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Alexander Stewart (1699–1781)
Alexander Stewart (1699 or 1700 – 2 April 1781) was an Irish landowner who grew rich by inheriting a fortune from Robert Cowan, a former governor of Bombay. His son Robert became the 1st Marquess of Londonderry. Birth and origins Alexander was born in 1699 or 1700 at Ballylawn Castle, near Manorcunningham in County Donegal. He was the second son of William Stewart and his wife. His father had his lands consolidated by Charles I under the name of Stewart's Court, raised a Williamite troop of horse in the run-up to the Siege of Derry and was therefore known as Colonel William Stewart. Alexander's grandfather is not known by name, but Alexander was a great-grandson of Charles Stewart, whose father John was given land at Ballylawn in County Donegal in the plantation of Ulster, built Ballylawn Castle on that land, and held fishing rights in Lough Swilly. John Stewart is likely to have been a younger son of the Stewarts of Garlies in Galloway, Scotland. Alexander's mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whigs (British Political Party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism and parliamentary government, but also Protestant supremacy. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Moore, 1st Marquess Of Drogheda
Field Marshal Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda, (29 June 1730 – 22 December 1822) was a British Army officer and politician. He bore the colours of his regiment at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and later commanded the 18th Light Dragoons during operations against the Whiteboys in Ireland. He also sat as Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons and, having served as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he went on to become Master-General of the Irish Ordnance. Early life Moore was the eldest of six sons and two daughters of Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda and, his first wife, Lady Sarah Ponsonby.L. G. Pine, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms'' (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 108. His paternal grandparents were Charles Moore, Lord Moore (a son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda) and Jane Loftu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hamilton (1693–1760)
William Hamilton may refer to: Academics * Robert William Hamilton Jr. (1930–2011), known as Bill, American hyperbaric physiologist *William Hamilton (university principal) (1669–1732), Principal of the University of Edinburgh *William Hamilton (surgeon) (died 1717), surgeon in the British East India Company *Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician *William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), mathematician, astronomer and physicist who lived in Dublin in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland *William Edwin Hamilton (1834–1902), son of William Rowan and publisher of his ''Elements of Quaternions'' (1866) *William Hamilton (geologist) (1805–1867), English geologist * William F. Hamilton (physician) (1893–1964), American physician * William F. Hamilton (professor) (born 1941), professorship of management and technology * William Hamilton (theologian) (1924–2012), American theologian *W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Of King's Bench (Ireland)
The Court of King's Bench (of Queen's Bench when the sovereign was female, and formerly of Chief Place or Chief Pleas) was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror of the Court of King's Bench in England. The King's Bench was one of the "Four Courts" which sat in the building in Dublin which is still known as " The Four Courts", and is still in use. Origins According to Elrington Ball,Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921'' John Murray London 1926 the Court called ''the King's Bench'' can be identified as early as 1290. It was fully operational by 1324, headed by the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, who was assisted by at least one, and usually, two or more associate justices, although for brief periods the Chief Justice was forced to sit alone, due to the lack of a suitably qualified colleague. A statute of 1410 provided that a trial in King's Bench set down for a specific county must proceed there, and must not be moved to another ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scott (Irish Lawyer)
William Scott (1705 – 17 April 1776) was an Irish lawyer and judge. Background He was the only son of Rev. Gideon Scott and Jane McNeill.Ball p.120 His father, an Oxford man, came to Ireland as an army chaplain with William III of England, and settled in Ulster. He was given the estate of Willsborough, County Londonderry in 1696 by King William, who had been greatly impressed by a sermon he preached, and named the estate after the King. William's mother was the daughter of John McNeill of Ballintoy, County Antrim, and Elizabeth Ruthven, widow of Sir Dugald Stewart, 2nd Baronet, and thus though her mother a half-sister of James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute. He went to school in Raphoe and attended Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1727. He entered Middle Temple in 1729 and was called to the Bar in 1732. Career He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for the city of Londonderry in 1739 and appointed Prime Serjeant at the Irish Bar on 6 October 1757. He was made Record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Londonderry City (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Londonderry City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. Members of Parliament *1613–1615: George Cary and Thomas Crewe *1634–1635: Sir Robert Farrar and Robert Goodwin *1639–1649: Robert Stewart (soldier), Sir Robert Stewart and Sir Francis Butler *1661–1666: John Godbold (died and replaced 1665 by John Gorges) and Hugh Edwards 1692–1801 Notes References * {{Authority control Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) History of Derry (city) Politics of Derry (city) 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Ireland
