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John Buller (1721–1786)
John Buller (1721–1786) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1747 to 1786. Buller was the son of John Francis Buller, M.P. and his wife Rebecca Trelawny, daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet bishop of Winchester and was born on 24 Jan. 1721. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 25 October 1738. He entered Middle Temple in 1740 and Inner Temple in 1743 and was called to the bar in February 1747. In 1746 he was mayor of East Looe and in the 1747 general election he was returned as Member of Parliament for East Looe. In 1754 Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe and in the same year was appointed Comptroller of the Mint. He was also mayor of East Looe again and appointed Recorder of East Looe in 1754. From 1759 to 1761 he was secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He married Mary St Aubyn, daughter of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet on 3 March 1760. Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe in 1761. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the 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 a "House of Commons". History and naming The 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 counties and of the boroughs. 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. The House of Commons gained its name because it represented communities (''communes''). Since the 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1768 British General Election
The 1768 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election took place amid continuing shifts within politics which had occurred the accession of George III in 1760. The Tories who had long been in parliamentary opposition having not won an election since 1713 had disintegrated with its former parliamentarians gravitating between the various Whig factions, the Ministry, or continued political independence as a Country Gentleman. No Tory party existed at this point, though the label of Tory was occasionally used as a political insult by opposition groups against the government. Since the last general election the Whigs had lost cohesion and had split into various factions aligned with leading political figures. The leading figures around the period of the prior election, namely the Earl of Bute, the Duke of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, KB (23 October 1725 – 9 February 1802) was a British officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial official. He served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. He was also the Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland for a period of time.Article by Kenneth Breen, ‘Graves, Thomas, first Baron Graves (1725–1802)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008; Retrieved 4 June 2008 Military career Born in England in October 1725, Graves was the second son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves of Thanckes in |
Charles Whitworth (MP)
Sir Charles Whitworth (c. 1721 – 22 August 1778) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 31 years from 1747 to 1778. He was known for his expertise in statistics and finance. Whitworth was the son of Francis Whitworth, Member of Parliament for Minehead from 1723 to 1742 and was educated at Westminster School and at Lincoln's Inn. Whitworth represented the constituencies of Minehead from 1747 until 1761, and Bletchingley until 1768, in which year he was knighted. He then represented Minehead until 1774, East Looe until 1775 and Saltash until his death in 1778. He served in the army for a short time and was made lieutenant-governor of Gravesend and Tilbury for life in 1758. Whitworth was Chairman of Ways and Means from 1768 until his death. The major contribution made by Sir Charles to the statistics of Great Britain consisted of the production of the first complete Balance of Trade (Visible trade) for the country together with individual commerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Purling
John Purling (c. 1722–1800) was an East India Company commander and director and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1770 and 1790. Purling's parentage is unknown but he may been a native of St Helena. Mr or Captain John Purling was allowed by the East India Company to travel there in 1750 at his own expense. He entered the Company's shipping service and was commander of the Indiaman ''Sandwich'' from 1753 to 1759, and ''Neptune'' from 1760 to 1762. Following his last highly profitable China voyage. he resigned the service, and in April 1763 was elected a director of the Company. In 1770, Purling became Deputy Chairman of the East India Company and purchased the estate of Bradford Peverell in Dorset. Also in 1770 he stood in a by-election at New Shoreham in opposition to two other members of the East Indian Company, Thomas Rumbold and William James. Although Purling came second on the poll he was declared elected Member of Parliament by the returning offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Leigh (MP)
Richard Leigh may refer to: *Richard Leigh (martyr) (c. 1561–1588), Catholic martyr *Richard Leigh (officer of arms), Clarenceux King of Arms, died 1597 * Richard Leigh (poet) (1649/50–1728), English poet * Richard Leigh (footballer) (born 1974), Australian rules footballer *Richard Leigh (author) (1943–2007), co-author of ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' *Richard Leigh (songwriter) (born 1951), American country music songwriter * Richard Leigh (musician), free-improvising musician, member of the '' Musics'' collective * Richard H. Leigh, U.S. Navy admiral *Richard Leigh (cricketer) (1784–1841), English cricketer *Richard Leigh (cricket patron) Richard Leigh (dates unknown) was an 18th-century English businessman and cricket patron who ran his own R. Leigh's XI cricket team in nine first-class matches 1793–95. His son, also Richard Leigh, played first-class cricket in the 1800s but ..., 18th-century English businessman and cricket patron * Richard "Beaver Dick" L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hussey
