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William Throckmorton Bromley
William Throckmorton Bromley ( – 3 March 1769) was an English politician, MP for Warwickshire 1765–1769. Biography Bromley was the son of William Bromley (son of William Bromley , Speaker of the House of Commons) and his wife Lucy Throckmorton, daughter of Sir Clement Throckmorton. He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1744, aged 17. Bromley was elected MP for Warwickshire in a by-election in February 1765, without a contest. He voted against the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. He was re-elected in 1768 Events January–March * January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London. * February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Rep .... He died on 3 March 1769. Family In May 1756, Bromley married Bridget Davenport, daughter of Richard Davenport. They had one son: * William Davenport Bromley (died 1810) Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwickshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system. History Boundaries and franchise The constituency, which seems first to have returned members to Parliament in 1293, consisted of the historic county of Warwickshire, excluding the city of Coventry which had the status of a county in its itself after 1451. (Although Warwickshire also contained the borough of Warwick and part of the borough of Tamworth, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Warwickshire was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Coventry.) As in other county constituencies the franchise between 1430 and 1832 was define ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bromley (died 1737)
William Bromley (1699?–1737), of Baginton, Warwickshire, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1725 and 1737. Early life Bromley was second, but only surviving, son of William Bromley, Speaker of the House of Commons and his last wife Elizabeth Stawell, daughter of Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell. He was educated at Westminster School in 1714, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 27 February 1717, at the age of 15. From 1721 to 1724 he undertook as Grand Tour through Italy and France. Career Bromley entered Parliament unopposed as Member of Parliament for Fowey at a by-election on 15 March 1725 pending a general election. At the 1727 British general election he was returned unopposed as MP for . He was put forward by the party opposed to Robert Walpole to move the repeal of the Septennial Act on 13 March 1734. At the 1734 British general election he was re-elected for Warwick, but was unseated on petition. At a by-election on 2 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Head Master , head = Gary Savage , chair_label = Chairman of Governors , chair = John Hall, Dean of Westminster , founder = Henry VIII (1541) Elizabeth I (1560 – refoundation) , address = Little Dean's Yard , city = London, SW1P 3PF , country = England , local_authority = City of Westminster , urn = 101162 , ofsted = , dfeno = 213/6047 , staff = 105 , enrolment = 747 , gender = BoysCoeducational (Sixth Form) , lower_age = 13 (boys), 16 (girls) , upper_age = 18 , houses = Busby's College Ashburnham Dryden's Grant's Hakluyt's Liddell's Milne's Purcell's Rigaud's Wren's , colours = Pink , public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniquely a joint foundation of the university and the cathedral of the Oxford diocese, Christ Church Cathedral, which both serves as the college chapel and whose dean is ''ex officio'' the college head. The college is amongst the largest and wealthiest of colleges at the University of Oxford, with an endowment of £596m and student body of 650 in 2020. As of 2022, the college had 661 students. Its grounds contain a number of architecturally significant buildings including Tom Tower (designed by Sir Christopher Wren), Tom Quad (the largest quadrangle in Oxford), and the Great Dining Hall, which was the seat of the parliament assembled by King Charles I during the English Civil War. The buildings have inspired replicas throughout the world in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamp Act 1765
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. III c. 12), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp. Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies after the French and Indian War, but the colonists had never feared a French invasion to begin with, and they contended that they had already paid their share of the war expenses. Colonists suggested that it was actually a matter of British patronage to surplus British officers and career soldiers who should be paid by London. The Stam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1768 British General Election
The 1768 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election took place amid continuing shifts within politics which had occurred the accession of George III in 1760. The Tories who had long been in parliamentary opposition having not won an election since 1713 had disintegrated with its former parliamentarians gravitating between the various Whig factions, the Ministry, or continued political independence as a Country Gentleman. No Tory party existed at this point, though the label of Tory was occasionally used as a political insult by opposition groups against the government. Since the last general election the Whigs had lost cohesion and had split into various factions aligned with leading political figures. The leading figures around the period of the prior election, namely the Earl of Bute, the Duke of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet
Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet (c.1697 – 11 March 1778), of Walton, Warwickshire, Walton d'Eiville in Warwickshire, was an English landowner and British Tory Party, Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons for 40 years from 1734 to 1774. Mordaunt was the eldest son of Sir John Mordaunt, 5th Baronet, of Walton D’Eiville and Little Massingham and his second wife Penelope Warburton, daughter of Sir George Warburton, 1st Baronet, of Arley, Cheshire. He matriculated at New College, Oxford 8 June 1714, aged 16 and Lincoln's Inn on 21 May 1718. Mordaunt married Dorothy Conyers daughter of John Conyers (1650-1725), John Conyers of Walthamstow on 1 December 1720. He succeeded to the Mordaunt baronets, baronetcy on 6 September 1721. Mordaunt's wife Dorothy died in 1726, and he married as his second wife Sophia Wodehouse, daughter of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, Sir John Wodehouse of Kimberley, Norfolk on 7 July 1730. Mordaunt entered Parliament a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Craven, 5th Baron Craven
William Craven, 5th Baron Craven (19 September 1705 – 17 March 1769) was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament. He was born the son of John Craven of Whitley, Coventry in Warwickshire and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was the Member of Parliament for Warwickshire from 24 December 1746 to 10 November 1764. In 1749 he married Jane, the daughter of the Rev. Rowland Berkeley of Cotheridge, Worcestershire but had no children. He succeeded his cousin, Fulwar Craven, as Baron Craven in 1764, inheriting and residing at Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire. He was succeeded in turn by his nephew William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, the son of his brother John. References 1705 births 1769 deaths People from Coventry Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 William William is a male given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Skipwith, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas George Skipwith, 4th Baronet (''c.'' 1735 – 28 January 1790) of Newbold Revel Hall was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1769 to 1784. He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Skipwith, 3rd Baronet (''c.'' 1705–1778), of Newbold Revel. His mother Ursula, was the daughter of Thomas Cartwright (politician), Thomas Cartwright MP, from Northamptonshire; her brother was William Cartwright (c.1704–1768), William Cartwright MP. Skipwith was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency), Warwickshire at a by-election in 1769, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Throckmorton Bromley MP. A former member of the Birmingham Bean Club, he had been recommended in 1764 as a sound Tory, but fell in with the Rockingham Whigs and voted consistently with that faction. He was re-elected in 1774 British general election, 1774, but refused to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1720s Births
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
