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William Skipwith (died 1610)
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Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. The cockerel is the symbol of Jesus College, after the surname of its founder. For the 300 years from 1560 to 1860, Jesus College was primarily a training college for Church of England clergy. Jesus College has assets of approximately £344m making it Cambridge's fourth-wealthiest college. The college is known for its particularly expansive grounds which include its sporting fields and for its close proximity to its boathouse. Three members of Jesus College have received a Nobel Prize. Two fellows of the college have been appointed to the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmesthorpe
Elmesthorpe (''sometimes spelt Elmersthorpe, Elmsthorpe or Aylmersthorpe'') is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated to the south-east of Earl Shilton, near to Hinckley on the A47 road. In 2004, the parish had an estimated population of 520, reducing to 509 at the 2011 census. History The village's name means 'outlying farm/settlement of Æthelmaer or Ailmer'. The village has been inhabited from at least Roman times as there is evidence of Roman occupation within the parish. In 1297, Elmesthorpe was home to numerous farms and 40-50 families. The Plague and a failing economy caused the village to depopulate and finally disappear. In 1485, it is thought King Richard III and his troops stayed in the partially ruined church for shelter on their march from Leicester to the Battle of Bosworth; with the king and his officers sheltering within the church, and the soldiers camping outside. The parish church is dedicated to S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rich, 1st Earl Of Holland
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (baptised 15 August 1590, died 9 March 1649), was an English courtier and politician executed by Parliament after being captured fighting for the Royalists during the Second English Civil War. Younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, a Puritan activist and commander of the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Henry was better known as an "extravagant, decorative, quarrelsome and highly successful courtier". A close friend of Charles I and his favourite the Duke of Buckingham, Rich performed various diplomatic errands, including negotiations for Charles' marriage to Henrietta Maria of France in 1625. He took part in the unsuccessful attack on Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 and held a number of important positions at court during the 1630s. When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, Rich remained in London rather than joining the Royalists but like other moderates became disillusioned with the war. He d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Beaumont (of Gracedieu)
Henry Beaumont may refer to: * Henry Beaumont (magistrate), English MP for Derby * Sir Henry Beaumont (of Gracedieu) (1581–1605), English MP for Leicester, 1604 *Sir Henry Beaumont (died 1607) ( 1545–1607), English MP for Leicestershire, 1589, 1606 *Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet (1638–1689), English MP for Leicester * Henry Frederick Beaumont (1833–1913), British MP for Yorkshire South and for Colne Valley * Henry Beaumont (priest) (died 1627), Canon of Windsor *Henry Beamont, known as Henry Harcourt (1612–1673), English Jesuit See also * Henry de Beaumont (other) *Harry Beaumont Harry Beaumont (10 February 1888 – 22 December 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including 20th Century Fox, Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn, Metro Picture ... (1888–1966), American film director * Harry Beaumont (rugby league), English rugby league footballer of the 1900s * Beaumont (disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Beaumont
Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet (6 November 1753 – 7 February 1827) was a British art patron and amateur painter. He played a crucial part in the creation of London's National Gallery by making the first bequest of paintings to that institution. Biography Born in Great Dunmow, Essex, he was the only surviving child of the landowner Sir George Beaumont, 6th Baronet, from whom he inherited the baronetcy in 1762 (see Beaumont baronets) and Rachel ee Howlanddaughter of Michael Howland of Stone Hall, Matching Green. Beaumont was educated at Eton College, where he was taught drawing by the landscape painter Alexander Cozens. The first paintings to enter Beaumont's collection were by artists he knew, but a Grand Tour which he undertook in 1782 with his wife Margaret (the daughter of John Willes M.P., of Astrop, Oxon and granddaughter of Sir John Willes M.P., Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas) widened his taste to include the Old Masters. On his return he beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Beaumont (died 1614)
Sir Thomas Beaumont ( 1555 – 27 November 1614) of Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, was an English Member of Parliament for Leicester. His father, Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton was also an MP and his mother, Anne was the daughter of William Saunders of Welford, Northants. Thomas' elder brother Henry Beaumont preceded him as MP for Leicester. Thomas Beaumont was knighted in 1603 and elected MP for Leicester in 1604. Thomas Beaumont married Katherine Farnham, daughter of Thomas Farnham (MP) of Stoughton Grange. They produced ten children; three sons (Henry, Farnham, and Thomas) and seven daughters (Elizabeth, Frances, Anne, Elinor, Isabel, Jane, Mary). Henry's son, Sir Thomas Beaumont, became the first Baronet of Stoughton Grange. Their daughter Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond was created Baroness (Scotland) in her own right by Charles I of England and her daughter (also named Elizabeth) married Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis. Their eldest daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Villiers (of Brokesby)
