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William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale
Lieutenant-Colonel William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale (3 May 1724 – 4 December 1787), was an Irish landowner, soldier and politician. Tonson was the son of Richard Tonson, for many years Member of Parliament for Baltimore, by his second wife Peniel Gates, daughter of a Colonel Gates. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the 53rd Regiment of Foot and served in the Spanish invasion of Portugal in 1762 under William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. William Courthope (ed.''Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Twenty-Second edition'', page 677. London, 1838./ref> In 1768 he was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Tuam, a seat he held until 1776, and then represented Rathcormack until 1783. The latter year he was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Riversdale, of Rathcormack in the County of Cork. Lord Riversdale married Rose Bernard, daughter of James Bernard and sister of the 1st Earl of Bandon, in 1773. They had eight sons and two daughters. He died in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant-Colonel
Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence. Sometimes, the term 'half-colonel' is used in casual conversation in the British Army. In the United States Air Force, the term 'light bird' or 'light bird colonel' (as opposed to a 'full bird colonel') is an acceptable casual reference to the rank but is never used directly towards the rank holder. A lieutenant colonel is typically in charge of a battalion or regiment in the army. The following articles deal with the rank of lieutenant colonel: * Lieutenant-colonel (Canada) * Lieutenant colonel (Eastern Europe) * Lieutenant colonel (Turkey) * Lieutenant colonel (Sri Lanka) * Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom) * Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bingham (1715–1769)
Henry Bingham was an Irish politician. Bingham was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1750 to 1768 as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for Tuam in County Galway "Righteousness and Justice" , anthem = () , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Galway.svg , map_caption = Location in Ireland , area_footnotes = , area_total_km2 = ... References Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 Deaths
Events January–March * January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for William Pitt the Younger. * January 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. * January 19 – Mozart's '' Symphony No. 38'' is premièred in Prague. * February 2 – Arthur St. Clair of Pennsylvania is chosen as the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167 * February 4 – Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts fails. * February 21 – The Confederation Congress sends word to the 13 states that a convention will be held in Philadelphia on May 14 to revise the Articles of Confederation. * February 28 – A charter is gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1724 Births
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Baron Riversdale
Baron Riversdale, of Rathcormuck in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 13 October 1783 for William Tonson, who had earlier represented Rathcormack and Tuam in the Irish House of Commons. His eighth son, the third Baron (who succeeded his elder brother in 1848), was Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert. The title became extinct on his death in 1861. The Tonson family descended from Benjamin Tonson, Treasurer of the Navy during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His descendant Richard Tonson was granted lands in Ireland for his services during the English Civil War and settled at Spanish Island, County Cork. His grandson Richard Tonson was a member of the Irish Parliament for Baltimore for many years. The latter's only son was the aforementioned William Tonson who was elevated to the peerage in 1783. Barons Riversdale (1783) *William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale Lieutenant-Colonel William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale (3 May 1724 – 4 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Hamilton
Sackville Hamilton PC (Ire) (14 March 1732 – 29 January 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Early life Hamilton was born on 14 March 1732. He was the third son, of seven children born to Mary Dawson (daughter of Joshua Dawson) and Hon. Henry Hamilton, MP and Collector of the Port of Cork. His younger brother was Henry Hamilton, who served as royal Governor of Bermuda and Dominica. His uncles were Frederick Hamilton and Gustavus Hamilton. His grandfather was Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, his great-grandfather was Sir Frederick Hamilton, and his great-great grandfather was Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley. Career Hamilton entered the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) in 1780 and sat for the constituency until 1783. Subsequently he was elected for Rathcormack and Clogher. He chose the latter and was a Member of Parliament for the constituency until 1795, resigning the seat to be Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Sheridan
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Bernard Beamish
Francis Bernard Beamish (5 April 1802 – 1 February 1868) was an Irish Whig and Liberal politician. Beamish was the son of William Beamish and Anne Jane Margaret (née Delacour) and, in 1837, married Catherine Savery de Lisle de Courcy, daughter of Michael de Courcy and Catherine de Lisle. They had at least one child: Francis Bernard Servington Beamish, who was born in 1839. A Freeman of Cork in 1827, Beamish was made Mayor of Cork in 1843, and High Sheriff of the City of Cork in 1852, and was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace. Beamish was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... (MP) for Cork City at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1841, when he did not stand for re-election. He returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Barry (1739–1793)
James Barry may refer to: Politics *James Barry (Wisconsin politician) (1812–1883), Irish-born Wisconsin state assemblyman *James Barry (Irish MP, 1659–1717), Irish politician *James Barry (Irish MP, 1661–1725), Irish politician *James Barry (Irish MP, 1689–1743), Irish politician * James Alexander Barry (1886–1950), Canadian politician * James G. Barry (1800–1880), Missouri politician *James J. Barry Jr. (born 1946), New Jersey politician * James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore (1667–1748), Irish soldier and Jacobite politician Sports * Jimmy Barry (1870–1943), Irish-American boxer *James Barry (hurler) (born 1990), Irish hurler * James E. Barry (1884–1941), American college football coach Other * James Barry, 1st Baron Barry of Santry (1603–1673), Irish lawyer *James Barry (painter) (1741–1806), Irish painter *James Barry (surgeon) ( 1789–1865), Irish physician in the British Army * James L. Barry, comics artist See also *James M. Barrie Sir James Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Devonsher
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Baronet
Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Baronet (14 October 1749 – 1788), was an Irish baronet and politician. Biography Lynch-Blosse was born in London, the first child of Robert Lynch and Elizabeth Barker. Elizabeth was the daughter and heir of Francis Barker, and niece and heir of Tobias Blosse. It was a condition of the marriage that Robert would assume the additional surname of Blosse and conform to Protestantism. Robert changed his surname by a private Act of Parliament of 1748. Henry, better known as Harry, spent the first few years of his life in his mother's home in Suffolk, England. The family moved to Ireland in 1754 and took up residence at the Lynch-Blosse home in Balla, Co Mayo. When Sir Henry Lynch, 5th Baronet died in 1762, his eldest son, Robert Lynch-Blosse became the 6th Baronet in the succession of Lynch-Blosse Baronets. When Sir Robert died circa 1775, Harry became the 7th Baronet. Shortly afterwards, Sir Harry was elected to the Irish House of Commons representing Tuam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Browne (died 1790)
The Honorable James Browne (1736/8 – 22 October 1790) was an Irish Member of Parliament and Law Officer. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1768 to 1790. He was born in County Mayo, fourth son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont and Anne Gore, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Annesley.''Burke's Peerage'' 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol.3 p. 3649 He entered Middle Temple in 1755 and was called to the Bar in 1760.Hart, A. R. ''A History of the King's Serjeants-at-law in Ireland'' Dublin Four Courts Press 2000 p.165 He was advanced to the rank of Prime Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1780. He was dismissed following the change of Government in 1782, but was reappointed in 1784 when a promotion to the Bench left the office open. He was dismissed a second time in 1787.He died unmarried in 1790.''Burke's Peerage'' Hart suggests that he was a failure as Prime Serjeant, but adds that the office itself was by the 1780s an anachronism.Hart p.101 Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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