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Rowland Burdon (died 1838)
Rowland Burdon ('' c.'' 1757 – 17 September 1838) was an English landowner and Tory politician from Castle Eden in County Durham. Life He was the only son of Rowland Burdon, a merchant and banker of Newcastle and Castle Eden and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and University College, Oxford. He then took the Grand Tour. On his return he became a partner in his father's bank, the Exchange Bank in Newcastle and inherited the Castle Eden estate on the death of his father in 1786. He was elected at the 1790 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Durham, and held the seat until the 1806 general election, which he did not contest. He was also Mayor of Stockton for 1793–94. The Castle Eden Vase (or Beaker) was found on his estate in about 1775, by a labourer working on a hedge. The glass vase was a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon "claw beaker" which had been buried beside the skull of human body. It was presented to the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Burdon (''c.'' 1757–1838), MP for County Durham
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Rowland Burdon may refer to: * Rowland Burdon (1857–1944), MP for Sedgefield *Rowland Burdon (died 1838) Rowland Burdon ('' c.'' 1757 – 17 September 1838) was an English landowner and Tory politician from Castle Eden in County Durham. Life He was the only son of Rowland Burdon, a merchant and banker of Newcastle and Castle Eden and educated at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Burdon (1857–1944)
Colonel Rowland Burdon, VD, DL, JP (19 June 1857 – 1 August 1944) was an English landowner and Conservative Party politician from County Durham. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922. Early life and family Burdon was the son of the Reverend John Burdon, from Castle Eden in County Durham. He was educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford. In 1887, he married Mary Arundell, the daughter of Wyndham Slade of Monty's Court in Taunton, Somerset. Career Burdon was Lord of the Manor of both Castle Eden and Little Eden, and lived at the Castle, Castle Eden. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham in 1900, and served as High Sheriff of Durham in 1907. He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) for County Durham, and after serving as Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry he became Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion in 1911. He was awarded the Volunteer Decoration in 1898. At the Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Ralph Noel, 6th Baronet
Sir Ralph Noel, 6th Baronet (28 July 1747 – 19 March 1825) was a British landowner and politician, and father-in-law of Lord Byron. Before 1815 he was known as Sir Ralph Milbanke. Biography He was the eldest son of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Hedworth. His uncle John Milbanke was married to a sister of the Whig leader Lord Rockingham, and his sister was the political hostess Lady Melbourne. On 9 January 1777 he married Judith Noel, daughter of Lord Wentworth; they had one daughter, Anne Isabella. Milbanke succeeded his father as sixth baronet on 8 January 1798. The family lived at Seaham Hall, County Durham, but also owned property in Northumberland and Yorkshire. Milbanke was elected Member of Parliament for County Durham at the 1790 general election. A Foxite Whig, he supported abolition of the slave trade and Catholic emancipation. By 1812, worsening health and declining finances obliged him to retire from the Commons. Milba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 United Kingdom General Election
In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland. The Parliament of Great Britain had held its last general election in 1796 and last met on 5 November 1800. The final general election for the Parliament of Ireland had taken place in 1797, although by-elections had continued to take place until 1800. The other chamber of the Parliament, the House of Lords, consisted of members of the pre-existing House of Lords in Great Britain, in addition to 28 representative peers elected by members of the former Irish House of Lords. By a proclamation dated 5 November 1800, the members of the new united Parliament were summoned to a first meeting at Westminster on 22 January 1801. At the outset, the Tories led by Addington enjoyed a majority of 108 in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet
Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet (1740–1812), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1790. Eden was the eldest son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Davison of Beamish, county Durham, and was born on 16 September 1740. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 25 June 1755. He was educated at Eton College from 1755 to 1758 and at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1759. He married firstly Catherine Thompson daughter of John Thompson of Kirby Hall, Yorkshire on 26 June 1764. She died in March 1766.The Annual Peerage of the British Empire p. 54 Secondly he married Dorothea Johnson, of York on 9 April 1767. They had 10 children. In [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet
Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet (19 June 1719 – 14 October 1794) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Sir James Clavering, 6th Baronet and succeeded to the Baronetcy of Axwell and to the family estates on the death of his father in 1748. He was Member of Parliament for St Mawes 1753–1754, and for Shaftesbury 1754–60 (where he paid £2000 to secure the seat). He resigned his seat at Shaftesbury in December 1760 to fight a by-election for County Durham; he lost that election and the general election of 1761,Note 7, Page 210, Lewis Namier, ''The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' (2nd edition – London: St Martin's Press, 1957) but was elected for the constituency at the third attempt in 1768 and continued to represent it until 1790. Prior to his succession he lived at Greencroft Hall, Greencroft, Durham, a spacious mansion built by his grandfather James Clavering (1647–1721) in the late 17th century. In 1758, he rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wearmouth Bridge
