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Sir Richard Allin, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Allin, 1st Baronet (c.1659–1725), of Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk, was a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1709 to 1710. Early life Allin was born as Richard Anguish, the second, but eldest surviving son of Edmund Anguish of Moulton, Norfolk and his wife Alice Allin, daughter of Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet of Olderings House, Lowestoft, Suffolk and Mark Lane, London. He was educated at Great Yarmouth and was appointed joint customer of Great Yarmouth in 1685. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 30 April 1695, aged 15. In 1696, he succeeded his uncle Sir Thomas Allin and assumed the name of Allin. He married by a settlement dated 19 September 1699, Frances Ashurst, daughter of Sir Henry Ashurst, 1st Baronet. He succeeded his father in 1699 and was created baronet on 14 December 1699. Career Allin was High Sheriff of Suffolk between 3 and 14 December 1702. He became sole customer of Great Yarmouth in 1708. At the 1708 British ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerleyton Hall
Somerleyton Hall is a country house and estate near Somerleyton and Lowestoft in Suffolk, England owned and lived in by Hugh Crossley, 4th Baron Somerleyton, originally designed by John Thomas. The hall is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England, and its landscaped park and formal gardens are also Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The formal gardens cover . Inspired by Knepp Wildland, Somerleyton is rewilding of the estate to which he has introduced free-roaming cattle, large black pigs and Exmoor ponies. History In 1240 a manor house was built on the site of Somerleyton Hall by Sir Peter Fitzosbert, whose daughter married into the Jernegan family. The male line of the Fitzosberts ended, and the Jernegans held the estate until 1604. In 1604 John Wentworth bought the estate. He transformed Somerleyton Hall into a typical East Anglian Tudor- Jacobean mansion. It then passed to the Garney family. The next owner was Admiral Sir Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1710 British General Election
The 1710 British general election produced a landslide victory for the Tories. The election came in the wake of the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell, which had led to the collapse of the previous government led by Godolphin and the Whig Junto. In November 1709 the clergyman Henry Sacheverell had delivered a sermon fiercely criticising the government's policy of toleration for Protestant dissenters and attacking the personal conduct of the ministers. The government had Sacheverell impeached, and he was narrowly found guilty but received only a light sentence, making the government appear weak and vindictive. The trial enraged a large section of the population, and riots in London led to attacks on dissenting places of worship and cries of " Church in Danger". The government's unpopularity was further increased by its enthusiasm for the war with France, as peace talks with the French king Louis XIV had broken down over the government's insistence that the Bourbons hand over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 Deaths
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1650s Births
Year 165 ( CLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Orfitus and Pudens (or, less frequently, year 918 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 165 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 * A Roman military expedition under Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon. The Parthians sue for peace. * Antonine Plague: A pandemic breaks out in Rome, after the Roman army returns from Parthia. The plague significantly depopulates the Roman Empire and China. * Legio II ''Italica'' is levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius. * Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans. * The Romans establish a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates, a control point for the commercial ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Richardson (British Politician)
Richard Richardson (c. 1664 – 31 December 1714) was an English judge and Tory Member of Parliament. He was the son of John Richardson of St. Bartholomew Exchange, London and Little Grove, East Barnet, Hertfordshire and educated in the law at the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1686. He became a Serjeant-at-law in 1705 and a judge of Sheriffs’ Courts, London by 1707, probably for life. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunwich from 1710 to 1713, and for 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 1 April 1714 until his death on 31 December 1714. He married, in 1691, Sarah, probably the daughter of George Solme of Gillingham, Dorset and had 1 son and 1 daughter. References 1664 births 1714 deaths Lawyers from London Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet (baptised 24 October 1685 – 10 June 1749) was a British landowner and inititially Tory, but later Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1749. Through a donation in his will, he was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. Biography Downing was the only son of Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Lady Catharine Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. His grandfather, who was created a baronet in 1663, was the namesake of Downing Street. Lady Catharine died in 1688, and, as her husband was apparently considered an unsuitable parent, the young George was brought up in the family of his maternal aunt, Lady Mary Cecil Forester, the wife of Sir William Forester of Dothill Park, in Wellington, Shropshire. In 1700, aged 15, "by procurement and persuasion of those in whose keeping he was", he married his 13-year-old cousin, Sir William's daughter, Mary, who ultimately died childless in 1734. Betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Harvey (died 1732)
