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James Dormer (writer)
James Dormer (1679–1741) was a British Army officer, a lieutenant-general, and colonel of the 1st troop of Horse Grenadier Guards Life The son of Robert Dormer (1628?–1689) of Dorton, Buckinghamshire, and his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Charles Cotterell, he was born 16 March 1679. He was appointed lieutenant and captain in the 1st Foot Guards 13 June 1700, at which rank he was wounded at the battle of Blenheim, in the War of the Spanish Succession, where his brother Philip was killed. In command of a newly raised corps of Irish foot, Dormer went to Spain, and took part in the Battle of Saragossa. He was taken prisoner with General James Stanhope at Brihuega in December 1710, and was sent home on parole. On the death of Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun in a noted duel with the Duke of Hamilton in 1712, Dormer, who had been exchanged, was appointed colonel of Mohun's regiment, which was disbanded the year after. In 1715 Dormer was commissioned to raise a regiment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charlemagne Dormer
Lieutenant General The Honourable Sir James Charlemagne Dormer (26 January 1834 – 3 May 1893) was a British Army officer. Military career Dormer was the younger son of Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, 11th Baron Dormer. He became Chief of Staff of army of occupation in Egypt in 1882, Deputy Adjutant-General for auxiliary forces in 1885 and General Officer Commanding commanding Dublin District in 1886. He went to command the British Troops in Egypt in 1888 and become Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army and a Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St George in 1891. He died from injuries on 3rd May after being mauled by a tiger while on a hunt on 25 April 1893 in the Nilgiris. He was succeeded by General Mansfield Clarke as commander-in-chief of the Madras Army. His eldest son Roland Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobite Rising Of 1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 ( gd, Bliadhna Sheumais ; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled Stuarts The House of Stuart, originally spelt Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter fi .... At Braemar, Aberdeenshire, local landowner the John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732), Earl of Mar raised the Jacobite standard on 27 August. Aiming to capture Stirling Castle, he was checked by the much-outnumbered Hanoverians, commanded by the John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Duke of Argyll, at Sheriffmuir on 13 November. There was no clear result, but the Earl appeared to believe, mistakenly, that he had won the battle, and left the field. After the Jacobite surrender at Battle of Preston (1715), Preston (14 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of Great Britain To Portugal
The Ambassador of Great Britain to Portugal was the foremost diplomatic representative in Portugal of the Kingdom of Great Britain, created by the Treaty of Union in 1707, in charge of the British diplomatic mission. For Ambassadors from the Court of St James's to Portugal before 1707 see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Portugal. For Ambassadors after 1800, see List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Portugal. Heads of Mission * 1707-1708: Sir Paul Methuen (last English ambassador to Portugal) * 1708-1710: Henri de Massue, Earl of GalwayD. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. XLVI, 1932). * 1709-1710: Thomas Leffever ''Chargé d'affaires'' in absence of Galway>L. M. E. Shaw, ''The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal'' (Ashgate, Aldershot 1998) * 1710-1714 George Delaval * 1800: John Hookham Frere (first United Kingdom ambassador to Portugal) References {{Lists of GB diplomatic representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl Of Scarbrough
Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough, KB (c. 1691 – 15 March 1752) was a British peer, British Army officer and diplomat. Life Born the Hon. Thomas Lumley, he was the third son of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough and his wife, Frances. He entered the army before 1714, became Colonel of Tyrrell's Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 and a Lieutenant-Colonel in Lord Hinchinbroke's Regiment of Foot in 1717. From 1716 to 1731, he was Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, whilst also Envoy to Portugal from 1722 to 1724. Lumley is thought to have raped Teresia Constantia Phillips at the age of 12 or 13 under the assumed name of "Thomas Grimes". Phillips herself never realised who her attacker was and intriguingly her later autobiography was dedicated to the 3rd Earl of Scarborough.Emma Plaskitt, 'Phillips , Teresia Constantia (1709–1765)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 25 March 2015/ref> Lumley was the (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Cottrell-Dormer
Sir Clement Cottrell-Dormer (1686–1758) was an English courtier and antiquary. Biography Cottrell was born in Westminster, Middlesex, England on 2 April 1686. He was the son of Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (1654–1710), and his first wife Eliza, daughter of Nicholas Burwell of Gray's Inn. On his father's death Cottrell became Master of the Ceremonies. The office of Master of the Ceremonies at the British court had been established by James I of England in 1603. The Master's duties were to receive foreign dignitaries and present them to the monarch at court. Sir Clement held that office from 1710 until 1758, during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I and King George II. He was also vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1734 he was described by Hearne as "a scholar and an antiquary, and well skill'd in matters of proceeding and ceremony". On the death of his cousin, General James Dormer in 1741, Cottrell inherited the Rousham estates and assumed the additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rousham
