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High Sheriff Of Hertfordshire
The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the foundation of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Hertfordshire was retitled High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. The High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires. The office was a powerful position in earlier times, as sheriffs were responsible for the maintenance of law and order and various other roles. It was only in 1908 under Edward VII of the United Kingdom that the Lord Lieutenant became more senior than the High Sheriff. Since then the position of High Sheriff has become more ceremonial, with many of its previous responsibilities transferred to High Court judges, magistrates, coroners, local aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Horsey (MP)
George Horsey may refer to: * George Horsey (landowner) (c.1588–1645), English landowner and politician * George Horsey (MP, died 1588) (1526–1588), English politician * George Horsey (priest), Dean of Ross, Ireland, 1637–1639 {{hndis, Horsey, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frankland (died 1640)
William Frankland (c. 1573 – 10 December 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629 and in 1640. Frankland was the son of Ralph Frankland of Carlton, near Thirsk, and his wife Margaret and educated at Barnard's Inn and Gray's Inn (1596). He inherited the manor of Great Thirkleby from his uncle Hugh Frankland in 1606. Frankland was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1613–14. Between 1619 and 1623 he sold his properties in Hertfordshire and built a house on the Great Thirkleby estate he had inherited. In 1628 he was elected Member of Parliament for Thirsk and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Thirsk in the Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Trott (lawyer)
Sir Nicholas Trott (19 January 1663 – 21 January 1740) was an 18th-century British judge, legal scholar and writer. He had a lengthy legal and political career in Charleston, South Carolina and served as the colonial chief justice from 1703 until 1719. He came from a prosperous English family; his grandfather Perient Trott having been a husband of the Somers Isles Company and his uncle Sir Nicholas Trott served as the governor of the Bahamas. Like his nephew, the governor was involved in dealings with pirates, and so, to avoid confusion, is often referred to as Nicholas the Elder. Though he is best known, as recorded in Daniel Defoe's ''A General History of the Pyrates'', as the magistrate who tried notorious pirate Stede Bonnet in 1718, he was the author of several published books including a lexicon of the psalms ''Clavis Linguae Sanctae'' (1719), ''The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates'' (1719) and ''The Laws of the British Plantations'' (1721) for which he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Denny, 1st Earl Of Norwich
Edward Denny, 1st Earl of Norwich (15 August 1569 – 24 October 1637), known as The Lord Denny between 1604 and 1627, was an English courtier, Member of Parliament, and a peer. Life The son of Sir Anthony Denny's eldest son, Henry Denny,Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), Volume I, page 1094. he matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1585. His mother was Honora Grey, daughter of William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton and Lady Mary Somerset. He was knighted in 1587, and welcomed the Scottish King James I to England while holding the post of High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1603. He was M.P. for Essex in 1604, but on 27 October 1604, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Denny of Waltham. Around 1590–1600, Denny built Abbey House on the site of Waltham Abbey, the lands of which had been in the family for several generations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tittenhanger
Tyttenhanger House is a 17th-century country mansion, now converted into commercial offices, at Tyttenhanger, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building. History The Tyttenhanger estate was owned by the Abbey of St Albans until the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was then granted by the Crown in 1547 to Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Pope died without issue in 1559 and left the estate to his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Blount of Blounts Hall, Staffordshire. On her death it passed to her nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638), who was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1598.''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland'' 2nd Ed. Burke and Burke (1844) pp66-68. Blount of Tittenhanger Blount's nephew, Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682), High Sheriff in 1661, demolished Pope's manor house and built the present mansion on the site in 1654/5. The house which was altered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Spencer (1553–1624)
