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Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Baronet (c. 1694–1732), of Benhall, Suffolk, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1722 Duke was the only son of Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet MP and his wife Elizabeth Duke, daughter of Edward Duke, MD. His father died in 1705 and he succeeded to Benhall and the baronetcy. He married Mary Rudge, daughter of Thomas Rudge of Staffordshire on 1 December 1715. Duke was elected as Tory Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for Orford at a contested by-election on 29 December 1721 and sat for the last months of the Parliament. He did not stand at the 1722 general election. Duke died on 25 August 1732. He had a son and daughter who did not survive and the baronetcy became extinct on his death. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benhall
Benhall is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. Located to the south of Saxmundham, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 560, reducing to 521 at the 2011 Census. Geography Benhall is split into two; one side of the A12 road is Benhall Low Street, whereas the other is Benhall Green. Benhall Green has a small primary school and a playgroup. There is no public house in the village. However, Benhall & Sternfield Ex. Servicemens Club, which is located off School Lane in Benhall Green, provides the village with a warm and welcoming bar with pool, snooker, live sports on TV, and regular member events. It also has a function hall available to hire for all occasions. The Club is open Monday-Wednesday and Fridays in the week from 6pm and at weekends from 12 noon. The 15th century church of St Mary is a grade II* listed building. The actor Guy Rolfe is buried in the churchyard. History The manor of Benhall was granted in 1086 to Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, and Felixstowe which has one of the largest container ports in Europe. The county is low-lying but can be quite hilly, especially towards the west. It is also known for its extensive farming and has largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the north. The Suffolk Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale are both nationally designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History Administration The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Suffolk, and East Anglia generally, occurred on a large scale, possibly following a period of depopulation by the previous inhabitants, the Romanised descendants of the Iceni. By the fifth century, they had established control of the region. The Anglo-Saxon inhabitants later b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England started to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1800 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet (3 January 1632 - July 1705 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1679 and 1698. Duke was the son of Sir Edward Duke, 1st Baronet of Benhall, Suffolk and his wife Ellenor Panton, daughter of John Panton of Westminster and of Brunslip, Denbighshire. His father had been MP for Orford. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and travelled abroad in 1657. He was commissioner for assessment for Suffolk from 1661 to 1680 and became a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Suffolk in 1671. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1673. He was commissioner for recusants in 1675 and mayor of Orford from 1677 to 1678. In February 1679, Duke was elected Member of Parliament for Orford. He held the seat until 1685. From 1679 to 1680 he was commissioner for assessment for Orford. In 1685 he was removed from the Suffolk bench and decided not to stand for parliament again. In 1688 from June to October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Baronets
There have been two Duke Baronetcies; both are now extinct. The first was created on 16 July 1661 for Edward Duke in the Baronetage of England, and the second was created on 5 December 1848 for James Duke in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Duke of Benhall, Suffolk (1661) *Sir Edward Duke, 1st Baronet (–1670). He was one of two MPs for Orford during the Short Parliament in 1640. *Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet (3 January 1632 – 24 July 1705). Sir John was also MP for Orford, serving 1679–1685, 1689–1690 and 1697–1698. * Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Baronet (c. 1694 – 25 August 1732). Sir Edward, like his predecessors in the title, served as MP for Orford (1721–1722). :Extinct on his death Duke of London (1849) *Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet (31 January 1792 – 28 May 1873). Sir James was MP for Boston (1837–1849) and the City of London (1849–1865). * Sir James Duke, 2nd Baronet (25 January 1865 – 3 July 1935). :Extinct on his death References *{{usurped, Leigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orford (UK Parliament Constituency)
Orford was a constituency of the House of Commons. Consisting of the town of Orford in Suffolk, it elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the block vote version of the first past the post system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1832. History Orford was first represented in the Parliament of England in 1298, but did not regularly send members until 1529. The right of election was vested in the Mayor, eight portmen, twelve "capital burgesses" and the freemen of the borough. In the early days of its representation, Orford had been a prosperous port and its freemen were numerous, but by the 18th century the number of freemen was deliberately kept low to facilitate controlling the elections, and the town had become a pocket borough where most of the qualified voters consisted of the owner's family and retainers. At one time Orford was owned by Viscount Hereford, but after his death in 1748 it was bought by the government, and by 1760, Orford was perhaps the most se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1722 British General Election
