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Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet
Sir George FitzGerald Hill, 2nd Baronet (1 June 1763 – 8 March 1839) was an Irish politician. Family and early life He was the oldest son of Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet of Brook Hall, County Londonderry, who had been a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Londonderry City from 1768 to 1795. His mother Hannah was a daughter of John McClintock, Hill was educated in Londonderry and at Trinity College, Dublin. He then studied at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in Ireland in 1786. In 1788, he married Jane Beresford, daughter of Hon. John Beresford (son of the Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone), who was President of the Irish Board of Revenue). Career Hill was a member of the Orange Order, serving for time on the committee of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. He was a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Coleraine from 1791 to 1795, and then succeeded his father as MP for Londonderry City 1798. In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, he was the Member of Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet
Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet (1 January 1727 – 10 February 1795) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Hill was High Sheriff of Londonderry City from 1751 to 1753. He was the Member of Parliament for Londonderry City in the Irish House of Commons between 1768 and his death in 1795.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.96 (Retrieved 1 November 2022). On 17 August 1779 he was made a baronet, of Brook Hall in the Baronetage of Ireland Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of E .... Hill married Hannah McClintock and was succeeded in his title by his son, George Hill. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Sir Hugh, 1st Baronet 1727 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Saint Vincent
This is a list of viceroys in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from British settlement in 1763 until it gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1979. Lieutenant Governors of Saint Vincent (1763–1776) *George Maddison, 1763–1764 *Joseph Higginson, 1764–1766 *Lauchlin McLean, 1766 *Ulysses FitzMaurice, 1766–1772 * Valentin Morris, 1772–1776 Governors of Saint Vincent (1776–1833) * Valentin Morris, 1776–1779, ''continued'' *Charles-Marie de Trolong du Rumain, 1779 (French occupation) *Antoine Dumontet, 1779–1780 (French occupation) *Philibert-François Rouxel de Blanchelande 1780–1781 (French occupation) *Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux Duplessis, 1781–1782 (French occupation) *''Pierre-Jean-François de Feydeau, March 1782–1783, ''interim'' (French occupation) *Edmund Lincoln, 1783–1787 *James Seton, 1787–1798 * William Bentinck, 1798–1802 *Henry William Bentinck, 1802–1806 *Robert Paul (1st time)(acting) 1805–1806 * George Beckwith, 1806–1808 *Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Struth
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, 2nd Baronet (26 December 1795 –13 March 1860) was a Whig and then Liberal Party politician from Ireland. Ferguson was born in Derry in 1796 as son of Sir Andrew Ferguson (1761–1808), a banker and mayor of Derry from 1796 to 1798, and Elizabeth, daughter of the Derry merchant Robert Alexander of Broom Hall, who was the brother of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon. Ferguson succeeded to the baronetcy in July 1808, after his father was killed in accident on a bridge in Moville, County Donegal. Ferguson was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1817. He was colonel of the County Militia and Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry from 1840 to 1860. He lived at The Farm, County Londonderry. He was appointed High Sheriff of Donegal in 1818 and High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1825 and then elected as the Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 United Kingdom General Election
The 1830 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV. Fought in the aftermath of the Swing Riots, it saw electoral reform become a major election issue. Polling took place in July and August and the Tories won a plurality over the Whigs, but division among Tory MPs allowed Earl Grey to form an effective government and take the question of electoral reform to the country the following year. The eighth United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 24 July 1830. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 14 September 1830, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. This election was the first since 1708 to cause the collapse of the government.B. Hilton, ''A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?'' Political situation The Tory leader, at the time of the 1830 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord George Thomas Beresford
Lord George Thomas Beresford GCH, PC (12 February 1781 – 26 October 1839) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, courtier and Tory politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1812 to 1830. Background Beresford was the fourth son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, by his wife Elizabeth Monck, daughter of Henry Monck. Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford and Lord John Beresford were his elder brothers and Lord Beresford and Sir John Beresford his half-brothers. Military career Beresford was appointed a cornet in the 13th Light Dragoons in April 1794, a lieutenant in the 111th Regiment of Foot in July 1794 and a captain in the 124th Regiment of Foot on 24 September 1794, from which he exchanged into the 88th Regiment of Foot on 29 July 1796. As a captain he served two years and eight months in the East Indies. He was promoted to the majority of the 6th Dragoon Guards on 3 December 1800 and to the lieutenant-colonelcy of Dillon's Regiment on 24 Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1802 United Kingdom General Election
