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Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole (6 October 1727 – March 1803), styled from 1756 The Hon. Thomas Walpole, was a British MP and banker in Paris. Life Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Telisha, ''nee'' Lombard, he was the nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister from 1721 to 1742. Walpole entered into partnership with the merchant Sir Joshua Vanneck, and married his daughter Elizabeth Vanneck on 14 November 1753. She died on 9 June 1760.Neil JeffaresIconographical genealogies: Walpole ''Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800'', Online edition, 2008 He was MP for Sudbury from 1754 to 1761, and MP for Ashburton from 1761 to 1768. In 1762 he was involved in efforts to engineer William Pitt the Elder into a ''rapprochement'' with the Duke of Newcastle. In 1768 he succeeded his cousin Horace Walpole as MP for Lynn, sitting until 1784, when he was succeeded by his nephew Horatio Walpole. From 1753 to 1754 he served as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walpole 1764
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Walpole House
The Grade I listed building Walpole House is the largest, finest, and most complicated of the grand houses on Chiswick Mall, a waterfront street in the oldest part of Chiswick. Both the front wrought-iron screen and gate, and the back boundary wall, are Grade II listed. The house was started in the Tudor era, with internal features surviving from the 16th and 17th centuries; the river frontage was built around 1730. The garden is listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. Among Walpole House's famous inhabitants have been Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of King Charles II; Thomas Walpole; Daniel O'Connell; William Makepeace Thackeray; and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Property House The building that became Walpole House was built late in the Tudor era; internal features survive from the 16th and 17th centuries. The garden front was constructed around 1700, while the river frontage and the extension on the northwest side were added around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Boone (died 1819)
Charles Boone (1729?–1819), of Barking Hall, Suffolk and Lee Place, Kent, was an English politician. Boone was the son of Charles Boone of Rook's Nest, in Tandridge, and Godstone, Surrey. His second wife was Mary Evelyn, widow of George Evelyn of Godstone, and daughter of Lt.-Col. Thomas Garth of Harrold, Bedfordshire. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Castle Rising Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some north-east of the town of King's Lynn and west of the city of Norwich. The River Babingley skirts the north of the village separating C ... from 25 February 1757 to 1768, for Ashburton in 1768–84 and for Castle Rising in 1784–96. References 1729 births 1819 deaths People from Lee, London People from Mid Suffolk District British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (December 1717 – 29 April 1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, in Devon, England, was an officer of the British East India Company who served as Governor of the Madras Presidency. In England he served as MP for Ashburton in 1767 and between 1774 and 1787 and for Wareham, between 1768 and 1774. Origins Robert Palk was born in December 1717 at Lower Headborough Farm in the parish of Ashburton, Devon, and was baptised on 16 December 1717 at the Old Mission House, Ashburton. His father was Walter Palk, born in 1686, of yeoman farmer stockLove, ''Introduction'', p.v and his mother was Frances Abraham, the daughter of Robert Abraham. Walter Palk supplemented his income by acting as a carrier of serge from the cloth mills at Ashburton over Haldon Hill to market at Exeter. Robert had a sister Grace Palk and a brother Walter Palk, whose son, and Robert's nephew, was Walter Palk (1742–1819) of Marley House in the parish of Rattery, Devon, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1768 British General Election
The 1768 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election took place amid continuing shifts within politics which had occurred the accession of George III in 1760. The Tories who had long been in parliamentary opposition having not won an election since 1713 had disintegrated with its former parliamentarians gravitating between the various Whig factions, the Ministry, or continued political independence as a Country Gentleman. No Tory party existed at this point, though the label of Tory was occasionally used as a political insult by opposition groups against the government. Since the last general election the Whigs had lost cohesion and had split into various factions aligned with leading political figures. The leading figures around the period of the prior election, namely the Earl of Bute, the Duke of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harris (courtier)
John Harris (c. 1690 - 5 October 1767) was a British courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons for forty years from 1727 to 1767. He was a Member of Parliament for Helston from 1727 and then sat for Ashburton from 1741 to 1767. From 1741 he also held the post of Master of the Household to George II and III. Harris was the second son of William Harris. His elder brother, Christopher Harris, was MP for Okehampton Okehampton ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is situated at the northern edge of Dartmoor, and had a population of 5,922 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards are based i .... References 1767 deaths Year of birth uncertain Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ashburton British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton
