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Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood
Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood ( – 25 January 1795) was a British politician and landowner. Early life Edwin Lascelles born in the British colony of Barbados, the elder son of Henry Lascelles and his wife Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune, leaving Edwin's younger brother Daniel as head of the business, and raised Edwin as a lord of the manor in the family's English estates. Edwin was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently went on a Grand Tour in Continental Europe. Military and political service He fought in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and entered Parliament as MP for Scarborough from 1744 to 1754. He was later MP for Yorkshire from 1761 to 1780 and for Northallerton from 1780 to 1790 (inheriting the latter seat from his father Henry and his brother Daniel). By 1748 Edwin was installed as Lord of the Manor of Harewood and he built Harewood House from 1759 to 1771. On Daniel's death childless in 1784 and their only other sibling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Reynolds PRA - Edwin Lascelles, Lord Harewood
Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and Book of Numbers, Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible. His name was Hoshea ( ''Hōšēaʿ'', Literal translation, lit. 'Save') the son of Nun (Bible), Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him "Yehoshua" (translated as "Joshua" in English),''Bible'' the name by which he is commonly known in English. According to the Bible, he was born in Ancient Egypt, Egypt prior to the Exodus. The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of The Twelve Spies, the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes. According to chronology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl Of Harewood
Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (7 January 1740 – 3 April 1820) was a British landowner, art collector, peer and, before which, member of parliament. Early life He was the son of Edward Lascelles, a senior customs official in Barbados, himself a son of Daniel Lascelles. Career On the death of his cousin, the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and the slave trade. He vested much of his fortune in fine art. In 1799 he (or his immediate family benefit trust) was estimated to be the third-wealthiest small family unit in Britain, owning £2.9M (). He sat as Whig member of parliament for Northallerton from 1761 to 1774 and from 1790 to 1796. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Harewood, of Harewood in the County of York. In 1812 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Lascelles and Earl of Harewood, in the County of York. Personal life O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe FRS (8 April 1727 – 9 December 1760), was a British soldier and politician. Dawnay was the eldest son of the Honourable John Dawnay, son of Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe. His mother was Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Robert Pleydell, of Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire. He succeeded his grandfather in the viscountcy in May 1741, aged 14. As this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords (although it did entitle him to a seat in the Irish House of Lords). He was consequently eligible for election to the House of Commons and in 1750 he was returned as one of two Knights of the Shire for Yorkshire, a seat he held until his death ten years later. Lord Downe also served in the Seven Years' War as a lieutenant-colonel in the 25th Foot. He fought in the Battle of Minden in 1759 and commanded the regiment in the Battle of Campen in October 1760. He died in December 1760 from woun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet of Thornhill FRS (18 July 1726 – 10 January 1784), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1759 to 1783. Background Savile was born in Savile House, London, the only son of Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet, and Lady Savile (born Mary Pratt, later married to Charles Morton), of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, and inherited his baronetcy on the death of his father in 1743. Savile was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. Political career Savile was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Yorkshire at a by-election on 3 January 1759. In general he advocated views of a very liberal character, including measures of relief to Roman Catholics and to Protestant dissenters, and he defended the action of the American colonists. He introduced the Catholic Relief Act, leading to the Gordon Riots in 1780. He refused to take office and in 1783 he resigned his seat in parliament. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Peirse
Henry Peirse (1695 – 2 October 1759) of Bedale in Yorkshire was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of John Peirse of Lazenby, Yorkshire and inherited the manor of Bedale from his grandfather. In the 1730s he transformed the old manor house into a Palladian mansion, renaming it Bedale Hall. He served as a Member of Parliament for Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency), Northallerton in Yorkshire between 1713 and 1715 and between 1722 and 1754. He married Anne Johnson on 15 February 1754 and had one son, Henry Peirse (younger), Henry, who was also MP for Northallerton for many years. He was assassinated in Birkshire on 2 October 1759. References 1695 births 1759 deaths People from Bedale Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 {{England-GreatB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Handasyde
