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Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet
Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (1588–1654) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton, Devon, was a member of the Devonshire gentry and served as Member of Parliament for Tiverton in 1621-2 and as Sheriff of Devon (1629–1630). He was created a baronet in 1641. Davie was the son and heir of John Davie of Sandford and Crediton, Devon by his wife Margaret Southcote, daughter of George Southcote, of Calverley, Devon. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 22 February 1605, aged 16. In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for the newly enfranchised constituency of Tiverton in Devon. He served as Sheriff of Devon from 1629 to 1630 and was created a baronet on 9 September 1641. Davie married twice. His first wife was Juliana Strode (died 1627), fifth daughter of Sir William Strode (1562–1637), MP. She was a sister of William Strode (1594–1645), MP, one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in the House of Commons by King Charles I in 1642 sparked the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The wars also involved the Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates. The war ended with Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. Unlike other civil wars in England, which were mainly fought over who should rule, these conflicts were also concerned with how the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland should be governed. The outcome was threefold: the trial of and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Weare
Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. An earlier form, not attested since Medieval times, was Hunfrid. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Medieval period :''Ordered chronologically'' *Hunfrid of Prüm (Saint Humphrey, died 871), Benedictine monk * Humphrey of Hauteville (c. 1010–1057), Count of Apulia *Humphrey de Bohun (other), various people who lived from the 11th to 14th centuries *Humphrey of Toron (other), four 12th-century nobles *Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham (1381–1399), English peer and member of the House of Lords *Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447) Modern era *Humphrey Atkins (1922–1996), British politician and a member of the Conservative Party *Humphrey Barclay (1941–), British television comedy producer. * Humphrey Bate (1875–1936), American harmonica player and string band leader * Humphrey Bland (1686–1763), British Army general * Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet
Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c. 1578 – 15 January 1658), of Ashton, Devon, was an English landowner and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1625. He had close family connections to a group of Devon Presbyterians, including Sir William Strode. He generally supported Parliament in the political disputes prior to the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War. In its opening stages, he served as a Parliamentary Lieutenant-General, and Governor of Exeter, but was one of many on both sides who wanted a negotiated peace. He resigned his commission in September 1643. The Royalists held Devon from 1643 to early 1646; he garrisoned Ashton on their behalf, while avoiding active involvement. Fined by the Parliamentary Sequestration Committee in 1647, his connections meant he escaped major punishment. He died in January 1658. Biography George Chudleigh was born in 1578, eldest son of John Chudleigh (1565–1589), and Elizabeth Speke, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bampfield
John Bampfield (c. 1586 – c. 1657)Venning & Hunneyball of Poltimore and North Molton, Devon, England, was a Member of Parliament for Tiverton in Devon (1621) and for the prestigious county seat of Devon (1628-9). Origins He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Amias Bampfield (died 1626), MP, of Poltimore and North Molton, by his wife Elizabeth Clifton, a daughter of Sir John Clifton of Barrington Court, Somerset. Career He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 July 1604, aged 18. He was a law student at the Middle Temple in 1607. In 1621 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Tiverton, Devon. He was elected an MP for Devon in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Marriage and children In 1602 Bampfield married Elizabeth Drake, a daughter of Thomas Drake (d.1605) of Buckland Drake, Devon, and a niece of Admiral Sir Francis Drake (d.1596) of Buckland Abbey, Devon. His sister Jane Bampfield married Francis Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Parliament
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in which the history of an institution is told through the individual biographies of its members. After various amateur efforts the project was formally launched in 1940 and since 1951 has been funded by the Treasury. As of 2019, the volumes covering the House of Commons for the periods 1386–1421, 1509–1629, and 1660–1832 have been completed and published (in 41 separate volumes containing over 20 million words); and the first five volumes covering the House of Lords from 1660-1715 have been published, with further work on the Commons and the Lords ongoing. In 2011 the completed sections were republished on the internet. History The publication in 1878–79 of the ''Official Return of Members of Parliament'', an incomplete list of the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colyton, Devon
