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Page Wood Baronets
The Wood, later Page Wood Baronetcy, of Hatherley House in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 December 1837 for Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817 and Whig Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1817 to 1843. The fifth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Page. Two other members of the family have also gained distinction. William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1868 to 1872, was the second son of the first Baronet while Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood was the fifth son of the second Baronet. Also, Katharine O'Shea, known for her relationship with Charles Stewart Parnell, was the daughter of the second Baronet. The theosophist and political activist Annie Besant (born Annie Wood), was the great-granddaughter of the 1st Baronet's father. The 1st Baronet was descended from the Wood family of Hareston in the parish of Brixton in Devon, which the fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woode (OfHarston) Arms
''Wood'' is a surname in the English language. It is common throughout the world, especially countries with historical links to Great Britain. Etymology For the most part, the surname Wood originated as a topographic name used to describe a person who lived in, or worked in a wood or forest. This name is derived from the Middle English ''wode'', from the Old English ''wudu'' meaning "wood" (from the Proto-Germanic word ''widu''). which cited: for the surname "Wood". An early occurrence of this surname (of a personal residing near a wood) is ''de la Wode'', recorded in Hertfordshire, England, in 1242. The locational name also appeared in early records Latinised as ''de Bosco'' (from the Old French ''bois'', meaning "wood"). which cited: for the surname "Boyce". Another derivation for the surname is from a nickname of an eccentric or violent person, derived from the Old English ''wōd'', ''wad'', and Middle English ''wod'', ''wode'', all meaning "frenzied" or "wild". This der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Besant
Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. She was also a prolific author with over three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit. As an educationist, her contributions included being one of the founders of the Banaras Hindu University. For fifteen years, Besant was a public proponent in England of atheism and scientific materialism. Besant's goal was to provide employment, better living conditions, and proper education for the poor. Besant then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society (NSS), as well as a writer, and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh. In 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton. The scandal made them famous, and Bradla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Baronets
There have been seven baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wood, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Wood baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England in c. 1657 for Henry Wood, member of parliament for Hythe from 1661 to 1671. The title became extinct on his death in 1671. The Wood baronetcy, of Bonnytown in the County of Forfar, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 11 May 1666 for John Wood. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1738. The Wood baronetcy, of Barnsley, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 22 January 1784. For more information on this creation, see the Earl of Halifax (1944 creation). The Wood baronetcy, of Gatton in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 October 1808 for Mark Wood. The second Baronet represented Gatton in the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Page Baronets
The Page baronetcy of Greenwich, Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 3 December 1714 during the reign of King George I of Great Britain for wealthy London merchant and Member of Parliament, Gregory Page. Three successive generations of the same family were each named Gregory Page: the first baronet's father, who was also a merchant in London, and the first and second baronets. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the childless second baronet in 1775. Page baronets, of Greenwich, Kent (1714) * Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet ( – 25 May 1720) * Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet ( – 4 August 1775) See also *Page Wood baronets The Wood, later Page Wood Baronetcy, of Hatherley House in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 December 1837 for Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817 and Whig Member ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Page Extinct baronetcies in the Baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Matthew Wood, 4th Baronet
Sir Matthew Wood, 4th Baronet (29 September 1857 – 13 July 1908) was an English first-class cricketer. Wood was a right-handed batsman who was an underarm slow bowler, though with which arm he bowled with is unknown. The son of Sir Francis Wood the 3rd Baronet of the Page Wood baronets, and Louisa Mary Hodgson, Wood was born at Newport on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester College. He would make a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Derbyshire in 1876 at the County Ground, Derby. In a match which Derbyshire won by 8 wickets, Wood was twice dismissed for a duck, by John Platts in Hampshire's first-innings and by William Hickton in their second-innings. He succeeded his father as the 4th Baronet on 21 April 1868. He later married a Maud Mary Brown on 31 July 1894. Wood died at Kensington, London on 13 July 1908. As he died without issue Issue or issues may refer to: Publishing * ''Issue'' (company), a mobile publishing comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heraldic Visitation
Heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as their deputies) throughout England, Wales and Ireland. Their purpose was to register and regulate the coats of arms of nobility, gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees. They took place from 1530 to 1688, and their records (akin to an upper class census) provide important source material for historians and genealogists. Visitations in England Process of visitations By the fifteenth century, the use and abuse of coats of arms was becoming widespread in England. One of the duties conferred on William Bruges (or Brydges), the first Garter Principal King of Arms, was to survey and record the armorial bearings and pedigrees of those using coats of arms and correct irregularities. Officers of arms had made occasional tours of various parts of the kingdom to enquire about armorial matters during the fifteenth century. However, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lambrick Vivian
Lieutenant-Colonel John Lambrick Vivian (1830–1896), Inspector of Militia and Her Majesty's Superintendent of Police and Police Magistrate for St Kitts, West Indies, was an English genealogist and historian. He edited editions of the Heraldic Visitations of Devon and of Cornwall,Vivian, p. 763, pedigree of Vivian of Rosehill standard reference works for historians of these two counties. Both contain an extensive pedigree of the Vivian family of Devon and Cornwall, produced largely by his own researches. Origins He was the only son of John Vivian (1791–1872) of Rosehill, Camborne, Cornwall, by his wife Mary Lambrick (1794–1872), eldest daughter of John Lambrick (1762–1798) of Erisey, Ruan Major, and co-heiress of her infant brother John Lambrick (1798–1799). His maternal grandmother was Mary Hammill, eldest daughter of Peter Hammill (d. 1799) of Trelissick in Sithney, Cornwall, the ancestry of which family he traced back to the holders of the 13th century French title Comt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quartering (heraldry)
Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four equal parts, two above and two below (''party per cross''). Occasionally the division is instead along both diagonals ( party per saltire'') again creating four parts but now at top, bottom, left, and right. An example of ''party per cross'' is the Sovereign Arms of the United Kingdom, as used outside Scotland, which consists of four quarters, displaying the Arms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the coat for England repeated at the end. (In the royal arms as used in Scotland, the Scottish coat appears in the first and fourth quarters and the English one second.). An example of ''party per saltire'' is the arms of the medieval Kingdom of Sicily which also consists of four sections, with top and bottom displaying the coat of the Crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristram Risdon
Tristram Risdon (c. 1580 – 1640) was an English antiquarian and topographer, and the author of ''Survey of the County of Devon''. He was able to devote most of his life to writing this work. After he completed it in about 1632 it circulated around interested people in several manuscript copies for almost 80 years before it was first published by Edmund Curll in a very inferior form. A full version was not published until 1811. Risdon also collected information about genealogy and heraldry in a note-book; this was edited and published in 1897. Biography Risdon was born at Winscott, in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, near Great Torrington in Devon, England. He was the eldest son of William Risdon (d.1622) and his wife Joan (née Pollard).Mary Wolffe''Risdon, Tristram (c. 1580–1640)'' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 7 February 2011. (Subscription required) William was the younger son of Giles Risdon (1494–1583) of Bableig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brixton, Devon
Brixton is a village, parish and former manor situated near Plymouth in Devon, England. It is located on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about from Plymouth. Its population is 1207. It has views of the River Yealm. The church is 15th century, with a tower arch 200 years older. Historic estates The parish contains various historic estates including: * Spridleston, formerly a seat of a junior branch of the Fortescue family Fortescue may refer to: People * Fortescue (surname), a British surname ''Includes list of name-holders'' * Fortescue Ash (1882–1956), Anglican bishop in Australia * Fortescue Graham (1794–1880), British Royal Marines general Places * Fort ... of Whympston, Modbury. * Hareston, formerly the seat of the Wood family.Risdon, p.194; Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.801, pedigree of "Wood of Harestone" References External sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hareston, Brixton
Hareston (anciently Harestone, Harston, etc.) is an historic estate in the parish of Brixton, about three miles from Plymouth in Devon. The mansion house built during the reign of King Henry VII (1485-1509) burned down partially in an accidental fire at the beginning of the 18th century, and in 1822 the surviving part, the Hall and Chapel, was being used as a farmhouse. It was described by Candida Lycett Green in her 1991 book ''The Perfect English Country House'' as: ''"The most forgotten Manor House Farm In England, untouched for hundreds of years, sits safely, impossible to find, down miles of private sunken lanes which in the spring brim with Campion, Bluebells, Purple Orchids, Primroses, Violets, Speedwell and Stitchwort. Wooded hills rise behind this, the quintessence of an ancient English Manor House".'' Descent Domesday Book It is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as two separate holdings, both spelled ''Harestane'', the 29th and 51st of the 79 Devonshire holdings of Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886. Born into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning family in County Wicklow, he was a land reform agitator and founder of the Irish National Land League in 1879. He became leader of the Home Rule League, operating independently of the Liberal Party, winning great influence by his balancing of constitutional, radical, and economic issues, and by his skillful use of parliamentary procedure. He was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, in 1882, but he was released when he renounced violent extra-Parliamentary action. The same year, he reformed the Home Rule League as the Irish Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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