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Richard Verney
Sir Richard Verney (1563 – 7 August 1630) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, England, was a landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1614. Origins He was the eldest son of George Verney (d. 1574) of Compton Verney, by his wife Jane Lucy, daughter of William Lucy of Charlecote in Warwickshire. Career In 1574, aged 11, he inherited his deceased father's estates. He entered Gray's Inn in 1582 to train as a lawyer and served as a Justice of the Peace from about 1584 when he came of age aged 21. In 1589 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. He was Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1590–1, during which time he became liable for a penalty of £1,000 due to the escape of an important prisoner under his custody. He was Commissioner for Musters by 1597. In 1601 he was elected as an MP for West Looe in Cornwall. He was knighted in 1603 and was Sheriff of Warwickshire again for 1604–5. He may have been an MP for Warwic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Willoughby De Broke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, ''de jure'' 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke Order of the Bath, KB Privy Counsellor, PC (; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan era, Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and politician, statesman who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage. Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I of England, James I as, successively, treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, and commissioner of the Treasury, and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke, peer of the realm. Greville was granted Warwick Castle in 1604, making numerous improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark, thoughtful and views on art, literature, beauty and other philoso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harvey (MP For West Looe)
George Harvey may refer to: * Sir George Harvey (painter) (1806–1876), Scottish painter * George Harvey (British politician) (1870–1939), British Conservative MP for Kennington 1924–1929, 1931–1939 * George Harvey (sport shooter) (1878–1958), South African sport shooter * George Harvey (cricketer) (1885–1962), Australian cricketer * George Harvey (The Lovely Bones), fictional serial killer in Alice Sebold's 2002 novel ''The Lovely Bones'' * George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864–1928), American diplomat and journalist * George Harvey Collegiate Institute, a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * George Isaac Harvey (1892–?), politician in the Canadian province of Ontario * George Roy Harvey (1869–1935), American football coach * George Harvey (American football) (born 1945), American football player * George U. Harvey (1881–1946), borough president of Queens, New York City * George Harvey (FRS) (died 1834), mathematician * George Harvey (RAF officer) Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hare (MP For West Looe)
John Hare may refer to: *John Hare (MP died 1613), English MP for Horsham (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir John Hare (MP died 1637) (1603–1637), English MP for Aylesbury 1625, Evesham 1626 and King's Lynn 1628 *John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham (1911–1982), British Conservative MP and government minister *John Hare (actor) (1844–1921), British actor and theatre manager *John Hare (bishop) (1912–1976), Anglican Bishop of Bedford *John Hare (conservationist) (1934–2022), British explorer, author, and conservationist *John E. Hare (born 1949), British philosopher *John Hare, Jr., Canadian politician * John Hare Powel (1786-1856), born John Powel Hare, American agriculturalist, politician, art collector, and philanthropist *Jack Hare (1920–2009), Canadian politician *Jon Hare (born 1966), British computer game designer * John Bruno Hare (1955–2010), the founder of Internet Sacred Text Archive {{hndis, Hare, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre
Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre (Born Chevening, Kent 25 March 1570 – 8 August 1616) was an English baron and politician. He was the son of Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre and Sampson Lennard. He was Member of Parliament for West Looe in 1597–1598. He successfully claimed the barony of Dacre on his mother's 1612. He married, in 1589, Chrysogona Baker, daughter of Sir Richard Baker of Sissinghurst and Mary Gifford, by whom he had issue:. *Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre (1596-1630) *Fynes, baptised at Sevenoaks on 27 December 1597 *Edward, baptised at Chevening on 17 November 1611 *Margaret Lennard, baptised at Sevenoaks on 27 October 1594, married Sir Annesley Wildgoose of Iridge Court, Salehurst in Sussex. He was born on 29 January 1590 and baptised on 5 February 1590 at St Margaret, Lee, Kent, England. He was knighted on 22 May 1605. According to Margaret’s epitaph, they had three children, none of whom survived her, nor had issue. Her son Henry Wildgoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hitcham
Sir Robert Hitcham (1572? – 1636) was a Member of Parliament and Attorney General under King James I. Early life Robert was born of lowly origin in Levington, near Ipswich, and educated at the Free School at Ipswich and later Pembroke College, Cambridge, studying law. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 3 November 1589 from Barnard's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1595. Political career He became a Member of Parliament for West Looe, Cornwall from 1597 to 1598; for King's Lynn, Norfolk from 1604 to 1611; for Cambridge in 1614 and for Orford, Suffolk from 1624 to 1626. He held a number of posts including: Attorney-General to Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort to James I (1603–?); Sergeant-at-law (1614–?); and King's Senior Sergeant-at-law (1616–?). He was knighted on 29 June 1604 by King James I. Later life On 14 May 1635 he purchased Framlingham Castle, Suffolk from Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk for the sum of £14,000. He died on 15 August 1636 and now li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Greville (MP For Warwickshire)
