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Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Chirbury
Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury (24 July 1654 – 22 January 1709) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1694 when he became Baron Herbert of Chirbury. Herbert was the son of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of Revels to Charles I and Charles II. He inherited the manor of Ribbesford (near Bewdley) on the death of his father. Like his father he served as Member of Parliament for Bewdley, from 1677 to 1679, for Worcester in Charles II's last Parliament and again for Bewdley from 1689 to 1694. In the latter year, the title Baron Herbert of Chirbury, which had become extinct on the death of his cousin Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury in 1691, was revived for him. He was involved in the passage of the Act for better Securing the Duties of East India Goods, which extended the monopoly of the London-based East India Company across Scotland thus encompassing the whole of the new Kingdom of Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (died 1677)
Thomas Foley (1617–1677) was an English ironmaster and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1677. Life Foley was the eldest son of Richard Foley and his second wife Alice Brindley, herself the daughter of Sir William Brindley of Willenhall. His father was a prominent Midlands ironmaster of Stourbridge. Foley took over his father's business and made great profits from it in the 1650s and 1660s, which he used to buy estates. He was appointed High Sheriff of Worcestershire for 1656–57. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Bewdley in 1660 for the Convention Parliament. In 1673 he was elected MP for Bewdley in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament. Foley built Witley Court. In the late 1660s, he founded a bluecoat school at Stourbridge known as Old Swinford Hospital, which he endowed in his will. Foley married Anne Browne, daughter of John Browne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1709 Deaths
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1654 Births
Events January–March * January 6– In India, Jaswant Singh of Marwar (in what is now the state of Rajasthan) is elevated to the title of Maharaja by Emperor Shah Jahan. * January 11– In the Battle of Río Bueno in southern Chile during the Arauco War, the indigenous Huilliche warriors rout Spanish troops from Fort Nacimiento who are attempting to cross the Bueno River. * January 26– Portugal recaptures the South American city of Recife from the Netherlands after a siege of more than two years during the Dutch-Portuguese War, bringing an end to Dutch rule of what is now Brazil. The Dutch West India Company had held the city (which they called Mauritsstad) for more than 23 years. * February 9– Spanish troops led by Don Gabriel de Rojas y Figueroa successfully attack the Fort de Rocher, a pirate-controlled base on the Caribbean island of Tortuga. * February 10– The Battle of Tullich takes place in Aberdeenshire in Scotland during Gle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert Of Chirbury
Henry Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury (died 19 April 1738), of Ribbesford, Worcestershire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 until 1709 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Herbert of Chirbury. Herbert was born after 1678, the only son of Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury and his wife Anne Ramsey, daughter of John Ramsey, Dyer, of London. He was educated at Westminster School in 1695 and then privately under Abel Boyer in 1699. Herbert stood for Parliament at Bewdley at the 1705 English general election but was defeated in the poll and was then unsuccessful with a petition. His father, a staunch Whig, then procured a new charter for Bewdley and was able to take control of the borough. Herbert junior was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Bewdley at the 1708 British general election. His father died on 22 January 1709 and Herbert succeeded to the peerage. Consequently he vacated his seat in the Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham
John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham (15 January 1656 – 21 January 1710) was an English landowner and politician. Ashburnham was the son of William Ashburnham and the grandson of John Ashburnham. His mother was the Honourable Elizabeth, daughter of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett. He sat as Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1679 to 1681 and again from 1685 to 1689. As a baron of the Cinque Ports he was one of the holders of the canopy at the coronation of James II in 1685 and coronation of William and Mary in 1688. He is thought to have become disillusioned with James and to have welcomed the accession of William and Mary. In 1689 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashburnham, of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex. He later served as Custos Rotulorum of Breconshire from 1702 to 1710. Lord Ashburnham married Bridget, daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Vaughan of Porthammel House, Breconshire, at Westminster Abbey in 1677, from which substantial estates in Wales came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum Of Brecknockshire