Richard Spencer may refer to: Politicians * Richard Spencer (died 1414), MP for Salisbury * Richard Spencer (Royalist) (1593–1661), English politician and Royalist * Richard Spencer (Maryland politician) (1796–1868), American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives * Richard Austin Spencer, MP for St. Helens *Richard V. Spencer (born 1954), United States Secretary of the Navy 2017–2019 Other *Richard B. Spencer (born 1978), American neo-Nazi and white supremacist *Richard Spencer (Royal Navy officer) Captain Sir Richard Spencer KCH (9 December 1779 – 24 July 1839) the son of Richard Spencer, a London merchant.Australian Encyclopaedia, Vol VIII; Angus & Robertson Ltd for Grolier Society of Australia PL (1958) Editor-in-Chief Alec H Chish ... (1779–1839) * Richard Lewis Spencer, American musician * Richard Spencer (journalist) (born 1965), British journalist * F. Richard Spencer (born 1951), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Coningsby
Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms are: * Ralph, the common variant form in English, which takes either of the given pronunciations. * Rafe, variant form which is less common; this spelling is always pronounced , as are all other English spellings without "l". * Raife, a very rare variant. * Raif, a very rare variant. Raif Rackstraw from H.M.S. Pinafore * Ralf, the traditional variant form in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Polish. * Ralfs, the traditional variant form in Latvian. * Raoul, the traditional variant form in French. * Raúl, the traditional variant form in Spanish. * Raul, the traditional variant form in Portuguese and Italian. * Raül, the traditional variant form in Catalan. * Rádhulbh, the traditional variant form in Irish. Given name Middle Ages * Ral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sadler (MP)
Thomas Sadler may refer to: * Thomas Vincent Faustus Sadler (1604–1681), Roman Catholic missionary in England and spiritual author * Thomas Sadler (Unitarian) (1822–1891), English minister * Thomas William Sadler (1831–1896), U.S. Representative from Alabama * Thomas Sadler (cricketer) (1892–1973), English cricketer {{hndis, Sadler, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knebworth House
Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. Its gardens are also listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. In its surrounding park is the medieval St. Mary's Church and the Lytton family mausoleum. It was the seat of the Earl of Lytton (also Viscount Knebworth), and now the house of the family of the Baron Cobbold of Knebworth. The grounds are home to the Knebworth Festival, a recurring open-air rock and pop concert held since 1974, and until 2014 was home to another hard rock festival, Sonisphere. History The home of the Lytton family since 1490, when Thomas Bourchier sold the reversion of the manor to Sir Robert Lytton, Knebworth House was originally a red-brick Late Gothic manor house, built round a central court as an open square. In 1813-16 the house was reduced to its west wing, which was remodelled in a Tudor Gothic style by John Biagio Rebecca for Mrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Lytton (of Knebworth)
Sir Rowland Lytton (also Roland Litton) (28 September 1561 – 23 June 1615) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1586 and 1611. Life Rowland Lytton was the only son of Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, and his second wife, Anne Carleton, daughter of John Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and sister of George Carleton. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge in 1576 at the age of 14, and to Gray's Inn in 1579. He succeeded his father in 1582. Lytton was a Member of Parliament for Truro, Cornwall from 1586 to 1587. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire in 1587 to his death and Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1594–1595. He was MP for Hertfordshire from 1597 to 1598. In 1603, he was knighted and was MP for Hertfordshire again from 1604 to 1611. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex from 1605 until his death. He died in 1615 and was buried in his chapel at Knebworth church. Private life He married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cutts (died 1615)
Sir John Cutts (or Cutt) (1545–1615), of Horham Hall, Essex; Shenley Hall, Hertfordshire and Childerley, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician. Sir John's great-grandfather, also Sir John (died 1521), held the position of under-treasurer in the household of King Henry VII. His son John Cutts married Luce Browne, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne (died 1506) and granddaughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (died 1471) and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe. After John's death in 1528, leaving a son little more than an infant, Luce remarried to Sir Thomas Clyfford. The child married Sybil, daughter of Sir John Hynde of Madingley (who died in 1550), and being of age in 1547 became Sir John Cutts of Childerley and Horham Hall. This gentleman became implicated in a suspected conspiracy planned in Suffolk with his brother-in-law Sir Francis Hynde and, having gone into exile in Italy, died of pleurisy in Venice in May 1555.Will of Sir John Cutts, Proved 18 November 1555, see H.W. Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
