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Wroth (surname)
Wroth is a surname, and may refer to: * Sir Henry Wroth, Henry Wroth, an English royalist soldier * John Wroth (other), John Wroth, any of several people of that name * Krysty Wroth a fictional character * Lawrence C. Wroth (1884 – 1970) an American historian * Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651/3) an English poet * Robert Wroth (Middlesex MP) (1540?–1606) an English politician who was a member of 10 parliaments * Robert Wroth (died 1614) English politician * Robert Wroth (Guildford MP) (1660–1720) an English MP * Thomas Wroth (politician, 16th century) (c.1518–1573) an English courtier and politician * Thomas Wroth (politician, 17th century) (1584–1672) an English parliamentarian politician * William Wroth (1576–1642), minister of the Church of England * Warwick William Wroth (1858–1911), antiquarian Other * Wroth baronets, created on 29 November 1660 for John Wroth * Wroth H. Manlove (died 1985), American politician and judge {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Wroth
Sir Henry Wroth (d. 1671), second son of Henry, Sir Robert Wroth's youngest son, acquired some fame as a royalist during the civil wars, was a 'pensioner' of Charles I, and was knighted at Oxford on 15 September 1645. He compounded with the parliament for £60. He was granted land in Ireland and succeeded to Durrants (or Durants), an estate at Enfield in Middlesex, on the death of his uncle John. He was commissioned captain of a troop in the Royal Horse Guards in 1661. In 1664 Wroth, with a party of horse, escorted Colonel John Hutchinson from the Tower of London on the road to Sandown Castle, Kent. He was a patron of Thomas Fuller, who dedicated his ''Pisgah Sight'' (1650) to him. Fuller often visited Wroth at Durrants. (Bailey, Life of Fuller, p. 460) He married Anne (1632–77), daughter of William, Lord Maynard of Wicklow. He died on 22 September 1671. His second daughter Jane married William Nassau de Zuylestein, 1st Earl of Rochford William Hendrik of Nassau, Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wroth (other)
John Wroth may refer to: * John Acton Wroth (1830–1876), convict transportee to the Swan River Colony, Australia * John Wroth (mayor), Lord Mayor of London in 1360 * John Wroth (died 1396), MP for Middlesex and Wiltshire * John Wroth (MP for City of London), 14th-century MP for City of London * John Wroth (died 1407), MP for Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir John Wroth, 1st Baronet (1627–1664), English landowner * Sir John Wroth, 2nd Baronet (1653–1677), of the Wroth baronets * John Wroth (MP for Liverpool) (died after July 1616), MP for Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency) Liverpool was a borough constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 188 ... in 1593 See also * Wroth (surname) {{hndis, Wroth, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krysty Wroth
Deathlands is a series of novels published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The first novel, ''Pilgrimage to Hell'', was first published in 1986. This series of novels was first written by Christopher Lowder, under the pen name ''Jack Adrian''. Lowder became ill after developing the plot and writing most of the book. Laurence James, under the pen name ''James Axler'' then finished the story. The series exists in both an episodic style and a series format. Some of the novels can be read out of order, while others are dependent on the previous release. There are also a few trilogy sets within the series. Plot On the morning of January 20, 2001 the climax of the Cold War set the post-apocalyptic stage for the series. The end game began with a pre-emptive strike on Washington, DC. Underground nuclear bombs were detonated from within the basement of the Soviet embassy, by an elite group of Spetsnaz operatives, destroying the central command structure and political system of the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence C
Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparatory & high schools * Lawrence Academy at Groton, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States * Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, a high school in Pakistan * Lawrence School, Lovedale, a high school in India * The Lawrence School, Sanawar, a high school in India Research laboratories * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States People * Lawrence (given name), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (surname), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (band), an American soul-pop group * Lawrence (judge royal) (died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 * Lawrence (musician), Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British musician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. Mary Wroth was niece to Mary Herbert née Sidney (Countess of Pembroke and one of the most distinguished women writers and patrons of the 16th century), and to Sir Philip Sidney, a famous Elizabethan poet-courtier. Biography Because her father, Robert Sidney, was governor of Flushing, Wroth spent much of her childhood at the home of Mary Sidney, Baynard's Castle in London, and at Penshurst Place. Penshurst Place was one of the great country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. It was a centre of literary and cultural activity and its gracious hospitality is praised in Ben Jonson's famous poem ''To Penshurst''. During a time when most women were illiterate, Wroth had the privilege of a formal education, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wroth (Middlesex MP)
Sir Robert Wroth (c. 1540 – 27 January 1606) was an English politician. Life Robert, born in Middlesex about 1540, was eldest son of Sir Thomas Wroth (died 1573) by his wife Mary, daughter of Richard, Lord Rich. He was admitted a pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge, on 21 April 1553, but, owing to the religious changes consequent on the accession of Mary I, he left the university without a degree soon after his admission. Accompanying his father in his exile, he returned to England soon after the accession of Elizabeth I. He afterwards entered public life, and the rest of his career was devoted to politics and the administration of a large estate. He was elected for the first time to parliament for St Albans on 11 January 1563; he was returned for Bossiney on 2 April 1571; he took his seat as member for the important constituency of Middlesex on 8 May 1572, and was re-elected to seven later parliaments (1584, 1586, 1589, 1593, 1597, 1601, and 1604). Meanwhile, his fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wroth (died 1614)