Sir George Villiers (c. 1544 – 4 January 1606) was an English knight and country gentleman. He was a High Sheriff of Leicestershire for the year 1591, and later was briefly a Knight of the Shire, a Member of Parliament representing the county of Leicestershire. He was the father of James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and of several other sons who became prominent at court, establishing the Villiers family at the heart of royal circles for several generations. Family George Villiers, born about 1544, was the eldest son of William Villiers of Brooksby, Leicestershire, and Colett, widow of Richard Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, and daughter and heir of Richard Clarke of Willoughby, Warwickshire. The Villiers family had been settled at Brooksby since at least 1235. Career Villiers is said to have been a "prosperous sheep farmer". He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1591, and was elected a Knight of the Shire for the county from 1604 until h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hastings (MP)
Sir Henry Hastings (died 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1626. There were two contemporaneous individuals called Henry Hastings in Leicestershire that could have been this MP. The more likely is considered to be the son of Sir Edward Hastings of Leicester Abbey. The alternative is the son of Walter Hastings of Braunston. One of these (probably the subject of the article) attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the other Lincoln College, Oxford. Both individuals were knighted in 1603 and lived near Leicester. In 1601, Hastings was elected Member of Parliament for Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency), Leicestershire and was re-elected MP for Leicestershire in 1621, 1624 and 1626. He was a Justice of the Peace, J.P. by 1606 and was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1607–08. Hastings married Mabel Faunt, daughter of Anthony Faunt of Foston, Leicestershire and had four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hastings (died 1610)
Sir Francis Hastings (c. 1546–1610) was an English Puritan politician. Hastings was a skilful parliamentarian, and excellent committee man, and schooled in the importance of religion in political discourse. A published author, highly intelligent, Hastings showed he was a dutiful, and obedient servant of the Crown. Opinionated, dogmatic and determined, Hastings could oppose as a matter of principle, but would never betray the monarch. Hastings was a prolific and hard-working MP requested for many offices, and never out of favour. Despite being from a noble family he thrived on the cut and thrust of Commons procedure; perspicacious, insightful he tried to achieve a balance of power. Early life He was the fifth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine, daughter of Henry, 1st Baron Montagu. His older brothers were Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon. Francis was educated Magdalen College, Oxford before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hastings (died 1603)
Sir Edward Hastings (1541–1603) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Tregony in 1571, and Leicestershire in 1597–98. He was knighted by Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, in 1570. Family He was the fourth son of the Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and purchased the estate of Leicester Abbey from his brother, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, KG, KB (c. 153514 December 1595) was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to E .... He was married to Barbara Devereux (second daughter of Sir William Devereux and Jane Scudamore); they had four sons and one daughter. References 1541 births 1603 deaths English MPs 1571 English MPs 1597–1598 Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Members of the Parliament of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Griffin (died 1615)
Sir Thomas Griffin (1580 – 1615) was an English landowner and hosted the royal family at Dingley. Thomas Griffin was the eldest son of Sir Edward Griffin (d. 1620) of Dingley, Braybrooke, and Gumley Ewing and Lucy Conyers (d. 1620), a daughter of Richard Conyers of Wakerley. A miniature portrait of Thomas Griffin by Nicholas Hilliard has the inscription "Anno Domini 1599, Aetatis Suae 20', he was born early in 1580. Anne of Denmark, Princess Elizabeth, and Prince Henry at Dingley In 1603 Queen Elizabeth died. James VI of Scotland became king, an event known as the Union of the Crowns. His wife, Anne of Denmark came to England in June 1603, and noblewomen and gentry travelled to meet her, perhaps in hope of gaining favour or employment in the royal household. One of the places where Anne of Denmark stayed and received guests was Griffin's house at Dingley Hall in Northamptonshire. Dingley Hall had been rebuilt in the 1550s by Edward Griffin and his second wife Anne Smith, daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley, Northamptonshire
Dingley is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, located along the A427, about east of the nearest town, Market Harborough. It is also close to the A6 and near the border with Leicestershire. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 209 people, reducing to 194 at the 2011 census. The villages name origin is uncertain. 'Dynni's wood/clearing' or perhaps, 'hollow wood/clearing'. Governance Dingley is part of North Northamptonshire. Before local government changes it was part of Kettering borough. Dingley Hall The main feature of the village is Dingley Hall which has had many famous owners over the centuries. A house has stood on this site from medieval times when it was a Preceptory for the Knights' Hospitallers. It is first recorded as ''Dinglei'', meaning "the woodland clearing marked by valleys". At the dissolution of the monasteries it was sold to Edward Griffin. During the late 1550s Griffin had the house extensively rebuilt lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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