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William Cornwallis (died 1611)
Sir William Cornwallis of Brome (c. 1549– 13 November 1611) was an English courtier and politician. Life He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary, and his wife Anne Jerningham. He became a courtier at around age 21, spent heavily to secure position there, and married by 1578, Lucy Neville. Despite a family connection to Thomas Cecil, Cornwallis made little enough progress at court, and twice withdrew without regard for the loss of royal favour. In 1597 he was elected Member of Parliament for , with the support of Cecil. When James I came to the throne he fared no better, and retired from public life in 1605. Cornwallis spent freely, and entertained the Queen at his house in Highgate. He was knighted, by 1594. At the Union of the Crowns, in June 1603 he rode to Northamptonshire to meet Anne of Denmark and her children. He laid on a performance by his friend Ben Jonson at Highgate in 1604, for James I. He employed the composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cornwallis (died 1604)
Sir Thomas Cornwallis (1518/1519 – 1604) was an English politician. Family Thomas Cornwallis was the eldest son of Sir John Cornwallis (c. 1491–1544), steward of the household of the future King Edward VI during the years 1538–1544, by his wife, Mary Sulyard, daughter of Edward Sulyard of Otes, Essex.. Career Cornwallis was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1552–53 and made a Privy Councillor in Aug. 1553. He was the last Treasurer of Calais from April 1554 to December 1557 and Comptroller of the Household from December 1557 to November 1558. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Suffolk in 1547 and 1558, for Gatton in October 1553 and Grampound in April 1554.Cornwallis, Sir Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea, with The Wash to the north-west. The county town is the city of Norwich. With an area of and a population of 859,400, Norfolk is a largely rural county with a population density of 401 per square mile (155 per km2). Of the county's population, 40% live in four major built up areas: Norwich (213,000), Great Yarmouth (63,000), King's Lynn (46,000) and Thetford (25,000). The Broads is a network of rivers and lakes in the east of the county, extending south into Suffolk. The area is protected by the Broads Authority and has similar status to a national park. History The area that was to become Norfolk was settled in pre-Roman times, (there were Palaeolithic settlers as early as 950,000 years ago) with camps along the highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Pre-1707 English Parliament For Constituencies In Cornwall
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cornwallis (died 1614)
Sir William Cornwallis (c. 1576 – 1 July 1614) was an early English essayist and served as a courtier and member of Parliament. His essays, influenced by the style of Montaigne, rather than that of Francis Bacon, became a model for later English essayists. He has sometimes been confused with his uncle of the same name. Life Cornwallis was born in Beeston St Andrew, Norfolk, and baptised in Fincham, Norfolk, the eldest child of the diplomat Sir Charles Cornwallis by his first wife Elizabeth Farnham (1552–1584), the daughter of Thomas Farnham, whose family resided in Fincham for 500 years. Cornwallis was the member of Parliament for Orford in 1604 and 1614. He was knighted in 1599 after serving in the Earl of Essex's Irish campaign. When James I assumed the throne in 1603, Cornwallis became a member of the privy chamber. On 26 August 1595, Cornwallis married Katherine Parker. Their eleven children were Charles, Thomas (married Penelope Wiseman (1633–1696)), Henry, Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Soham
Earl Soham is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is on the A1120 road and is west of the town of Framlingham. Earl Soham once belonged to the Earls of Norfolk, the Bigod family (sometimes spelt "Bigot" in old texts), who also owned nearby Framlingham Castle. Edward I granted Roger Bigod permission to hold a market and a lamb and stock fair in the village. The parish was in the hundred of Loes well before 1086. The church dates from about 1320 (chancel) with the nave dated to about 1470 (Kelly's Suffolk Directory 1900) and a perpendicular west tower c. 1475. The Baptist Chapel was built around 1863. The school was first built in 1850. Earl Soham Lodge was originally a hunting lodge, built in the 13th century but rebuilt in 1789. For many years it was the seat of the Cornwallis family. The population of the village peaked in the 19th century with over 750 inhabitants. Sir Auckland Colvin, colonial administrator in India and Egypt, is buried in the village churchyard. Gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cornwallis (died 1627)
Thomas Cornwallis (c. 1605–1675) was an English politician and colonial administrator. Cornwallis served as one of the first Commissioners of the Province of Maryland (Proprietary Colony of Maryland), and Captain of the colony's military during the early years of settlement. In a 1638 naval engagement with Virginian colonists, he captured Kent Island in Maryland. Life Thomas was related to Sir Charles Cornwallis of Beeston, Norfolk (d. 1629), who was an ambassador to Spain and the brother of both Elizabeth Cornwallis and Sir William Cornwallis of Brome. Sir William was the direct ancestor of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis. Thomas was probably the son (or the brother) of the author William Cornwallis. As the second son, he did not hope to inherit his father's land. The Cornwallis family were Roman Catholic Recusants, and therefore, George Calvert's project of an autonomous colony in the New World of English Catholics appealed to Thomas. In 1634, he accompanied Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl Of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll (c. 1575–1638), also called ("Archibald the Grim"), was a Scottish peer, politician, and military leader. Life Campbell was the son of Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll and Agnes Keith. His nickname, , is the Gaelic for "Archibald the Grim". This may originate from his first wife, Agnes Douglas, whose 14th-century ancestor, Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas was so called. On 15 July 1594 James VI gave him a commission to wage war with "fire and sword" against the Catholic Earls of Huntly and Erroll. He commanded royal troops at the Battle of Glenlivet on 3 October 1594 and was defeated by the rebel earls and their followers. After the Union of Crowns, Argyll accompanied Anne of Denmark on her journey south to Windsor Castle in June 1603. On the way he quarrelled with the Earl of Sussex. At Worksop Manor, the Duke of Lennox and the Earls of Shrewsbury and Cumberland made a proclamation at that her followers should put asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Cornwallis
