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Philip Pleydell-Bouverie
Philip Pleydell-Bouverie (21 October 1788 – 27 May 1872), was a British Whig politician. Background Pleydell-Bouverie was a younger son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, by his wife the Hon. Anne, daughter of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. The family home was Coleshill House in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Political career Pleydell-Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Cockermouth in 1830, a seat he held until the following year, and then represented Downton until 1832. He remained out of the House of Commons for 24 years, but in 1857 he was elected as one of three Members of Parliament for Berkshire. He held the seat until 1865. Family Pleydell-Bouverie married Maria (11 June 1782-27 Nov 1862), daughter of Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet, in 1811. They had five children: *Letitia Anne, who married Rev. Charles Deedes, grandson of Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet. They had one son, Rev. Philip Deedes who by his wife Josephine Parker had one son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whig Party (UK)
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the new Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s, and other Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Liberals' rival, the modern day Conservative Party, in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic Emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism with a parliamentary system. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 by Tory rebels. The Whigs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet
Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 5th Baronet (1660 or 1663 – 29 December 1740) of Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire was an English landowner and Tory politician. Early life Seymour was baptized on 18 December 1663, the eldest son of the Royalist and Tory politician Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet and his first wife, Margaret Wale. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1679. He married his cousin Laetitia Popham, the daughter of Sir Francis Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire, and his wife Eleanor Rogers, on 11 August 1685. She was also the niece of his stepmother, also named Letitia Popham, who died in 1714. Career At the 1690 English general election, Seymour was returned as Member of Parliament for West Looe. He stood down at the 1695 English general election. Seymour succeeded his father on 17 February 1708 to the baronetcy and the huge original Bradley House in Wiltshire. At the 1708 British general election, he stood on his own interest as Tory M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Vansittart
General George Henry Vansittart (16 July 1768 – 4 February 1824) was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars. Life He was the eldest son of George Vansittart, M.P., of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, by Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet of Radley, Berkshire. Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart (1777–1843) was his younger brother. Henry Vansittart (1732–1770) and Robert Vansittart were his uncles. He was educated at Winchester School, at a military academy at Strasbourg, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on 7 November 1785. After obtaining a commission as ensign in the 19th Foot on 18 October 1786, he was allowed a year's leave to study military science at Brunswick and attend the Prussian manœuvres. He became lieutenant on 25 December 1787, exchanged to the 38th Foot on 12 March 1788, and obtained a company in the 18th Foot on 23 June 1790. He joined that regiment at Gibraltar, went with it to Toulon in 1793, took part in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington
William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington (6 October 1793 – 9 February 1867), styled The Honourable from 1814 until 1829, was a British businessman and politician. Early life Born in London on 6 October 1793, Barrington was the eldest son of fifteen children born to the Reverend George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington, by his wife Elizabeth, second daughter of Robert Adair and Lady Caroline Keppel (the second daughter of Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle), a descendant of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond. Like his father, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1814. Career Barrington succeeded in the viscountcy on the death of his father in 1829. However, as this was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. In 1837 he was instead elected to the House of Commons as one of three representatives for Berkshire, a seat he held until 1857. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (MP)
Robert Palmer, JP (31 January 1793 – 24 November 1872) was an English gentleman from Berkshire and Tory/Conservative Member of Parliament. The son of Robert Palmer Senior and Jane Bowles, he lived at Holme Park in Sonning. Active in county politics, he was a magistrate in 1815 and High Sheriff of Berkshire The High Sheriff of Berkshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times. The word Sheriff evolved from 'shire-reeve'. The title of High Sheriff is therefore much older ... in 1818. In his will, he endowed 'Robert Palmer's Almshouse Charity,' which remains active today. Notes 1793 births 1872 deaths Tory MPs (pre-1834) Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies High Sheriffs of Berkshire People from Sonning UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Creevey
