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William Beecher (died 1651)
Sir William Beecher (1580–1651) was an English diplomat, soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629. Beecher was ''Chargé d'Affaires'' in France from 1609 to 1610.Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990 In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Knaresborough in the Addled Parliament. He was ''Agent'' or ''Chargé d'Affaires'' in Francs from 1617 to 1619. In 1621 he was elected MP for Shaftesbury and Leominster and was expelled at Shaftesbury. He was knighted in 1622. He served as Clerk of the Privy Council from 1623 until he resigned in 1641. In 1624 he was elected MP for Leominster again. He was elected MP for Dover in 1625 and for Ilchester in 1626. In 1627 he took part in the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré when he commanded a small supply fleet with 400 raw troops. In 1629 he was elected MP for Windsor and sat until 1629 when ... [...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] |
Thomas Sheppard (MP)
Thomas Sheppard (1766 – 1 June 1858) was a politician in England. A grandson of the wealthy clothier, William Sheppard (1709-1759), he was elected at the 1832 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly enfranchised borough of Frome in Somerset, standing as a Whig. He was re-elected in 1835 as a Conservative, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1847 general election. Frome was given the right to elect its own member of Parliament, one of 67 new constituencies, by the Reform Act 1832. This Act removed rotten boroughs’ like Old Sarum (with 3 houses and 7 voters to elect 2 MPs) and included for the first time new electors such as small landowners, tenant farmers and shopkeepers; voters were defined as male persons, so women were formally excluded. The election was disputed by two well-known local men: Sir Thomas Champneys and Sheppard, a Tory and a Radical or Whig respectively. Champneys was an acknowledged slave owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gorges (MP)
Robert Gorges (1595 – late 1620s) was a captain in the Royal Navy and briefly Governor-General of New England from 1623 to 1624. He was the son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. After having served in the Venetian wars, Gorges was given a commission as Governor-General of New England and emigrated to modern Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623, building his settlement on the site of the failed Wessagusset Colony. At the time of the founding of Gorges' settlement, the English explorer Capt. Francis West was named admiral of the Plymouth Council for New England to advise him, along with another English explorer and naval Captain, Christopher Levett, who was attempting a settlement at Portland, Maine, which also later failed. Levett was named to advise Gorges as the governor of the Plymouth Colony. The arrangement was not satisfactory. Apparently frustrated by the pace of settlement and an obdurate attitude of the new colonists towards English interference, Capt. Gorges returned to Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet (1588 – 19 July 1649) was a Welsh courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1649. Biography Wynn was the second and eldest surviving son of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet, and his wife Sidney, daughter of William Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire in 1614. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles, Prince of Wales, from 1617 to 1625. He unsuccessfully contested Caernarvonshire in 1621 but in the same election he returned as MP for Ilchester. Wynn accompanied Prince Charles on his voyage to Spain in 1623 and wrote an account of the journey, published by Thomas Hearne in 1729. He describes the costumes of Spanish country people and aristocrats. In 1625, he was elected MP for Ilchester again. He was also appointed treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria. He inherited the baronetcy after the death of his father in 1627. In 1629, he was once again groom of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pringle (MP For Dover)
John Pringle may refer to: *John Pringle, Lord Haining (c. 1674–1754), Scottish landowner, judge and politician, shire commissioner for Selkirk 1702–07, MP for Selkirkshire 1708–29, Lord of Session * Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707–1782), Scottish physician, and President of the Royal Society * John Pringle (died 1792) (c. 1716–1792), son of Lord Haining, Scottish landowner and politician, MP for Selkirkshire 1765–86 * John Pringle (1796–1831) of Haining, Scottish politician, MP for Lanark Burghs 1819–20 * John James Pringle (1855–1922), British dermatologist *John Pringle (baritone) (born 1938), Australian baritone *John Pringle (geologist) (1877–1948), Scottish geologist *John Abbott Pringle (1892–1962), Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure *John Douglas Pringle (1912–1999), Scottish-Australian journalist *John Quinton Pringle (1864–1925), Scottish painter *John Wallace Pringle (1863–1938), Chief Inspecting Officer of the Railways Inspectora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hippisley (Parliamentarian)