Colyton is a town in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon local authority area, the river River Coly runs through it. It is from Seaton and from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, reducing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward population at the above census was 4,493. Toponymy Colyton is first recorded in 964 as ''Culintona''. The name is thought to derive from a Celtic river name and the ang, tun, meaning "place". It is generally agreed to mean "farmstead by the River Coly". History Colyton first appeared as an ancient village around 700 AD and features in the Domesday Book as ''Culitone''. The third code of law of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in about 945. This helped to stabilize feudal society, by stating clearly its four pillars: kingship, lordship, family, and neighbourhood. It grew into an important agricultural centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet
Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625 – 21 November 1670) of Great House, Colyton, and of Mohuns Ottery, both in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Honiton (1659), for Lyme Regis (1660) and for Dartmouth (1667–70). Origins Yonge was the son and heir of Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet (1603–1663), of Colyton by his wife Elizabeth Strode, daughter of Sir William Strode (1562–1637) of NewnhamWilliam Betham''The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets, Volume 2''/ref> in the parish of Plympton St Mary, Devon, seven times a Member of Parliament, for Devon in 1597 and 1624, for Plympton Erle in 1601, 1604, 1621 and 1625, and for Plymouth in 1614, Sheriff of Devon 1593-4 and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1599. Career He was educated in Leyden and the Inner Temple. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, and in 1660 for Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the Convention Parliament. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet
Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton in Devon, inherited the Davie baronetcy and the Davie estates from his elder brother Sir John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660–1692), MP for Saltash 1679–85 and Sheriff of Devon in 1688, who died unmarried at the age of 32. Origins He was the younger son of William Davie (1614-1663) of Dar.(?), barrister-at-law (second son of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (-1654) of Creedy) by his wife Margaret Clarke (d.1702), daughter of Sir Francis Clarke (1622/3-c.1690), a merchant of the City of London and member of the Levant Company. Marriages and children He married twice, but left no male children, as follows: *Firstly to Mary Steadman (d.1690/1), daughter and heiress of ..... Steadman of Downside, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, by whom he had one daughter: **Mary Davie (1688-1762), who married Nicholas III Hooper (son of Sir Nicholas II Hooper (1654-1731) of Fullabrook, Braunton and Raleigh, Pilt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prince (biographer)
Rev. John Prince (1643–1723), vicar of Totnes and Berry Pomeroy in Devon, England, was a biographer. He is best known for his ''Worthies of Devon'', a series of biographies of Devon-born notables covering the period before the Norman Conquest to his own era. He became the subject of a sexual scandal, the court records of which were made into a book in 2001 and a play in 2005. Origins John Prince was born in 1643 in a farmhouse (now called Prince's Abbey) on the site of Newenham Abbey, in the parish of Axminster, Devon. He was the eldest son of Bernard Prince (died 1689) (to whom John erected a monument in Axminster Church) by his first wife Mary Crocker, daughter of John Crocker,Courtney, William Prideaux. " Prince, John (1643–1723)", ''Dictionary of National Biography'', London, 1885–1900, Volume 46. of the ancient Crocker family seated at Lyneham House in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon. Lyneham was, after ''Hele'' the second earliest known home of the Crocker family, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltash (UK Parliament Constituency)
Saltash, sometimes called Essa, was a "rotten borough" in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act. History The borough consisted of the town of Saltash, a market town facing Plymouth and Devonport across the Tamar estuary, and the inhabitants by 1831 were mainly fishermen or Devonport dockworkers. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start. Saltash was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain specified properties. For a long period in the 18th century, there was a contest for control of the borough between the government and the Buller family of Morval, depending partly on legal uncertainties over the precise number and identity of the burgage properties to which votes were attached. In the 1760s it was cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Davie, 3rd 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. Etymolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
