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Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl Of Harewood
Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL (25 December 1767 – 24 November 1841), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer, Tory politician, planter and art collector. Early life and politics Harewood was the second son of Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood, and Anne Chaloner. He was elected to the House of Commons for Yorkshire in 1796, a seat he held until 1806, when he chose not to force a very expensive contested election. He tried and failed to regain it in the 1807 Yorkshire election. Then held it again from 1812 to 1818, and also represented Westbury from 1807 to 1812 and Northallerton from 1818 to 1820. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. Between 1819 and 1841 he also served as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the '' Legacies of British Slave-Ownership'' at University College London, Harewood was awarded remuneration as a former slave trader in the afterma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, Philanthropy, philanthropist and Sheriffs of the City of London, Sheriff of London. Born to an History of the Jews in Italy, Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieved success, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant. He founded Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, the first Jewish settlement outside the Old City of Jerusalem. As President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he corresponded with Charles Henry Churchill, the British consul in Damascus, in 1841–42; his contributions are seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism. Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria's chaplain, Norman Macleod (Caraid nan Gaidheal), Norman Macleod said of Montefiore: "No man living has done so much for his brethren in Palestine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman
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Emma Portman, Baroness Portman
Emma Portman, Baroness Portman (''née'' Lascelles; 16 March 1809 – 8 February 1865) was a British aristocrat. She was the daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood and Henrietta Sebright. She married Edward Portman, son of Edward Berkeley Portman and Lucy Whitby, on 16 June 1827. He became a viscount in 1873, eight years after she had died. They had six children, four sons and two daughters. The boys were William Henry Berkeley, who succeeded to the peerage; Edwin Berkeley, barrister-at-law and MP; Maurice Berkeley, a member of the Canadian parliament; Walter Berkeley, rector of Corton Denham, Somerset, near Orchard Portman. She served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1851, then an Extra Lady of the Bedchamber between 1851 and 1865. Cultural depiction Actress Anna Wilson-Jones portrayed Lady Emma Portman in the first three seasons of ITV period drama ''Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Brooke, 6th 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. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hope (British Army Officer)
General Sir Alexander Hope Order of the Bath, GCB (2 December 1769 – 19 May 1837) was a British Army officer and the last List of Governors and Commandants of Sandhurst, Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Royal Military College while it was at Great Marlow and the first Governor after its move to Sandhurst, Berkshire, Sandhurst. Military career Born the son of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, Alexander Hope was Commissioned officer, commissioned as an ensign (rank), ensign in the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, 63rd Regiment of Foot in 1786. He commanded the West Yorkshire Regiment, 14th Regiment of Foot at the skirmish at Geldermalsen, the Netherlands, in 1795 during the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, Flanders Campaign and was severely wounded, losing an arm and being left permanently lame. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Tynemouth and Cliff Fort in 1797, Lieutenant-Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1798 and Deputy As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Holroyd, 2nd Earl Of Sheffield
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Holroyd, Countess Of Sheffield
Harriet Holroyd, Countess of Sheffield (''née'' Lascelles; 19 June 1802 – 1 January 1889), styled as Lady Harriet Lascelles from 1820–5, was an English courtier who was Lady of the Bedchamber to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom. She was the sixth child and eldest daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, Hon. Henry Lascelles, the younger son of Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. In 1814, her father's elder brother, Viscount Lascelles, died unmarried. He succeeded to the earldom in 1820. Lady Harriet married George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield, on 6 June 1825. Her portrait soon appeared in ''La Belle Assemblée'', the society magazine, which carried pictures of "the female nobility and ladies of distinction". It was based on an original painting by the portraitist John Jackson (painter), John Jackson, which was hung at the Royal Academy. Their children were: *Frederick Henry Stuart, Viscount Peve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Lascelles (MP For Ripon)
Edwin Lascelles (1799 in Harewood – 25 April 1865 in Wighill Park, near Wetherby) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon from 1846 to 1857. Lascelles was a younger son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.John Jones, ''The History and antiquities of Harewood'', p. 298 He graduated B.C.L. from All Souls College, Oxford in 1826, and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in the same year. Returned MP for Ripon without a contest in January 1846, he was re-elected in 1852 and retired in 1857. He died suddenly, of apoplexy.''The Gentleman's Magazine'', June 1865, p. 801 References External links * 1799 births 1865 deaths Alumni of All Souls College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Edwin The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from (wealth, good fortune) and (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles PC (29 October 1798 – 2 July 1851) was a British Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1847 to 1851. Background Lascelles was the third son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood and his wife Henrietta Sebright, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet. Edward Lascelles (1796–1839, Viscount Lascelles 1820–1839), Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, and Edwin Lascelles were his brothers. Political career Lascelles was returned to Parliament for East Looe in 1826, a seat he held until 1830. He was subsequently MP for Northallerton from 1831 to 1832, for Wakefield from 1837 to 1841 and from 1842 to 1847 and for Knaresborough from 1847 to 1851. In 1847 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Comptroller of the Household under Lord John Russell, a post he held until his death in 1851. Cricket Lascelles played first-class cricket in 1818. He is recorded in one match for E. H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl Of Harewood
Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood DL (11 June 1797 – 22 February 1857), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1839 to 1841, was a British peer and Member of Parliament. Background Lascelles was born in 1797. He was the second son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, and Henrietta Sebright, daughter of Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet. Military service Lascelles was commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1814 and fought in the Battle of Waterloo when he was slightly wounded by an exploding shell when carrying the standard of his (Second) battalion of the regiment. He went onto half-pay in 1820, the year he began to serve part-time as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry in 1820, but he did not fully retire from the regular army until 1831. History of Parliament Online article. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet
General (United Kingdom), General Sir John Saunders Sebright, 6th Baronet (19 October 1725 – 23 February 1794) was a British Army officer and a Member of Parliament. Sir John Sebright was a younger son of Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet and Henrietta Dashwood and was educated at Westminster School. In 1761 he succeeded his elder brother to the baronetcy and the Beechwood Park (mansion), Beechwood Park estate in Hertfordshire. Sebright was colonel of the 83rd Regiment of Foot (1757), 83rd Regiment of Foot from 1758 to 1760, and then the 52nd Regiment of Foot, from 1760 to 1762. In 1762 he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, a position he held until his death. He was promoted full general on 20 November 1782. He was elected MP for Bath (UK Parliament constituency), Bath in 1763, was defeated in 1774, but returned in a by-election a few months later, sitting until 1780. He was a close friend of the Irish statesman and writer Edmund Burke. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
