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John Strutt (1727–1816)
John Strutt (; 1727 – 8 March 1816) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790. Strutt was the only son of Joseph Strutt of Moulsham Mill House, Essex and his wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Young of Little Dunmow. He was baptised in November 1727 at Chelmsford. He was educated at Felsted School from 1740 to 1744. His father was a miller and he was apprenticed to another miller, John Strutt of Maldon (no known relation). He married Anne Goodday, daughter of Rev. William Goodday, rector of Strelley, Nottinghamshire on 27 July 1756. In 1758, he inherited property at Terling on the death of an uncle. He purchased the manor of Terling from Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh and the adjacent estate in 1761 and built Terling Place from 1772. His sister, Elizabeth, married Foote Gower, of Chelmsford. He was elected a Fellow of his college in 1750. Death Strutt died on 8 March 1816. He and his wife Anne were parents of three sons (including Joseph Holden S ...
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House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister. Other parliaments have also had a lower house called the "House of Commons". History and naming The House of Commons of England, House of Commons of the Kingdom of England evolved from an undivided parliament to serve as the voice of the tax-paying subjects of the Ceremonial counties of England, counties and the borough constituency, boroughs. Knight of the shire, Knights of the shire, elected from each county, were usually landowners, while the borough members were often from the merchant classes. These members represented subjects of the Crown who were not Lords Temporal or Spiritual, who themselves sat in the House of Lords. ...
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Joseph Strutt (MP)
Joseph Holden Strutt (21 November 1758 – 11/18 February 1845), was a British soldier and long-standing Member of Parliament. He served in the Army and achieved the rank of colonel, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Maldon from 1790 to 1826 and for Okehampton from 1826 to 1830. Education Felsted school; Winchester 1768; Brasenose College, Oxford 1778. Family Strutt was the 2nd son of John Strutt of Terling Place by Anne, daughter of Reverend William Goodday, rector of Strelley, Nottinghamshire. His elder brother John died in 1781. He married Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and Lady Emily Lennox, in Toulouse on 21/23 February 1789. With her he had one son and two daughters. Military career Strutt was Lieutenant Colonel of the western battalion of the Essex militia from 1783 to 1796, Colonel of the South Essex militia in 1798, 1803-5 and 1809, and West Essex militia 1823–31; When the supplementary militia was red ...
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British MPs 1774–1780
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Strutt Family
Strutt is a surname, and may refer to: * Anna Strutt, New Zealand economist * Arthur John Strutt (1818–1888), English painter, engraver, writer and traveler * Charles Hedley Strutt (1849–1926), British Conservative Party politician, MP for Essex Eastern 1883–85, Maldon 1895–1906 * Charlotte Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh (1758–1836), British peeress * Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper (1801–1880), Liberal Party politician * Edward Lisle Strutt (1874–1948), English mountaineer and Alpine Club president * Fred Strutt (1939–2025), Australian rugby league footballer * George Henry Strutt (1826–1895), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist * George Herbert Strutt (1854–1928), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist * Jacob George Strutt (1784–1867), English landscape painter and engraver * James Strutt James William Strutt (8 January 1924 – 8 November 2008) was a Canadians, Canadian architect. Practising between 1950 and 1999 and working primarily in ...
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1816 Deaths
This year was known as the '' Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. Events January–March * January 6 – (December 25, 1815 on the Russian Julian calendar): Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow. * January 9 – **Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp, at Hebburn Colliery in northeast England; **Ludwig van Beethoven wins the custody battle for his nephew Karl. * January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. * February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg. * February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa ''The Barber of Sevi ...
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1727 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Britain refuses and the Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar begins on February 22. * January 6 – Martin Spanberg and two other members of the First Kamchatka expedition arrive in Okhotsk, after a journey from Saint Petersburg of almost two years. After the end of winter, the 63-member group, commanded by Vitus Bering, proceeds to the Kamchatka River, to prepare for exploration of the Arctic. * January 9 – The world-famous Charité Hospital is established in Berlin, to be used for research and to help the poor. Prussia's King Frederick William I had ordered the conversion of a 16-year old institution, originally built in anticipation of an epidemic of the bubonic plague. * January 12 – Abd el-Sayed of Egypt is enthroned, as Pope ...
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Charles Western, 1st Baron Western
Charles Callis Western, 1st Baron Western (9 August 1767 – 4 November 1844), was a British landowner and Whig politician. He sat in the House of Commons for over forty years before his elevation to the peerage in 1833. Background and education Born at the family seat of Rivenhall Place in Essex, Western was the son of Charles Western and Frances Shirley, daughter and heiress of William Bolland. His father was killed in a chaise accident when Western was four-years-old, in which he was also present. He was educated at Newcombe's School in Hackney, Eton and Queens' College, Cambridge. When coming of age in 1788, he inherited Rivenhall Place, which had been in the Western family since the second half of the 17th century and commissioned Humphrey Repton to give the Tudor house a new facade. However, two years later he left Rivenhall to his uncle and purchased Felix Hall in Kelvedon. Political career Western was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Maldon ...
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Charles Rainsford
General Charles Rainsford (3 February 1728 – 24 May 1809) was a British Army officer. Career He was the second son of alderman Francis Rainsford (died 1770) and his wife, Isabella and received his first education from a cleric friend of Francis's at Great Clacton. His uncle, also Charles Rainsford (died 1778), was deputy lieutenant of the Tower of London and used his influence to get him made second cornet in General Bland's 3rd dragoons in March 1744, a unit at that time active in the Flanders theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession. Rainsford joined it immediately, carrying its standard at Fontenoy and soon after being appointed ensign in the Coldstream Guards. With his new unit he returned to England to face the Jacobite rising, rising to major of brigade and colonel's aide-de-camp. He then served as private secretary to Tyrawley, governor of Gibraltar (1756–57) before returning to England again in 1760. The following year he was given a company to command unde ...
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John Bullock (1731–1809)
Colonel John Bullock (31 December 1731 – 28 December 1809) was an English politician and military officer who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British House of Commons from 1754 to 1810, representing the constituencies of Maldon (UK Parliament constituency), Maldon, Steyning (UK Parliament constituency), Steyning and Essex (UK Parliament constituency), Essex. Born in Faulkbourne, Essex, he was a prominent member of the Bullock family whose long service in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament resulted in the title of Father of the House (United Kingdom), father of the House being bestowed on him.Bullock, Llewellyn C W, ''Memoirs of the Bullock Family'', A J Lawrence 1905 Early years John Bullock was born on 13 December 1731 in Faulkbourne, Essex. He was the eldest surviving son of Josiah Bullock J.P. D.L. of Faulkbourne and Mincing Lane, London and Hannah Cooke, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke, Member of Parliament for Colchester and ...
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