Thomas Creevey (March 17685 February 1838) was an English politician. He is best known for his insight into social conditions as revealed by his writings, which were published in 1903. Life Creevey was the son of William Creevey, a Liverpool merchant, and was born in that city. He went to Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated as seventh Wrangler in 1789. The same year he became a student at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1794. In 1802 he entered Parliament through the Duke of Norfolk's nomination as member for Thetford, and married a widow with six children, Mrs Ord, who had a life interest in a comfortable income. Creevey was a Whig and a follower of Charles James Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle. In 1806, when the brief " All the Talents" ministry was formed, he was given the office of secretary to the Board of Control; in 1830, when next his party came into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brougham
James Brougham (16 January 1780 – 22 December 1833) was a British Whig (British political party), Whig politician. Background Brougham was the second son of Henry Brougham and his wife Eleanor. She was the daughter of James Syme and the niece of William Robertson (historian), William Robertson. His older brother was Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, who served as Lord Chancellor,Ferguson (2009), p. 340 and one of his younger brothers was William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux, who sat also in the Parliament of the United Kingdom as well as succeeded in the barony. Career Brougham entered the British House of Commons in 1826, having been elected for Tregony (UK Parliament constituency), Tregony.Stenton and Lees (1976), p. 50 He represented the constituency until 1830 and sat then for Downton (UK Parliament constituency), Downton in the following year. In 1831, he was returned for Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency), Winchelsea. After a year the constituenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844), was an England, English lawyer, politician and judge. Early life James Scarlett was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property. In the summer of 1785 he was sent to England to complete his education at Hawkshead Grammar School and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1789. Having entered the Inner Temple he took the advice of Samuel Romilly, studied law on his own for a year, and then was taught by George Wood (judge), George Wood. He was called to the bar in 1791, and joined the northern circuit and the Lancashire sessions. This cites: *Peter Campbell Scarlett, ''A Memoir of the Right Honorable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer'', 1877 *Edward Foss, ''Lives of the Judges'' *Edward Manson, ''Builders of our Law'', 1904 Legal and political career Though Scarlett had no professional connections, he graduall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, Of Swillington
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss. Etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Peel
Laurence Peel (28 June 1801 – 10 December 1888) was a British Tory politician and the younger brother of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Laurence was described by one historian as "the youngest and least talented, but perhaps the most personally attractive of the Peel brothers". Early life Peel was the sixth son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet and Ellen Yates. Among his siblings were older brothers, Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, William Yates Peel (an MP who married Lady Jane Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell), Edmund Peel (also an MP), and Jonathan Peel (a soldier, politician and owner of racehorses). Among his sisters was Harriet Peel (who married Robert Henley, 2nd Baron Henley) and Mary Peel (who married politician George Robert Dawson). His father was a wealthy industrialist and one of early textile manufacturers who sat in the House of Commons representing Tamworth as a 'Church and King' Tory and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl Of Galloway
Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway (16 September 1800 – 2 January 1873) was the Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright from 1828 to 1845; and of Wigton from 1828 to 1851. He was styled Viscount Garlies from 1806 to 1834. Early life He was born on 16 September 1800. He was the eldest son of eight children born to George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway and his wife Lady Jane Paget. Among his siblings was sisters, Lady Jane Stewart, who married George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Louisa Stewart, who married William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham. His younger brother, Vice Admiral Hon. Keith Stewart, was married to Mary FitzRoy, daughter of Charles Augustus FitzRoy. His paternal grandparents were John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway, and Anne, daughter of Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet. His maternal grandfather was Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and his uncle was Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was educated at Harrow and Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Grenville
George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Grenville was born into an influential political family and first entered Parliament in 1741 as an MP for Buckingham. He emerged as one of Cobham's Cubs, a group of young members of Parliament associated with Lord Cobham. In 1754 Grenville became Treasurer of the Navy, a position he held twice until 1761. In October 1761 he chose to stay in government and accepted the new role of Leader of the Commons causing a rift with his brother-in-law and political ally William Pitt who had resigned. Grenville was subsequently made Northern Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty by the new Prime Minister Lord Bute. On 8 April 1763, Lord Bute resigned, and Grenville assumed his position as Prime Minister. His government tried to bring public spending under control and pursued an assertive foreign policy. His best-known policy is the Stamp Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
