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Potts Baronets
The Potts Baronetcy, of Mannington in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 14 August 1641 for John Potts, Member of Parliament for Norfolk and Great Yarmouth. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1732. Potts baronets, of Mannington (1641) *Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet (c. 1592–1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 and in 1660. Potts was the son of John Potts and his wife Ann Dodge, daughter of John Dodge. In November 1640, Potts was el ... (died 1673) *Sir John Potts, 2nd Baronet (died ) *Sir Roger Potts, 3rd Baronet (–1711) *Sir Algernon Potts, 4th Baronet (–1716) *Sir Charles Potts, 5th Baronet (1676–1732) References *{{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of England
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies are listed below in order of precedence (i.e. date). All other baronetcies, including extinct, dormant (D), unproven (U), under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet
Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet (c. 1592–1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 and in 1660. Potts was the son of John Potts and his wife Ann Dodge, daughter of John Dodge. In November 1640, Potts was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk in the Long Parliament. He was knighted on 9 August 1641 and created baronet of Mannington in the County of Norfolk, on 14 August 1641. Nevertheless, he supported the Parliamentarian side and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648. In 1660, Potts was elected MP for Great Yarmouth in the Convention Parliament. Potts died in 1673 and was buried at Mannington, Norfolk. Potts "was obliged to marry a daughter of — Goodsill, esq. a favourite at court, with a small fortune", according to a writer in the time of the Court of Wards, and had three daughters. He married secondly Ursula Spelman widow and a daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire. They had three sons John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk (UK Parliament Constituency)
Norfolk was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. In 1832 the county was divided for parliamentary purposes into two new two member divisions – East Norfolk and West Norfolk. History Boundaries The constituency consisted of the historic county of Norfolk in the East of England, excluding the city of Norwich which had the status of a county in its itself after 1404. (Although Norfolk contained four other parliamentary boroughs – Castle Rising, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Thetford – each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Norfolk was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency: owning property within a borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Norwich.) Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Great Yarmouth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its MP is Brandon Lewis, the current Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, who has held the seat since the 2010 general election. He was previously the Chairman of the Conservative Party and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. History The Parliamentary Borough of Great Yarmouth had been represented by 2 MPs since 1295 and was unaffected by the Great Reform Act of 1832. However, the borough was disenfranchised for corruption by the Reform Act 1867, when its voters were absorbed into the North Division of the Parliamentary County of Norfolk. The seat was re-established as a single-member Borough by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and remained unchanged until the Representation of the People Act 1948, which came into effect for the 1950 general election. This abolished the Parliamentary Borough and replaced it with the County Constituency of Yarmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
