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Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl Of Aylesford
Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford ( – 29 June 1757), styled Lord Guernsey from 1714 to 1719, was an English politician, courtier and peer who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1704 to 1719, representing the constituencies of Maidstone and Surrey. Born in Albury, Surrey into an aristocratic family, he also served as the Master of the Jewel Office from 1711 to 1716. Origins Heneage was born about 1683 at Albury, Surrey. He was the son and heir of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford (died 1719). Career From 1704 to 1705, he represented Maidstone in the British House of Commons, and was knight of the shire for Surrey from 1710 to 1719. He was the Master of the Jewel Office from 1711 to 1716. Marriage and children He married Mary Fisher (1690 – 28 May 1740) on 9 December 1712 at Great Packington. Mary was the daughter and sole heiress of Sir Clement Fisher, 3rd Baronet (died 1729) of Packington Hall, Great Packington, Warwickshire, by his wife Ann Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Packington Hall
Packington Hall is a 17th-century mansion situated at Great Packington, near Meriden in Warwickshire, England and is the seat of the Earl of Aylesford. It is a Grade II listed building. History Packington Hall was built in 1693 for Sir Clement Fisher on whose death in 1729 the Packington estate passed to his daughter Mary Fisher, who married Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford. The Park was designed by Capability Brown in 1751, who created a large serpentine lake called Hall Pool by joining up several old mill and fish ponds in front of the Hall. The Hall was remodelled for the 3rd Earl of Aylesford by Matthew Brettingham from 1766, with the work continuing after Brettingham's death in 1769 under Henry Couchman. It was then extended and improved for the 4th Earl of Aylesford in Palladian style to designs by Italian architect Joseph Bonomi in 1772. The ceiling paintings were by John Francis Rigaud. Stables were added to the Hall in the 1760s by the 3rd Earl of Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Vincent, 5th 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] |
William Scawen (MP)
Sir William Scawen (c. 1644 – 18 October 1722) was a British MP and Governor of the Bank of England. Early life Scawen was born in 1644. His father was Robert Scawen of Horton, Buckinghamshire. Career Scawen was knighted in 1692. After some years in business he was appointed a Director of the Bank of England in 1694 and again from 1699 until his death. He was elevated to Deputy Governor in 1695 and to Governor in 1697 (until 1699). He was also a Director of the East India Company from 1710 to 1712. In 1696 he had sufficient wealth to purchase a half interest in Carshalton manor. Scawen entered Parliament as the MP for New Windsor in 1693, sitting until 1698, when he was again returned as the MP for Grampound in 1698 and twice in 1701 (being in December 1701 also elected for Truro). This was followed by two terms as MP for Surrey from 1705 to 1710 and from 1721 to 1722. Personal life Scawen married Mary, the daughter of Sir William Maynard, 1st Baronet Sir William Maynard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow
Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow PC (23 June 1654 – 5 December 1717), known as Sir Richard Onslow, 2nd Baronet from 1688 until 1716, was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1679 to 1715. He was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1714 to 1715. Onslow was a very unpopular figure amongst members of both political parties, particularly during his time as Speaker. He was extremely pedantic and showed an absolute devotion to principle, as a result, he was given the nickname "Stiff Dick". Biography Onslow's father, Arthur, was a politician, as was his maternal grandfather Thomas Foote, who had served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1649. He was born in Surrey and matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 7 June 1671, before being called to the Inner Temple. He entered Parliament as the Member for Guildford in 1679 before he could be called to the bar. One of Onslow's first action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet, also known as Colepeper, (c. 1656 – 18 May 1723) of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and House of Commons of Great Britain, British House of Commons between 1705 and 1723. Early life Culpeper was the son of Sir Richard Culpeper, 2nd Baronet of Preston Hall, and his wife Margaret Reynolds. He inherited the Culpeper baronets, baronetcy and Preston Hall in infancy on the death of his father on 10 January 1660. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 15 June 1672 aged 15. He took as his mistress Lady Elizabeth Wythens, the wife of Francis Wythens, Sir Francis Wythens, of Southend, Eltham, Kent which led to great acrimony. In 1693 Lady Wythens tried to have her husband incarcerated in a debtors' prison. In November 1696 Wythens raised a charge of assault against Culpeper and Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet, Lady Wythens' brother, but failed to gain a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bliss (MP)
Thomas Bliss (ca. 1647 – 8 October 1721) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1698 and 1708. Bliss was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone, where he owned a brewery, in 1698 and was returned unopposed in January 1701. In November 1701 he was re-elected despite a smear campaign which accused him of Jacobitism Jacobitism was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, .... In July 1702 he was defeated in the poll, but the election was declared void because of corruption by the Whigs and the writ for the constituency was suspended until 1704. Bliss was re-elected for Maidstone in 1704 and held the seat until 1708 when he did not stand. His political battles continued in the borough where he was re-admitted as alderman in 1710 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Roberts, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Roberts, 4th Baronet (2 December 1658 – 20 November 1706) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1691 and 1702. Roberts was the son of Sir Howland Roberts, 3rd Baronet of Glassenbury, Kent and his wife Bridget Jocelyn daughter of Sir Robert Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth. He succeeded his father in the Roberts Baronets, baronetcy in infancy on 30 November 1661. He was educated by private tutor Rev. Thomas Brand who was one of the English Dissenter, dissenting divines who found refuge at the house of his mother. He then went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was sympathetic to Dissenters and was a commissioner of the inquiry into recusancy fines in 1688. Also in 1688 he became a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, J.P. Roberts was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent (UK Parliament constituency), Kent on 16 November 1691 and held the seat until 11 November 1695. He was elected MP for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet
Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet (16 December 1650 – 25 July 1703) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1698 to 1702. Marsham was the son of Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet and lived at Bushey Hall, Hertfordshire. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford in 1666, and entered the Middle Temple in 1669. He was one of the six Clerks of Chancery. He succeeded his nephew John (who died a minor) to the baronetcy in 1696, inheriting from him the Mote in Maidstone, Kent, where he thereafter lived. Marsham was elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in 1698 and held the seat until 1702. Marsham died in July 1703, aged 52. He had married Margaret Bosvile daughter of Thomas Bosvile of Little Motte, Eynsford, Kent. They had three sons and four daughters. Five of their children were nominated in the first British tontine in 1693. Their son, Robert, who succeeded to the baronetcy, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Romney in 1716 and was the ancestor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary Of National Biography
The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives. First series Hoping to emulate national biographical collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the (1875), in 1882 the publisher George Smith (1824–1901), of Smith, Elder & Co., planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached Leslie Stephen, then editor of the '' Cornhill Magazine'', owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the ''Biographia Britannica'', the name of an earlier eighteenth-century reference work. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powderham Castle
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in Exminster, Devon, south of Exeter and mile (0.4 km) north-east of the village of Kenton, where the main public entrance gates are located. It is a Grade I listed building. The park and gardens are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is on flat ground on the west bank of the River Exe estuary where it is joined by its tributary the River Kenn. On the opposite side of the Exe is the small village of Lympstone. Starting with a structure built sometime after 1390, the present castle was expanded and altered extensively in the 18th and 19th centuries. The castle is the seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Origin of the name The manor of Powderham is named from the ancient Dutch word polder, and means "the hamlet of the reclaimed marsh-land". History At some time after 1390 the medieval core of the present structure was built by Sir Philip Courtenay (d. 1406), the 5th or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
