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Robert Walpole (1650–1700)
Colonel Robert Walpole (18 November 1650 – 18 November 1700) of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, was an English Whig politician and Colonel in the militiaPlumb p. 82 who served as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Castle Rising, Norfolk, from 1689 to 1700. He is mainly notable for being the father of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, considered to have been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.Burke, p. 665-667 He is the ancestor of all the Barons Walpole and Earls of Orford, of all creations, and of the present Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton Hall. He is also known as the ''Guinness World Records'' holder for having the world's longest overdue public library book.Oswald p. 130 Origins He was born at Houghton Hall in 1650, the son and heir of Edward Walpole (d.1668) of Houghton (the family seat for over four decades), by his wife Susan Crane.Burke, p. 665-667 His father ardently supported the Restoration of the Monarchy to King Charles II and was subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel (United Kingdom)
Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel. British colonels are not usually field commanders; typically they serve as staff officers between field commands at battalion and brigade level. The insignia is two diamond-shaped pips (properly called "Bath Stars") below a crown. The crown has varied in the past with different monarchs; Elizabeth II's reign used St Edward's Crown. The rank is equivalent to captain in the Royal Navy and group captain in the Royal Air Force. Etymology The rank of colonel was popularized by the tercios that were employed in the Spanish Army during the 16th and 17th centuries. General Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba divided his troops in to ''coronelÃas'' (meaning "column of soldiers" from the Latin, ''columnella'' or "small column"). These units were led by a ''coronel''. This command structure and its titles were soon adopted as ''colonello'' in early modern Italian and in Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Walpole
Baron Walpole of Walpole in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. Since 1797 holders also hold the title of Baron Walpole of Wolterton. Past holders have also held the titles Baron Walpole of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford (second creation) (1745 to 1797), and Earl of Orford (third creation) (1806 to 1931). One holder held the title of Baron Clinton from 1781 to 1791. History Grants The title of Baron Walpole of Walpole in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1723 for Robert Walpole, in honour of and during the lifetime of his father Sir Robert Walpole the ''de facto'' first Prime Minister of Great Britain, with special remainder, failing male issue, to his brothers Edward Walpole and Horace Walpole, in default of this then to the heirs male of his father, and in default of this then to the heirs male of his grandfather Sir Thomas Walpole. On Sir Robert Walpole's retiremen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwell (of Woodbridge, Suffolk) Arms ''
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Burwell may refer to: People * Burwell (name) Places * Burwell, Cambridgeshire * Burwell, Lincolnshire * Burwell, Nebraska * Burwell Creek, a stream in Georgia * The Burwell, an NRHP-listed high-rise in Knoxville, Tennessee Ships * USS ''Laub'' (DD-263), a destroyer renamed HMS ''Burwell'' when she was transferred to the Royal Navy in World War II Government * Sylvia Mathews Burwell (born 1965), United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, who due to that role, has been named as the defendant in several related lawsuits: ** ''Burwell v. Hobby Lobby'' ** ''King v. Burwell'' ** ''Zubik v. Burwell ''Zubik v. Burwell'', 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case before the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Norfolk
This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. Since 1689, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Norfolk. *William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1549 – *Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex 1557–1559 *Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 1559–1572 *Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon 3 July 1585 – 23 July 1596 *Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton 16 July 1605 – 16 June 1614 *Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel 18 April 1615 – 1642 ''jointly with'' * Henry Howard, Lord Maltravers 28 February 1633 – 1642 *''Interregnum'' *Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 24 September 1660 – 19 August 1661 *Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend 19 August 1661 – 6 March 1676 * Sir Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth 6 March 1676 – 8 March 1683 *Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk 5 April 1683 – 2 April 1701 *Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend 26 May 1701 – 30 April 1713 *James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Howard, 7th Duke Of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, (11 January 1655 – 2 April 1701) was an English nobleman, politician, and soldier. He was the son of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, and Elizabeth Dormer. He was summoned to the House of Lords in his own right as Baron Mowbray in 1678. His unhappy marriage was a subject of much gossip, and ended in divorce. Marriage, separation and divorce He married Mary Mordaunt, the only surviving daughter and heiress of the 2nd Earl of Peterborough and Penelope O'Brien. They separated in 1685. He divorced her for her adultery with Sir John Germain in 1700, after a previous attempt at divorce in 1692 had failed when the House of Lords threw out his private Divorce Bill. Although he succeeded in obtaining damages in an action for criminal conversation, the details were so sordid that he may well have regretted the step, especially since the jury reduced his claim for  ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of England
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised the English monarch. Great councils were first called Parliaments during the reign of Henry III (). By this time, the king required Parliament's consent to levy taxation. Originally a unicameral body, a bicameral Parliament emerged when its membership was divided into the House of Lords and House of Commons, which included knights of the shire and burgesses. During Henry IV's time on the throne, the role of Parliament expanded beyond the determination of taxation policy to include the "redress of grievances," which essentially enabled English citizens to petition the body to address complaints in their local towns and counties. By this time, citizens were given the power to vote to elect their representatives—the burgesses—to the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Rising
Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some north-east of the town of King's Lynn and west of the city of Norwich. The River Babingley skirts the north of the village separating Castle Rising from the site of the lost village of Babingley.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 250 - Norfolk Coast West''. . History Castle Rising's name is of Norman and Anglo-Saxon origin, deriving from a mix of the Old English and Norman French for a castle close to the settlement of Risa's people. In the Domesday Book, Rising is listed as a settlement of fourteen households in the hundred of Grimshoe. The village was owned by William de Warenne. Castle Rising Castle was built in the 1140s on the orders of William d'Aubigny and was most famously the residence of Queen Isabella after her role in the murder of King Edward II. The castle was subsequently passed to Edward of Woodstock and is now in the possession of Grevil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knight Of The Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred. The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently King Charles III), the Great Master (currently vacant) and three Classes of members: *Knight Grand Cross ( GCB) ''or'' Dame Grand Cross ( GCB) *Knight Commander ( KCB) ''or'' Dame Commander ( DCB) *Companion ( CB) Members belong to either the Civil or the Military Division.''Statutes'' 1925, arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles II Of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649. But England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a de facto republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland. Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. The political crisis that followed Cromwell's death in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Restoration
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars came to be known as the Interregnum (1649–1660). The term ''Restoration'' is also used to describe the period of several years after, in which a new political settlement was established. It is very often used to cover the whole reign of King Charles II (1660–1685) and often the brief reign of his younger brother King James II (1685–1688). In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian King George I in 1714. For example, Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710. The Protectorate After Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector from 1658 to 1659, ceded power to the Rump Parliament, Charles Fleetwood and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Walpole (died 1668)
Sir Edward Walpole KB (1621 – 18 March 1668) was an English politician and knight who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1668. Walpole was the son of Robert Walpole of Houghton and his wife Susan Barkham, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham of South Acre who had been Lord Mayor of London. He was baptised on 9 November 1621. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1640. In 1657 he was commissioner for assessment for Norfolk and was commissioner for sewers in 1658 and 1659. He was commissioner for militia in March 1660 and lieutenant colonel of foot militia from April 1660 to his death. In 1660, Walpole was elected Member of Parliament for King's Lynn in the Convention Parliament. He was a JP from June 1660 and Deputy Lieutenant and commissioner for assessment for Norfolk from August 1660 until his death. He was commissioner for sewers again in September 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for King's Lynn in the Cavalier Parliament. He was created Knight of the Bath o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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