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Robert Aske
Robert Aske may refer to: * Robert Aske (political leader) (1500–1537), leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, against the dissolution of the monasteries *Robert Aske (merchant) Robert Aske (24 February 1619 – 27 January 1689) was a merchant and haberdasher in the City of London. He is remembered primarily for the charitable foundation created from his estate, which nowadays operates two schools in Hertfordshire, Hab ... (1619–1689), Merchant and Member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, founder of the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School * Sir Robert Aske, 1st Baronet (1872–1954), British Liberal politician, MP 1923–1924, 1929–1945 {{DEFAULTSORT:Aske, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Aske (political Leader)
Robert Aske (''c.'' 1500 – 12 July 1537) was an English lawyer who became a leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising against the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 in 1536; He was executed for treason by King Henry VIII on 12 July 1537. Life Aske was a younger son of Sir Robert Aske of Aughton near Selby, of an old Yorkshire family. Aske was well connected: his mother, Elizabeth Clifford, was a daughter of John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, and Margaret Bromflete; and Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, was his first cousin once removed.Gasquet, Francis Aidan, ''Henry VIII and the English Monasteries'' (G. Bell, 1906)p. 231 Queen Jane Seymour was also his third cousin, also through his mother. Aske became a barrister and was a Fellow of Gray's Inn. A devout man, he objected to Henry's religious reforms, particularly the Dissolution of the Monasteries. When rebellion broke out in York against Henry VIII, Aske was returning to Yorkshire from London. Not ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Aske (merchant)
Robert Aske (24 February 1619 – 27 January 1689) was a merchant and haberdasher in the City of London. He is remembered primarily for the charitable foundation created from his estate, which nowadays operates two schools in Hertfordshire, Haberdashers' Boys' School and Haberdashers' School for Girls, and others elsewhere. Life Aske was the son of an affluent draper. Aske was apprenticed to John Trott, a haberdasher (dealer in raw silk) and East India Company merchant. Aske became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in 1643 and was elected an Alderman of the City of London in 1666. From 1671 Aske held £500 of original stock in the slave-trading Royal Africa Company, where he was one of 198 stockholders, entitling him to a single vote. He became Master of the Haberdashers' Company, but was removed from that position by James II in 1687 when the Catholic King lost faith in Aske, a Protestant. Aske made an investment of £500 (c. £110K today) in the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
