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Phillips Gybbon
Phillips Gybbon (11 October 1678 – 12 March 1762), of Hole Park, Rolvenden, in Kent, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1762. Gybbon was the son of Robert Gybbon of Hole Park, and his wife Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of St. Clement Danes. He travelled abroad in Holland and Germany and entered Middle Temple in 1694. He succeeded his father in 1719. Gybbon entered Parliament in 1707 as Whig Member of Parliament for Rye, and represented the constituency until his death 55 years later, eventually becoming Father of the House of Commons from 1749. Early in his career he was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland, and in the 1720s was Chairman of the Committee of Privileges and Elections. From 1726 to 1730, he was Surveyor-General of Land Revenues. For the next few years he was in opposition, supporting Pulteney against Robert Walpole's administration. On Walpole's fall in 1742, Gybbon was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hole Park
Hole Park is a privately owned country house near the village of Rolvenden, in Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The gardens, first opened in the 1920s, are regularly open to the public. Description History The earliest mention of the estate is in 1278, when Hole Park was owned by Henry de Hole. By the early 16th century it was owned by Robert Gybbon, a wealthy clothier. The family was joined by marriage in the early 18th century with the Monypennys of Great Maytham Hall, Maytham Hall. The house was built circa 1720."Hole Park, Rolvenden" ''Parks and Gardens''. Retrieved 17 October 2021. In 1837 Thomas Gybbon Monypenny MP enlarged and refashioned the house in Pseudo Elizabethan style; he laid out modest ornamental gardens to the east of the house and enlarged the park. To achieve this he mortga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Pelham
Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as 3rd Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Pelham is generally considered to have been Britain's third prime minister, after Robert Walpole and the Earl of Wilmington. Pelham's premiership was relatively uneventful in terms of domestic affairs, although it was during his premiership that Great Britain experienced the tumult of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. In foreign affairs, Britain fought in several wars. On Pelham's death, his brother Newcastle took full control of the British government. Early life Pelham, Newcastle's younger brother, was a younger son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, and his wife, the former Grace Pelham, Baroness Pelham of Laughton, the daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet
Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet (6 February 16852 February 1775), of Northwick Park, Worcestershire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 55 years from 1713 to 1768. He was a supporter of Pulteney in opposition to Walpole, and was briefly part of an Administration. He was Father of the House from 1762. Early life Rushout was the fourth son of Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet and his wife, Alice Pitt, daughter of Edmund Pitt. His elder brother James succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was educated at Eton in 1698, and joined the army. He was a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards in 1705 and lieutenant in 1706. In 1710, he became captain. On the death of his nephew, the third baronet, on 21 September 1711 he succeeded to the baronetcy and most of the family's estates in Worcestershire. He resigned his army commission in January 1712 which he later claimed was to pre-empt his dismissal under the Duke of Ormond's policy of weeding out Whig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shuttleworth (MP For Lancashire)
Richard Shuttleworth (1683–22 December 1749) of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire and Forcett Hall, Yorkshire was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 44 years from 1705 to 1749. He was considered Whimsical as he occasionally failed to support his party. Early life Shuttleworth was baptized on 3 September 1683, the eldest son of Sir Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall and Forcett, and his wife Katherine Clerke, daughter of Henry Clerke. He succeeded his father in 1687. From 1703 to 1704, he travelled abroad in France and Italy. He married Emma Tempest, the daughter of William Tempest of Old Durham. Career Shuttleworth was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for Lancashire in a contest at the 1705 general election. He was active in parliament, particularly on local issues. He voted on against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705 and told against the Administration in various divisions. A concern of the Lancashire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Norris (born 1740)
John or Jack Norris may refer to: Politicians * John Norris (died 1577), MP for Downton, Taunton and Bodmin * John Norris (1685–1752), Member of Parliament for Chippenham, 1713–1715 *John Norris (1702–1767), Member of Parliament for Rye, 1727–1733 * John Norris (born 1740), Member of Parliament for Rye, 1762–1774 *Sir John Norris (Royal Navy officer) (1670/71–1749), British admiral, Member of Parliament for Rye and Portsmouth * John Thomas Norris (1808–1870), MP for Abingdon, 1857–1865 *John Norris (1721–1786), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire Others *John Norris (soldier) or Norreys (ca. 1547 – 1597), the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth *John Norris (philosopher) (1657–1711), philosopher and poet *John Norris (1721–1786), English merchant and member of the Hellfire Club * John S. Norris (1804–1876), American architect * John Norris (priest) (1823–1891), English archdeacon *J. Frank Norris (John Franklyn Norris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Herbert (died 1716)
Philip Herbert may refer to: *Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584–1649), English courtier and politician *Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1621–1669) *Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke (1652/53–1683), English nobleman * Philip Herbert (died 1716) (c. 1665–1716), Member of Parliament for Rye, 1705–1707 * Philip Herbert (died 1749) (c. 1716–1749), Member of Parliament for Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ..., 1740–1749 * Philip Herbert (actor) (born 1957), English actor and mime artist * Philip Herbert (composer) British composer {{DEFAULTSORT:Herbert, Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bentinck