The 1722 British general election elected members to serve in the House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain. This was the fifth such election since the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Thanks to the Septennial Act of 1715, which swept away the maximum three-year life of a parliament created by the Meeting of Parliament Act 1694, it followed some seven years after the previous election, that of 1715. The election was fiercely fought, with contests taking place in more than half of the constituencies, which was unusual for the time. Despite the level of public involvement, however, with the Whigs having consolidated their control over virtually every branch of government, Walpole's party commanded almost a monopoly of electoral patronage, and was therefore able to increase its majority in Parliament even as its popular support fell. In the midst of the election, word came from France of a Jacobite plot aimed at an imminent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Turnour (died 1751) (1883–1962), son of the above
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Edward Turnour may refer to: * Edward Turnour (speaker) (1617–1676), Speaker of the House of Commons * Edward Turnour (died 1721) (1643–1721), son of the above, MP for Orford *Edward Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734–1788), great-grandson of the above *Edward Turnour, 2nd Earl Winterton (1758–1831), son of the above *Edward Turnour, 3rd Earl Winterton (1784–1833), son of the above * Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton (1810–1879), son of the above *Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton (1837–1907), son of the above *Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, PC (4 April 1883 – 26 August 1962), styled Viscount Turnour until 1907, was an Irish peer and British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 47 years, attaining the rare distinction of serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Corrance
Clement or Clément may refer to: People * Clement (name), a given name and surname * Saint Clement (other)#People Places * Clément, French Guiana, a town * Clement, Missouri, U.S. * Clement Township, Michigan, U.S. Other uses * Adolphe Clément-Bayard French industrialist (1855–1928), founder of a number of companies which incorporate the name "Clément", including: ** Clément Cycles, French bicycle and motorised cycle manufacturer ** Clément Motor Company, British automobile manufacturer and importer ** Clément Tyres, Franco-Italian cycle tyre manufacturer, licensed in America since 2010 * First Epistle of Clement, of the New Testament apocrypha * ''Clément'' (film), a 2001 French drama See also * * * * Clemens, a name * Clemente, a name * Clements (other) * Clementine (other) * Klement, a name * Kliment, a name * San Clemente (other) Pope Clement I (Saint Clement, died 99AD) is called San Clemente in Spanish and Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley North (MP For Thetford)
Dudley North (23 August 1684 – 1730) of Glemham Hall, Little Glemham, Suffolk was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1730. North was the eldest and only surviving son of Sir Dudley North of Camden Place, Maiden Lane, London and his wife Anne Cann, daughter of Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire. A member of the House of North, he was a grandson of Anne Montagu of Boughton House of the House of Montagu. His father was well known as a merchant, economist, and Tory politician and had purchased the Glemham estate shortly before his death in 1691. North was educated privately at Kensington, with ‘Mr Agier’; and was admitted at St. John’s College, Cambridge on 12 May 1701. Some time before 1708, he married, with £20,000, Katherine Yale (died 1715), daughter of Elihu Yale of Plas Grono, near Wrexham. Yale gave his name to Yale University. North stood for Parliament at Thetford at the 1708 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Acton (died 1744)
William Acton (c. 1684–1744), of Bramford Hall, Suffolk, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1734. Acton was born at Bramford, Suffolk, the second son of John Acton of Bramford Hall and either his first wife Isabel Buxton, daughter of J. Buxton, or his second wife Elizabeth Lamb, daughter of J. Lamb. He was admitted at Clare College, Cambridge on 30 January 1701. In 1704, he succeeded his elder brother John to the family estate. Acton was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Orford at the 1722 British general election. He voted consistently against the Government. He did not stand at the 1727 British general election but was returned unopposed for Orford at a by-election on 31 January 1729. He did not stand at the 1734 British general election. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk for the year 1739 to 1740. Acton died without heirs on 23 January 1744 and was buried in St Peters church, Baylham Baylham is a village and civil pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
