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Eupheme Cochrane, Countess Of Dundonald
William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald (1605– November 1685) supported the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Early life Cochrane was the eldest surviving son of Alexander Cochrane ( Blair) and Elizabeth Cochrane (third daughter and co-heiress of William Cochrane of that Ilk). Career William Cochrane of Coldoun, who was knighted by Charles I, acquired the estate of Dundonald in 1638. He was created ''Baron Cochrane of Dundonald'' in 1647. The part he had taken in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, is evidenced by the proceedings of the Presbytery of Ayr, which, on 28 February 1649, debarred "Lord Cochrane" from renewing the Solemn League and Covenant, he having "been a Colonel in the late unlawful rebellion, and having went to Ireland to bring over forces," etc. In 1654 he was fined in £5,000 by Cromwell's Act of Pardon and Grace. In 1669, he was made a Commissioner of the Treasury and Exchequer, and created ''Baron Cochrane, of Paisley and Ochiltree'' (hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wars Of The Three Kingdoms
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were a series of conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, then separate entities in a personal union under Charles I of England, Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars, the First English Civil War, First and Second English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652), Anglo-Scottish War of 1650–1652. They resulted in the execution of Charles I, the abolition of monarchy, and founding of the Commonwealth of England, a unitary state which controlled the British Isles until the Stuart Restoration in 1660. Political and religious conflict between Charles I and his opponents dated to the early years of his reign. While the vast majority supported the institution of monarchy, they disagreed on who held ultimate authority. Cavalier, Royalists generally argued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross, 11th Lord Ross
George Ross, 11th Lord Ross of Halkhead (died April 1682), was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. Origins Ross was the son and heir of William Ross, 10th Lord Ross, who died in 1656, by Margaret, daughter of Sir James Forrester of Torwoodhead. The Rosses of Hawkhead, Halkhead, or Hawkhead, in Renfrewshire, were a Scottish Lowlands, Lowland family, not apparently related to the Earl of Ross, Earls of Ross or the Scottish Highlands, Highland family of Clan Ross, Ross of Balnagown.Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', Volume VII Career Ross was present at the first Parliament of Scotland, Parliament of Charles II of England, Charles II, which passed the Rescissory Act 1661 (banning Presbyterianism), and thereafter attended Parliament regularly. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire on 9 October 1663, a Commissioner for the Collection of the Excise on 23 January 1667 and a Commissioner of Militia for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire on 3 September 1668. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fullarton (died 1667)
Lieutenant-Colonel James Fullarton, C.B., K. H. (17 December 1782, Isle of Arran - 8 March 1834, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (1803-1807). During the Peninsular War he fought in the Battle of Corunna (1809) and the Battle of Barrosa (1811). He then went to Holland and in the War of the Sixth Coalition he was sent to attack Merksem and then bombard Antwerp. During the Hundred Days, he was wounded in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), where he was second in command of the 3rd Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot. He lived the last seven years of his life in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Career Fullarton started his military career as an ensign in the 51st Regiment of Foot on 24 December 1802. He was then promoted to lieutenant in July 1803 and deployed to Kandyan Wars in Ceylon (1803-1807), where he was wounded. He served in the Peninsular War from October 1808 to January 1809 and from August 1811 to January 1812. In 1808, under Sir John Moore, Fulla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Cunningham, 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] |
Ayrshire (Parliament Of Scotland Constituency)
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Barons of the Sheriffdom or Shire of Ayr elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to four in 1690. After the Union, Ayrshire returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. List of shire commissioners * 1605, 1609: Sir John Wallace of Carnell Sources * ''Return of Members of Parliament'' (1878), Part II. * Joseph Foster, ''Members of Parliament, Scotland'' (1882). * George Edward Cokayne, ''The Complete Baronetage'', 5 vols (1901–6). * The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland. See also * List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union is a list of the constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland (the Estates of Scotland) durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Commissioner
A commissioner was a legislator appointed or elected to represent a royal burgh or shire in the Parliament of Scotland and the associated Convention of the Estates. Member of Parliament (MP) and Deputy are equivalent terms in other countries. The Scottish Parliament (also known as the Three Estates) and the Convention of the Estates were unicameral legislatures, so commissioners sat alongside prelates (the first estate) and members of the nobility (the second estate). Burgh commissioners Burgh commissioners were the third estate, and were the longest-established and most powerful group of commissioners to parliament. They first attended in 1326. Burgh commissioners often acted and lobbied collectively, assisted by the fact that the Convention of Royal Burghs often met in association with parliamentary sessions. Shire commissioners From the 16th century, the second estate of the nobility was reorganised by the selection of shire commissioners from the lower nobility: th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auchans Castle, Ayrshire