George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton (3 October 1730 – 22 August 1765) was a British nobleman. Origins Brodrick was the first and only surviving son of Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton and Mary Capell, the second daughter of Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex. The Brodricks were an English family that had settled in Ireland in the mid-17th century. Brodrick's grandfather, the first Viscount, had risen to become Lord Chancellor of Ireland. King George stood sponsor at Brodrick's christening.G.E.Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', Volume VIII (1932), at page 703 Life and career Brodrick was educated at Eton College between 1742 and 1745. He was a Whig and sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Ashburton between 1754 and 1761, and for Shoreham between 1761 and 1765. In 1762 he commissioned Sir William Chambers to build a mansion on his estate at Peper Harow in Surrey. He died before it was complete and his son completed it once he came of age. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker (15 June 1724 – 18 April 1803), known previously as John Henniker then as Sir John Henniker, 2nd Baronet, from 1782 to 1800, was a British merchant and Member of Parliament. Life He was the son of John Henniker, of London, a Russian Merchant and Freeman of Rochester. Henniker too became a merchant dealing in leather and furs. He was a supporter of the slave trade. He was also involved in politics and was appointed High Sheriff of Essex for 1758 before being elected to the British House of Commons, House of Commons for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury in 1761 British general election, 1761, an expensive contest which needed £5,500 to get him elected to the Commons.to spend £5,500 from the Duke of Newcastle's funds. He held that seat until 1768 British general election, 1768, and then represented Dover (UK Parliament constituency), Dover from 1774 to 1784. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. He married Anne Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 British General Election
The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. This was the first Parliament chosen after the accession to the throne of King George III. It was also the first election after George III had lifted the conventional proscription on the employment of Tories in government. The King prevented the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, from using public money to fund the election of Whig candidates, but Newcastle instead simply used his private fortune to ensure that his ministry gained a comfortable majority. However, with the Tories disintegrating, as a result of the end of their proscription providing them with new opportunities for personal advancement, and the loyalty they felt to the new king causing them to drift apart, there was little incentive for Newcastle's supporters to stay together. What little s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 British General Election
The 1754 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Owing to the extensive corruption and the Duke of Newcastle's personal influence in the pocket boroughs, the government was returned to office with a working majority. The old parties had disappeared almost completely by this stage; anyone with reasonable hopes of achieving office called himself a 'Whig', although the term had lost most of its original meaning. While 'Tory' and 'Whig' were still used to refer to particular political leanings and tendencies, parties in the old sense were no longer relevant except in a small minority of constituencies, such as Oxfordshire, with most elections being fought on local issues and the holders of political power being determined by the shifting allegiance of factions and aristocratic families rather than the strengt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fonnereau
Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in London – 20 March 1779) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1741 and 1779. Fonnrereau was the eldest son of Claude Fonnereau, a wealthy Huguenot merchant who had settled in Ipswich. He succeeded his father in 1740, inheriting his estates, which included Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Returned for Sudbury in 1741, he continued to sit for that constituency until 1768, several of those years in conjunction with Thomas Walpole, a business connection. However, he retained interests in Suffolk and was a member of the Free British Fishery Society, as well as MP for the constituency of Aldeburgh at the end of his life, serving briefly alongside his brother, Zachary Philip Fonnereau Zachary Philip Fonnereau (31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician. Early life Fonnereau was born in London on 31 January 1706, the fourth son of Claude Fonnereau of Christchurch M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rigby
Richard Rigby PC (February 1722 – 8 April 1788), was an English civil servant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons for 43 years from 1745 to 1788. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Paymaster of the Forces. Rigby accumulated a fortune serving the Crown and politician wheeler-dealers in the dynamic 18th-century parliament. Background and education The Rigby family took Mistley Hall in Essex as the site of their manor, but was descended from the Rigby of Burgh family. Rigby's father and immediate ancestors made a fortune as merchant drapers in the City of London, as merchants and colonial officers in the West Indies, and as speculators in the South Sea Bubble. Richard Rigby's father also had the same name, and was significant in the history of Jamaica, serving as its secretary, the provost marshal, and a member of the Royal Assembly in the late 17th and early 18th century. He was also part-owner of a plantation in Antigua and a slave trader. His el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