Sir Edward Greville (c. 1566 – 1634) of Milcote, Warwickshire was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament. Life He was the second son of Ludovic Greville and Thomasina or Thomasine, daughter of Sir William Petre of Ingatestone Hall, Essex and his second wife Anne Browne. His father was pressed to death for murder in 1589 and he inherited the family estates in Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, his elder brother having previously died. He was MP for Warwickshire in the Parliaments of 1593 and 1604 and chosen High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1594. In August 1594 he travelled with the Earl of Sussex to Stirling Castle for ceremonies and masques at the christening of Prince Henry of Scotland.''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 418, 422-3, 439. He volunteered for the 1597 Azores expedition and in the same year became commissioner for the discovery of goods of recusants, a role he held for at least two years. He had been knighted by 4 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, ''de jure'' 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC (; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage. Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I as, successively, treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, and commissioner of the Treasury, and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke, peer of the realm. Greville was granted Warwick Castle in 1604, making numerous improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark, thoughtful and views on art, literature, beauty and other philosophical matters. Life Fulke Greville, born 3 October 1554, at Beauchamp Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harington, 1st Baron Harington Of Exton
John Harington, 1st Baron Harington (1539/40 – 23 August 1613) of Exton in Rutland, was an English courtier and politician. Family He was the eldest son and heir of Sir James Harington (c. 1511–1592) of Exton, by his wife Lucy Sidney (c. 1520 – c. 1591), daughter of Sir William Sidney by his wife Anne Pagenham. His family was said to have held 'the most extensive estates in Rutland during the late sixteenth century'. Career He entered the Inner Temple in 1558, and was elected a Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1571. He was a Commissioner of the Peace for Kesteven from about 1559 to 1593, and was a servant to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in the Netherlands in 1585 and was Keeper of Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire (1588–1590) for Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick. He was appointed Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1582 and was knighted in 1584 by Sir Henry Sidney at Sir Thomas Henneage's house in London. Harington was a Knight of the Shire (MP) for Warwickshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Stone
Nicholas Stone (1586/87 – 24 August 1647) was an English sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I. During his career he was the mason responsible for not only the building of Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, Whitehall, but the execution of elaborate funerary monuments for some of the most prominent of his era that were avant-garde by English standards. As an architect he worked in the Baroque style providing England with some of its earliest examples of the style that was not to find favour in the country for another sixty years, and then only fleetingly. He worked in a context where most sculptors in stone were "mason-sculptors", in modern terms combining sculpture with architecture. The quality of his sculptural work is variable, probably because much of it was done by his workshop colleagues. Netherlandish influence was dominant in English sculpture, and in Stone's training, but the importation of classica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Willoughby De Broke
Baron Willoughby de Broke is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ in 1491 for Sir Robert Willoughby, of the manor of Broke, part of Westbury, Wiltshire, who according to modern doctrine was ''de jure'' 9th Baron Latimer. On the death of his son, the two baronies (the recognised barony of Willoughby de Broke and the ''de jure'' barony of Latimer) fell into abeyance. Around 1535, the abeyance was naturally terminated when the second Baron's granddaughter Elizabeth, who had married Sir Fulke Greville, became the only surviving co-heir, passing her claim to her son Sir Fulke Greville, father of the poet of the same name. The title stayed in the Greville family until after the death of the 5th Baron, when it passed to his sister, Margaret Greville, the wife of a Verney. Thereafter it remained in the Verney family. The Barons Willoughby de Broke remain heirs to the ancient Barony of Latimer (a title which predates their recognised Barony by almost two hund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greville Verney, 7th Baron Willoughby De Broke
Greville Verney, 7th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 15th Baron Latimer (1586 – 12 May 1642) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, England, served twice as a Member of Parliament for Warwick, in 1614 and 1621. Origins He was the son and heir of Sir Richard Verney (1563–1630) of Compton Verney by his wife Margaret Greville (d. 1631), (from 1628 ''suo jure'' 6th Baroness Willoughby de Broke) daughter of Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1536–1606) of Beauchamp Court, Alcester, Warwickshire, and sister and heiress of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1554–1628), known before 1621 as ''Sir Fulke Greville'' the poet, dramatist, and statesman. Career In 1614 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Warwick and was re-elected in 1621. He inherited the titles Baron Willoughby de Broke and Baron Latimer on the death of his mother in 1631. He was appointed Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1635. Marriage and issue On 13 May 1618, he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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