service of their cousin, Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponet
John Ponet (c. 1514 – August 1556), sometimes spelled John Poynet, was an English Protestant churchman and controversial writer, the bishop of Winchester and Marian exile. He is now best known as a resistance theorist who made a sustained attack on the divine right of kings. Early life Ponet was from Kent. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1533, was elected a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge in the same year: and became a Master of Arts in 1535. Humanist scholar Ponet was a pupil and one of the humanist circle of Thomas Smith, who claimed that the new pronunciation of Ancient Greek had been introduced by himself, Ponet, and John Cheke. Smith and Cheke also were proponents of mathematics, and Ponet was one of their numerous followers. A sundial of his design was installed at Hampton Court. Ponet was ordained a priest at Lincoln on 10 June 1536. From 1539 to 1541 he was a university professor of Greek. In the later 1530s and early 1540s he took on college offices a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
