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Sir Charles Gawdy, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Gawdy, 1st Baronet (c. 1635 – September 1707) was an English Tory politician. Early life Gawdy was the son of Sir Charles Gawdy and Vere Cooke. He travelled to The Hague in May 1660 with his cousin, William Gawdy, to pledge loyalty to Charles II of England. He was knighted while in the Netherlands. Following the Stuart Restoration, Gawdy was created a baronet, of Crow's Hall in the Baronetage of England on 20 April 1661, in recognition of his loyalty to Charles II. He was appointed a justice of the peace for Suffolk in 1660. In October 1675 he presented the Suffolk petition against the Royal Africa Company. Political career In 1678, Gawdy was elected as a Member of Parliament for Eye. He soon emerged as an opponent of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who labelled Gawdy as "vile" and a "papist". During the Exclusion Crisis, Gawdy voted repeatedly against excluding the Duke of York from the throne. In Suffolk, the local magnate, Lord Cornwallis, led moves to oust Gawdy from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tories (British Political Party)
The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds of his Catholicism. Despite their fervent opposition to state-sponsored Catholicism, Tories opposed exclusion in the belief inheritance based on birth was the foundation of a stable society. After the succession of George I in 1714, the Tories were excluded from government for nearly 50 years and ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s, although it was used as a term of self-description by some political writers. A few decades later, a new Tory party would rise to establish a hold on government between 1783 and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. The Whigs won control of Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyal Address
The privileged bodies of the United Kingdom are those institutions and corporations which enjoy the historic right to present an address to the British Sovereign in person. In modern times this right is exercised on significant occasions in the life of the monarch and at a ceremony specially organised for the purpose. A senior representative of each body delivers each loyal address and, after each has been read, the monarch responds and receives parchment copies of each. List Most recently the following 27 bodies presented loyal addresses to Queen Elizabeth II on 27 March 2012 at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace to mark the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee: * The General Synod of the Church of England * The University of Oxford *The University of Cambridge * The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland *The Free Churches Group * The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) * The City of London Corporation * The Corporation of the City of Edinburgh *The University of Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1630s Births
Year 163 ( CLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Marcus Statius Priscus re-conquers Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births * Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) * Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) * Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus, Roman politician * Xun Yu, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 212) Deaths * Kong Zhou, father of Kong Rong (b. 103) * Marcus Annius Libo Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD. Life Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawdy Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Gawdy family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. The Gawdy Baronetcy, of Crow's Hall in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 20 April 1661 for Charles Gawdy. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in circa 1720. The Gawdy Baronetcy, of West Harling in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 July 1663 for William Gawdy, Member of Parliament for Thetford and the first cousin of the first Baronet of the 1661 creation. His son, the second Baronet, gained distinction as a painter despite being deaf. The title became extinct on the death of the latter's son, the third Baronet, in 1724. The Gawdy family is said to have descended from Sir Brews Gawdey, a French knight who was captured during the Hundred Years' War and naturalised. His descendant Sir Bassingbourne Gawdie was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1573, 1593 and 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Poley
Henry Poley (5 January 1654 – 7 August 1707) was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Sir Edmund Poley (1619–1671) who was MP for Bury St Edmunds, and brother of Edmund Poley the diplomat. Poley matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1672, and graduated B.A. in 1673, having been a fellow commoner since 1670. He was then a Fellow of the college to 1675. He entered Gray's Inn in 1669, and the Middle Temple in 1672, being called to the bar in 1678. He represented Eye between 1689 and 1695, West Looe between 1703 and 1705, and Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ... from 1705 until his death in 1707. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners
Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners (1655 or 1656 – 28 September 1693) was an England, English peer and Tory politician. The son of John Knyvett, 6th Baron Berners, Sir John Knyvett and Mary Bedingfield, he was baptised in Darsham in Suffolk in February 1655 or 1656. In 1673, Knyvett succeeded his father de jure as Baron Berners. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency), Dunwich from 1685 to 1687 and for Eye (UK Parliament constituency), Eye from 1689 to 1690. Knyvett died unmarried and was buried in Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk on 30 September 1693. With his death the barony fell into abeyance, but was terminated in 1711 in favour of his sister Katherine Bokenham, 8th Baroness Berners, Katherine Bokenham. References * 1650s births 1693 deaths Tory MPs (pre-1834) English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1689–1690 Knyvet family, Thomas Barons Berners, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Rous, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Rous, 2nd Baronet (c.1656 – 8 April 1730) of Henham, Suffolk, was an English Tory politician. Rous was the son of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet and his second wife, Elizabeth Knyvett. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was an opponent of the Conventicle Act 1664. In 1670 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Rous was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk in 1676, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1678 and in 1680 he was the colonel of the county militia troop of horse. Between 1680 and 1688 he was a justice of the peace for Suffolk. In 1685, Rous was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for Eye. He was removed from the lieutenancy and peace commission of Suffolk in 1688 for opposing James II of England's religious policies. Despite this, he voted that James had not vacated the throne during the Glorious Revolution. In 1689 he was returned as a member for Suffolk and reappointed as a justice of the peace, but he was not re-elected at the 1690 election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Walsh (MP For Eye)
George Walsh ( – 12 November 1692) was an English politician, who served as MP for Eye 1680–1681. Walsh was the third son of William Walsh of Abberley, Worcestershire, and his wife Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir George Blount of Sodington, Worcestershire. He fought for the King in the Civil War, and was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in June 1660. He served as a JP in Middlesex 1665–76, and became a freeman of Eye in 1674, his wife having taken a lease for him of the manor at Eye Priory. He unsuccessfully contested a by-election at Eye in November 1675. In 1676 he was removed as a JP for "abetting an offender and going off the bench". In the second election of 1679 there was a double return at Eye: the senior bailiff declared the incumbents Gawdy and Reeve elected, while the junior bailiff sealed an indenture for Charles Fox and Walsh, both standing in the interest of Lord Cornwallis. Fox and Walsh were declared elected by the House of Commons on 8 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (1660–1713)
Charles Fox (2 January 1660 – 21 September 1713), of Chiswick, Middlesex. and Farley, Wiltshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1680 and 1713. He was Paymaster of the Forces (a lucrative post formerly occupied by his father) to Kings James II, William III and to Queen Anne. Biography Fox was born at Brussels just before the Restoration. He was the third son of Sir Stephen Fox, and was named after Charles II, who acted as his godfather. He was naturalised in 1670. Both his elder brothers were then dead, and in 1676 he was sent on a tour of the Continent under the charge of Dr. Younger, later Dean of Salisbury. On his return he was married in 1679 to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Trollope, 2nd Baronet; they had no children. The Water Eaton estate, near Cricklade, was settled on him on this occasion, and he probably first stood for the borough at the first general election of 1679. He was not succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Reeve, 1st Baronet
Sir George Reeve, 1st Baronet (c. 1618 - October 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1678. Reeve was elected in 1660 as MP for Eye in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Eye in 1661 to the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1678. History of Parliament Online - Reeve, George He came from a family and was generally supportive of the royal court in Parliament. He was created baronet
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Sir Robert Reeve, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Reeve, 2nd Baronet (29 June 1652 – 19 August 1688) was an English politician. Reeve was the son of Sir George Reeve, 1st Baronet. In 1675, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Eye. He was appointed to five parliamentary committees during the Cavalier Parliament. During the Exclusion Crisis, he voted consistently against excluding James, Duke of York from the throne. In October 1678 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th .... Reeve lost his seat in 1679, but regained it in 1681. He left no trace on the records of the Oxford Parliament and did not stand for re-election in 1685. He died in 1688, at which point his title became extinct. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Reeve, Robert, 2nd Baronet 1652 births 1688 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Feilding, 1st Earl Of Desmond
George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (c. 1614 – 31 January 1665) was an English aristocrat, awarded the title of Earl of Desmond in the Peerage of Ireland by Charles I of England under the terms of a letter patent issued by James I of England. George Feilding was the second son of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, and his wife, the former Susan Villiers. Susan was the sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, confidant and lover of James I, and her family were showered with titles and preferment as a result of George Villiers' immense influence. In 1622, when George Feilding was around 8 years old, James I created him Baron Fielding, of Lecaghe in the County of Tipperary, and Viscount Callan, of Callan in the County of Kilkenny. At the same time, George was given the right to the title Earl of Desmond as and when the previous holder of that title, Richard Preston, died without a male heir. Preston had also been a favourite and probably a lover of James I; he h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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