Lieutenant General Roger Handasyd, also spelt Handaside, (11 March 1689 – 4 January 1763) was an English military officer and Member of Parliament for different seats between 1722 and 1754. Often cited as one of the longest serving officers in British military history, in reality he saw little active service. First commissioned in 1694 at the age of five, he was too young for the 1689-1697 Nine Years War and spent most of the 1701 to 1713 War of the Spanish Succession on garrison duties in Jamaica. Appointed colonel of the 22nd Foot in 1712, he transferred to the 16th Foot in 1730, a post he retained until his death in 1763. Described by a contemporary as a 'bitter Whig', he entered Parliament in 1722 for Huntingdon, a seat he held until 1741. At the outbreak of the Jacobite rising of 1745, he briefly succeeded Sir John Cope after the Battle of Prestonpans as Commander-in-chief, Scotland. In early November, he entered Edinburgh unopposed and was replaced by Henry Hawley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet
Sir Ralph Milbanke (1725–1798) was an English baronet and Member of Parliament for Scarborough between 1754–61 and later for Richmond between 1761 and 1768. Life Milbanke was born 1725 into an aristocratic landed Yorkshire family. His father was Sir Ralph Milbanke, 4th Baronet of Halnaby in the County of York who had served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1721. Milbanke himself served as High Sheriff of the same county for 1753–54. In January 1759 during the Seven Years' War he was appointed Colonel of the reformed Richmondshire Battalion, North York Militia. When the militia was called out again in 1778 during the American War of Independence, while the country was threatened with invasion by the Americans' allies, France and Spain, he was colonel of the combined North York Militia The North York Militia, later the North York Rifles, was an auxiliary military force raised in the North Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. From their formal organisation as Trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Osbaldeston (younger)
William Osbaldeston or Osbolston (1577–1645) was Gresham Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, England. Life He was the eldest son of Lambert Osbaldeston, haberdasher, of London, and brother of Lambert Osbaldeston, was born in 1577, and, after attending Westminster School, was elected from that school to Christ Church, Oxford, whence he matriculated in February 1597–8, graduating B.A. on 24 October 1601, M.A. on 24 July 1604, B.D. on 19 June 1611, and D.D. in May 1617. His name appears in the list of admissions to Gray's Inn on 1 August 1619. He resided at Oxford for some years after taking his bachelor's degree, and contributed to the poems written at Christ Church on the visit of James I to that college in 1605. On 13 December 1610, he succeeded George Montaigne as divinity professor at Gresham College. This post he resigned in the following year; but in 1612, when desirous of returning to the college as rhetoric professor, he was unsuccessful in obtaining t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (died 1744)
William Thompson (–1744), of Humbleton, Yorkshire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1701 and 1744. Thompson was the son of Francis Thompson (MP), Francis Thompson, MP of York and his wife Arabella Alleyn, daughter of Sir Edmund Alleyn, 2nd Baronet, of Hatfield Peverell, Essex. In 1693, he succeeded his father. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 6 July 1695, aged 15. Once he had come of age, Thompson was returned in a contest as Member of Parliament for Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency), Scarborough, the family borough, at the second general election of 1701. He was regularly listed as a Whig, but many of his activities in Parliament cannot be distinguished from those of others named Thompson. He was returned unopposed at the 1702 English general election and in March 1703 he was allowed a pass to travel to Holland. He was a teller for a bill to establish a land registry in Yorkshire on 18 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, (13 February 1751 – 8 August 1805), of Appuldurcombe House, Wroxall, Isle of Wight, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1801. He was a noted collector of antiquities. Early life Worsley was born on 13February 1751, at Appuldurcombe, the son of Sir Thomas Worsley, 6th Baronet (1726–1768), by his wife Elizabeth Boyle (1731–1800), daughter of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and Henrietta, his first wife. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 23September 1768. Educated at Winchester College, Worsley spent about two years in Naples with his parents from 1765 to 1767, before matriculating at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 9 April 1768. Instead of taking a degree, he decided to complete his education with a continental Grand Tour from 1769 to 1770, being tutored by Georges Deyverdun, who was a contact of Edward Gibbon, a family friend. Political career After his return to Britain Worsley serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Fleming
Seymour Dorothy Fleming (5 October 1758 – 9 September 1818), styled Lady Worsley from 1775 to 1805, was a member of the British gentry, notable for her involvement in a high-profile criminal conversation trial. Early life and family Fleming was the younger daughter and coheir of the Irish-born Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet (d. 1763), of Brompton Park (aka Hale House, Cromwell House), Middlesex, and his wife, Jane Coleman (d. 1811). She was probably named after her maternal grandmother, Jane Seymour, elder sister of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset. They were younger children of Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet, who was a direct descendant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500–1552), the eldest brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. Her father and two of her sisters died when she was five, and she and her surviving sister were then brought up by their mother, who remarried in 1770 to Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a rich sexage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
