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St Johnstown (County Longford) (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
St Johnstown was a borough constituency for Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown County Longford represented in the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ... until 1800. Members of Parliament Notes References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Johnstown Longford Historic constituencies in County Longford Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish House Of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive franchise, similar to the unreformed House of Commons in contemporary England and Great Britain. Catholics were disqualified from sitting in the Irish parliament from 1691, even though they comprised the vast majority of the Irish population. The Irish executive, known as the Dublin Castle administration, under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was not answerable to the House of Commons but to the British government. However, the Chief Secretary for Ireland was usually a member of the Irish parliament. In the Commons, business was presided over by the Speaker. From 1 January 1801, it ceased to exist and was succeeded by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Franchise The limited franchise was exclusively male. From 1728 until 1793, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forbes (admiral)
Admiral of the Fleet John Forbes (17 July 1714 – 10 March 1796), styled The Honourable from 1734, was a Royal Navy officer. After taking part in an expedition to Lisbon to support the Portuguese in the face of a Spanish threat, he saw action as captain of the third-rate HMS ''Norfolk'' at the Battle of Toulon during the War of the Austrian Succession. He was one of the few captains who really bore down on the enemy. Forbes went on to serve as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty under successive governments. In that role, he was convinced of the illegality of the sentence of death on Vice-Admiral John Byng and refused to sign Byng's death warrant. He also served as Member of Parliament for St Johnstown and then as Member of Parliament for Mullingar in the Parliament of Ireland. Early career Born the second son of George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard and Mary (the eldest daughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy), Forbes joined the Royal Navy in the 70-gun third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet
Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet (1741–21 August 1807) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Born William Gleadowe, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Newcomen following his marriage to Charlotte Newcomen, only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, on 17 October 1772. On 9 October 1781 he was created a baronet, of Carrickglass in the Baronetage of Ireland. Between 1790 and 1800 Gleadowe-Newcomen was the Member of Parliament for County Longford in the Irish House of Commons.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p. 91 (Retrieved 4 April 2020). Following the Acts of Union 1800, he represented Longford in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom between 1801 and 1802. On 29 July 1800 Gleadowe-Newcomen's wife was created Baroness Newcomen in the Peerage of Ireland in honour of her husband, with the remainder to his male heirs. Upon Gleadowe-Newcomen's death in 1807 he was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor (Irish Politician)
John Taylor, Johnny Taylor or similar may refer to: Academics *John Taylor (Oxford), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1486–1487 *John Taylor (classical scholar) (1704–1766), English classical scholar *John Taylor (English publisher) (1781–1864), British publisher and Egypt scholar *John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist, known as the creator of the Taylor rule *John Taylor, architect of the UK e-Science programme *John Taylor, president of University of Pittsburgh Science * John Taylor (mathematician) (born 1664), English mathematician and traveler * John Taylor (pathologist) (1932–2010), Canadian and English pathologist and medical researcher * John R. Taylor, American physics professor, author of ''An Introduction to Error Analysis'' *John Bryan Taylor (born 1928), British physicist known for the Taylor state and work in plasma physics * John G. Taylor (1931–2012), British physicist, neural-network researcher and author *John Clayton Taylor (born 1930), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cavendish (Irish Politician)
George Cavendish (26 August 1766 – 13 February 1849), styled The Honourable from 1792, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Cavendish was the son of Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet and Sarah Bradshaw, who was created Baroness Waterpark in 1792. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown between 1790 and 1797, before representing Cavan Borough between 1798 and its disenfranchisement in 1800.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.77 (Retrieved 1 June 2016). He later served as Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury of Ireland. On 26 February 1803, Cavendish married Letitia Catherine Caulfeild, daughter of James Caulfeild. Following her death in 1805, he married secondly Catherine Smyth, daughter of Ralph Smyth, on 15 November 1807. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cavendish, George 1766 births 1849 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Baronet
Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Baronet (died July 1795) was an Anglo-Irish member of the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency), St Johnstown in 1783–1790 and Clonakilty (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Clonakilty in 1792–1795. In 1788 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork - a position that his father and brother (the 2nd Baronet) had also held. He was the younger son of Sir John Colthurst, 1st Baronet and Lady Charlotte FitzMaurice. He married Harriet La Touche, the daughter of Rt. Hon. David La Touche, on 8 May 1788. They had three children, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, 4th Baronet. Elizabeth married Edward St Lawrence, Archdeacon of Ross. References 1795 deaths Politicians from County Cork Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Colthurst family, Nicholas High Sheriffs of County Cork Year of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Fetherston, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Fetherston, 2nd Baronet (1759 – 19 July 1819), alias Fetherstonhaugh, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Fetherston was the son of Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Baronet and succeeded to his title in 1780. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown between 1783 and 1790, and then represented Longford County from 1796 to 1800.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.87 (Retrieved 4 April 2020). He subsequently sat for Longford in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 me ... between 1801 and his death in 1819. He was succeeded in his title by his son, George Ralph Fetherston. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Hamilton
Sackville Hamilton PC (Ire) (14 March 1732 – 29 January 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Early life Hamilton was born on 14 March 1732. He was the third son, of seven children born to Mary Dawson (daughter of Joshua Dawson) and Hon. Henry Hamilton, MP and Collector of the Port of Cork. His younger brother was Henry Hamilton, who served as royal Governor of Bermuda and Dominica. His uncles were Frederick Hamilton and Gustavus Hamilton. His grandfather was Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, his great-grandfather was Sir Frederick Hamilton, and his great-great grandfather was Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley. Career Hamilton entered the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) in 1780 and sat for the constituency until 1783. Subsequently he was elected for Rathcormack and Clogher. He chose the latter and was a Member of Parliament for the constituency until 1795, resigning the seat to be Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vaughan (British Army Officer, Died 1795)
Lieutenant-General Sir John Vaughan KB (c. 1731 – 30 June 1795), styled The Honourable from 1741, was a British soldier and a Member of Parliament in both the British and Irish Parliaments. During the American Revolutionary War he served in both the American and West Indies theaters. Background and early career Vaughan was the second son of the 3rd Viscount Lisburne. He began his military career as an officer in the 9th Marines, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1746; but he transferred to the 10th Dragoons as a cornet in 1748, being promoted to lieutenant in 1751, captain-lieutenant in 1754 and Major in 1759. In 1760 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 94th Foot, and held the same rank in the 16th Foot from 1762. He served in both Germany and North America during the Seven Years' War, leading a division of grenadiers with great distinction at the capture of Martinique. In 1772 he was promoted to colonel, and from 1775 until his death was Colonel of the 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jephson
Robert Jephson (1736 – 31 May 1803) was an Irish dramatist and politician. Life He was born in Ireland, a younger son of John Jephson, Archdeacon of Cloyne. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1751, but left without a degree. He then joined the British Army, with a commission in the 73rd Regiment of Foot (1758), and served in the Caribbean. He left, for health reasons. Jephson then lived in England, at Hampton Court, with William Gerard Hamilton. There he was the friend of David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Charles Burney and Charles Townshend. His appointment as master of the horse to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland took him back to Dublin. He published, in the ''Mercury'' newspaper, a series of articles in defence of the lord-lieutenant's administration which were afterwards collected and issued in book form under the title of ''The Bachelor, or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe''. A pension of £300, later doubled, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Baronet
Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Baronet (died May 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Fetherstone represented County Longford in the Irish House of Commons from 1765 to 1768. Between 1768 and his death in 1780 he represented St Johnstown.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.87 (Retrieved 4 April 2020). On 4 August 1776 he was created a baronet, of Ardagh 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 .... On his death his title passed to his son, Thomas Fetherston. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fetherston, Ralph, 1st Baronet Year of birth unknown 1780 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Forbes, 5th Earl Of Granard
George Forbes, 5th Earl of Granard PC (2 April 1740 – 15 April 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Early life Forbes was born on 2 April 1740. He was the only son of Lt.-Gen. George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard and the former Letitia Davys (d. 1778), who were first cousins (their mother's were sisters). His paternal grandparents were George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard and the Hon. Mary (née Stewart) Preston (widow of Phineas Preston and eldest daughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy). His mother was the daughter of Arthur Davys and Hon. Catherine Stewart (second daughter of the 1st Viscount Mountjoy). His paternal uncle was Admiral of the Fleet John Forbes, the father of his cousins, Katherine Wellesley-Pole, Countess of Mornington (wife of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington) and Maria Villiers, Countess of Clarendon (wife of John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon). Career He entered the Army in 1726, serving as Quartermaster General of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