Wearmouth Bridge is a through arch bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland. It is the final bridge over the river before its mouth with the North Sea. Original bridge The original Wearmouth Bridge was designed by Thomas Paine and opened in 1796. In 1805 the bridge was repaired, and between 1857-1859 it was reconstructed by Robert Stephenson. History To accommodate the growing volume of traffic, construction began on the current bridge in 1927. It was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson and fabricated by the famous bridge building firm of Sir William Arrol & Co. at their Dalmarnock Ironworks in Glasgow (they also built the famous Forth Rail Bridge and the steel structure of Tower Bridge in London). The new bridge was built around the old one to allow the road to remain open. It was opened on 31 October 1929 by the Duke of York (who would later become King George VI). The cost of the bridge amounted to £231,943 of which £12,000 was spent on dismantling the old bridge. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wearmouth Bridge (1796)
The first Wearmouth Bridge was the second major bridge to be made from cast iron. It was considered one of the wonders of the industrial age, and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as being 'a triumph of the new metallurgy and engineering ingenuity ..of superb elegance'. Design The bridge was instigated, sponsored and patented by Rowland Burdon, the Member of Parliament for County Durham, and built under the direction of Thomas Wilson, who designed its architectural features. It was the second iron bridge built after The Iron Bridge, but was over twice as long with a nominal span of , and only three-quarters the weight. Indeed, at the time of building, it was the biggest single-span bridge in the world (72 m), matching the collapsed Trezzo Bridge. The decision to use cast iron was strongly influenced by Thomas Paine, who had constructed a demonstration cast iron span of comparable length in Paddington in 1789, and had submitted models and designs for Wearmouth. Construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on the River Wear's mouth to the North Sea. The river also flows through Durham, England, Durham roughly south-west of Sunderland City Centre. It is the only other city in the county and the second largest settlement in the North East England, North East after Newcastle upon Tyne. Locals from the city are sometimes known as Mackems. The term originated as recently as the early 1980s; its use and acceptance by residents, particularly among the older generations, is not universal. At one time, ships built on the Wear were called "Jamies", in contrast with those Tyneside, from the Tyne, which were known as "Geordies", although in the case of "Jamie" it is not known whether this was ever extended to people. There were three original settlements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bell (folk Music)
John Bell (1783–1864) was a printer and avid collector of ballads who played a major part in the recording of the lyrics of popular songs in the north east of England. Life and death Bell was born in 1783, it is thought in Newcastle, and was a printer, sometime surveyor, collector (or probably more correctly, an obsessive hoarder) of anything and everything, but particularly to do with the music that was popular at the time. Bell followed the precedent set by Joseph Ritson, an eminent and eccentric scholar from Stockton, was probably one of (if not the) first to set down some of the local dialect songs popular in the day. He published a series of “Northern Garlands” in 1793 which contained among others “The Collier's Rant”, “The Keel Row”, “Bobby Shaftoe” and “Elsie Marle.” Bell followed close behind, but adopted a more organised and professional approach. His many sources ranged from the rich and famous down to the characters of the Newcastle Quayside. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhymes Of Northern Bards
''Rhymes of Northern Bards'' (full title – "Rhymes of Northern Bards: being a curious collection of old and new Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, Northumberland and County Durham, Durham – Edited by John Bell (folk music), John Bell 1812") is a book of North East England traditional and popular song consisting of approximately 200 song lyrics on over 300 pages, published in 1812. It was reprinted in 1971 by Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne with an introduction by David Harker. The publication It is, as the title suggests, a collection of songs which would have been popular, or topical, at the date of publication. The front cover of the book was as thus :- Rhymes Of Northern Bards: being a curious Collection of old and new Songs And Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, & Durham. Edited by John Bell, Jun. “Northumbria’s sons stand forth, by all confest “The first and firmest of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert Sharp
Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781–1849) was an English soldier, official and antiquary. Life The son of Cuthbert Sharp and of Susannah (sister of Brass Crosby), Sharp was an English soldier, official, and shipbuilder. He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham, England in 1781, and received his education at Greenwich under Charles Burney. There he formed a lasting friendship with Lord Lake and with Sir Edward Blakeney. When he was eighteen years old he served in Ireland during the rebellion as an officer in the fencible cavalry, a British regiment. When his regiment was disbanded, Sharp went to Edinburgh, and in 1803 visited Paris. There he was stranded by the resumption of hostilities at the conclusion of the Peace of Amiens, and detained, with other English visitors, as a prisoner of war. But by the influence of Claude Ambroise Régnier, the Minister of Justice, whom he knew, he was released on parole, and after a few years was allowed to leave for England. Sharp settled at Hartlepool a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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