Robert Wroth (died 1614) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament for Newtown. He was a son of Robert Wroth (d. 1606) and Susan Stonard, daughter of John Stonard of Loughton in Essex. He was knighted by King James at Syon House in May 1603. On 27 September 1604 at Penshurst he married the poet Mary Sidney, a daughter of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester and Barbara Gamage. Prince Henry visited his father Robert Wroth from Nonsuch Palace and stayed for three days in May 1605. King James visited Loughton in July 1605. Prince Henry returned in July 1606. Wroth bought a manor in Essex in March 1608 from William Cornwallis, whose brother Charles Cornwallis was angered by the sale of his family's lands. He was the King's tenant at the manor of Loughton, and claimed in 1608 that the buildings were old and low, the rooms small, and the building unfit to receive the King if he wanted to hunt in Waltham Forest. He wanted to acquire the house and rebuild it. Mary Wroth wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wroth (Guildford MP)
General Robert Wroth (27 August 1660 –4 February 1720) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1720. Wroth was the son of Sir Henry Wroth of Durants, Enfield, Middlesex and joined the British Army in 1685, rising to the rank of Major-general in 1710. He sat as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Guildford in Surrey for three separate terms. He held the seat from 1705 to 1708, and from October 1710 until his election was overturned on petition in February 1711. He was reelected unopposed at a by-election in 1717 and held the seat until his death in 1720. He held public offices for life as a Clerk of the Green Cloth The Clerk of the Green Cloth was a position in the British Royal Household. The clerk acted as secretary of the Board of Green Cloth, and was therefore responsible for organising royal journeys and assisting in the administration of the Royal ... (from 1715) and a Clerk of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wroth (politician, 16th Century)
Sir Thomas Wroth (c. 1518 – 9 October 1573) was an English courtier, landowner and politician, a supporter of the Protestant Reformation and a prominent figure among the Marian exiles. Family origins The Tudor-age family of Wroth of Enfield derived from the marriage of John Wroth and Maud Durrant. Both were descendants of Hugh du Plessis (nephew of John du Plessis, 7th Earl of Warwick) and Muriel de Wrotham, an heiress of the family of William de Wrotham, who had been Constable of Dover Castle in the time of King John. Maud's father Thomas Durrant the younger, son of Hugh's granddaughter (by his eldest son) Avelina, built the residence of Durrants at Enfield and held estates at Edmonton. John Wroth was a great-grandson of Hugh's youngest son Richard (died c. 1292), who became established at Enfield under the name of de Wrotham. The lines and estates of John and Maud were united in their son William. John Wroth, great-grandson of John and Maud, married Elizabeth, daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wroth (politician, 17th Century)
Sir Thomas Wroth (1584 – 11 July 1672) was an English gentleman-poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660. Active in colonial enterprises in North America, he became a strong republican in the Rump Parliament but stopped short of regicide. Origins and education Thomas Wroth was born in London, the eldest son of Thomas Wroth (died 1610) of the Inner Temple and of Blendon Hall, Bexley, Kent and his wife Joanna Bulman, daughter of Thomas Bulman of London. The parents were married at St. Stephen Coleman Street on 23 December 1577 and Thomas was christened there on 5 May 1584. A grandson of Sir Thomas Wroth (1516–1573) and Mary Rich, daughter of Richard, Lord Rich, Thomas was cousin-German to Sir Robert Wroth of Loughton, Essex (1575–1614), who in 1604 married Mary Sidney (Lady Wroth), daughter of Robert Sidney, Baron Sidney of Penshurst, afterwards Lord Viscount Lisle and 1st Earl of Leicester. His father was cousin to Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wroth
William Wroth (1576–1641), a minister of the Church of England, is generally credited with the establishment of the first Independent Church in Wales in 1639. From 1617 until 1639 Wroth was Rector of the parish church at Llanvaches in Monmouthshire where his Congregationalist chapel was founded. Life Wroth was raised in Abergavenny, and educated at the University of Oxford. He spent fifteen years at Oxford, where he graduated BA from Christ Church in 1596 and MA in 1605 from Jesus College. There is a tradition that he came to Oxford as the servant of the prominent Sir Edward Lewis of Van, Caerphilly, who graduated similarly, and the two are closely linked in their history both there and afterwards. He was promised the Rectory of Llanvaches in 1610 by Edward Lewis, once it became vacant. It did so in the following year, but there was some impediment to it being granted. In 1613 he was instead granted the Rectory of Llanfihangel Roggiet, which he held until 1626. He was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick William Wroth
Warwick William Wroth (24 August 1858 – 26 September 1911) was a numismatist and biographer. He was Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum and one of the original contributors to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', with which he was associated almost until its completion. Life Wroth was born in Clerkenwell, the eldest son of the Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He attended the King's School, Canterbury, where he received a classical training, and joined the staff of the British Museum as an assistant in thDepartment of Coins and Medalsin July 1878. Publications Wroth contributed to the series of British Museum Catalogues of Greek Coins, and wrote articles for the ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', the ''Numismatic Chronicle'', '' The Athenaeum'' and ''The Classical Review''. He also wrote a series of biographies of numismatists, medallists, coin-engravers which were published in the ''Dictionary of National Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