Rousham is a village and civil parish beside the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire. The village is about west of Bicester and about north of Kidlington. The parish is bounded by the River Cherwell in the east, the A4260 main road between Oxford and Banbury in the west, partly by the B4030 in the north, and by field boundaries with Tackley parish in the south. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 80. Rousham was founded early in the Anglo-Saxon era. Its toponym is derived from Old English meaning ''Hrothwulf's ham'' or farm. Manor The Domesday Book records that in 1086 there were two manors at Rousham. The larger belonged to the Norman nobleman Robert D'Oyly and the smaller to his brother in arms Roger d'Ivry. The D'Oyly manor later became part of the honour of Wallingford and in 1279 its overlord was Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall. The latest known records of Rousham remaining in the Honour of Wallingford are from the 15th century. The d'Ivry family line died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chearsley
Chearsley is a village and civil parish within the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated about seven miles south west of Aylesbury, and about four miles north of Thame, in Oxfordshire. History The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Cerdeslai''. It was originally a hamlet in the nearby parish of Crendon. It was established as a parish in its own right by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1458. Etymology The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Cerdic's clearing' or 'Cerdic's lea'. Elite personal names The incidence of Brittonic personal names in the royal genealogies of a number of "Anglo-Saxon" dynasties is significant. The Wessex royal line was traditionally founded by a man named Cerdic, an undoubtedly Brittonic name ultimately derived from Caratacus Caratacus ( Brythonic ''*Caratācos'', Middle Welsh ''Caratawc''; Welsh ''Caradog''; Breton ''Karadeg''; Greek ''Καράτακος''; variants La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish Satire, satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whig (British political party), Whigs, then for the Tories (British political party), Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean (Christianity), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as ''A Tale of a Tub'' (1704), ''An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity'' (1712), ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726), and ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729). He is regarded by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Satire#Classifications, Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit-Cat Club
The Kit-Cat Club (sometimes Kit Kat Club) was an early 18th-century English club in London with strong political and literary associations. Members of the club were committed Whigs (British political party), Whigs. They met at the Trumpet tavern in London and at Water Oakley in the Berkshire countryside. The first meetings were held at a tavern in Shire Lane (parallel with Bell Yard and now covered by the Royal Courts of Justice) run by an innkeeper called Christopher Catt. He gave his name to the Scotch pie, mutton pies known as "Kit Cats" from which the name of the club is derived. The club later moved to the Fountain Tavern on Strand, London, The Strand (now the site of Simpson's-in-the-Strand), and latterly into a room specially built for the purpose at Barn Elms, the home of the secretary Jacob Tonson. In summer, the club met at the Upper Flask, Hampstead Heath. Origins The origin of the name "Kit-Cat Club" is unclear. In 1705 Thomas Hearne (antiquarian), Thomas Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east. Buckinghamshire is one of the Home Counties, the counties of England that surround Greater London. Towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county, with some even being served by the London Underground. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. The county's largest settlement and only city is Milton Keynes in the northeast, which with the surrounding area is administered by Milton Keynes City Council as a unitary authority separately to the rest of Buckinghamshire. The remainder of the county is administered by Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crendon
Long Crendon is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, about west of Haddenham and north-west of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire. The village has been called Long Crendon only since the English Civil War.Birch, 1975, page not cited The "Long" prefix refers to the length of the village at that time, and was added to differentiate it from nearby Grendon Underwood, which used to be known as "Crendon". This name is Old English and means 'Creoda's Hill' (in 1086 it was listed in the Domesday Book as ''Crededone''). History "Crendon" was the caput of the feudal honour held by Walter Giffard (died 1102), created Earl of Buckingham by William the Conqueror. The Manor in Long Crendon was once a great building that housed the later Earls of Buckingham and over the years the various manorial estates in the village have passed through the hands of the Crown, Oxford University, the Earls of March and the Marquis of Buckingham. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Kingston-upon-Hull
Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Kingston upon Hull: Governors of Kingston upon Hull *1536: John Hallam *1546–1552: Sir Michael Stanhope (beheaded, 1552) *?-1639: Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet *1639–1641: Sir Thomas Glemham *1642–?: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Royalist) *1642–?1645: Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet (Parliamentary) (beheaded by Parliament, 1645) *1645: Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Parliamentary) *1645: Sir Thomas Fairfax (Parliamentary) Robert Overton served as his nominee until 1648; *1648–1654: Robert Overton (arrested for his alleged involvement in the Wildman conspiracy) *1655-1659: Henry Smith *1659: Robert Overton *1660–1661: Charles Fairfax *1661–1673: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse *1673–1679: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth *1679–1682: John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave *1682–1687: Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth *1687–1689: Marmaduke Langdale, 2nd B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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