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Charles Wyndham (1796–1866)
Col. Charles Wyndham Ilive (10 September 1796 – 16 February 1866), was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Sussex from 1841 to 1847. Wyndham was the fifth son of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837) and his mistress, Elizabeth Ilive (died 1822), of Petworth House, near Chichester, West Sussex. His parents married in 1801 after the birth of seven illegitimate children. He was a descendant of John Wyndham who played an important role in the establishment of defence organisation in the West Country against the threat of Spanish invasion. He married Elizabeth Anne Hepburne-Scott, daughter of Lord Polwarth Lord Polwarth, of Polwarth in the County of Berwick, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1690 for Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, 2nd Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 (the baronetcy had been created in ..., but had no children.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) - HRH The Prince Regent (1762–1830), Later George IV, And Colonel Charles Wyndham (1796–1866) - 485129 - National Trust
Thomas Phillips (18 October 1770 – 20 April 1845) was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the notable men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers. Life and work Phillips was born at Dudley, then in Worcestershire. Having learnt glass-painting in Birmingham under Francis Eginton, he visited London in 1790 with an introduction to Benjamin West, who found him employment on the painted-glass windows of St George's Chapel at Windsor. In 1791 he became a student at the Royal Academy, where, in 1792 he exhibited a view of Windsor Castle, followed in the next two years by the ''Death of Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, at the Battle of Castillon'', ''Ruth and Naomi'', ''Elijah restoring the Widow's Son'', ''Cupid disarmed by Euphrosyne'', and other pictures. After 1796, he concentrated on portrait-painting. However, the field was very crowded with the likes of John Hoppner, William Owen, Thomas Lawrence and Martin Archer Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke Of Richmond
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon, (27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903), styled the Earl of March until 1860, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. Background and education Born at Richmond House, London, he was the son of Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, and his wife Lady Caroline Paget, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was educated at Westminster School, Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he had a short career as a cricketer. He served in the Royal Horse Guards and was aide-de-camp to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington. Charles was born with the surname Lennox; when his father inherited the Gordon estates from George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, his uncle, the father took the surname Gordon-Lennox for himself and his issue, by royal licence dated 9 August 1836. He owned 286,000 acres mostly in Banff, Aberdeen and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1796 Births
Events January–March * January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.) * February 1 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark, Upper Canada, Newark to York, Upper Canada, York. * February 9 – The Qianlong Emperor of China abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor. * February 15 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Invasion of Ceylon (1795) ends when Johan van Angelbeek, the Batavian Republic, Batavian governor of Ceylon, surrenders Colombo peacefully to British forces. * February 16 – The Kingdom of Great Britain is granted control of Ceylon by the Dutch. * February 29 – Ratifications of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States are officially exchanged, bringing it into effect.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Prime
Richard Prime (1 April 1784 – 7 November 1866) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western division of Sussex at a by-election in February 1847, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ... on 28 January 1854 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. References * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prime, Richard 1784 births 1866 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord John George Lennox
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John George Lennox (3 October 1793 – 10 November 1873), was a British soldier and Whig politician. John George Lennox was born 3 October 1793, the second son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and the former Lady Charlotte Gordon. Lennox joined the Army in 1811 and was an ADC to the Duke of Wellington from 1813, at Waterloo and up to 1818. He was returned to Parliament for Chichester in 1819 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1831. He then represented Sussex between 1831 and 1832 and Sussex West between 1832 and 1842. He was Lord of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert Prince Albert most commonly refers to: *Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861), consort of Queen Victoria *Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958), present head of state of Monaco Prince Albert may also refer to: Royalty * Alb ... from 1840 until Albert's death in 1861. Lennox married Louisa Fredericka, daughter of the Hon. John Rodney, in 1818. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Howard, 13th Duke Of Norfolk
Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, (12 August 179118 February 1856), styled Earl of Surrey between 1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician and peer. Background Norfolk was the son of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg.Mosley, Charles (ed.) ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, volume 2. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 2911. He gained the courtesy title Earl of Surrey when his father succeeded as Duke of Norfolk in 1815. Political career On 4 May 1829 Norfolk, then Earl of Surrey, was elected to the House of Commons for Horsham. When he took his seat he became the first Roman Catholic to sit in the House after Catholic emancipation. Surrey held the Horsham seat until 1832, and then represented West Sussex between 1832 and 1841. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1837 and served under Lord Melbourne as Treasu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 United Kingdom General Election
The 1847 United Kingdom general election was held from 29 July to 26 August 1847. It saw the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives win the most seats but remain divided between Protectionists and Peelite, Peelites. This allowed the Whigs (British political party), Whigs, led by Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell, to retain power. The general election was held amid the Irish famine, Great Irish famine. The Irish Repeal, Irish Repeal group won more seats than in the previous general election, while the Chartists gained the only seat they were ever to hold, Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham's second seat, held by Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor. The election also witnessed the election of Britain's first Jewish MP, the Liberal Lionel de Rothschild in the City of London (UK Parliament constituency), City of London. Members being sworn in were however required to swear the Christian Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom), Oath of Allegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 United Kingdom General Election
The 1841 United Kingdom general election was held between 29 June and 22 July 1841. Following increasing government defeats, the Conservatives under Sir Robert Peel won a decisive victory against the governing Whigs. The Conservatives campaigned mainly on an 11-point programme modified from their previous electoral effort and designed by Peel, whilst the Whigs emphasised reforming the import duties on corn, replacing the existing sliding scale with a uniform rate. The Whig position lost them support amongst protectionists, and the Whigs saw heavy losses in constituencies like the West Riding, where aristocratic Whig families who held a strong tradition of unbroken representation in Parliament were rejected by the electorate. O'Connell, who had been governing with the Whigs through a compact, felt the government's unpopularity rub off on him. His own party was shattered in the election. Barely a dozen Repealers retained their seats, and O'Connell himself lost in Dublin whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth
Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth (10 April 1758 – 29 December 1841) was the MP for Berwickshire from 1780 till 18 March 1781 and 12 April 1781 till 1784. He became the 6th Lord Polwarth on 25 June 1835. Hugh was born 10 April 1758, the oldest surviving son of the MP for Roxburghshire Walter Scott. On 29 September 1795, he married Harriet, the daughter of Hans Maurice, Count Brühl. He established his claim as the 6th Lord Polwarth Lord Polwarth, of Polwarth in the County of Berwick, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1690 for Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, 2nd Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 (the baronetcy had been created in ... on 25 June 1835. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hepburne-Scott, Hugh 1758 births 1841 deaths Nobility from the Scottish Borders British MPs 1780–1784 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Country
The West Country is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire."Which counties make up the West Country?", ''YouGov.co.uk'', 23 October 2019 Retrieved 22 June 2021 The West Country has a distinctive regional English dialect and accent, and is also home to the . Extent |
