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Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale (7 March 1771 – 3 April 1853), was a British landowner and politician. Life Bootle-Wilbraham was the son of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Bootle. He inherited Lathom House on the death of his father in 1796 and changed his name by royal licence in 1814 to Bootle-Wilbraham. He was elected to the House of Commons for Westbury in 1795, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1796 to 1812, Clitheroe from 1812 to 1818 and Dover from 1818 to 1828. On 30 January 1828 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Skelmersdale, of Skelmersdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Lord Skelmersdale married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Edward Taylor, in 1796. She died in 1840. Skelmersdale survived her by thirteen years and died in April 1853, aged 82. They had a number of children, including: Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (1801–1844), Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (1807–1882), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet
Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1764 – 11 November 1808), of Dogmersfield Park, Hampshire, was an English politician. Life St John was the only son of Sir Henry Paulet St John, Bt and his wife Dorothea Maria Tucker, daughter of Abraham Tucker of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, and was born on 30 September 1764. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1781, graduating M.A. in 1785. St John succeeded to the baronetcy and Dogmersfield Park in 1784. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1787 and a member (MP) for Westbury 1796 – 1802, for Winchester 1802–1807 and for Hampshire 1807 – 11 November 1808. In 1790 St John succeeded his wife's great-uncle Carew Hervey Mildmay to Marks Hall, Essex and Hazelgrove, Somerset and took the additional name of Mildmay. In 1796 he also succeeded his wife's aunt Anne, widow of Sir William Mildmay, 1st Bt., to Moulsham Hall, Essex. St John-Mildmay died in 1808 and was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British businessman, politician, diplomat and the first Governor General of the united Province of Canada.Baron Sydenham Retrieved on 19 Feb 2018 Early life, family, education Born at Waverley Abbey House, near , Surrey, Thomson was the son of John Buncombe Poulett Thomson, a London merchant, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of John Jacob. His father was the head of J. Thomson, T. Bonar and Company, a successful trading firm that had dealing ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Butterworth
Joseph Butterworth (1770 – 30 June 1826) was an English law bookseller and politician. Life He was son of the Rev. John Butterworth, a Baptist minister in Coventry, where he was born. At an early age he went to London, where he learned the law-book trade, and founded a large and lucrative establishment in Fleet Street, in which his nephew Henry Butterworth later worked. Butterworth's house became a resort of the leading philanthropists of the day. There Lord Liverpool, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, William Wilberforce and Zachary Macaulay had discussions, and the first meetings of the British and Foreign Bible Society were held. Butterworth liberally supported many philanthropic and Christian institutions. He was M.P. for Coventry from 1812 to 1818, and for Dover from 1820 to 1826, and gave independent support to the government of the day. He was a broad-minded Wesleyan, and in August 1819 was appointed general treasurer of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet
Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (30 December 1763 – 17 May 1820) was a British politician and businessman. Early life John Jackson was born on 30 December 1763 at Kingston, Jamaica. He was the second son of John Jackson, a surgeon, and Hannah Coverley. While little is known of Jackson's early life, he possibly was educated at Eton College from 1778. Jackson married Charlotte Spry, the daughter of Colonel Joseph Goreham, on 13 February 1797. The couple would go on to have four sons and two daughters. Mercantile career At an early point in his adult life Jackson served as a ship's purser. In around 1795 he was appointed secretary to Vice-Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, the Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope, after the Invasion of the Cape Colony. Jackson was still serving at the Cape in 1797, by then having taken responsibility as a navy agent for prize money on the station. Continuing to work under Keith, by 1800 Jackson had returned to England and was managing Keith's pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cust
William Cust (23 January 1787 – 3 March 1845), was a British barrister and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP). He also served as Commissioner of Customs. Cust was a younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon. John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, Peregrine Cust (1791–1873), Peregrine Cust, Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust and Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet were his brothers. He sat as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), Lincolnshire between 1816 and 1818 and for Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency), Clitheroe from 1818 to 1822, when he took the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, Chiltern Hundreds. Cust married Sophia, daughter of Thomas Newnham, in 1819. One of their sons, the Very Reverend Arthur Purey-Cust, was Dean of York. Arthur's son Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess Of Londonderry
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Curzon (MP, Born 1774)
The Honourable Robert Curzon (13 February 1774 – 14 May 1863), of Parham Park, Sussex, was a long-standing British Member of Parliament. Curzon was the only surviving son of Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon of Penn House, Buckinghamshire by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet. Penn Assheton Curzon was his elder half-brother and Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, his nephew. He was educated at Westminster School, Lincoln's Inn and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1795. He was elected to Parliament for Clitheroe in 1796 (succeeding his cousin Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor), a seat he held for the next 35 years. He was also Justice of the Peace (JP), Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and selected High Sheriff of Sussex for 1834–35. Curzon married the Honourable Harriet Anne, eldest daughter of Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche of Parham, in 1808. The barony of Zouche fell into abeyance on Lord Zouche's death in 1828 bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Fenton Boughey, 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. Etym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke Of Sutherland
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 178627 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British peer and Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Early life Sutherland-Leveson-Gower was born at Portland Place, London, on 8 August 1786, and baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church. He was the eldest son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and his wife Elizabeth Sutherland, ''suo jure'' Countess of Sutherland. He was educated at Harrow School from 1798 to 1803, then entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1810. In 1841 he graduated D.C.L. at the same university. Between 1806 and 1808, Earl Gower travelled in Prussia and Russia. During the Prussian campaign against Napoleon's French forces, he spent time at the Prussians' general headquarters. Career After returning from Europe, Earl Gower entere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet, GCMG (14 February 1784 – 29 June 1832) was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1805 and 1832. Early life Macdonald was born 14 February 1784, the eldest and only surviving son of Sir Archibald Macdonald, a Baron of the Exchequer, by Lady Louisa Leveson-Gower. His two surviving siblings were Susan Macdonald, the illustrator of ''"The Sports of the Genii"'', and Caroline Diana Macdonald (wife of Rev. Thomas Randolph, son of The Rt. Rev. John Randolph). His paternal grandparents were Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, and, his second wife, Lady Margaret Montgomerie (a daughter of the 9th Earl of Eglinton and Susanna Kennedy). Among his extended paternal family were uncles, Sir James Macdonald, 8th Baronet and Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald. His maternal grandparents were Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and Lady Louisa Egerton (a daughter of the 1st Duke of Bridgwater). Among his ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock
Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768 – 10 April 1834) was a British landowner and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet and Jane Thompson. Lawley attended the military school at Brienne, France, at the time Napoleon Bonaparte was there. His seat was Canwell Hall, Staffordshire and he served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1797. In 1793 he married Anna Maria Lawley, Baroness Wenlock, Anna Maria Denison (19 October 1770–20 August 1850), younger daughter of the banker Joseph Denison (banker), Joseph Denison, but the couple had no children. In 1825 he befriended John Hollins (artist), John Hollins and they journeyed to Italy together. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Wenlock, of (Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament constituency), Wenlock in the County of Salop in 1831. Upon his death in Florence, Italy, Florence on 10 April 1834, the Barony became extinct. He was buried at St Bartholomew Church, Hints in the County of Staffordshire on 19 August 1834. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
