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Sir George Beaumont, 4th Baronet
Sir George Beaumont, 4th Baronet (c. 1664 – 9 April 1737) of Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire was a Great Britain, British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and British House of Commons for 35 years from 1702 to 1737. Beaumont was a younger son of Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Farmer, daughter of George Farmer. He matriculated at New College, Oxford on 9 February 1683, aged 18, and graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1690 then became a fellow. In the same year he succeeded his older brother Thomas as baronet. In 1713, he was awarded the degree of a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford. Beaumont was initially reluctant to enter parliament. However at the first general election of 1701 he allowed himself to be put forward for Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford University by a group of younger dons. He withdrew before the poll, but when a vacancy arrived shortly afterwards in March he was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoughton Grange
Stoughton Grange was a country house in the parish of Stoughton in Leicestershire and the family seat of the Farnham and Beaumont family. The house dated back to 15th century but was demolished in 1926, after being a successful family home for over five hundred years. History and ownership The earliest record of the Grange was during the reign of Edward the Confessor between 1042-1066 at a place known as “Stoctone”. At the Domesday survey of 1068 the land around Stoctone had been granted to Hugh de Grandmesnil, later descending to Robert Bossu, Earl of Leicester, who founded Leicester Abbey. In 1157 Bossu gave what was now Stoughton to the Abbey and the land became a great source of income for the Abbey from the arable and pasture farmland. The next four hundred years the estate was improved and saw the construction of St. Mary and All Saints Church in the village during the 13th century and Abbott John Penny erected the first building known as “Stoughton Grange” in the 1 ... [...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] |
Thomas Noble (MP)
Thomas Noble (1656 – 3 May 1730) was a British politician. Born around 1698, Noble was the eldest son of Thomas Noble of Rearsby, an alderman of Leicester. He was elected a tory Member of Parliament for Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ... in a by-election on 3 February 1719, and served until the general election of 1722. He did not stand for parliament again. Noble married twice, firstly to Mary Harvey before 1693, with whom he had a son and a daughter. On 13 October 1702 he married Mary Keyt, daughter of Sir William Keyt, 2nd Baronet and sister of the 3rd baronet. The second marriage was childless. Noble died on 3 May 1730. References 1656 births 1730 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1707 British General Election
The first Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain was established in 1707 after the merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. It was in fact the 4th and last session of the 2nd Parliament of Queen Anne suitably renamed: no fresh elections were held in England or in Wales, and the existing members of the House of Commons of England sat as members of the new House of Commons of Great Britain. In Scotland, prior to the union coming into effect, the Scottish Parliament appointed sixteen peers (see representative peers) and 45 Members of Parliaments to join their English counterparts at Westminster. Legal background to the convening of the 1st Parliament Under the Treaty of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland it was provided: Queen Anne did declare it to be expedient that the existing House of Commons of England sit in the first Parliament of Great Britain. The Parliament of Scotland duly passed an Act settling the manner of electing the sixte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Carter (1641–1710)
Lawrence Carter ( – 1 June 1710) of Leicester, was an English lawyer and politician. He was born in June 1641, the eldest son of Lawrence Carter and Eleanor Pollard. The Carters were prosperous gentleman farmers in Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, but young Lawrence was destined for a legal career. He was educated at Clement's Inn and articled to Thomas Wadland, an attorney in Leicester, whose daughter Elizabeth he married. The couple had two sons before Elizbeth's death in 1671. In 1675 he remarried, to Mary Potter of London, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. Carter became man of business to the earls of Huntingdon and Stamford, and when a new charter was issued to Leicester (following a writ of quo warranto) Carter became the town's Recorder. He was one of the first to kiss hands with James II, securing letters patent from the new monarch for the rights to provide his home town with a piped water from the Soar, which he did at a cost of £4000 (). Elected unoppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Winstanley
James Winstanley ( 1667 – 22 January 1719) was a British lawyer and Tory politician. Born around 1667, James was the only son of Clement Winstanley of Braunstone Hall and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton Hall. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1684, and admitted to Gray's Inn on 4 February 1688. Around 1701 he married Frances Holt, daughter of James Holt of Castleton, Lancashire, with whom he had two sons and six daughters. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ... in the second general election of 1701, and served until his death on 22 January 1719, aged 51. References 1667 births 1719 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Members o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Scheemakers
Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of modern sculpture in England.Peter Scheemakers at online Encyclopædia Britannica Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the -designed memorial to which was erected in |
Baronetcy
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th century, however in its current usage was created by James I of England in 1611 as a means of raising funds for the crown. A baronetcy is the only British hereditary honour that is not a peerage, with the exception of the Anglo-Irish Black Knights, White Knights, and Green Knights (of whom only the Green Knights are extant). A baronet is addressed as "Sir" (just as is a knight) or "Dame" in the case of a baronetess, but ranks above all knighthoods and damehoods in the order of precedence, except for the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, and the dormant Order of St Patrick. Baronets are conventionally seen to belong to the lesser nobility, even though William Thoms claims that: The precise quality of this dignity is not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoughton, Leicestershire
Stoughton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. The population at the 2011 census was 351. Stoughton is east of Leicester, in countryside between two protrusions of the Leicester urban area (Thurnby to the north and Oadby to the south). The closest part of the city of Leicester is Evington. Other nearby places are Houghton on the Hill and Great Stretton. The parish church of St Mary and All Saints contains monuments to members of the Farnham and Beaumont families. Stoughton Grange was the principal grange or farm of Leicester Abbey. After the suppression of the abbey in 1538 it passed to the Farnhams. Leicester Airport is close to the village; Stoughton Farm Park (formerly Stoughton Grange Farm), which was closed following the foot-and-mouth crisis and now houses a number of small businesses, is nearby. In 2008, the airport and adjacent land was the subject of a proposal to build an eco-town of some 15,000 to 20,000 new homes, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Scotland in 1707. Robert Walpole's increasingly unpopular Whig government lost ground to the Tories and the opposition Whigs, but still had a secure majority in the House of Commons. The Patriot Whigs were joined in opposition by a group of Whig members led by Lord Cobham known as the Cobhamites, or 'Cobham's Cubs'. Summary of the constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used were the same throughout the existence of the Parliament of Great Britain. Dates of election The general election was held between 22 April 1734 and 6 June 1734. At this period elections did not take place at the same time in every constituency. The returning officer in each county or parliamentary borough fixed the precise date (see hustings for details of the co ... [...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] |
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] |