John Albert Bentinck (29 December 1737 – 23 September 1775) was an officer of the Royal Navy, an inventor and a Member of Parliament. Family background He was a member of the younger line of the house of Bentinck. His father, William, Count Bentinck, was a younger son of the 1st Earl of Portland, and married Charlotte Sophie, daughter of Anton II, the last Count of Aldenburg. John Albert Bentinck was the second son of this marriage. Naval career He entered the Royal Navy at an early age. In August 1752, he was serving as a volunteer on board , in which vessel he visited Lisbon, but returned in the same year to Leyden, where he remained for some time. In 1753, he was appointed midshipman to , a fifth-rate of 44 guns, commanded by Captain Hugh Bonfoy, and joined his ship at Plymouth in June of that year to make a voyage in the following July to Newfoundland. In 1758, Bentinck was present at an engagement in which the British captured the . In the same month, he was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Onslow, 1st Earl Of Onslow
George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow PC (13 September 1731 – 17 May 1814), known as Lord Onslow from 1776 until 1801, was a British peer and politician. Background He was the only son of Arthur Onslow, having no brothers but one sister, who died in 1751.''Burke's'': 'Onslow'. Following in the footsteps of his father, he was admitted to the Middle Temple on 14 November 1739, but was not Called to the Bar. Career Onslow sat as Member of Parliament for Rye from 1754 to 1761 and for Surrey from 1761 to 1774.''Burke's'': 'Onslow'. On 3 March 1759 he was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Surrey Militia which his kinsman Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow, had raised and briefly commanded as Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. On 3 November that year, the regiment was divided into two battalions and George Onslow was promoted to Colonel and given command of the 2nd or Western Battalion, with the writer Francis Grose as his adjutant. The militia was disembodied in December 1762 at the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl Of Chichester
Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester PC (28 February 1728 – 8 January 1805), known as the Lord Pelham of Stanmer from 1768 to 1801, was a British Whig politician. Background Pelham was the son of Thomas Pelham and his wife Annetta, daughter of wealthy merchant George Bridges (d.1714) of Pera, Constantinople by his wife Anetta, a local girl. Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet, was his great-grandfather and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and Henry Pelham his first cousins once removed. He was educated at Westminster School (1740) and Clare College, Cambridge (1745) and undertook the Grand Tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany between 1746 and 1750. Political career Pelham was elected to the House of Commons for Rye in 1749, a seat he held until 1754, and then represented Sussex until 1768. He served as a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations from 1754 to 1761, as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1761 to 1762 and as Comptroller of the Household from 1765 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Norris (Royal Navy Officer) in Kent, where his father died in 1749. Among his siblings were fellow MP John Norris (1702–1767), John Norris, Vice Admiral Henry Norris and Captain Richard Norris.
His niece was the art collector and amateur artist John Norris Hewett.
Matthew Norris (July 1705 – 27 December 1738) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1734. Early life Norris was baptized on 12 July 1705, the fifth son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Norris, and his wife Elizabeth Aylmer, daughter of Admiral Matthew Aylmer. His parents country home was Hemsted Park Hemsted Park, historically sometimes known as Hempsted Park, Benenden, Kent Archaeological Socie ... Career He joined the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Norris (1702–1767)
John Norris (1702–1767) was a British customs official and politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1727 to 1732. Early life Norris was baptized on 31 July 1702, the third, but eldest surviving son of John Norris (Royal Navy officer), Admiral Sir John Norris and his wife Elizabeth Aylmer, daughter of Admiral Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer, Matthew Aylmer. He married Judith Western, daughter of Robert Western on 13 January 1729. Politics At the 1727 British general election, Norris was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Rye (UK Parliament constituency), Rye on his father's interest. He voted regularly with the Opposition and spoke against the Government on the Address in January. 1729, and on the Hessians and Dunkirk, in February 1730. On 21 April 1730 he took the ministry by surprise by moving for an address to lay before the House any secret articles to the treaty of Seville, which resulted in a four hours’ debate His last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Aylmer, 2nd Baron Aylmer
Henry Aylmer, 2nd Baron Aylmer (c. 1694 – 26 June 1754) was a British Whig politician. Early life Henry Aylmer was born in around 1694, the son of Admiral of the Fleet Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer. Political career Aylmer succeeded his father in the barony on 16 August 1720. He was instead returned to Parliament for Rye in 1722, a seat he held until 1727. He was also an Equerry to King George I from 1714 to 1727 and served as Comptroller of the Mint between 1727 and 1754. Personal life Aylmer married Elizabeth, daughter of William Priestman, in June 1716. Elizabeth died in January 1750. Aylmer survived her by four years and died on 26 June 1754. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son, the couple having had four sons: *Captain Matthew Aylmer (1717–1748), British Army officer in the Foot Guards *Captain Henry Aylmer, 3rd Baron Aylmer (21 May 1718–7 October 1766), Royal Navy officer *Philip Aylmer (b. 1721, d. young), unmarried *Reverend John Ayl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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