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Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th Baronet
Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th Baronet (c. 1670 – 8 December 1734), of Haughton, Shropshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1727. Briggs was the eldest son of Sir Humphrey Briggs, 3rd Baronet, of Haughton and Ernstrey Park, near Diddlebury, Shropshire and his wife Barbara Wyndham, daughter of Sir Wadham Wyndham of Norrington, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 2 July 1687, aged 17 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1687. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 31 January 1699. Briggs was elected as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Shropshire in the general election of February 1701. However he was defeated in the November 1701 general election. In July 1702 he was returned unopposed as MP for Bridgnorth and was re-elected in a contest in 1705. He was returned unopposed for Bridgnorth in the 1708 general election. He supported he Whig administration, and voted for the naturaliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English House Of Commons
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus, it developed legislative p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1727 British General Election
The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of King George I; at the time, it was the convention to hold new elections following the succession of a new monarch. The Tories, led in the House of Commons by William Wyndham, and under the direction of Bolingbroke, who had returned to the country in 1723 after being pardoned for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1715, lost further ground to the Whigs, rendering them ineffectual and largely irrelevant to practical politics. A group known as the Patriot Whigs, led by William Pulteney, who were disenchanted with Walpole's government and believed he was betraying Whig principles, had been formed prior to the election. Bolingbroke and Pulteney had not expected the next election to occur until 1729, and were consequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sambrooke
John Sambrooke (c.1692–1734) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1726 to 1734. Sambrooke was the third son of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, merchant, of Bush Hill, near Enfield, Middlesex, and his wife Judith Vanacker, daughter of Nicholas Vanacker merchant of Erith, Kent. He was admitted at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on 4 July 1709 and became a merchant trading with Turkey. He married Elizabeth Forester, daughter of Sir William Forester, MP of Dothill Park, Shropshire and his wife Mary Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury in May or June 1717. Sambrooke was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Dunwich Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was t ... at a by-election on 4 April 1726. At the 1727 general election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Edwards (MP)
Samuel Edwards (c. 1668 – 1738) of Frodesley, Shropshire, was a British government official and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1738 Edwards was the son of John Edwards of Pentre, Montgomeryshire. In 1697, he was a minor official at the Exchequer. He married Rebecca Godolphin, daughter of John Godolphin of Doctors' Commons, London on 24 November 1699 and afterwards kept a close connection with the Godolphin family. Early in 1700 he was promoted to deputy teller of the Exchequer under Francis Godolphin who was a teller of the receipt. He kept his position under subsequent holders of the office. He was appointed trustee for keeper of Windsor Great Park in 1709 and held other offices including cashier and paymaster of Exchequer bills, and director in several lotteries. He married as his second wife, Elizabeth Jones, daughter of a Shropshire clergyman in September 1723. Edwards acquired land in Shropshire at Frodesley and on Wenlock Edge, near Wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament Constituency)
Much Wenlock, often called simply Wenlock, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885, when it was abolished. It was named after the town of that name in Shropshire. The seat was founded in 1468 as a borough constituency and was represented throughout its history by two burgesses. Boundaries Much Wenlock's constituency boundaries ran from Leighton to just west of Dawley, to Ironbridge, and finally to just east of Madeley along the northern border; travelling eastwards, the boundaries ran from just east of Madeley to the bend in the River Severn, following the river thereafter. The far southern border, commencing in the east, travelled along the southern part of the Severn across to Easthope; the western border, running northwards, going from Easthope through to Benthall, and onwards back to Leighton. Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forester (1690–1758)
William Forester (1690 – 12 November 1758), of Dothill in Wellington, Shropshire was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons in three Parliaments between 1715 and 1758. Early life Forester was the son of Sir William Forester of Dothill Park, Shropshire and his wife Lady Margaret Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. He married Catherine Brooke, the daughter and heiress of William Brooke of Clerkenwell in 1714. The family had a significant political interest at Wenlock and members of the family represented the borough in Parliament over several centuries. Forester inherited the interest on the death of his father in 1718. Career At the 1715 general election, Forester was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Wenlock in succession to his father. He voted with the Government on all recorded occasions. During the crisis of the South Sea Bubble, he was found to have been credited with £1,000 stock, but could show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington
Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington (c. 1655 – 27 May 1719), styled The Honourable from 1675 until 1716, was an English barrister and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1716 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Torrington. Early life Born in High Ercall, Newport was the fifth and second surviving son of Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, and his wife Lady Diana Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 21 May 1672, aged 17, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1678 He became a reader of Inner Temple in 1700. Political career At the 1695 general election, Newport was returned as Member of Parliament for Ludlow and also became a freeman of Ludlow. At the 1698 general election, he was initially defeated at Ludlow, but petitioned and was seated on 1 March 1699. In 1699 he was appointed to the post of Commissioner of Customs which he held until 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cresswell (MP)
Richard Cresswell (1688–1743) was an English landowner and politician. The first son of a "roaring Shropshire squire" Richard Cresswell of Sidbury, Shropshire and his wife Mary Moreton, and grandson of a staunch Cavalier, also named Richard Cresswell (formerly a page to Charles I); Cresswell was nicknamed "Black Dick Cresswell". He had inherited his father's unstable traits, but also his grandfather's loyalism. His father, having been disinherited, was described as "a perfect madman", "a Judas and devil incarnate" by his son-in-law, who when obliged to stay with the family for a time at Sidbury, wrote that "to live with him (Cresswell the elder) is to live in Bedlam, for he is made up of noise, nonsense, railing, bawling and impertinence....". Richard Cresswell succeeded in 1708 to his grandfather's very considerable estates, including several manors in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. By the time he married, Cresswell was already enjoying a reputation as a "gid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 – 17 January 1731/32) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and the Middle Temple. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1716. Acton lived at Aldenham Park, near Bridgnorth and held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727–28. He married Lady Elizabeth Gibbon, daughter of Matthew Gibbon of Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ..., Surrey and had the following children: * Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 – 20 November 1791) *Elizabeth Acton (b. bef. 1730) *Jane Acton (b. bef. 1732) *Mary Acton (b. bef. 1732) References * * 1670s births 1731 deaths Alumni of St Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitmore (died 1725) (1787–1858), Shropshire landowner and British Whig politician
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William Whitmore may refer to: * William Whitmore (died 1648) (1572–1648), English landowner and politician * Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet (1637–1699), English politician * William Whitmore (died 1725), MP for Bridgnorth 1705–10 and 1713–25 * William Whitmore (British Army officer) (1714–1771), MP for Bridgnorth 1741–7 and 1754–71 * William Elliott Whitmore (born 1978), American blues singer and musician * William Henry Whitmore (1836–1900), Boston businessman, politician and genealogist * William Henry Whitmore (1875-1918), Unknown marine of Padstow See also * William Wolryche-Whitmore William Wolryche-Whitmore (16 September 1787 – 11 August 1858) was a Shropshire landowner and British Whig politician. He held a seat in the House of Commons from 1820 to 1835, representing first Bridgnorth and later Wolverhampton. His sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet (c. 1650 – 28 September 1716) was a British MP. He was born the son of Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet and succeeded to the baronetcy and Aldenham Park near Bridgnorth on the death of his father in 1665. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he was awarded MA on 4 May 1666ACTON, Sir Edward, 3rd Bt. (c.1650-1716), of Aldenham Hall, Salop Historyofparliamentoneline.org, Retrieved 12 March 2018 and entered the in 1670 to study law. He became a barrister and |
Roger Pope (Bridgnorth MP)
Roger Pope (died 1647) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1647. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Personal life Pope was possibly the son of Thomas Pope of Shrewsbury and his wife Luciad Edwards, daughter of Thomas Edwards of Shrewsbury. Pope married a daughter of Thomas Mytton. Career He fought in the Parliamentarian army in the Civil War, assisting General Thomas Mytton in North Wales. In 1646 he was a colonel and was appointed governor of Holt Castle after its capture in January 1647. In 1647, Pope was elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth in the Long Parliament The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In Septem .... Death He died a few months after being elected Member of Parliament. References Year of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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