Auchans Castle,Adamson, Page 85 House, House of AuchansPaterson, Pages 432 or Old Auchans, is a mock military mansion, Category A listed, T-plan building of a late 16th-century date converted to the L-plan during the early-to-mid-17th century; its ruins stand about 1 km W of Dundonald, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Parish of Dundonald. It was held at various times by the Wallace, Cochrane and Montgomerie families. Description McKean refers to Auchans as being amongst Scotland's principal châteaux which he defines as the ''dwelling of the owner of a great property, a large and beautiful pleasure house in the countryside'', and records that James Wallace added the fashionable square stair-tower in the re-entrant angle, with its viewing platform and broken pediments in 1644. The spelling on Joan Blaeu's map of 1654 is 'Aghans'. The castle stands on a slightly elevated knoll and is constructed mainly of whinstone. Cummell recorded in the 18th century that the building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viscount Of Kilsyth
A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. The status and any domain held by a viscount is a viscounty. In the case of French viscounts, the title is sometimes left untranslated as ''vicomte'' . Etymology The word ''viscount'' comes from Old French (French language">Modern French: ), itself from Medieval Latin , accusative case, accusative of , from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin "deputy" + Latin (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count). History During the Carolingian Empire, the kings appointed counts to administer provinces and other smaller regions, as governors and military commanders. Viscounts were appointed to assist the counts in their running of the province, and often took on judicial responsibility. The kings strictly prevented the offices of their counts and viscounts from becoming hereditary, in order to consolidate their po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
John Graham, 7th of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (21 July 1648 – 27 July 1689) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian. As Graham of Claverhouse, he was responsible for policing southwest Scotland to suppress religious unrest and rebellion of Covenanters during the late 17th century. Later, as a general in the Scottish army, Claverhouse was made Viscount Dundee by King James VII of Scotland (II of England), and remained loyal to James after the Revolution of 1688 deposed James. Dundee rallied Highland clans loyal to the Jacobite cause and led the Jacobite rising of 1689 to victory at Killiecrankie, but lost his life in the battle. This first Jacobite rising was unsuccessful, but Claverhouse posthumously was made a Jacobite hero, acquiring the soubriquet "Bonnie Dundee". Life The Graham family was descended from King Robert III, through his second daughter Princess Mary. John Graham was the elder son of Sir William Graham and Lady Madeline Carne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gordon, 16th Earl Of Sutherland
John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland (1661–1733) was a Scottish nobleman and army officer. He was the only son of George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland (1633–1703), and his wife, Jean Wemmyss. Upon his father's death in 1703 he succeeded as earl of Sutherland. He supported the Glorious Revolution, revolution of 1688 and was a commissioner for the . He was a |
Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl Of Eglinton
Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton ( 1660 – 18 February 1729) was a Scottish peer, lord of the Eglinton Estate. Early life He was born about 1660, the eldest son of Alexander, 8th Earl of Eglinton and Lady Elizabeth Crichton, eldest daughter of William, 2nd Earl of Dumfries. From the time of the death of his grandfather, Hugh, in 1669 he was boarded with Matthew Fleming, the minister of Culross, Perthshire, who superintended his education at the school of Culross until 1673, when he was sent to the University of St. Andrews, where he remained till Lammas 1676. Montgomerie was a keen freemason. Career After the revolution he was chosen a privy counsellor by King William, and also a lord commissioner of the treasury. In 1700, he obtained a letter from the king to sit and vote in the Scots parliament in place of the lord high treasurer. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1701. On Queen Anne's accession in 1702, Eglinton was chosen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Parliament Online
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in which the history of an institution is told through the individual biographies of its members. After various amateur efforts the project was formally launched in 1940 and since 1951 has been funded by the Treasury. As of 2019, the volumes covering the House of Commons for the periods 1386–1421, 1509–1629, and 1660–1832 have been completed and published (in 41 separate volumes containing over 20 million words); and the first five volumes covering the House of Lords from 1660 to 1715 have been published, with further work on the Commons and the Lords ongoing. In 2011 the completed sections were republished on the internet. History The publication in 1878–79 of the ''Official Return of Members of Parliament'', an incomplete list of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
