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Samuel Lowe
Samuel Lowe (c. 1693–1731) of Goadby Marwood was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1718 to 1731. Lowe was the son of Henry Lowe of Goadby Marwood and his wife Elizabeth Long, daughter of Samuel Long of Jamaica, and nephew of Charles Long. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 21 April 1710, aged 16 and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1711. He succeeded his father in 1714 and also inherited extensive sugar plantations in Jamaica Lowe was appointed Comptroller of the Ordnance for Ireland in 1718 and held the post until 1730. He was elected 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 Aldburgh as Whig at a by-election on 24 November 1718. He generally voted with the government. At the general elections of 1722 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goadby Marwood
Goadby Marwood is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Eaton, in the Melton district, in the north of the English county of Leicestershire. It is about north of Melton Mowbray and a few miles from the Vale of Belvoir. In 1931 the parish had a population of 144. History Most of the houses are built from locally mined ironstone and some, including Goadby Hall, date from the 17th century. There is only one primary road into, and out of, the village. Goadby Marwood has no public house, shop or post office. The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Gauti'. In 1247, the village was held by Gaufridus Maureward. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Eaton. Wycomb villa In the 1950s the remains of a Roman villa were discovered in a field on the ridge of a hill overlooking the village. Named the "Wycomb Villa" it was field-walked in 1979, 1981 and 1985 and numerous tesserae were found. In 2002 a resistivity survey showed the position of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnson (died 1718)
William Johnson (c. 1660 - 1718) of Blackwall, Middlesex, and Mandeville's Manor, Sternfield, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was an English merchant, shipbuilder and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 29 years from 1689 to 1718 Early life Johnson was the second son of Sir Henry Johnson and his wife Dorothy Lord, daughter of William Lord of Melton, Kent. He was educated at Leyden in 1678. He went to Bengal as a factor for the East India Company and sometime after 1683, he returned to England and established himself as a merchant, trading to Africa and the Peninsula. He bought Mandeville's Manor, Sternfield, near Aldeburgh, but lived mainly near the shipyard inherited by his brother Henry at Blackwall. By 1687, he married Agneta Baron, daughter of Hartgill Baron, clerk of the privy seal, of Windsor, Berkshire. Career From 1687 to 1689 Johnson was an Assistant of the Royal African Company. At the 1689 English general election, he was returned as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1715–1722
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1731 Deaths
Events January–March * January 8 – An avalanche from the Skafjell mountain causes a massive wave in the Storfjorden fjord in Norway that sinks all boats that happen to be in the water at the time and kills people on both shores. * January 25 – A fire in Brussels at the Coudenberg Palace, at this time the home of the ruling Austrian Duchess of Brabant, destroys the building, including the state records stored therein."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p49 * February 16 – In China, the Emperor Yongzheng orders grain to be shipped from Hubei and Guangdong to the famine-stricken Shangzhou region of Shaanxi province. * February 20 – Louise Hippolyte becomes only the second woman to serve as Princess of Monaco, the reigning monarch of the tiny European principality, ascendi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1690s Births
Year 169 ( CLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris (or, less frequently, year 922 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 169 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 * Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia. * Northern African Moors invade what is now Spain. * Marcus Aurelius becomes sole Roman Emperor upon the death of Lucius Verus. * Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus. * Galen moves back to Rome for good. China * Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Purvis
Captain George Purvis (27 July 1680 – 8 March 1741), of Darsham, Suffolk, was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1741. Purvis was the eldest son of George Purvis of Darsham and his wife Margaret Berry daughter of George Dakins, and widow of a brother of Admiral Sir John Berry. He joined the Royal Navy and was a Captain in 1709, serving under Sir Charles Wager in the West Indies and at Gibraltar. He married Elizabeth Allen of Yoxford, Suffolk on 3 February 1712. In 1715, he succeeded his father to Darsham. Purvis was the protégé of Wager and was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh at a by-election on 21 January 1732. He was returned unopposed there again at the 1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williams (died 1743)
Sir John Williams ( – 7 May 1743) was an English merchant and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1730 to 1734. Personal life Williams was the second son of Reginald Williams of Stoke by Nayland, and his second wife Sarah Dyke, daughter of Sir Thomas Dyke of Horsham, Sussex. He died on 7 May 1743 after languishing of a dropsy and had been tapped several times. He left three sons. Career Williams was a merchant in trade with Turkey and was said to be ‘the greatest exporter of cloth in England. In 1711 he became a director of the South Sea Company, a role he held until 1715. In 1720 he was sub-governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance 1720. He was elected Alderman for Cripplegate on 20 June 1723 and was knighted on 23 June 1723. He also became Master of the Mercers Company in 1723. He stood for parliament at Minehead in a by-election in 1723, but was unsuccessful. At the 1727 British general election, he contested City of London and was again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Windham (of Earsham, Senior)
William Windham ( – 2 April 1730), of Earsham, Norfolk, was a British Army officer, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1730. Felbrigg Hall Windham was the second son of William Windham, of Felbrigg Hall (died 1689) and his wife Catherine Ashe, daughter of Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet, MP, merchant of Twickenham. He was educated at Eton College in about 1685. Windham entered the army and was a Cornet in the 6th Dragoon Guards in 1698 and Captain in 1702, serving under the Duke of Marlborough. At the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, he lost a leg. In September 1705, he married Anne Tyrrell, daughter of Sir Charles Tyrrell, 2nd Baronet. He became a lieutenant-colonel in 1706 and by 1712 he was in the reserve. In 1720, he bought an estate at Earsham, including Earsham Hall out of the profits he made from the South Sea bubble. Earsham Hall At the 1722 British general election, Windham was returned as Member of Parliament for Sudbury. He obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Plumer
Walter Plumer (c. 1682–1746), of Cavendish Square and Chediston Hall, Suffolk, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1719 and 1741. Early life Plumer was the eldest surviving son of John Plumer, a wealthy London merchant of Blakesware, Hertfordshire, and his wife Mary Hale, daughter of William Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire. He had brothers Richard and William Plumer who were also in Parliament. He was educated at Eton College in 1698 and was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge on 26 April 1699, aged 16. In 1702, he was admitted at Gray's Inn. He married Elizabeth Hanbury, daughter of Thomas Hanbury of Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire. He succeeded to his father's estates in Berkshire, Essex and Middlesex in 1719. In 1722 he acquired the estate of Chediston Hall in Suffolk. Career Plumer was elected with government support as Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh on 3 December 1719, after spending money liberally against the opposing interest of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Johnson (politician, Died 1719)
Sir Henry Johnson (13 August 1661''England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980'' – 29 September 1719) of The Gate House, Blackwall, Middlesex; Bradenham, Buckinghamshire; and Toddington, Bedfordshire was a British shipbuilder and a Member of Parliament for 30 years. Early life He was born the eldest son of Sir Henry Johnson, M.P., of Blackwall and Friston Hall, Suffolk by Mary Lord, the daughter and heiress of William Lord of Melton, Kent. Among his siblings were William Johnson and Martha Johnson (who married Hill Mussenden, MP for Harwich and brother to Carteret Leathes). Career Described as "the greatest shipbuilder and shipowner of his day, having at one time shares in 38 vessels" as well as owning considerable East India Company stock. Later, he had become a bitter opponent of the East India Company and was one of the leading members of the syndicate established in October 1691 to break its monopoly, likely as a result of a dispute with Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baron ... [...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] |
