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Thomas Corbett (Lincolnshire MP)
Thomas George Corbett (1796 - 1868) was an English Member of Parliament, and High Sherriff of Lincolnshire in 1840. Background Thomas Corbett was the son of William Corbett (died 1832) of Darnhall and his wife Jane Eleanor, daughter of George Ainslie (British Army officer, died 1804). His mother's uncles included Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton and Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, MP and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In 1810 William Corbett changed his name to William Thompson Corbett, to inherit the Elsham estate from his mother's great-uncle Robert Thompson. Political career Corbett was elected in the 1835 United Kingdom general election and sat for two and a half years, until the 1837 election, triggered by the death of King William. He was a Conservative; he replaced the previous Tory candidate, Sir Robert Sheffield. His constituency was Lindsey, Lincolnshire, known then as the Parts of Lindsey (the northernmost of the three administrative divisions of Linc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsham Hall (geograph 4241210)
Elsham Hall is a 17th-century English country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire. The park and gardens are open to the public. The house The present house dates back to the 1760s, on the site of an earlier dwelling of which little is known. It is of brick construction, limestone ashlar on the main aspect and rendered elsewhere, and with a Westmoreland slate roof. The house was extended for the then owner, T G Corbett, in the 19th century, although most of the 19th-century service wing was demolished in the 20th. There were further enhancements by the Elwes family in 1933. The house is a Grade II* listed building. The house includes a Catholic chapel dating from 1933, and an 18th-century stone staircase. Separate from the house, on its own alignment, is a fine 19th-century orangery, which is a grade II listed building in its own right. The house is not open to the public. History The origins of Elsham Hall date from the 17th century or even ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl Of Yarborough
Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (12 April 1809 – 7 January 1862) was a British nobleman who succeeded to the Earldom of Yarborough in 1846. Before his accession, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newtown 1830–1831, Lincolnshire 1831–1832 and North Lincolnshire 1835–1846. Lord Yarborough gave his name to a hand of cards dealt in contract bridge Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions o ... that has no card higher than a nine (see Yarborough). The probability of getting a Yarborough is \frac which is \frac or about \frac. The Earl offered £1,000 to anyone who achieved a "Yarborough" – on condition they paid him £1 each time they did not succeed! References External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet
Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet DL (born 9 May 1946) is a British Baronet and father of Samantha Cameron, who is the wife of former British Prime Minister David Cameron. He was educated at Eton College. The son of Edmund Sheffield and Nancy Soames, he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his uncle Sir Robert Sheffield, 7th Baronet in 1977. He married Annabel Jones in 1969 with whom he had two daughters, Samantha Cameron and Emily Sheffield. He married secondly Victoria Penelope Walker in 1977 with whom he had two daughters and one son. He served as a Conservative Councillor on Humberside County Council from 1985 to 1993. He is the owner of Sutton Park, Yorkshire and a director of Normanby Estate Company Ltd. He is a member of White's, Pratt's, and the Beefsteak Club. In 2011 Sheffield said that he earned as much as £350,000 a year from eight wind turbines located on his estate at Bagmoor near Normanby Hall in Lincolnshire. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School, Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Conservative Research Department, latterly assisting the Conservative Prime Minister John Major, before leaving politics to work for Carlton Communications in 1994. Becoming an MP in 2001, he served in the opposition shadow cabinet under Conservative leader Michael Howard, and succeeded Howard in 2005. Cameron sought to rebrand the Conservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Cameron
Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (; born 18 April 1971) is an English businesswoman. Until 13 May 2010, she was the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street. Her husband, David Cameron, was the British prime minister from 2010 to 2016. She took on a part-time consultancy role at Smythson after he became prime minister. Early life Samantha Cameron is the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. Sir Reginald and Annabel married on 11 November 1969. The couple divorced in 1974, and Annabel later remarried to William Waldorf Astor III, nephew of her own stepfather Michael Langhorne Astor, with whom she had three more children. Her father also had three more children by his second wife Victoria Penelope Walker. Samantha Sheffield's birth was registered in Paddington, London. She grew up on the estate of Normanby Hall, north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, though not in the Hall itself, the family having moved out in 1963, some ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (19 February 1828 – 10 October 1894) was an English soldier and sportsman. Life He was the son of the 2nd Baronet (created 1821) Sir Francis Dugdale Astley and wife Emma Dorothea Lethbridge, and a descendant of Lord Astley. From 1848 to 1859, he was in the Scots Fusilier Guards, serving in the Crimean War and retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. On 22 May 1858, he married an heiress, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, of Elsham Hall, North Lincolnshire. Eleanor (died 7 June 1897) was the daughter of Thomas George Corbett (died 5 July 1868) and wife (married 15 December 1837) Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk (28 December 1810 – 29 November 1850), daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans. He thereafter devoted himself to sports including horse racing, boxing and pedestrianism. He was a popular figure at horse race meetings, known familiarly as "the Mate", and for winning and losing large sums of money. Two famous jockeys that rode regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet
Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (5 August 1802 – 18 January 1874) was a British Liberal Party politician and baronet. He was the son of Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of John Harrison. In 1831, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1826, Cholmeley replaced his father as Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham, a seat he held until 1831. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1836 and represented North Lincolnshire from 1847 to 1852 and again from 1857 to 1874. On 10 February 1829, he married Lady Georgiana Beauclerk, fifth daughter of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans and his wife Maria née Nelthorpe. They had a daughter and a son, Hugh, who succeeded to the baronetcy. See also * Cholmeley baronets *Easton Hall Easton is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, almost north of Colsterworth, and east of the A1 road. It belongs to the civil parish of Stoke Rochford. History The v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easton, Lincolnshire
Easton is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, almost north of Colsterworth, and east of the A1 road. It belongs to the civil parish of Stoke Rochford. History The village has no church, but forms part of the North and South Stoke with Easton church parish, which contains the church of St Andrew and St Mary at Stoke Rochford, just inside Easton civil parish. The A1 within the parish was straightened when converted to a dual-carriageway in 1960. The village is still largely the size as it was at the time of the ''Domesday Book''. Easton Hall Sir Henry Cholmeley bought the manor in 1592; his direct descendant Sir Montague Cholmeley rebuilt the village in the early 19th century. Easton Hall (52°49'46.04"N 0°37'29.34"W) was built by Sir Henry Cholmeley, partly rebuilt in 1805, and enlarged in the Victorian period. It was damaged while used by the army during the Second World War and pulled down in 1951. The 12 acres of gardens were abandoned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Beauclerk, Duchess Of St Albans
Maria Janetta Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (c. 1779 – 17 January 1822), formerly Maria Janetta Nelthorpe, was the second wife of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans, and the mother of the 9th Duke. Maria was the only daughter of John Nelthorpe and his wife, the former Mary Cracroft, of Little Grimsby Hall. Nelthorpe had been High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1775, and was related to the Nelthorpe baronets. Maria married the future duke on 4 March 1799, at Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire, his first wife, Charlotte Thelwell, having died in October 1797, leaving no surviving children. Beauclerk inherited the dukedom in 1816, as a result of the death, in infancy, of his nephew, Aubrey Beauclerk, 7th Duke of Saint Albans. His wife then became Duchess of St Albans. The couple had thirteen children: *Lady Maria Amelia Beauclerk (1800-1873), who died unmarried. *William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-1849) *Lady Charlotte Beauclerk (1802-1842), who died unmarried. *Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beauclerk, 8th Duke Of St Albans
William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans (18 December 1766 – 17 July 1825) was an English aristocrat. Early life and career William was born on 18 December 1766. He was the second son of Lady Catharine Ponsonby and Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, a Whig Member of Parliament for Thetford from 1761 to 1768 and for Aldborough from 1768 to 1774. His elder brother was Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans (father of Aubrey Beauclerk, 7th Duke of St Albans). His younger brothers were Adm. Lord Amelius Beauclerk (principal Naval '' aide de camp'' to King William IV and Queen Victoria) and the Rev. Lord Frederick Beauclerk (Vicar of Kimpton, Redbourn and St Michael's who married Hon. Charlotte Dillon-Lee, the daughter of Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon). His sisters included Lady Catherine Beauclerk (wife of Rev James Burgess, Vicar of Hanworth), Lady Caroline Beauclerk (wife of Hon. Charles Dundas, fourth son of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas). His father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dugdale Astley 26 July 1894
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treating
:''This is an article about treating in the sense of provision of food, drink, and refreshments for a person or group of people. For treating in the context of social dating, see treating (dating).'' Treating is the act of serving food, drink, and other refreshments in order to influence people and to gain benefits not easily obtained in the free market. It began as a political term, and came to be used elsewhere. In law and politics, treating is the act of serving food, drink, and other refreshments to influence people for political gain, often shortly before an election. In various countries, treating is considered a form of corruption, and is illegal as such. However, as long as the supplying of refreshments is not part of a ''quid pro quo'' for votes, etc., it is often not illegal. References See also *Bribery *Electoral fraud Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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