Sir John Hippisley was an English privateer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Hippisley was the son of William Hippisley (died 1630). He was knighted at Sheriff Hutton Park on 14 April 1617. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Petersfield. He was re-elected MP for Petersfield in 1624. About this time, he purchased from Sir John Leman the manor of Lesnes and the site of Lesnes Abbey in Bexley which he later sold to Sir Thomas Gainsford, of Crowhurst, Surrey. In 1624 he was appointed Lieutenant of Dover Castle, a post he held until 1629. He was elected MP for Dover in 1625 and 1626, During his time at Dover he was involved in the wars with France and Spain and took part in privateering activities.John Appleby ''A Pathway out of Debt: The Privateering Activities of Sir John Hippisley during the Early Stuart Wars with France and Spain'' American Neptu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Young, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Young, 1st Baronet (c. 1580–1651) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1605 and 1624. Young was born to a Welsh family and educated at Lincoln's Inn, in London. Circa 1603 he became secretary to Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, the recently appointed Council of Wales and the Marches. With the creation of the new parliamentary seat of Bewdley in Worcestershire, Zouche nominated Young for the seat, which he held from 1605 until 1610. As an MP, he was active in defence of his employer's activities, but Zouche losing office meant that he had no sponsor to re-enter parliament; he did not stand for re-election in 1614.YOUNG, Richard (c.1580-1651), of Philip Lane, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon
Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572 – 16 November 1638) was an English military commander and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624. Life Cecil was the third son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and his wife, Dorothy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer, by his wife, Lucy Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester. He was a grandson of Queen Elizabeth's great minister William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Cecil served with the English forces in the Netherlands between 1596 and 1610, becoming a captain of foot in 1599. In May 1600 he was appointed to a troop of cavalry, which he commanded at the battle of Nieuport, under Sir Francis Vere. In 1601 he commanded a body of one thousand men raised in London for the relief of Ostend, then besieged by the Spanish, and on his return in September was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. He was elected Member of Parliament for Aldborough in 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton (also Littelton) (158927 August 1645), from Munslow in Shropshire, was a Chief Justice of North Wales. He was descended from the judge and legal scholar, Thomas de Littleton. His father, also Edward, had been Chief Justice of North Wales before him.Brooks (2004), ODNB Education and career He was educated at Oxford before becoming a lawyer. In 1614 he became an MP for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire in the Addled Parliament. In 1625 he was again returned to Parliament for Leominster and Caernarfon borough. In 1628 he was chairman of the ''Committee of Grievances'' upon whose report the Petition of Right was based. As a member of the party opposed to the arbitrary measures of Charles I, Littleton had shown more moderation than some of his colleagues, and in 1634, three years after he had been chosen Recorder of London, the king attached him to his own side by appointing him Solicitor General. In the famous case about ship money, Sir Edward argu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tomkins (MP)
James Tomkins (c. 1569 – 7 October 1636) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. Tomkins was the eldest son of Richard Tomkins of Monnington on Wye, Herefordshire, educated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford (1583) and trained in the law at the New Inn and the Middle Temple (1589). He succeeded his father in 1603, inheriting the manors of Monnington and Garnestone, a considerable domain south of Weobley. He was appointed for life to the Herefordshire bench in 1605 as a Justice of the Peace and as High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1606–07. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Leominster and was re-elected in 1625 and 1626. Tomkins was instrumental in restoring the franchise to the borough of Weobley in 1628, when his son William was returned. Tomkins himself was re-elected MP for Leominster in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Tomkins was much esteemed as a country gentle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Smallman
Francis Smallman (1565 – 7 September 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1621 and 1626. Smallman was the son of Francis Smallman and his wife Elizabeth Hopton. He was a lawyer and acquired Kinnersley Castle, serving as High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1614–15. In 1621, Smallman was elected Member of Parliament for Leominster. He was elected MP for Wenlock in 1626. Smallman married firstly Elizabeth Craft widow of George Craft and daughter of Stockmede, by whom he had children Francis, Jane, and Jone. He married secondly Susan Clarke, widow of John Clarke of London and daughter of Fabian of Essex by whom he had children William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ... and Alice. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Smallman, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Coningsby II
Thomas Coningsby II (died 1616), of Hampton Wafer, Herefordshire was an English politician. Coningsby was the 3rd son of Thomas Coningsby I of Leominster, Herefordshire. Coningsby was a Clerk of the Petty Bag from 1607 to 1609. Coningsby was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised t ... for Leominster 1601, 1604 and 1614. References 16th-century births 1616 deaths Date of death unknown English MPs 1601 English MPs 1604–1611 English MPs 1614 Place of birth unknown Place of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
