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Thomas Tower (MP)
Thomas Tower (1698? – 2 September 1778) of Weald House, Essex was a British lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was born the second son of Christopher Tower, snr and the younger brother of Christopher Tower. After being educated at Harrow School (c.1711) and Trinity College, Oxford (1717) he entered the Inner Temple in 1717 to study law, being called to the bar in 1722 and becoming a bencher in 1751. In 1728 Tower succeeded his father to Mansfield, Buckinghamshire, and uncle Richard Hale to his Buckinghamshire and Essex estates. He was elected to Parliament for Wareham in 1729, sitting until 1734, after which he represented Wallingford from 1734 to 1741. In 1732, he became an active trustee and councilman for the newly formed colony of Georgia on the east coast of America. He bought Weald House near Brentwood, Essex, in 1759 and was High Sheriff of Essex for 1760–1761. He died unmarried in 1778. See also * Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weald Country Park
Weald Country Park is a 700-year-old, 500 acre (2 km²) country park in South Weald in the borough of Brentwood in the English county of Essex. It is on the north-east fringe of Greater London. Weald manor, parts of which dated to the 16th century, was bought by Sir Anthony Browne in 1547 and he died at Weald Hall in 1567. In 1685, Erasmus Smith bought it from Sir William Scroggs. The current layout is largely the result of landscaping carried out in the naturalistic manner of Capability Brown for Hugh Smith, lord of the manor from 1732 to 1745. In 1752, the estate was sold to Thomas Tower of Iver in Buckinghamshire, a lawyer and MP for Wareham in Dorset. Christopher Tower succeeded as the owner in 1778 and immediately commissioned Robert Adam to design a new dining room. On his death in 1810, his son, Christopher Thomas Tower, succeeded until 1867; he enlarged the estate and enclosed some commons as "waste". The park is now managed by Essex County Council. Weald Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Ernle, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Ernle, 3rd Baronet (c. 1673 – 1729) of Charborough in Dorset, of Brimslade Park and Etchilhampton, both in Wiltshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1729. He had mixed fortunes in finding or holding a seat and often depended on his father-in-law to bring him into his own seat at Wareham when a vacancy arose. Early life Ernle was a younger son of Edward Ernle of Ashlington and Etchilhampton in Wiltshire (the eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Walter Ernle, 1st Baronet (–1682)) and his wife Anne Ashe, a daughter of Edward Ashe, MP, of Heytesbury, Wiltshire. Both his grandfathers were Members of Parliament. In 1690, he succeeded his brother, Walter, in the baronetcy. He married Frances Erle, the daughter and sole-heiress of General Thomas Erle (1650–1720), MP, of Charborough House, Dorset, by 1698 when he became a Whig. Career At the 1695 English general election, Ernle was returned as Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1741–1747
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British MPs 1734–1741
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
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Members Of The Inner Temple
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Alumni Of Trinity College, Oxford
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Harrow School
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1778 Deaths
Events January–March * January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Captain James Cook, with ships HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu then Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he names the ''Sandwich Islands''. * February 5 – **South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. ** **General John Cadwalader shoots and seriously wounds Major General Thomas Conway in a duel after a dispute between the two officers over Conway's continued criticism of General George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p166 * February 6 – American Revolutionary War – In Paris, the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official French recognition of the new rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lewen
George Lewen (died 1743), of Ewell, Surrey, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Lewen was the eldest son of George Lewen, merchant of Poole, Dorset, and his wife Catharine. In 1718, he succeeded his father. He married Susan Godschall, daughter of John Godschall, a merchant trading with Turkey, and sister of Sir Robert Godschall. She was buried at All Hallows Barking by Tower in January 1719 aged 28. In 1722, Lewen succeeded to the Ewell estates of his uncle, Sir William Lewen.The Lewens 'of Dorsetshire' and Ewell, Surrey EpsomandEwellHistoryExplorer.org.uk. Accessed 9 January 2023. At the |
Joseph Townsend (MP)
Joseph Townsend (1704–1763) of Honington, Warwickshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1740 and 1754. Family Townsend was born in 1704, the first son (but not heir) of brewer Joseph Townsend (d. 1728) of Winchester Street, London, by his first wife, Mary Shipsey. His father left him only an annuity of £200 but on the death of his younger half-brother, Thomas Beacon Townsend (d. 1737), he was enabled to marry and buy Honington Hall. On 11 October 1737, he married Judith, daughter of John Gore (d. 1763), British MP for Great Grimsby of Bush Hill, Middlesex. Career Townsend was elected as one of the two members of parliament for Wallingford on 22 December 1740. In 1741 he became one of the members for Westbury (a seat later held by his cousin Chauncy Townsend Chauncy Townsend (23 February 1708 – 28 March 1770) was a City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain. He was prominent in developing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hucks
William Hucks (1672–1740) was an English brewer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1740. Early life Hucks was baptized on 22 October 1672, the eldest son of William Hucks, brewer of St Giles-in-the-Fields and his wife Lydia Head. His father owned the Horn brewery in Duke Street, Bloomsbury. Hucks followed his father's trade and was made a Freeman of the Brewers’ Company in 1687. He inherited the brewery when his father died in 1691 and worked it with his brothers and later his son. He married by licence dated 1 September 1696, Elizabeth Selwood, daughter of Robert Selwood of Abingdon, Berkshire. Political career At the 1698 election, Hucks stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at Abingdon. He stood again at the 1708 general election, and though defeated in the poll, was returned as Member of Parliament for Abingdon on petition on 20 January 1709. He followed Whig policies by supporting the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and the impe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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