The Parliament of Ireland () was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until the end of 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two chambers: the Irish House of Commons, House of Commons and the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The Lords were members of the Peerage of Ireland, Irish peerage ('Lords Temporal, lords temporal') and Bishop, bishops ('Lords Spiritual, lords spiritual'; after the Reformation, Church of Ireland bishops). The Commons was directly elected, albeit on a very restricted Suffrage, franchise. Parliaments met at various places in Leinster and Munster, but latterly always in Dublin: in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral (15th century),Richardson 1943 p.451 Dublin Castle (to 1649), Chichester House (1661–1727), the The King's Hospital, Blue Coat School (1729–31), and finally a purpose-built Parliament House, Dublin, Parliament House on College G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killyleagh
Killyleagh (; ) is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the A22 road between Belfast and Downpatrick, on the western side of Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,787 people in the 2021 Census. It is best known for its twelfth century Killyleagh Castle. Killyleagh lies within the Newry, Mourne and Down district. Demography According to the 2021 Census there were 2,787 people living in Killyleagh. 51% were from a Protestant and 'other Christian religions' background, 37% were from a Catholic background and 12% were irreligious. Places of interest * Killyleagh Castle is a private family residence that is said to be the oldest inhabited castle in Ireland. It has been the home of the Hamilton family since the 17th century Plantation of Ulster and acquired its fairy-tale silhouette in the 1850s when the turrets were added, but it is mostly the same castle that the second Earl of Clanbrassil rebuilt in 1666. The castle hosts occasional conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bruce (1702–1755)
William Bruce may refer to: * Sir William Bruce (architect) (c. 1630–1710), Scottish architect * William Bruce, 8th Earl of Kincardine (died 1740), Scottish nobleman * William Bruce (cricketer) (1864–1925), Australian cricketer * William Bruce (Canadian politician) (died 1838), physician and politician in Upper Canada * William Bruce (VC) (1890–1914), posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross * William Cabell Bruce (1860–1946), author and United States Senator * Major William Bruce-Gardyne of Clan Gardyne, Laird of Middleton, Angus, Scotland * William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921), Scottish explorer * William George Bruce William George Bruce (March 17, 1856 – August 13, 1949) was a Milwaukee author, publisher of educational, historical and religious books, and founder of the ''American School Board Journal''. He was a noted civic leader for the Milwaukee School Bo ... (1856–1949), Milwaukee publisher, historian, and civic leader * William Bruce (minister, born 1757) (175 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Stewart08
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England People * Mount (surname) * William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician Computing and software * Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible * Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Books * ''Mount!'', a 2016 novel by Jilly Cooper Displays and equipment * Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: ** To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ** To prepare dead animal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stuart (1713–1788)
James Stuart may refer to: Government and politics * James VI and I (1566–1625), James VI of Scotland and James I of England * James II of England (1633–1701), James VII of Scotland * James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick (1696–1738), Jacobite and Spanish nobleman * James Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick (1718–1787), Jacobite * James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), "the Old Pretender", claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland * James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1663–1667), second son of the Duke of York and his first wife, Anne Hyde * James Stuart (1681–1743) (died 1743), British Army officer, courtier and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr Burghs 1734–41 * James Stuart (1774–1833), British businessman and politician, director of The East India Company, MP for Huntingdon 1824–31 * James Stuart (1775–1849), Scottish politician * James Stuart-Wortley (Conservative politician) (1805–1881), British Conservative Party poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Stewart
Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. Prominently associated with the 2nd Marquess, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Britain's Foreign Secretary at the Congress of Vienna and with Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, the former Air Minister who at Mount Stewart attempted private diplomacy with Hitler's Germany, the house and its contents reflect the history of the family's leading role in social and political life in Britain and Ireland. History County seat of the Stewarts, Lords Londonderry and Castlereagh The original property, Mount Pleasant, was purchased with neighbouring estates in 1744 by Alexander Stewart (1699–1781). Exceptionally for an aspiring member of the landed Ascendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
