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Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl Of Holderness
Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness (1622 – 13 December 1692) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1660 to 1679 and later became a peer. Life Darcy was the eldest son of Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness, Conyers Darcy, 8th Lord Darcy of Knayth and 5th Lord Conyers and his wife Grace Rokeby, daughter of Thomas Rokeby of Skiers. He was a student of University College, Oxford in 1637 and of Gray's Inn in 1640. In 1660, Darcy was elected Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge (UK Parliament constituency), Boroughbridge in the Convention Parliament (1660), Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency), Yorkshire in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. From the 1660s until December 1681, when he handed over to his own son, Darcy was Colonel (United Kingdom)#Colonel of the Regiment, Colonel of the Richmondshire Regiment, North Riding Militia.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''The History of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl Of Holderness, By Circle Of Robert Walker
Conyers is a city and the county seat of Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. The city is 24 miles (38.6 km) east of downtown Atlanta and is a part of the Metro Atlanta, Atlanta metropolitan area. As of 2020 United States census, 2020, its population was 17,305. The formerly separate town of Milstead, Georgia, Milstead is now part of Conyers. History Between 1816 and 1821, the area known as Rockdale was open for settlement. John Holcomb, a blacksmith, was the first settler in what is now Conyers. He settled where the current Rockdale County Courthouse is located, in the middle of Conyers on Main Street. Eventually, pressure arose for a railroad to cross Georgia; the railroad was intended to run from Augusta, Georgia, Augusta, through neighboring Covington, Georgia, Covington to Atlanta, Marthasville (now known as Atlanta). John Holcomb was against the railroad and refused to sell his land, and threatened to shoot anyone from the railroad who came onto his prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Seymour, 2nd Duke Of Somerset
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, (158824 October 1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Origins Seymour was the son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (who predeceased his own father) by his wife Honora Rogers. He was the grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, by his wife Lady Katherine Grey, a sister of Lady Jane Grey, "The Nine Days Queen", which thus gave him a distant claim to the throne through Katherine's descent from Mary Tudor, younger sister of King Henry VIII. He was the great-grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), the uncle of King Edward VI and Lord Protector of England. Life Seymour made a secret marriage at Greenwich on 22 June 1610 to Arbella Stuart (died 1615), daughter of Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox and Elizabeth Cavendish. Arbella was thirteen years his senior, and King James I disapproved of the marriage as the union of two potential Tudor pretenders to the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax Of Cameron
Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (30 December 1631 – 13 April 1688) was an English politician. He was the grandson of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron. He was born the son of Henry Fairfax, of York, Rector of Bolton Percy, Yorkshire and Lady Mary Cholmondeley (1593-1649) and educated at Gray's Inn. He took part in the Yorkshire rising in support of George Monck in January 1660 under the leadership of his cousin Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax. He later succeeded his cousin in 1671, inheriting the family estate at Denton, North Yorkshire. He sat in Parliament to represent Yorkshire in March and October 1679 and again in 1681. He married Frances Barwick, and they had ten children: * Mary Fairfax (born 29 July 1653) * Dorothy Fairfax (born 30 December 1655) * Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (born 1657) * Henry Fairfax Of Toulston (born 20 April 1659) * Ursula Fairfax (born 3 May 1661) * Frances Fairfax (born 2 April 1663) * Bryan Fairfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dawnay, 1st Viscount Downe
John Dawnay, 1st Viscount Downe (c. 1625 – 1 October 1695), known as Sir John Dawnay between 1660 and 1681, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1690. Dawnay was the son of John Dawnay of Womersley, Yorkshire and his wife Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of Sir Richard Hutton, a Judge of the King's Bench. He was baptised on 25 January 1625. He entered Gray's Inn and Jesus College, Cambridge in 1641. In 1660, Dawnay was elected Member of Parliament for Yorkshire in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted on 2 June 1660. In 1661 he was elected MP for Pontefract in the Cavalier Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Pontefract in the two elections of 1679. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Downe on 19 February 1681. As this was an Irish peerage he could remain a member of the House of Commons and he was re-elected in 1681, 1685 and 1689. In 1687, he acquired the mansion at 15 St James's Square, Westminster. He commissioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fairfax
