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Richard Cresswell (MP)
Richard Cresswell (1688β1743) was an English landowner and politician. The first son of a "roaring Shropshire squire" Richard Cresswell of Sidbury, Shropshire and his wife Mary Moreton, and grandson of a staunch Cavalier, also named Richard Cresswell (formerly a page to Charles I); Cresswell was nicknamed "Black Dick Cresswell". He had inherited his father's unstable traits, but also his grandfather's loyalism. His father, having been disinherited, was described as "a perfect madman", "a Judas and devil incarnate" by his son-in-law, who when obliged to stay with the family for a time at Sidbury, wrote that "to live with him (Cresswell the elder) is to live in Bedlam, for he is made up of noise, nonsense, railing, bawling and impertinence....". Richard Cresswell succeeded in 1708 to his grandfather's very considerable estates, including several manors in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. By the time he married, Cresswell was already enjoying a reputation as a "gid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October Club
The October Club was a group of Tory Members of Parliament, established after the 1710 general election. The Club was active until approximately 1714. The group took its name from the strong ale they reportedly drank.Pat Rogers, βOctober Club (''act''. 1711β1714), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, May 2010, accessed 2 August 2010. The group has been characterized as having High Church tendencies. After the Lord High Treasurer Robert Harley refused to set up an inquiry into the former administration's financial policies, on 5 February 1711 some Tories passed resolutions calling for inquires into suspected financial abuses. Initially 70 to 80 strong, the October Club attracted not just young and inexperienced backbenchers but older Tories such as Ralph Freeman, Sir John Pakington, Sir Justinian Isham, Peter Shakerley and Sir Thomas Hanmer. The group grew to have "perhaps 200 members". The group were, according to H. T. Dickinson, "a major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Pleydell
Edmund Pleydell (c. 1652 β 23 November 1726), of Midgehall, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire and Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset, was an English politician. He was the eldest son of Oliver Pleydell of Milton, Oxfordshire. He succeeded his father by 1693 and his uncle John Pleydell to Midgehall in 1693. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wootton Bassett from December 1710 to 1715. He had married, by 1683, Anne, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Morton, 2nd Baronet Sir John Morton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627β1699) of Milbourne St Andrew in Dorset, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1695. Origins He was the eldest surviving son of Sir George Morton, 1st Ba ... and left 3 sons and 3 daughters. He divided his estates between his sons. References 1652 births 1726 deaths Politicians from Wiltshire Politicians from Dorset Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Goddard (d
Richard Goddard may refer to: Politicians * Richard Goddard (died 1596), MP for Southampton * Richard Goddard (died 1666), MP for Winchester * Richard Goddard (died 1732), MP for Wootton Bassett and Wiltshire Sports * Richard Goddard (footballer) (born 1978), former Trinidad and Tobago football goalkeeper * Richard Goddard (rugby league) (born 1974), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s * Richard Goddard-Crawley (born 1978), British semi-professional association football midfielder * Dicky Goddard (1879β1949), English rugby union, and rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s * Spike Goddard (Richard Goddard, born 1992), Australian racing driver Others * Dick Goddard (born 1931), American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist * Rick Goddard, retired U.S. Air Force general and candidate for Congress See also * Goddard (other) Goddard may refer to: People * Goddard (given name) * Goddard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weaver (Bridgnorth MP)
John Weaver (1675β1747), of Morville, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1734. Weaver was baptized on 21 October 1675, the eldest son of Arthur Weaver of Morville and his wife Mary, who was probably the daughter of Eliezar Careswell of Shifnal, Shropshire. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1689 and called to the bar in 1697. In 1710 he succeeded his father to Morville He married Sarah Acton on 22 November 1712 Weaver was related to the Whitmore and Acton families in Bridgnorth, and had inherited a considerable interest of his own in the borough from his grandfather who married an heiress of the Smythes of Morville. He was admitted as a freeman of Bridgnorth in 1710 and stood at the 1713 general election when he was returned unopposed as. Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth with his fellow Whig William Whitmore of Apley. He voted against the expulsion of Richard Steele on 18 March1714. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitmore Acton
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 β 17 January 1731/32) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and the Middle Temple. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1716. Acton lived at Aldenham Park, near Bridgnorth and held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727β28. He married Lady Elizabeth Gibbon, daughter of Matthew Gibbon of Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ..., Surrey and had the following children: * Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 β 20 November 1791) *Elizabeth Acton (b. bef. 1730) *Jane Acton (b. bef. 1732) *Mary Acton (b. bef. 1732) References * * 1670s births 1731 deaths Alumni of St Edmund ... [...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] |
William Whitmore (died 1725) (1787β1858), Shropshire landowner and British Whig politician
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William Whitmore may refer to: * William Whitmore (died 1648) (1572β1648), English landowner and politician * Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet (1637β1699), English politician * William Whitmore (died 1725), MP for Bridgnorth 1705β10 and 1713β25 * William Whitmore (British Army officer) (1714β1771), MP for Bridgnorth 1741β7 and 1754β71 * William Elliott Whitmore (born 1978), American blues singer and musician * William Henry Whitmore (1836β1900), Boston businessman, politician and genealogist * William Henry Whitmore (1875-1918), Unknown marine of Padstow See also * William Wolryche-Whitmore William Wolryche-Whitmore (16 September 1787 β 11 August 1858) was a Shropshire landowner and British Whig politician. He held a seat in the House of Commons from 1820 to 1835, representing first Bridgnorth and later Wolverhampton. His sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Humphrey Brigges, 4th Baronet
Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th Baronet (c. 1670 β 8 December 1734), of Haughton, Shropshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1727. Briggs was the eldest son of Sir Humphrey Briggs, 3rd Baronet, of Haughton and Ernstrey Park, near Diddlebury, Shropshire and his wife Barbara Wyndham, daughter of Sir Wadham Wyndham of Norrington, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 2 July 1687, aged 17 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1687. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 31 January 1699. Briggs was elected as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Shropshire in the general election of February 1701. However he was defeated in the November 1701 general election. In July 1702 he was returned unopposed as MP for Bridgnorth and was re-elected in a contest in 1705. He was returned unopposed for Bridgnorth in the 1708 general election. He supported he Whig administration, and voted for the naturalizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Estcourt Cresswell
Thomas Estcourt Cresswell (12 July 1712 β 14 November 1788) was an English landowner and politician. Biography He was the son of Richard Cresswell (MP for Bridgnorth and then Wootton Bassett) and his wife Elizabeth Estcourt, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Estcourt, of Pinkney Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire. He began his career as a merchant trading with China and India, but ceased this occupation around 1732. He inherited the heavily encumbered Pinkney Park estate in 1743 from his father. Cresswell was returned as Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett from 1754 to 1774. He died at his seat in Pinkney Park on 14 November 1788. He had gained a degree of notoriety as a bigamist after his marriage in February 1744 to a wealthy heiress, Miss Anne Warneford, granddaughter and eventual heir of Sir Edmund Warneford of Sevenhampton and Bibury, Gloucestershire. Anne had married Cresswell in good faith and had borne him two children but another woman, his cousin Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Black (historian)
Jeremy Black (born 30 October 1955) is a British historian, writer, and former professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, US. Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including ''Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975'' (2001) and ''The World in the Twentieth Century'' (2002). Background He taught at Durham University from 1980 as a lecturer, then professor. He was awarded a PhD from Durham, entitled ''British Foreign Policy 1727β1731'', in 1983. As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges. He was editor of ''Archives'', journal of the British Records Association, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, ZΓͺna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of Republic of Genoa, one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the commercial trade in Europe, becoming one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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