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire. * Sir William Vaughan c. 1544 * Sir Roger Vaughan bef. 1558–1571 * Richard Price bef. 1573–1586/1587 * Sir Robert Knollys bef. 1594 – aft. 1608 * Sir Henry Williams 1617–1636 * Henry Williams 1636–1642 * Howell Gwynne 1642–1646 * ''Interregnum'' * Sir William Lewis, Bt 1660–1677 * Sir Thomas Williams, Bt 1677–1679 * The Duke of Beaufort 1679–1689 * Sir Rowland Gwynne 1689 * The Earl of Macclesfield 1689–1694 * The Lord Herbert of Chirbury 1695–1702 * The Lord Ashburnham 1702–1710 * The Lord Ashburnham 1710 * The Lord Ashburnham 1710–1723 * William Morgan 1723–1731 For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. ReferencesInstitute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl Of Macclesfield
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, PC (c. 16187 January 1694) was an English aristocrat, soldier and courtier. Early life The eldest son of Sir Charles Gerard, he was a member of an old Lancashire family, his great-grandfather having been Sir Gilbert Gerard (died 1593) of Ince, in that county, one of the most distinguished judges in the reign of Elizabeth I. His mother was Penelope Fitton, sister and co-heiress of Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawsworth, Cheshire. Nothing is known about Gerard's education until he entered Leyden University on 23 March 1633. He was also educated in France under John Goffe of Magdalen College, Oxford, brother of Stephen Goffe. Dugdale states that he was "trained in the discipline of war from his youth in the United Provinces", and that on the outbreak of the First English Civil War he joined the King at Shrewsbury, and raised a troop of horse at his own charge. Early Civil War battles and sieges At the Battle of Edgehill, Gerard commanded a br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salwey Winnington
Salwey Winnington (28 August 1666 – 6 November 1736), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament (MP). Winnington was the eldest son of Sir Francis Winnington, a lawyer and politician who was Solicitor General in the 1670s. He himself also entered the Middle Temple to study law. He entered Parliament in 1694 as MP for Bewdley, one of the small number of English constituencies which was represented only by a single MP, and was its member for all but two-and-a-half years of the next twenty. In 1690, Winnington married Anne Foley, daughter of Thomas Foley of Witley Court and sister of Lord Foley. They had one son, Thomas Winnington, who became a Member of Parliament and Privy Counsellor The Privy Council (PC), officially His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a privy council, formal body of advisers to the British monarchy, sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises Politics of the United King ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet, of Frankley, in the County of Worcester, MP (1628 – 2 May 1716) was one of the early English Governors of Jamaica, an army officer, and Member of Parliament from the Lyttelton family. Governor of Jamaica Charles Lyttelton was the second son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet, of Frankley, in the County of Worcester, and Catherine Crompton. He fought in the Royalist Army and escaped to France in 1648. He was made Cupbearer to Charles II in 1650 while in exile and after the Restoration knighted in 1662. In his brother's lifetime he served as an Army Officer, rising to a brigadier general and serving as governor of Jamaica from 1662 until 1664 and founded the first town of Port Royal, where he summoned the First Legislative Assembly in 1664, and of Harwich in 1667. In 1663, Governor Lyttelton signed the first treaty with the Jamaican Maroons, granting the maroons of Juan de Bolas and his people land on the same terms as English settlers. Mili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridges Nanfan
Bridges Nanfan (baptised 25 March 1623 – 4 June 1704) was an English politician, MP for Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), Worcester and Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency), Worcestershire. Nanfan was the son of John Nanfan (MP), John Nanfan of Birtsmorton, Worcestershire and his wife Mary, daughter of Edward Fleet alias Waldegrave of Worcester. Bridges matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1640, and became a student of the Inner Temple in 1648. He served as a Commissioner for Assessment in Worcestershire 1664–80 and 1689, and a Justice of the peace, JP from 1678. Bridges and Thomas Foley (died 1701), Thomas Foley were elected unopposed for Worcestershire in 1681 English general election, 1681. With court support, Bridges was elected MP for Worcester in 1685 English general election, 1685. The electoral agents of James II of England, King James II recommended him for re-election, as a court candidate of "good character and interest". When Bridges' son-in-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bromley (of Holt Castle)
William Bromley (26 June 1656 – 5 August 1707) was an English Whig politician, MP for Worcester and Worcestershire. Bromley was the son of Henry Bromley and his wife Mercy Pytts, daughter of Edward Pytts . He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1673, aged 17, and entered the Middle Temple in 1674. Bromley served as MP for Worcester 1685–1700, and became a consistent supporter of the Whig Junto of Sir John Somers, for a time his fellow MP for Worcester. Bromley was elected knight of the shire for Worcestershire in November 1701. He was defeated in 1702 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southe ... – he declared himself "in a melancholy way since the election", and blamed the defeat on poor Whig party management. He was re-elected in 1705, serving until his de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
