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Robert Dormer (MP)
Robert Dormer may refer to: *Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer (1551–1616) *Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1610–1643) *Robert Dormer (MP for Wycombe) (1485–1552), MP for Chipping Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, south-southeast of Aylesbur ..., 1529 * Robert Dormer (1650–1726), Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and Northallerton {{hndis, Dormer, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer
Sir Robert Dormer of Wing, 1st Baronet, 1st Baron Dormer of Wing [or Wenge] (26 January 1551 – 8 November 1616) was a 17th-century England, English Peerage, peer. Life Dormer was the third son (but first surviving) of Sir William Dormer and his second wife, Dorothy (née Catesby). He studied at Gray's Inn in 1567 and obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1569. In 1575, Dormer succeeded to the considerable lands and estate of his father in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere, together with a fortune estimated by the Spanish ambassador to amount to 100,000 ducats. Dormer became a Justice of the Peace in 1577. He served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1584 and was knighted in 1591. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Tregony (UK Parliament constituency), Tregony in 1571 and for Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire in 1593. In June 1615, he was created a baronet, of Wing (or Wenge). Only a few weeks later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dormer, 1st Earl Of Carnarvon
Sir Robert Dormer of Wing, 2nd Baronet, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, 1st Viscount Ascott, 2nd Baron Dormer of Wing r Wenge'' (c. 1610 – 20 September 1643) was an English peer. He was the son of Sir William Dormer, and thus a grandson of Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer. His mother was Alice Molyneux, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet, and Frances Gerard. Dormer received the title Baron Dormer at the age of six and on 2 August 1628, at age 18, he was raised to Viscount Ascott and was created Earl of Carnarvon. Early life At age six, Dormer was left a ward to the King. His father had left him a rich peer at an early age. The King then sold Dormer's wardship to Philip Herbert, then Earl of Montgomery, for £4000. Dormer had been brought up as a Catholic and would become a high-living Catholic courtier, in danger, infuriating to hard-line Parliamentarians. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford. He was, according to the seventeenth-century biographer D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dormer (MP For Wycombe)
Robert Dormer may refer to: *Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer (1551–1616) *Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1610–1643) *Robert Dormer (MP for Wycombe) (1485–1552), MP for Chipping Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, south-southeast of Aylesbur ..., 1529 * Robert Dormer (1650–1726), Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and Northallerton {{hndis, Dormer, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chipping Wycombe (UK Parliament Constituency)
Wycombe () is a constituency in Buckinghamshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Steve Baker, a Conservative. Constituency profile The constituency shares similar borders with Wycombe local government district, although it covers a slightly smaller area. The main town within the constituency, High Wycombe contains many working/middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some census output areas of town home to over 50% ethnic minorities, and a number of wards harbouring a considerable Labour vote. The surrounding villages, which account for just under half of the electorate, are some of the most wealthy areas in the country, with extremely low unemployment, high incomes and favour the Conservatives. Workless claimants totalled 3.0% of the population in November 2012, lower than the national average of 3.8%. The seat bucked the trend in 2019 with a swing of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