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, FRS (4 December 1739 – 17 April 1802), was a British politician. Life Temple was a son of Henry Temple (son of Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston) and Jane, daughter of Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor of London. He was born into ' the Ascendancy', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. His family owned a vast country estate in the north of County Sligo in the west of Ireland. He succeeded to the peerage in 1757, and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge from 1757 to 1759. As a member of the British House of Commons, he represented the constituencies of East Looe between 1762 and 1768, Southampton between 1768 and 1774, Hastings between 1774 and 1784, Boroughbridge between 1784 and 1790, Newport, Isle of Wight between 1790 and 1796, and Winchester between 1796 and his death in 1802. He was appointed to the Board of Trade in 1765, was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty between 1766 and 1777, and was a Lord of the Treasury from 1777 to 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Buller (the Younger) (1789–1878), British MP for Winchester
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James Buller may refer to: * James Buller (the elder) (1678–1710), British MP for Saltash, Cornwall 1701–1705 and 1708–1710 * James Buller (1717–1765) (1717–1765), British MP for East Looe 1741–1748 and Cornwall 1748–1765 * James Buller (1766–1827), British MP for Exeter and East Looe 1802 * James Buller (1772–1830), British MP for West Looe *James Wentworth Buller (1798–1865), British Member of Parliament for Exeter, and for North Devon See also *Sir James Buller East, 2nd Baronet Sir James Buller East, 2nd Baronet (1 February 1789 – 19 November 1878) was a British barrister. East, eldest son of Sir Edward East, 1st Baronet, Sir Edward Hyde East, was born in Bloomsbury, London, on 1 February 1789. He was educated at Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Gashry
Francis Gashry (14 November 1702 – 1762) of Hollybush House, Parsons Green, London was a British official and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1762. Gashry was the son of Francis Gascherie, perfumer, of Lamb's St, Stepney and his wife Susanna. Gashry's parents both originated from La Rochelle, France and his father was naturalized in 1709 as ‘Gascherye’... Gashry was Inspector of the captains’ journals and secretary to Sir Charles Wager in 1737, when Wager was first Lord of the Admiralty and was himself commissioner for sick and hurt seamen. He continued in Wager's service when Wager was assistant secretary to the Admiralty in 1738. Wager brought Gashry in as Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh at a by-election on 30 March 1741 and promoted him as a commissioner of the navy in 1741. At the 1741 British general election Gashry was returned unopposed as Wager's candidate at East Looe on the interest of Edward Trelawny. In 1742 he appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1784 British General Election
The 1784 British general election resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents. Background In December 1783, George III engineered the dismissal of the Fox–North coalition, which he hated, and appointed William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister. Pitt had very little personal support in the House of Commons and the supporters of Charles James Fox and Lord North felt that the constitution of the country had been violated. The doctrine that the government must always have a majority in the House of Commons was not yet established and Fox knew he had to be careful. On 2 February 1784 Fox carried a motion of no confidence which declared "That it is the Opinion of this House, That the Continuance of the present Ministers in their Offices is an Obstacle to the Formation of such an Administration as may enjoy the Confidence of this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Of The Treasury
In the United Kingdom there are at least six Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, serving as a commission for the ancient office of Treasurer of the Exchequer. The board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury, the Second Lord of the Treasury, and four or more junior lords acting as assistant whips in the House of Commons to whom this title is usually applied. It is commonly thought that the Lords Commissioners of HM Treasury serve as commissioners for exercising the office of Lord High Treasurer, however this is not true. The confusion arises because both offices used to be held by the same individual at the same time. Strictly they are commissioners for exercising the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (similar to the status of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty exercising the office of Lord High Admiral until 1964, when the Queen resumed the office). These offices (excluding Lord High Treasurer of Irela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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