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William Hervey (politician, Born 1586)
Sir William Hervey (1586 – 30 September 1660) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1629. Hervey was the son of John Hervey of Ickworth, Suffolk and Frances Bocking. He was knighted at Whitehall on 29 April 1608, as of St Martins. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Preston in the Happy Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Preston in 1625. In 1628 he was elected MP for Bury St Edmunds and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Hervey married as his first wife Susan Jermyn, daughter of Sir Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke and Judith Blagge. They had two sons, John and Thomas, and several daughters, including Mary, who married Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet. After Susan's death, Hervey married Gage's twice-widowed mother Penelope Darcy, daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers and Mary Kitson; she was a noted recusant. His grandson John Hervey was created Baron Hervey ... [...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] |
Marquess Of Bristol
Marquess of Bristol is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom held by the Hervey family since 1826. The Marquess's subsidiary titles are Earl of Bristol (created 1714), Earl Jermyn, of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk (1826), and Baron Hervey, of Ickworth in the County of Suffolk (1703). The Hervey barony is in the Peerage of England, the earldom of Bristol in the Peerage of Great Britain and the Jermyn earldom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ''Earl Jermyn'' is used as courtesy title by the Marquess's eldest son and heir. The Marquess of Bristol also holds the office of ''Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund'' (a liberty encompassing the entire former county of West Suffolk). The present holder of these titles is Frederick Hervey (born 19 October 1979), the 8th Marquess and 12th Earl of Bristol. The Hervey (pronounced 'Harvey') family has often been considered unconventional, it is of Frankish origins and means 'warrior and host'. The 18th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1625
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1624–1625
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervey Family
Marquess of Bristol is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom held by the Hervey family since 1826. The Marquess's subsidiary titles are Earl of Bristol (created 1714), Earl Jermyn, of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk (1826), and Baron Hervey, of Ickworth in the County of Suffolk (1703). The Hervey barony is in the Peerage of England, the earldom of Bristol in the Peerage of Great Britain and the Jermyn earldom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ''Earl Jermyn'' is used as courtesy title by the Marquess's eldest son and heir. The Marquess of Bristol also holds the office of ''Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund'' (a liberty encompassing the entire former county of West Suffolk). The present holder of these titles is Frederick Hervey (born 19 October 1979), the 8th Marquess and 12th Earl of Bristol. The Hervey (pronounced 'Harvey') family has often been considered unconventional, it is of Frankish origins and means 'warrior and host'. The 18th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From The Borough Of St Edmundsbury
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660 Deaths
Year 166 ( CLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio (or, less frequently, year 919 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 166 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Dacia is invaded by barbarians. * Conflict erupts on the Danube frontier between Rome and the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni. * Emperor Marcus Aurelius appoints his sons Commodus and Marcus Annius Verus as co-rulers (Caesar), while he and Lucius Verus travel to Germany. * End of the war with Parthia: The Parthians leave Armenia and eastern Mesopotamia, which both become Roman protectorates. * A plague (possibly small pox) comes from the East and spreads throughout the Roman Empire, lasting for roughly twenty years. * The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1586 Births
Events * January 18 – The 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes the Chubu region of Japan, triggering a tsunami and causing at least 8,000 deaths. * June 16 – The deposed and imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir. * July 6 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland. * July 21 – English explorer Thomas Cavendish begins the first deliberately planned circumnavigation of the globe. * September 20– 21 – Execution of the Babington Plotters: The 14 men convicted of a plot (uncovered on July 17) to murder Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots, are hanged, drawn and quartered (the first seven being disembowelled before death) in St Giles Field, London. * September 22 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies. English poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney is mortally wounded. * October 15&ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Gifford
Emanuel Gifford (died c 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons twice between 1621 and 1626. Gifford was the son of Anthony Gifford, of Milton Damerell, Devon. He was possibly at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1599 or 1600. He was awarded MA at Cambridge University and was incorporated at Oxford University on 30 August 1605. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Rye. He was elected MP for Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – ... in 1626. Gifford probably died in 1633 as his will was proved in December of that year. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gifford, Emanuel Year of birth missing 1633 deaths Year of death uncertain People from Rye, East Sussex Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jermyn (died 1645)
Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573–1645) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English courtier and Royalist who served as a Member of Parliament between 1604 and 1640. Early life Jermyn was the son of Sir Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1585. He was knighted at Rouen, France, in 1591 and became a Knight of the Bath in 1603. Career In 1604 Jermyn was elected as a Member of Parliament for Andover in Hampshire, which seat he held until 1611. In 1614 he was elected as an MP for the prestigious county seat of Suffolk. He was elected for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in the elections in 1621, 1623, 1625, 1626 and 1628. In 1629 King Charles I decided to rule for eleven years without parliament. In April 1640 Jermyn was re-elected for Bury St Edmunds in the Short Parliament. He became Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk in 1640, and served as Comptroller of the Royal Household between 1639 and 1641. He fought as a Royalist during the Civil War, became disabled throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fanshawe (of Jenkins)
Thomas Fanshawe (1607–1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. Life Fanshawe was the son of Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins, Barking, Essex. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1620 and matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1622, being awarded MA in 1624. He was called to the bar in 1630 and became a bencher. In November 1640, Fanshawe was elected MP for Lancaster in the Long Parliament. He was disabled from sitting in September 1642. Family Fanshawe married Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney. They had a son, Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ..., Member of Parliament for Essex, and a daughter Alice who married John Fanshawe of Parsloes. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fanshawe, Thomas 1607 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gerard
George Vincent Gerard, (24 November 1898 – 14 January 1984) was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, serving from 1938 to 1944; and Assistant Bishop of Sheffield, 1947–1971. He served with distinction in both World Wars. Early life and education Gerard was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch. He came to England in 1917 and joined the Inns of Court Regiment and was soon offered a commission with the East Kents (the Buffs). He served in France and earned a Military Cross. Gerard then obtained a degree at Brasenose College, Oxford and was ordained in 1923. Ministry He returned to New Zealand and embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Timaru. He was made deacon on 21 December 1922 and ordained priest on 23 December 1923, by Churchill Julius, Bishop of Christchurch and Primate of New Zealand, at ChristChurch Cathedral."Gerard, George Vincent" in Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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