Anne Cornwallis or Anne, countess of Argyll (1590 – 12 January 1635) was an English Roman Catholic benefactor and one time supposed author. Life Cornwallis was probably born in Suffolk where her parents Lady Lucy and Sir William Cornwallis lived at Brome. She was the cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis. Her name appears on an extant anthology of poems that includes poetry by Edward de Vere and William Shakespeare. Opinion once thought that she had created the anthology but it is now thought to be the work of another and her role was minor. She married Archibald Campbell, the 7th Earl of Argyll, in 1610.E. K. Purnell & A. B. Hinds, ''HMC Downshire'', vol. 2 (London, 1936), p. 216. She was his second wife and he already had one son (and heir) and six daughters. In January 1610 Argyll argued with the Earl of Pembroke over the precedency of her seating at a dinner hosted by Lady Hatton. They left Britain allegedly to "take the waters" at Spa but in 1618 Archibald Campbel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley Of Waterford
Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley (7 April 1589 – 12 March 1663) was an English Cavalier, royalist and military commander. He was the grandfather of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough. Richard Lumley was baptized at Chester-le-Street, County Palatine of Durham, County Durham, 7 July 1589, the son of Roger Lumley and Anne (''née'' Kurtswich), and grandson of Anthony Lumley. He was the great grandson of Richard Lumley, 3rd Baron Lumley who was summoned to Parliament in 1509. (The 3rd Baron's father, Thomas, predeceased the 3rd Baron's grandfather, George Lumley, 3rd Baron Lumley, George the 2nd Baron). He was a first cousin of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley. He was a loyalist to the crown during the time of the English Civil Wars. He made the family seat, Lumley Castle, into a garrison. He was made principal commander under Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Prince Rupert, and marched into the west of England and fought at the Siege of Bristol (1645), Siege of Bristol where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sandys (MP For Winchester)
Sir William Sandys ( – 28 October 1628) was an English politician, MP for Winchester. Sandys was the only son of Sir Walter Sandys and his wife Mabel, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. On 22 November 1596 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cornwallis . They had no offspring. Sandys was knighted on 22 July 1601. He served as a JP in Hampshire from 1604, a freeman and alderman of Winchester from 1607, Commissioner of Gaol Delivery for Winchester from 1612, and High Sheriff of Hampshire 1611–12. He was elected MP for Winchester in the Addled Parliament of 1614. Sandys died on 28 October 1628, and was buried at Mottisfont Mottisfont is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, approximately 7 km north west of Romsey. The village is best known as the location of Mottisfont Abbey. Much of the surrounding land, which is part o .... References 1570s births 1628 deaths English MPs 1614 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Crofts
Sir Henry Crofts (June 1590 – March 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. Crofts was the eldest son of Sir John Crofts of Little Saxham and West Stow and his wife Mary Shirley, daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex. He was knighted on 3 February 1611. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Eye. In 1626 he was elected MP for Derby He succeeded his father to his estates in about 1628. Crofts was a strong Anglican and was not active during the English Civil War although he was named as commissioner of array for Suffolk in 1642. In 1646 the sequestrators required him to surrender a portion of the estate due to his daughter, who had married without her father's consent to Sir Frederick Cornwallis, a Royalist. This was returned when the sequestration was lifted in 1648. In April 1660, Crofts was elected MP for Bury St Edmunds in the Convention Parliament in a double return, but was seated on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (14 March 1610/1 – January 1662) was an English peer, MP and Privy Counsellor. He was Treasurer of the Household 1660–1662. He was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk, and his second wife, Jane. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Nathaniel Bacon. Family Cornwallis married twice. He married firstly: Elizabeth Ashburnham, the daughter of Sir John Ashburnham (of Ashburnham, Sussex) and Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond, with 3 sons and a daughter, of whom only Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis survived him. After the wedding, in January 1631, King Charles I, Henrietta Maria and Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh wrote to congratulate his mother Jane, Lady Cornwallis Bacon, and ask her to forgive him for his disobedience and return him to her favour. Denbigh said Ashburnham was her cousin "though her family be unfortunate". Elizabeth died c. February 1643. He married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
