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Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752)
Captain Francis Blake Delaval (bapt. 27 December 1692 – 9 December 1752) was a Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament. Early life He was the son of Edward Delaval (related to the Delaval baronets) and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Blake of Cogges (related to the Blake baronets). He inherited Seaton Delaval Hall from his uncle Admiral George Delaval, and Ford Castle from his mother's family.George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date ()''; reprint, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 57. Career Delaval began his career in the Royal Navy in . He retired, on half pay, as a Lieutenant in 1715; but was made Captain in 1719. He represented Northumberland in Parliament from 1716 to 1722. From 1729 to 1730, he was High Sheriff of Northumberland. Personal life In August 1724 he married Rhoda Apreece, heiress of Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire who was the daughter of Robert Apreece and Sarah ( Hussey) Apreec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaton Delaval
Seaton Delaval is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Seaton Valley, in Northumberland, England, with a population of 4,371. The largest of the five villages in Seaton Valley, it is the site of Seaton Delaval Hall, completed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1727. In 2010 the armed robbery of Jimmy's Fish Bar featured in news coverage of Raoul Moat's crime rampage. History The name 'Seaton Delaval' was first attested as 'Seton de la Val' in 1270. 'Seaton' simply means 'sea town', referring to the village's nearness to the North Sea. The land was held by the Delaval family, who took their name from Laval in Maine in France. Their descendants are still major landholders in the area today and the current Lord Hastings is Delaval Astley, 23rd Baron Hastings. The folk song ‘ Blackleg Miner’ mentions the village: ::::''Oh, Delaval is a terrible place'' ::::''They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face.'' ::::''And around the heaps they run a foot race,'' ::::''To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Castle
Ford Castle is a Grade I listed building situated at a shallow crossing point on the River Till, Ford, Northumberland, England. History The castle dates from about 1278. The owner Sir William Heron was granted a licence to crenellate the castle in 1338. It was captured by the Scots in 1385 and dismantled by them. However, by the beginning of the 16th century, it had been rebuilt and refortified. It was taken by James IV of Scotland on the eve of the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The castle passed from the Heron family to the Carr family by marriage in 1549, by the marriage of Elizabeth Heron to Thomas Carr of Etal. In that year, during the war with Scotland known as the Rough Wooing, a French soldier André de Montalembert besieged the castle. The Heron family disputed Carr's ownership and seized the castle for time in March 1557. In August 1557, the castle was attacked by Lord James and Robert Stewart (sons of James V) and Lord Home who brought artillery and burnt far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval
John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval (17 March 1728 – 17 May 1808), known as Sir John Delaval, Bt, between 1761 and 1783, was an English landowner and politician. Background and education Delaval was the son of Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752), Francis Blake Delaval, who inherited estates at Ford Castle, Northumberland from his mother Mary, née Blake, and at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland from his uncle Admiral George Delaval (1660–1723). John's mother was Rhoda Apreece, through whom John inherited Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Delaval bought his father's estates from his elder brother Francis Blake Delaval (1727–1771), Sir Francis Blake Delaval (1727–1771) in exchange for an annuity (finance theory), annuity, and developed the farming resources at Ford and the coal and mineral resources at Seaton. His sister was Rhoda Delaval, an artist and wife of Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet, Edward As ... [...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] |
Lord Nassau Powlett
Lord Nassau Powlett (23 June 1698 – 24 August 1741) was an English army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1734 and in 1741. Early life Powlett was the only son of Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke of Bolton by his third wife Henrietta Crofts. His father served, among other roles, as Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King George I. There were no children from his father's first marriage to Hon. Margaret Coventry (daughter of the 3rd Baron Coventry), but from his second marriage to Frances Ramsden (a daughter of William Ramsden), his elder half-siblings included Lady Frances Powlett (wife of John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt), Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, and Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton. His maternal grandparents were Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, and Lady Mary Scrope (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Sunderland). His mother was the natural daughter of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (illegitimate son of Charles II of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl Of Thanet
Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, PC (30 August 1644 – 30 July 1729)G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, pp. 297–298. was an English politician. Early life He was the fourth son of John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet and his wife Lady Margaret Sackville, Baroness Clifford and inherited the title on the death in 1684 of his elder brother Richard Tufton, 5th Earl of Thanet. Through his maternal grandmother, he was heir to the Barony de Clifford and to vast estates in Cumberland and Westmorland. He served as hereditary High Sheriff of Westmorland from 1684 to 1729. Career He gained the rank of captain in the service of the Troop of Horse.Charles Mosley, editor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Blake Delaval (1727–1771)
Sir Francis Blake Delaval Order of the Bath, KB (16 March 1727 – 7 August 1771) was a British actor, soldier and Member of Parliament. He had a privileged and aristocratic education at Westminster School, Eton College and then Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church at Oxford University. Early life Delaval was the eldest son of Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752), Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752), of Seaton Delaval Hall, and Rhoda Apreece, heiress of Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire. His father served as a Captain in the Royal Navy and represented Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency), Northumberland in Parliament. Career He succeeded to his father's estate in 1752. He added to it by building the folly known as Starlight Castle, overlooking Holywell Dene which leads to Seaton Sluice. It was allegedly built in a single day to win a wager. Little survives of it now apart from a single stone arch. Francis was an actor in a group led by Samuel Foote. He was a gambler but cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
