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Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman
Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman (1596 – 25 January 1665), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1660. Wenman was the only son of Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman, by Agnes, eldest surviving daughter of Sir George Fermor, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. He took part in the settlement of Ireland and was granted lands in Garrycastle in the King's County. He also sat as Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1621 to 1622 and 1624 to 1625 and for Oxfordshire in 1626, from November 1640 to 1648 and in 1660. He was appointed by the Long Parliament to be one of the commissioners to carry the propositions for peace to Charles at Oxford in 1643 and was also a commissioner for the Treaty of Uxbridge in 1645 and the Treaty of Newport in 1648. In 1645 he was granted £4 a week by Parliament for damages caused by the King's forces at his Oxfordshire estate. Lord Wenman married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Hampde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer
William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton (christened 4 January 1591 – 19 December 1636) was an English nobleman, politician, and peer from the Spencer family. Life Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and his wife, Margaret Willoughby, and was baptised on 4 January 1591 at Brington, Northamptonshire. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and became a Member of Parliament for Brackley in 1614, for Northamptonshire (1620–1622 & 1624–1627). From 6 May 1618 to 1621, Spencer held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. On 25 October 1627, he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. Family Lord Spencer married Lady Penelope Wriothesley, daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and Elizabeth Vernon in 1615, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. He died in December 1636, aged 45, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry, who was created Earl of Sunderland in 1643. Lord Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viscount Wenman
Viscount Wenman, of Tuam in the County of Galway, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 30 July 1628 for Sir Richard Wenman, Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in 1620 and 1625, the son of Thomas Wenman (died 1577), a Buckinghamshire landowner. He was made Baron Wenman, of Kilmaynham in the County of Meath, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount. He represented Brackley and Oxfordshire in Parliament. On his death the titles passed to his younger brother, the third Viscount. After the death of his childless only son, he obtained a new patent in 1683, with remainder to his great-nephew, Sir Richard Wenman, 2nd Baronet, with the precedence of 1628. The latter succeeded as fourth Viscount according to the new patent in 1686. He had earlier represented Brackley in Parliament. His grandson, the sixth Viscount, represented Oxford in the House of Commons. On the latter's death the titles passed to his son, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet
Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet (16 November 1632 – 11 June 1675) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1675. Cope was the son of Sir John Cope, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Elizabeth Fane daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He succeeded to the baronetcy of Hanwell on the death of his father in 1638. In 1660, Cope was elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in the Convention Parliament. In 1661 he was elected MP for Oxfordshire in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1675. In the same year, he was commissioned a captain in Viscount Falkland's Regiment of Foot, garrisoning Dunkirk. The city was sold and the regiment disbanded in 1662. Cope died at the age of 42. Cope married Mary Gerard, daughter of Dutton Gerard, 3rd Baron Gerard of Gerrard's Bromley. He had no children and the baronetcy passed to his brother John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland
Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland (1634 – 2 April 1663) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1663. Life Cary was the son of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland and his wife Lettice Morison, daughter of Sir Richard Morison of Tooley Park, Leicestershire. He was educated at Hayes, Middlesex under Dr Thomas Triplett. He inherited the title Viscount Falkland after his brother Lucius Cary died in 1649 and travelled abroad in France in 1650. Cary like his father and elder brother, had Royalist sympathises and during the early years of the Interregnum his movements were monitored by the Council of State, but after William Lockhart of Lee, the Protector's ambassador in Paris, had assessed him, he was no longer perceived to be a serious threat to the new establishment. In 1659, Cary was elected Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the Third Protectorate Parliament where he opposed recognition of the Other House. During the second Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crew, 1st Baron Crew
John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598 – 12 December 1679) was an English lawyer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was raised to a peerage as Baron Crew by Charles II after the Restoration. Career Crew was the son of Sir Thomas Crew of Nantwich, Cheshire and Steane and his wife Temperance Bray, daughter of Reynold Bray of Steane. His father was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1623 to 1625. Crew entered Gray's Inn in 1615 and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 26 April 1616, aged 18. He was called to the bar in 1624. In 1624, Crew was elected Member of Parliament for Amersham and was re-elected in 1625. He was elected MP for Brackley in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for Banbury and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In April 1640, Crew was elected MP for Brackley in the Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lister (MP)
