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John Hungerford (c. 1560 – 1636)
John Hungerford (ca. 1560 – 1636) was an English MP. He was the eldest of Walter Hungerford of Cadenham manor, Foxham, Wiltshire and his wife Frances, daughter of John Cock of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1580. He was elected MP for the constituency of Wootton Bassett through four successive parliaments between 1584 and 1593. In 1604 he was chosen to represent Chippenham, following a Court of Chancery case that had decided in favour of the town's freemen. He was a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire by 1594 and was appointed sheriff for 1605–06. He married Elizabeth (d. 1650), the daughter of Sir Thomas Estcourt of Shipton Moyne Shipton Moyne is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, approximately 105 miles west of London. Its nearest towns are Tetbury (3 miles north), also in Glou ..., Gloucestershire around 1596. In 1623 they had 5 sons an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hungerford (MP)
Sir George Hungerford (1637–1712), of Cadenham House, Bremhill, Wiltshire, was an English country gentleman and member of parliament. He was the son of Edward Hungerford(d. 1667) of Cadenham by Susan, daughter of Sir John Pretyman of Driffield, Gloucestershire, sister of Sir John Pretyman, 1st Baronet. He was heir to a minor branch of an extensive and influential family in Wiltshire, which had settled at Bremhill in the 16th century. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1653 and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn three years later. In 1659 he joined his father in sending servants to a rendezvous near Bath for an abortive Royalist uprising in 1659, although neither attended themselves. By April 1661, when he was returned unopposed to represent Cricklade in parliament, he had received a knighthood from Charles II. He was largely inactive during his first term in parliament, but from 1677 he became an increasingly vocal supporter of the Whig faction. In October 1679 he was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1593
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1636 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – '' The Duke's Mistress'', the last play by James Shirley, is given its first performance. * February 21 – Al Walid ben Zidan, Sultan of Morocco, is assassinated by French renegades. * February 26 – Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641. * March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway gives an order, that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers. * March 13 (March 3 Old Style) – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press, as the second of the privileged presses in England. * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1560s Births
Year 156 ( CLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silvanus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 909 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 156 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place America * The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica. By topic Religion * The heresiarch Montanus first appears in Ardaban (Mysia). Births * Dong Zhao, Chinese official and minister (d. 236) * Ling of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 189) * Pontianus of Spoleto, Christian martyr and saint (d. 175) * Zhang Zhao, Chinese general and politician (d. 236) * Zhu Zhi, Chinese general and politician (d. 224) Deaths * Marcus Gavius Maximus, Roman praetorian prefect * Zhang Daoling, Chinese Taoist master (b. AD 34 AD 34 ( XXXIV) was a common y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Lockinge
East Lockinge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lockinge, in the Vale of White Horse district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local authority boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. It is about east of Wantage, the village is included within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In 1931 the parish had a population of 227. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished to form "Lockinge". Manor In 868 Queen Æthelswith of Mercia granted 15 hides of land to her thegn Cuthwulf. This land became the manor of East Lockinge, which during the Anglo-Saxon era came to be held by the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey. After the Norman Conquest of England the manor was granted to the Norman soldier Henry de Ferrers. In the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s the Abbey surrendered all its property to the Crown, which sold East Lockinge in 1546. Matthew Wymond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipton Moyne
Shipton Moyne is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, approximately 105 miles west of London. Its nearest towns are Tetbury (3 miles north), also in Gloucestershire, and Malmesbury (3 miles southeast) in Wiltshire. The parish population at the 2021 census was 288. History The name Shipton, recorded in 1086, indicates the early importance of sheep-farming in the parish economy; the affix Moyne, recorded from 1287, was acquired when the manor was owned by the Moyne family. The Gloucestershire Victoria County History, Victoria County History provides a detailed account of the history of the parish from the eleventh to the twentieth century. The Fosse Way forms part of the parish boundary and also the county boundary with Wiltshire. Shipton Moyne was one of several parishes which were transferred from Wiltshire to Gloucestershire in 1930. Sites of interest The Cat and Custard Pot (P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxham, Wiltshire
Foxham is a village in Bremhill civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Chippenham and a similar distance northwest of Calne. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of ten households at Cadenham, close to the east end of present-day Foxham. The manor house, Cadenham Manor, is a house of five bays built in the second half of the 17th century. It replaces an earlier house, from which part of a window-head survives in the north porch that was added in the 20th century.Pevsner & Cherry, page 251 The manor was owned by a branch of the Hungerford family, including George Hungerford (1637-1712). Church and chapel There is a record of Foxham being a chapelry of the parish of Bremhill and Highway by 1219. The present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was designed by the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield and built in 1878–81. The church is Grade II* listed, and has a stained glass window made in about 1855 that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Wiltshire
This is a list of the sheriffs and (after 1 April 1974) high sheriffs of Wiltshire. Until the 14th century, the shrievalty was held ''ex officio'' by the castellans of Old Sarum Castle. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Wiltshire was retitled as High Sheriff of Wiltshire.Local Government Act 1972: Section 219 at legislation.gov.uk, accessed 28 April 2020: ”Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrument to a sheriff shall be construed accordingly in relation to sheriffs for a county or Greater London". Sheriff To 1400 *1066: Edric *1067–1070: Philippe de Buckland *1085: Aiulphus the Sheriff *1070–1105: ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
