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Robert Strange (actor)
Robert Strange may refer to: *Robert Strange (American politician) (1796–1854), U.S. senator *Robert Straunge (fl. 1614), or Strange, English politician, MP for Cirencester * Robert Strange (MP for Bristol), see Bristol *Robert Strange (engraver) Sir Robert Strange (14 July 1721 – 5 July 1792) was a Scottish engraver. A Jacobite, he spent periods out of Great Britain, but was eventually reconciled to the Hanoverian succession and was knighted by George III. Early life The eldest son ... (1721–1792), English engraver * Robert Strange (bishop) (1857–1914), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina {{hndis, Strange, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Strange (American Politician)
Robert Strange (September 20, 1796February 19, 1854) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1836 and 1840. Strange was born in Manchester, Virginia. He attended New Oxford Academy and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in south central Virginia in 1815 and practiced law in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons (1821–1823 and 1826) and was a judge of the superior court of North Carolina (1827–1836). Strange was elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willie Person Mangum and served from December 5, 1836, to November 16, 1840, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, where he died on February 19, 1854, and was buried in the family burial ground at Myrtle Hill, near Fayetteville. Strange was an ardent and active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Straunge
Robert Straunge or Strange (c. 1587 – December 1630) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614. Strange was the eldest son of Michael Straunge of Cirencester. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, from where he was called to the bar in 1614. The same year, Straunge was elected Member of Parliament for Cirencester Cirencester (, ; see below for more variations) is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, west of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswolds. It is the home of ....STRAUNGE, Robert (c.1587-1630), of Cirencester, Glos. and Somerford Keynes, Wilts. Published in The History of Parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Strange (MP For Bristol)
Robert Strange may refer to: *Robert Strange (American politician) (1796–1854), U.S. senator *Robert Straunge (fl. 1614), or Strange, English politician, MP for Cirencester * Robert Strange (MP for Bristol), see Bristol *Robert Strange (engraver) Sir Robert Strange (14 July 1721 – 5 July 1792) was a Scottish engraver. A Jacobite, he spent periods out of Great Britain, but was eventually reconciled to the Hanoverian succession and was knighted by George III. Early life The eldest son ... (1721–1792), English engraver * Robert Strange (bishop) (1857–1914), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina {{hndis, Strange, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885. Boundaries The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the 19th and the 20th centuries. The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the 13th century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat. From the 1885 United Kingdom general election the city was divided into four single member seats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Strange (engraver)
Sir Robert Strange (14 July 1721 – 5 July 1792) was a Scottish engraver. A Jacobite, he spent periods out of Great Britain, but was eventually reconciled to the Hanoverian succession and was knighted by George III. Early life The eldest son of David Strang of Kirkwall in Orkney, by his second wife Jean, daughter of Malcolm Scollay of Hunton, he was born at Kirkwall on 14 July 1721. He entered the office of a brother, a lawyer in Edinburgh. He then was apprenticed to Richard Cooper, the elder, an engraver, for six years. Strange fought in the rising of 1745. While with the army at Inverness, he engraved a plate for the bank-notes of the planned Stuart government. He was at the battles of Prestonpans and Falkirk Muir in the Young Pretender's lifeguards; and was in hiding for some months after the Battle of Culloden. Voluntary exile After the amnesty Strange went to London and, carrying with him the Prince's seal, which had been left behind in Scotland, to Rouen, a centre o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
