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Thomas Bates Rous
Thomas Bates Rous (1739–1799) was a director of the East India Company and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1773 and 1784. Early life Rous was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Rous of Piercefield, Monmouthshire, who was a director of the East India Company, and his wife Mary Bates, daughter of Thomas Bates. He joined the naval service of the East India Company. There he acquired a comfortable fortune through the patronage of Lord Clive. He married Amelia Hunter on 25 June 1769. Shortly after his father's death in 1771, he returned to England. Political career In 1773, Rous contested Worcester at a by-election on the corporation interest and with the support of Clive. The election is said to have cost him £10,000. He was returned as Member of Parliament on 25 November 1773 but was unseated on petition for bribery on 8 February 1774. He was an East India Company Director from 1773 to 1774. At the general election of 1774 he was successfully returned for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East India Company Directors
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John Walsh (scientist)
John Walsh (1 July 1726 – 9 March 1795) was a British scientist and Secretary to the Governor of Bengal. John was son of Joseph Walsh, Secretary to the Governor of Fort St. George and cousin to Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, and his sister Margaret, the wife of Lord Clive. Life He entered the English East India Company at the age of fifteen and eventually became Clive's private secretary. During the 1757 Plassey campaign against the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj Ud Daulah, John Walsh was awarded £56,000 in prize money. Upon his return to England in 1759, his fortune was estimated at £147,000, and he quickly sought to purchase the necessary trappings of aristocratic power in eighteenth century Britain: land and political influence. In late 1764, Walsh purchased the large estate of Warfield Park, near Bracknell in Berkshire and spent the next two years doing it up. He was MP for Worcester from 1761 to 1780. He continued to serve Robert Clive, or 'Clive of India' as he became k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1780–1784
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British MPs 1774–1780
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British MPs 1768–1774
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 Deaths
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1739 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China killing 50,000 people. * February 24 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. * March 20 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi, India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne, including the Koh-i-Noor. April–June * April 7 – English highwayman Dick Turpin is executed by hanging for horse theft. * May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house. * June 13 – (June 2 Old Style); The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm, Sweden. July–September * July 9 – The first group purporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Smith (1755–1793)
Samuel Smith may refer to: In politics *Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691 *Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British Member of Parliament for Leicester, Malmesbury, Midhurst, St Germans and Wendover *Samuel Smith (1755–1793), British Member of Parliament for Worcester, Ludgershall and Ilchester * Samuel Smith (North Carolina), 18th-century North Carolina politician *Samuel Smith (Liberal politician) (1836–1906), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool, 1882–1885 and Flintshire, 1886–1906 * Samuel Smith Jr., American politician; Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, 1998–2008 * Samuel Hardman Smith (1868–1956), Canadian politician; municipal politician in Edmonton *Samuel Smith (Australian politician) (1857–1916), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Samuel Smith (New York politician), mayor of the City of Brooklyn, New York, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley And Ward
William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (21 January 1750 – 25 April 1823) was a British peer and politician. Ward was the son of John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, by his second wife Mary Carver. He was elected to the House of Commons for Worcester in 1780, a seat he held until 1788, when he succeeded his half-brother in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords. In 1780 he married Julia Bosville, younger daughter of Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite, Yorkshire, and sister of the ardent Whig Colonel William Bosville (1745–1813). Ward died in April 1823, aged 73, and was succeeded by his son John, who served as Foreign Secretary and was created Earl of Dudley in 1827. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudley and Ward, William Ward, 3rd Viscount 1750 births 1823 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Worcester William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Lechmere Charlton
Nicholas Lechmere Charlton (18 December 1733 – 20 March 1807), known as Nicholas Lechmere until 1784, was a British politician, MP for Worcester in 1774. Lechmere was the son of Edmund Lechmere (1710–1805), and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Blunden Charlton, 3rd Bt. Edmund Lechmere (1747–1798) was Lechmere's younger brother; Sir Anthony Lechmere, 1st Bt. (1766–1849) was his younger half-brother. He was educated by Mr. Graham at Hackney, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1751. Following the death in 1773 of Henry Crabb-Boulton, MP for Worcester, Thomas Bates Rous was elected to take his seat in a by-election. However, Rous was unseated on petition for bribery, and in the resulting by-election in February 1774, Lechmere was elected. He was counted by the government as a supporter. He did not contest the October 1774 general election, at which Rous retook the seat. He succeeded to the estates of his uncle Sir Francis Charlton, 4th Bt., and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Crabb-Boulton
Henry Crabb-Boulton (c.1709 – 8 October 1773) was a British Member of Parliament and Director and Chairman of the East India Company. He was born Henry Crabb, the son of Hester Crabb, a London widow. He inherited in 1746 the properties of her cousin Richard Boulton, an East India director from 1718 to 1738 whose surname he adopted in addition to his own. In early life he worked as a clerk in the East India Company's offices in London as paymaster and as clerk to the Shipping Committee (1737 to 1757). In 1753 he was elected a Director of the East India Company for the first time, holding the position for the conventional 3 years. He was afterwards re-elected in 1758, 1763, 1767 and 1772. In 1764 he served as Deputy Chairman and was Chairman the following year and again in 1768 and 1773. From 1755 he was described as a merchant. In 1754 he was elected MP for Worcester, retaining the seat until his death in 1773. He died unmarried. See also * List of East India Company directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rous
George Rous (c.1744 – 11 June 1802) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1776 to 1780. Rous was the third son of Thomas Rous of Piercefield, Monmouthshire, and his wife Mary Bates, daughter of Thomas Bates. His father was a director of the East India Company. Rous was probably educated at Eton College between 1756 and 1760 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 16 December 1760, aged 16. He entered Middle Temple in 1763, transferred to Inner Temple in 1764 and was called to the bar in 1768. He married Charlotte Thomas, daughter of Rev. Hugh Thomas, dean of Ely. Rous was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury on the interest of Francis Sykes at a by-election on 17 May 1776. The seat had been vacant for a year following the voiding of the previous election on grounds of “most notorious bribery and corruption”. Rous did not stand again for Shaftesbury in 1780. Rous became Counsel to the East India Company in 1781 and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