General Daniel Harvey (ca. 1664 – 6 September 1732) was a British soldier and politician who was Governor of Guernsey from 1714 to 1732. Life Daniel Harvey was born in 1664 in Coombe, near Kingston the second of three brothers. His father Sir Daniel was the son and grandson of wealthy London merchants who married Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich in 1651. In 1668 he was appointed Ambassador to Constantinople where he died in August 1672. Harvey was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and graduated in 1681; he joined the army in 1688, served as a Member of Parliament or MP for three different constituencies between 1708 and 1722 and was Governor of Guernsey from 1714 to 1732. He had numerous and well-connected cousins, many of whom were also MPs; in 1707 he married his cousin Anne Montagu, widow of Alexander Popham. Career In this period, regiments were considered the personal property of their Colonel, changed names when transferred and we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (14 September 1657 – 9 April 1738), of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1695 and 1709. Early life Charles was the son of Sir William Blois, of Grundisburgh Hall and his first wife Martha Brooke (died 1657), daughter of Sir Robert Brooke (1572-1646) of Cockfield Hall and his wife Elizabeth. However as his mother died very soon after his birth, Charles's father remarried to Jane Barnardiston (daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588-1653) of Kedington, Suffolk), who had previous been married to Charles's uncle John Brooke, brother of Martha. Jane was therefore the only mother that he knew. The principal heir to Cockfield Hall, his uncle Robert Brooke, died in 1669 in a bathing accident in the river Rhone in France. Charles's father Sir William Blois dying in 1676 (when Abigail Hodges, Sir William's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet
Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet (1667–1734), of Hoxne and Ubbeston, Suffolk, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1701 and 1734. Biography Kemp was baptized at Ubbeston on 25 June 1667, the eldest son of Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet MP, of Gissing, Norfolk and his second wife Mary Sone, daughter of John Sone of Ubbeston. He was admitted at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on 23 May 1685. He married Letitia King, daughter of Robert King of Great Thurlow, Suffolk. After her death he married as his second wife Elizabeth Brand, daughter. of John Brand of Edwardstone, Suffolk in about 1699. Kemp was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency), Dunwich on the family interest at the first general election of 1701 with his Tory brother-in-law Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Blois, Bt. He was returned unopposed again as Tory MP at the second general election o ... [...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] |
House Of Commons Of Great Britain
The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the third estate of the Parliament of Scotland, as one of the most significant changes brought about by the Union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. In the course of the 18th century, the office of Prime Minister developed. The notion that a government remains in power only as long as it retains the support of Parliament also evolved, leading to the first ever motion of no confidence, when Lord North's government failed to end the American Revolution. The modern notion that only the support of the House of Commons is necessary for a government to survive, however, was of later development. Similarly, the custom that the Prime Minister is always a Member of the Lower House, rather than the Upper one, did not evolve until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunwich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1298 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act. History In medieval times, when Dunwich was first accorded representation in Parliament, it was a flourishing port and market town about from Ipswich. However, by 1670 the sea had encroached upon the town, destroying the port and swallowing up all but a few houses so that nothing was left but a tiny village. The borough had once consisted of eight parishes, but all that was left was part of the parish of All Saints, Dunwich - which by 1831 had a population of 232, and only 44 houses ("and half a church", as Oldfield recorded in 1816). In fact, this made Dunwich by no means the smallest of England's rotten boroughs, but the symbolism of two Members of Parliament representing a constituency that was essentially underwater captured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
