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GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a friary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, which was founded in Pilgrim Street in 1237, was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and then rebuilt as a private residence, as New Place and Anderson Place, before being demolished to become Grey Street. Greyfriars The friary was founded, in 1237, in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. New Place The merchant Robert Anderson purchased the 13 acres of land and on the site of the former Greyfriars building built a private residence (named "Newe House") which was described as a “princely house built out of the ruins of the friars”. In 1646, King Charles I was kept prisoner there by the Scots. Robert Anderson bequeathed his estate to his kinsman, the Newcastle MP Sir Francis Anderson (1614–79). In 1675, Sir Francis sold "New Place" to Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle (1621-1680), on whose deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciscans
The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), an order for nuns known as the Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious and secular group open to male and female members. Franciscans adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary. Several smaller Protestant Franciscan orders have been established since the late 19th century as well, particularly in the Lutheran and Anglican traditions. Certain Franciscan communities are ecumenical in nature, having members who belong to several Christian denominations. Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval from Pope Innocent I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Anderson (MP For Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Sir Francis Anderson (21 December 1614 – 19 July 1679) was an English Cavaliers, Royalist landowner and politician who represented Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne once as sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheriff, twice as Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mayor and as Member of parliament, MP in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1660 and 1679. Early life Anderson was the only son of Roger Anderson (d.1622) of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and his wife, Anne Jackson, the daughter of William Bower alias Jackson, of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Oxen-le-Field, co. Durham, County Durham. Roger Anderson was Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1612–13) and was one of the seven sons of Francis Anderson (d.1623). Francis the Elder had been Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheriff (1595–6) and Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mayor (1601–2, 1612–13) of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Harle Tower
Little Harle Tower is a Grade II* listed privately-owned country house with 15th-century origins, located at Little Harle, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland. Keys to the Past History The property, believed to have been built in the late 15th century as a , was first recorded in a survey of 1541. Until 1552 it was the property of the Fenwick family, from whom it passed to the Aynsleys. During the early years of the 19th century Harle Tower was inhabited by and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Grainger
Richard Grainger (9 October 17974 July 1861) was a builder in Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked with the architects John Dobson (architect), John Dobson and Thomas Oliver (architect), Thomas Oliver, and with the town clerk, John Clayton (Newcastle), John Clayton, to redevelop the centre of Newcastle in the 19th century. Grainger Street and the Grainger Market are named after him; sometimes the whole area of Newcastle developed in the Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical style around Grey Street, Newcastle, Grey Street and Grainger Street is referred to as Grainger Town. Early history Grainger was born in High Friar's Lane, the son of Thomas Grainger, a Quayside porter, and Amelia Burt, a seamstress. He was educated at St Andrew's Charity School in Newgate Street and was apprenticed to a carpenter at the age of 12. In 1816, at the age of 20 he started in business as a builder in partnership with his brother George, a bricklayer. However George died and Richard carried on alone. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Calverley-Blackett
Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Baronet (18 December 1707 – 14 February 1777) was a British baronet and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1777. He was born Walter Calverley at Otley, the only son of Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Baronet, and Julia Blackett, daughter of Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, aged 16 on 28 February 1724. Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 13 In 1728, he inherited the substantial estates of his uncle Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet, at Cambo and Allendale, Northumberland, on condition that he married Elizabeth Orde (his uncle's natural daughter) within twelve months and adopted the name and coat of arms of Blackett. The marriage took place on 29 September 1729 at Newcastle. His change of surname to Blackett was later confirmed by an Act of Parliament in 1733. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1731–32 and elected Tory Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (11 February 1690 – 25 September 1728), of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Wallington Hall, Northumberland, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1710 to 1728. Blackett was the son of Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, William Blackett and his wife Julia Conyers. He was educated at University College, Oxford. On the death of his father in 1705, he succeeded to the Blackett baronets, baronetcy and to Wallington Hall, Cambo, Northumberland, Cambo. Blackett was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK Parliament constituency), Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1710, and retained the seat until 1728. He was elected Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mayor of Newcastle for 1718–19. Blackett was a Jacobite but toned down his support after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He married Barbara Villiers, daughter of the Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, Of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet (14 June 1657 – December 1705) was a landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1685 and 1705. Blackett was the third son of Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Kirkly. He was left a fortune by his father in 1680 and followed his father's footsteps and became Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1683. In 1685 Blackett became Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne and in the same year the Baronetcy of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was created for him. His elder brother Edward inherited his father's title. Blackett was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1688 and in 1689 he acquired large parts of the Allendale estate from the impoverished Sir John Fenwick. Here he developed considerable lead and coal mining interests. He also bought Wallington Hall, Cambo, Northumberland from Fenwick and substantially rebuilt it. He developed Wallington more as a shooting lodge and the main family sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, Of Newcastle
Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet (May 1621 – 16 May 1680) was a businessman who founded a mercantile and industrial base in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle and a politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1673 to 1680. Early life Blackett was the third son of William Blackett and his wife Isabella Crook and was born in Gateshead. His father, was a successful businessman at Jarrow and Gateshead and retired to Hoppyland, County Durham. Blackett was apprenticed to a merchant at Newcastle in 1636 and became merchant trading with Denmark. The following story about him was printed in the ''Newcastle Daily Journal'' of 18 April 1893. Sir William, soon after he commenced business risked his little all in a speculation in flax, and having freighted a large vessel with that article received the unpleasant intelligence that the flax fleet had been dispersed in a storm, and most of the vessels either lost or captured by the enemy. He took his accustomed wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles I Of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to Infanta Maria Anna of Spain culminated in an eight-month visit to Habsburg Spain, Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiation. Two years later, shortly after his accession, he married Henrietta Maria of France. After his accession in 1625, Charles quarrelled with the English Parliament, which sought to curb his ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of York
The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The diocese is headed by the archbishop of York and its cathedral is York Minster. The diocese is divided into three archdeaconries of Cleveland in the north (with a Bishop of Whitby), the East Riding (with a Bishop of Hull), and in the south-west the Archdeaconry of York (with a bishop of Selby). The diocese was once much larger, covering Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and parts of Northumberland, Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland. Bishops The diocesan archbishop of York (currently Stephen Cottrell) is primarily supported by three suffragan bishops: the bishop of Hull (founded 1891; currently Eleanor Sanderson), the bishop of Whitby (founded 1923; currently Barry Hill) and the bishop of Selby (founded 1939; currently Flora Winfield). Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey Street, Newcastle
Grainger Town is the historic commercial centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It covers approximately . Almost all of Grainger Town is in Newcastle's Central Conservation Area, one of the first designated in England. The area includes a medieval 13th-century Dominican priory, pieces of the historic Town Walls, and many fine Georgian and Victorian buildings. The area is named after Richard Grainger, a developer who built several classical streets between 1824 and 1841, including Grey Street, Grainger Street, and Clayton Street. Richard Grainger was said to “have found Newcastle of bricks and timber and left it in stone” (echoing what Augustus claimed to have done for Rome). Some of Newcastle's finest buildings are in Grainger Town, including Grainger Market and Theatre Royal. These buildings are predominantly four stories, with vertical dormers, domes, turrets, and spikes. The architecture is dubbed “Tyneside Classical”. Grainger Town has 450 buildings, and 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