Sir Thomas Fairfax (17 January 1612 – 12 November 1671) was an English army officer and politician who commanded the New Model Army from 1645 to 1650 during the English Civil War. Because of his dark hair, he was known as "Black Tom" to his loyal troops. He was the eldest son and heir of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, (Lord Fairfax) and succeeded to that title as 3rd Lord Fairfax in 1648 on the death of his father, although he was generally known as "Sir Thomas Fairfax" to distinguish them. He adopted the profession of arms as a young man, when he served under Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury, Horace Vere in the Netherlands. In 1637, he married Vere's daughter Anne. Fairfax was recalled to English service in 1639, for the first of King Charles' disastrous Bishops' Wars against Scotland. When these defeats led to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, Lord Fairfax declared for Parliament and was named general of Parliament's forces in the north, with Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet (15 June 1636 – 1 March 1688), of Scriven in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. Biography He was the second but oldest surviving son of Sir Henry Slingsby, executed in 1658 for his adherence to the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. The family estates were confiscated, but were restored following the Restoration in 1660. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1660 and entered Parliament in 1670 as member for Yorkshire, and subsequently also represented Knaresborough (the family borough) and Scarborough. In 1658 he married Dorothy Cradock (d. 1673), daughter of George Cradock of Caverswall Castle Caverswall Castle is a privately owned early-17th-century English mansion built in a castellar style upon the foundations and within the walls of a 13th-century castle, in Caverswall, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The castle i ..., and they had three children: * Sir Henry Slingsby, 3rd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet
Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet (20 April 1617 – November 1670) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1670. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Life Goodricke was the son of Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall, Yorkshire and his wife Jane Savile, daughter of Sir John Savile, of Methley, (1545–1607), Baron of the Exchequer. Though he is said to have been born in 1617 he was baptised at St Mary's York on 31 August 1620. He matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1633. After then studying at Aberdeen, he then travelled in France in the later 1630s. Goodricke succeeded his father on 22 July 1641, and was created a baronet on 14 August 1641. During the Civil Wars he supported the king and suffered in the Royal cause. He was imprisoned at Manchester and later in the Tower of London and was fined £1,508, (or £1,200, with £40 a year) on 23 November 1646. In 1661, Goodricke was elected Member of Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Long, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Long, 1st Baronet (c. 1600 – 13 July 1673) of Westminster was an English courtier and administrator who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1673. Background Long was the son of Sir Walter Long of South Wraxall and Draycot in Wiltshire, and his wife Catherine Thynne of Longleat. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 1 February 1622, aged 16.'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Lloyd-Lytton', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891) pp. 921–955. Career Long was elected Member of Parliament for |
Sir Richard Mauleverer, 2nd Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men who are knights and belong to certain orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the ''suo jure'' female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms, or Miss. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Stapylton, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Stapylton, 1st Baronet ( 1617 – 26 March 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1648 and 1660. Stapylton was the son of Brian Stapylton and his wife Frances Slingsby, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven. In 1648, Stapylton was elected Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge in the Long Parliament but was excluded by the end of the year under Pride's Purge. In 1660, Stapylton was elected MP for Boroughbridge in the Convention Parliament. In 1660 he was created baronet of Myton. In 1663 he was commissioned as Colonel of the Richmondshire Regiment, North Riding Militia.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)'', Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, p. 24. Stapylton married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness. His son Bryan succeeded him i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl Of Holderness
Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness, (24 November 168120 January 1721) was a British politician who served as First Lord of Trade from 1718 to 1719. Life Darcy was the second (but eldest surviving) son of John Darcy, Lord Conyers, (himself the eldest son of Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness), and Bridget, daughter of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexington. He was styled Lord Conyers when his father died in 1688 and later inherited his grandfather's earldom in 1692. He also inherited the titles of 10th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 7th Baron Conyers. In 1698 he matriculated fellow-commoner from King's College, Cambridge. In 1714, the Earl of Holderness, as he now was, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, admitted to the Privy Council. In 1718, he was appointed First Lord of Trade. He was also a Lord of the Bedchamber Gentleman of the Bedchamber was a title in the Royal Household of the Kingdom of England from the 11th century, later used also in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton
Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton (21 December 159413 October 1668) was a Royalist MP in 1625 and 1640. Biography In 1624 he was elected Knight of the Shire (MP) for Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Nottinghamshire and re-elected in April and November 1640. He was disabled as a Royalist from sitting in 1643. He served Charles I of England during the English Civil War, making great monetary sacrifices for the royal cause. He was commissioned as Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel of a regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands defending Newark-on-Trent. In 1645 the king created him Baron Lexinton, this being a variant of the name of the Nottinghamshire village of Laxton, Nottinghamshire, Laxton. His estate suffered during the time of the Commonwealth of England, Commonwealth, but some money was returned to him by Charles II of England. He commissioned the building of the first Kelham Hall. He died on 13 October 1668 at the age of 74. There is a wall monument to him in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
