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Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet Stanhope, FRSE (9 October 1766 – 27 May 1839) was a Scottish politician and lawyer who served as Lord Advocate of Scotland 1804 to 1806. Life James Montgomery was born in Peebleshire on 9 October 1766, the son of Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet Stanhope and Margaret Scott. The family moved to Stobo Castle when he was an infant. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh from 1773 to 1778. He trained as an advocate passing the bar in 1787. He worked as an advocate at Argyll Square in Edinburgh through the 1790s. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1803. He immediately set about remodelling Stobo Castle, commissioning the Edinburgh architect Archibald Elliot to rebuild it in a castellated style. The very large project was completed in 1811 and brought the castle to its current appearance. In 1810 he inherited £20,000 on the death of the family friend, William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, who had died chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stobo Castle, Scottish Borders , Scottish-American soldier
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Stobo may refer to: ;Locations * Stobo, Scottish Borders, Scotland, see List of listed buildings in Stobo, Scottish Borders *Stobo Castle, Scotland *Stobo Kirk, Scotland * Stobo railway station, Scotland *Barony of Stobo, Scotland ;People *Charlie Stobo, Australian cricketer * Richard Stobo, Australian cricketer *Robert Stobo Major Robert Stobo (1726/27–1770) was an 18th-century Scottish-born colonial American frontiersman and soldier. Stobo was an officer in the Virginia militia who, during the French and Indian War, acted as a spy while a prisoner-of-war at Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil William Douglas
Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer FRSE (1763-1794) was a Scottish nobleman who, in his short life, developed a reputation as an agricultural improver and an advocate of parliamentary reform. He was an active member of, among other radical societies, the "Friends of the People". He is one of the small group of people to whom Robert Burns dedicated poetry. Early life He was the second son of Helen Hamilton and Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk. Despite the death of his parents first son in infancy, Douglas did not become Earl as he died before his father. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. While studying lodged with his teacher moral philosopher Dugald Stewart, one of the most important figures of the later Scottish Enlightenment, and a renowned populariser of the work of Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith. In 1785 (soon after its inception in 1783) Daer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dugald Stewart, James Gregory, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Montgomery, 2nd Baronet
Sir George Montgomery, 2nd Baronet (1765 – 10 July 1831) was a British Army officer and Tory politician of Scottish and Anglo-Irish descent. Biography Montgomery was the son of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet by his second wife, Anne Evatt. In 1778 he received a commission in the 68th Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to captain in 1783 and transferred to the 14th Dragoons in 1786. In 1788, Montgomery succeeded to his father's baronetcy, his elder half-brother, William, having predeceased the first baronet. He resigned from the army in 1790. Shortly afterwards he received the position of clerk of the head permit office in the Dublin Castle administration, worth £800 a year in income, from William Pitt the Younger's ministry. Montgomery continued to receive reimbursement for the office until 1812, when Lord Liverpool removed him from the compensation list. He appealed to the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, Robert Peel, who managed to pacify Montgomery by offering a compen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 Peeblesshire By-election
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1801 United Kingdom General Election
In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland. The Parliament of Great Britain had held its last general election in 1796 and last met on 5 November 1800. The final general election for the Parliament of Ireland had taken place in 1797, although by-elections had continued to take place until 1800. The other chamber of the Parliament, the House of Lords, consisted of members of the pre-existing House of Lords in Great Britain, in addition to 28 representative peers elected by members of the former Irish House of Lords. By a proclamation dated 5 November 1800, the members of the new united Parliament were summoned to a first meeting at Westminster on 22 January 1801. At the outset, the Tories led by Addington enjoyed a majority of 108 in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acts Of Union 1800
The Acts of Union 1800 (sometimes incorrectly referred to as a single 'Act of Union 1801') were parallel acts of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The acts came into force on 1 January 1801, and the merged Parliament of the United Kingdom had its first meeting on 22 January 1801. Both acts remain in force, with amendments and some Articles repealed, in the United Kingdom, but have been repealed in their entirety in the Republic of Ireland to whatever extent they might have been law in the new nation at all. Name Two acts were passed in 1800 with the same long title: ''An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland''. The short title of the act of the British Parliament is ''Union with Ireland Act 1800'', assigned by the Short Titles Act 1896. The short title of the act of the Irish Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1800 Peeblesshire By-election
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Peeblesshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Peeblesshire was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1708 until 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Peeblesshire. Boundaries The name relates the constituency to the county of Peebles. Article XII of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 (Act settling the Manner of electing the Representatives of Scotland), provided that one representative should be chosen for every shire and steuartry (except for some shires which were to take turns). History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished for the 1868 general election. This arrangement was continued by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Montgomery (Peebles MP)
William Montgomery may refer to: * William Montgomery (Pennsylvania soldier) (1736–1816), American judge, U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania * William Montgomery (North Carolina politician) (1789–1844), American physician, U.S. Congressman for North Carolina * William Montgomery (congressman) (1818–1870), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania * William Montgomery (New Zealand politician) (1821–1914), New Zealand MP, Minister of Education * William Montgomery Jr. (1866–1958), New Zealand MP * William Montgomery (cryptographer) (fl. 1918), British cryptographer in World War I * William Bell Montgomery (1829–1904), American farmer, businessman, and editor * Will Montgomery (born 1983), American football player * Will Montgomery (rugby union), English rugby union player * Bill Montgomery (quarterback) (born 1949), American football player * Bill Montgomery (halfback) (1923–2003), American football player * Bill Montgomery (cricketer) (1878–1952), English cricketer * Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cosway
Richard Cosway (5 November 1742 – 4 July 1821) was a leading English portrait painter of the Georgian and Regency era, noted for his miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. He befriended fellow Free-masons and Swedenborgians William Blake and Chevalier d'Éon. His wife was the Italian-born painter Maria Cosway, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Early years Richard Cosway was born in Tiverton, Devon, the son of a schoolmaster. He was initially educated at Blundell's School, where his father was master, but at the age of twelve he was allowed to travel to London to take lessons in painting. Soon after his arrival, in 1754, he won a prize from the Society of Arts. He studied briefly with Thomas Hudson, then with William Shipley, and by 1760 had established his own business. He exhibited his first works at the age of 20 in 1762 and was soon in demand. He was one of the first group of associate members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry James Purvis-Russell-Hamilton-Montgomery, 7th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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