The 1802 United Kingdom general election was the election to the House of Commons of the second Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The first Parliament had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. The Parliament of Great Britain held its last general election in 1796. The final election for the Parliament of Ireland was held in 1797. The first united Parliament was dissolved on 29 June 1802. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 31 August 1802, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. (The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired.) Political situation Tory Prime Minister Henry Addington led a war-time administration of pro-government Whigs and Tories, collectively referred to as the "Addingtonians", in office during part of the Napoleonic Wars. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess Of Londonderry
Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854), was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War (1807–1814) under John Moore and Arthur Wellesley (became Wellington in 1809). On resigning from his post under Wellington in 1812, his half-brother Lord Castlereagh helped him to launch a diplomatic career. He was posted to Berlin in 1813, and then as ambassador to Austria, where his half-brother was the British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. He married Lady Catherine Bligh in 1804 and then, in 1819, Lady Frances Anne Vane, a rich heiress, changing his surname to hers, thus becoming Charles Vane instead of Charles Stewart. In 1822 he succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, inheriting estates in the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Andrew Ferguson, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Ferguson, 1st Baronet (7 October 1761 – 17 July 1808) was an Anglo-Irish banker and politician. Ferguson was High Sheriff of Londonderry City in 1786 and Mayor of Derry City from 1796 to 1797. He was the Member of Parliament for Londonderry City in the Irish House of Commons between 1798 and the Acts of Union 1800.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.87 (Retrieved 1 November 2022). On 7 October 1801 he was made a baronet, of the City of Londonderry in the Baronetage of Ireland. Ferguson married Elizabeth, daughter of the Derry merchant Robert Alexander, who was the brother of the James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon (1730 – 22 March 1802) was an Irish landlord, merchant, politician and member of the UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of parliament) as a representative peer for Northern Ireland. An Irish 'nabob' Alexan .... He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Alexander (Irish Politician)
Henry Alexander (1763 – 6 May 1818) was an Irish politician from County Londonderry. Alexander was educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p8: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 who sat in the Parliament of Ireland until its abolition under the Act of Union 1800 and then in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was returned as a Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Old Sarum in the 1802 election. He was the brother of James Alexander, who was also a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum, and who bought the patronage of the borough in 1820 from their cousin, The 2nd Earl of Caledon. He was also the brother of Josias du Pré Alexander Josias Du Pré Alexander (1771 – 20 August 1839) was an Irish-born officer of the British East India Company who sat in the House of Commons of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lecky (politician)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume ''History of Ireland during the Eighteenth Century''. Early life Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner. He was educated at Kingstown, Armagh, at Cheltenham College, and at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated BA in 1859 and MA in 1863, and where he studied divinity with a view to becoming a priest in the Church of Ireland. Career In 1860, Lecky published anonymously a small book entitled ''The Religious Tendencies of the Age'', but on leaving college he turned to historiography. In 1861 he published ''Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland'', containing brief sketches of Jonathan Swift, Henry Flood, Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell, originally anonymous, republished in 1871; the essay on Swift, rewritten and amplified, appeared again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Domville Stanley Monck
William Domville Stanley Monck (1763 – August 1840) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Monck was the Member of Parliament for Coleraine in the Irish House of Commons between 1795 and 1797, before representing Gorey Gorey () is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland. It is beside the main M11 Dublin to Wexford road. The town is also connected to the railway network along the same route. Local newspapers include the ''Gorey Guardian''. As a growi ... from 1798 to 1799.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.108. Retrieved 23 January 2023. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Monck, William Domville Stanley 1763 births 1840 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