Sir Martin Lister (1602/03, Midhope, Yorkshire – 1670, Burwell, Lincolnshire) was an English farmer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648. Biography Lister was born in the family of Michael and Mary Lister in Midhope, a small village to the north-west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Lister was a landowner of Radcliffe, Buckinghamshire, Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire, and Burwell, Lincolnshire. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament in the Short Parliament for Brackley with sir Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman. In November 1640, together with John Crew, 1st Baron Crew M. Lister was re-elected MP for Brackley for the Long Parliament, where both of them sat until they were excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648. Lister died in Burwell, small village in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire. Family Lister married firstly Mary Wenman, daughter of Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman of Oxfordshire. After her death, he married seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Curzon, 1st Baronet
Sir John Curzon, 1st Baronet (13 November 1598 – 13 December 1686) of Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire was an English politician and landowner who served as an Member of Parliament from 1628 to 1629, then 1640 to 1648. A devout Presbyterian, he supported the Parliamentarian cause during the First English Civil War, but was excluded by Pride's Purge in 1648. Personal details John Curzon was born 13 November 1598, eldest son of John Curzon (1552–1632) of Kedleston Hall, who was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1609, and Millicent Sacheveral (1571–1618), daughter of Sir Ralph Sacheverel of Staunton, and widow of Thomas Gell (1552–1594) of Hopton, Derbyshire. In 1623 he married Patience Crewe (1600–1642), daughter of Sir Thomas Crewe of Stene, Northamptonshire; they had four sons and three daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Nathaniel (1636–1719). Career Curzon graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1618, aged 18, then attended the Inner Temple in 162 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Wenman
Sir Francis Wenman (9 December 1599 – 26 June 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1628 and 1640. Biography Wenman was the only son of Francis Wenman of Caswell, Oxfordshire, who died in Ireland three months before his son's birth, and Frances, daughter of William Goodyeare of Polesworth, Warwickshire. He was first cousin to Sir Richard Wenman. His father having died before his birth, he became the ward of the Anglo-Irish official Allen Apsley. Francis Wenman matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge as "Wainman" in Autumn 1615 and was knighted as "Wayneman" on 8 June 1618. He began his legal education at the Middle Temple in 1618. In 1633 he purchased Lew manor at Bampton. In 1628, Wenman was elected Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was re-elected MP for Oxfordshire for the Short Parliament in April 1640. According to his friend Edw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye And Sele
James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele (c. 1602 – 15 March 1674) was an English peer and MP at various times between 1625 and 1660, when he succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords. Personal details James Fiennes was born 1602 at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, eldest son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele (1582–1662), and his wife Elizabeth Temple (died 1648). His siblings included Nathaniel (1608–1669), Bridget, John (1612–1708), Constance and Elizabeth. Sometime before 1631, Fiennes married Frances Cecil (died 1684), daughter of Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon. They had three sons, all of whom died as infants, plus two daughters, Frances and Elizabeth (died 1674). In the absence of a direct male heir, his nephew William (1639–1698), son of his younger brother Nathaniel, became the third Viscount Saye and Sele on his death in 1674. Career In 1625, Fiennes was elected Member of Parliament for Banbury. He was elected MP for Oxfordshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet (died 1637) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1604 and 1625. Cope was the son of Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet of Hanwell, Oxfordshire and his first wife Frances Lytton. He was knighted by King James I at the Charterhouse on 11 May 1603. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Banbury. He was re-elected MP for Banbury in 1614. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 23 July 1615. On 8 August 1615 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn. He was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire from 1619 to 1620. In 1621 he was elected MP for Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ... and for Banbury. He was elected MP for Oxfordshire in 1624 and again for Banbury in 1625. He died i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crew, 1st Baron Crew Of Stene
John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598 – 12 December 1679) was an English lawyer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was raised to a peerage as Baron Crew by Charles II after the Restoration. Career Crew was the son of Sir Thomas Crew of Nantwich, Cheshire and Steane and his wife Temperance Bray, daughter of Reynold Bray of Steane. His father was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1623 to 1625. Crew entered Gray's Inn in 1615 and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 26 April 1616, aged 18. He was called to the bar in 1624. In 1624, Crew was elected Member of Parliament for Amersham and was re-elected in 1625. He was elected MP for Brackley in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for Banbury and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In April 1640, Crew was elected MP for Brackley in the Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
