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Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe
Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe (November 1648 – 26 January 1713) of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottinghamshire from 1673 to 1685 and January 1689 to 1691, and from 1710 to 1713.''Howe, Scrope, first Viscount Howe (1648–1713), politician'' by David Hosford, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Life He was born the eldest son of John Grobham Howe and educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was awarded M.A. on 8 September 1665. His father was the MP for Gloucestershire. His brothers were John Grobham Howe, Charles Howe and Emanuel Scrope Howe. He was knighted on 11 March 1663, From March 1673 to July 1698 he sat in parliament as M.P. for Nottinghamshire. Howe was an uncompromising whig. On 5 December 1678 he carried up the impeachment of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford. In June 1680 Howe, Lord Russell, and others met together with a view to deliver a presentment to the grand jury of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langar Hall
Langar Hall is a Grade II listed house, now a hotel, next to the church in Langar, Nottinghamshire. The current building dates back to the 18th century, but parts are "probably a survival of an earlier building". History The Howes came into possession of Langar Hall and its estates in 1677 through the marriage of John Grobham Howe to Annabella, one of the daughters of Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland and Martha Jones. The original Norman stone castle was replaced by a three-storey stone mansion by John Howe. He died at the age of about 54 and was buried at Langar. Scrope Howe succeeded his father to the estate. He was MP for Nottingham from 1673 to 1698, Groom of the Bedchamber to William III and Surveyor General of the Roads. He was created Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe of Langar in 1701. He died in 1712 and was buried in Langar Church. Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe married Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, the mistress of George I and , daughter of Johann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Howe
Earl Howe is a title that has been created twice in British history, for members of the Howe and Curzon-Howe family respectively. The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, was in 1788 for Richard Howe, but became extinct on his death in 1799. The second creation, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was in 1821 for Richard Curzon, and remains extant. History First creation (1788) The Howe family descended from John Grobman Howe, of Langar, Nottinghamshire. He married Annabella, illegitimate daughter of Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland. Their son, Scrope Howe, sat as a Knight of the Shire for Nottinghamshire. In 1701 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe. The second Viscount also represented Nottinghamshire in the House of Commons and served as Governor of Barbados. He married Charlotte, Baroness von Kielmansegg, niece of George I. Her mother was the illegitimate half-sister of the King. Lord Howe was succeeded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Leke, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Leke, 1st Baronet (1627 – October 1679) was an English soldier, administrator and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of William Leke of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Guy Palmes of Ashwell, Rutland. He succeeded his father in 1651 and was knighted by October 1661. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace and deputy lieutenant for Nottinghamshire in 1660, holding both positions for life. He was also appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1660–61. He became an army officer in 1662 whilst still deputy lieutenant in Nottinghamshire. As deputy lieutenant he was ordered to arrest the formidable Colonel John Hutchinson in 1663 for his part in the Yorkshire Plot and was soon afterwards created a baronet. In 1666 he was elected Knight of the Shire (MP) for Nottinghamshire. He was appointed in 1669 Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, block-houses on either side of the mouth of the Thames, which was a full-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Eyre (Nottinghamshire MP)
Anthony Eyre (1634-1671) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. Eyre was the only son of Sir Gervase Eyre of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire and his wife Elizabeth Babington, daughter of John Babington of Rampton, Nottinghamshire, and was baptised on 17 September 1634. His father was killed defending Newark Castle for the King in the English Civil War. Eyre married firstly Lucy Digby, daughter of Sir John Digby of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire on 9 June 1657. She died in June 1659. He married secondly Elizabeth Pakington, daughter of Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet, of Westwood, Worcestershire. Eyre was returned as Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire at the 1661 general election to the Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt
John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt (18 June 1627 – 5 June 1675) was an English royalist. He was born in Lowick, Northamptonshire, the second son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Elizabeth Howard (d. 1671), daughter of William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham.Stater, VictorMordaunt, John, first Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon (1626–1675) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004), In June 1648, he joined his brother, Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough in leading a Royalist uprising, and fled with him to the Continent when it failed. He had returned to England by 1652, and married Elizabeth Carey on 7 May 1657. He again engaged in Royalist conspiracy, and met the Marquess of Ormonde on his secret trip to England in 1658. Mordaunt was betrayed and arrested on 1 April 1658. Released and re-arrested on 15 April 1658, he was charged with treason. Thomas Pride, one of the commissioners to try him, fell ill, and a key witness esca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet
Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet (c. 1669 – 25 May 1720), of Greenwich, Kent, was an English brewer, merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons between 1708 and 1720. Early life Page was the eldest son of Gregory Page (died 1693) and his second wife Elizabeth Burton. Page Senior was a wealthy London merchant, shipwright and director of the British East India Company, who owned a brewery in Wapping. He was also an Court of Aldermen, Alderman of the City of London in 1687. Elizabeth Burton was a widow from Stepney.Sedgwick, Romney R. (1970"PAGE, Sir Gregory, 1st Bt. (c.1668–1720), of Greenwich" ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754'', edited by Romney Sedgwick Page Junior married Mary Trotman, the 17-year-old daughter of Thomas and Mary Trotman of London, on 21 January 1690. Career Page followed his father's footsteps as a brewer and merchant, building a vast fortune in trade with South and East Asia. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battlesden
Battlesden is a hamlet and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is just north of the A5, between Dunstable and Milton Keynes. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 38. Because of its low electorate, it has a parish meeting A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou ... rather than a parish council. It is in the civil parish of Milton Bryan. Battlesden House was a large manor house situated in parkland, Battlesden Park, close to the hamlet. Former residents of the village include Henry Skynner & John Dunnyng, both husbandman, defending a case of trespass in Badelesden, in 1422. John Smyth, the complainant, had land in Badelesden, and stated that 100 shillings worth of damage was done to his land. Battlesden Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mordaunt (MP)
The Honourable John Mordaunt (c. 1709 – 1 July 1767) was a British Army officer and politician. Mordaunt was the second son of John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt and Frances Powlett and educated at Westminster School. He joined the Army as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards from 1726 to 1736. In 1745, during the Jacobite Rebellion, he rejoined the Army to serve as the lieutenant colonel of the Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse, which he commanded at the Battle of Culloden. He was elected to Parliament in 1739 as the member for Nottinghamshire, sitting until 1747, and was then elected to represent Winchelsea until 1754. He lastly sat for Christchurch from 1754 to 1761. He died in 1767. He had married in November, 1735 the Hon. Mary Howe (d. 1749), the daughter of Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe and the widow of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, (c. 165622 January 1733), styled The Honourable Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl Of Pembroke
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, (c. 165622 January 1733), styled The Honourable Thomas Herbert until 1683, was an English and later British statesman during the reigns of William III and Anne. Background Herbert was the third son of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and his wife Catharine Villiers, daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet who was the half-brother of the 1st Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers. Through his grandmother, Susan de Vere, he was a great-grandson of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, the Oxfordians' William Shakespeare. He was educated at Tonbridge School, Kent. Both of his brothers (the 6th Earl and the 7th Earl) having died without a male heir, he succeeded to the earldoms in 1683. Through them, he would inherit the family seat of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House in Wiltshire. Public life Herbert was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Wilton at the two general elections of 1679 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe
Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (c. 1700 – 29 March 1735) of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, was a British politician and colonial administrator. Life His father was Scrope Howe, a Whig Member of Parliament from whom he inherited the viscountcy and the Langar estate in 1713. In 1730 he inherited the Howe baronetcy, which was merged with the viscountcy. He was elected Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire, in 1722. By 1732 he had encountered financial difficulties and the Duke of Newcastle suggested he resign his seat and take up the governorship of the West Indian colony of Barbados which was worth around £7,000 a year. He accepted the duke's advice and from 1733 served as governor of Barbados until dying there of disease in 1735. Family In 1719 he married Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, daughter of Johann Adolf von Kielmansegg and Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington, illegitimate daughter of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington
Major General William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington LL (bef. 1641 – 1 February 1685) was an Irish peer. Alington was the son of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington and Elizabeth Tollemache. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Alington of Killard, Co. Cork circa March 1660, on the death of his brother the 2nd Baron who died without male issue. In 1664, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament and was re-elected for the same constituency in 1679 and 1681. He was created 1st Baron Alington of Wymondley, Hertfordshire on 5 December 1682. He served as Constable of the Tower from 1679 to his death and as Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1681 to his death. Private life He died in 1685, having married three times. Alington married (1) Catherine Stanhope, daughter of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope, and his wife, Katherine, before 1662. He married (2) Hon. Juliana Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, on 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poslingford
Poslingford is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, near to a stream that feeds the into the Chilton stream and then the Suffolk Stour. The main part of the village follows the line of The Street (the main road through to the village of Stansfield), rising approximately 40 metres in height above sea level from south to north. Church The Church of St Mary, near the centre of the village, is part of the Stour Valley Group of churches, and services are held there on a rotational basis. The Parish council meeting takes place in the church foyer as it is the only public place available in the village for such meetings to be held. The church holds a stone coffin and bell recovered from the site of Chipley Priory about north-west of the village.Chipley Priory - Pastscape Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
