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Mildenhall, Suffolk
Mildenhall is a market town in the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Mildenhall High, in the West Suffolk District, West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is near the A11 road (Great Britain), A11, and is north-west of Ipswich.Ordnance Survey (2006). ''OS Explorer Map 226 - Ely & Newmarket''. . The large Royal Air Force station, RAF Mildenhall, as well as RAF Lakenheath, are located north of the town. Both are used by the United States Air Force and Mildenhall is the headquarters of its 100th Air Refueling Wing and 352nd Special Operations Group. Mildenhall is often seen as the start of The Fens on the south/east. History Early history The area around Mildenhall has been settled by humans since at least the Bronze Age. Following the Roman Empire invasion of Britain, Mildenhall was the site of a Roman settlement, which at some point contained the Mildenhall Treasure. The name of the town was first recorded in 1050 as ''Mildenhale'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildenhall High
Mildenhall may refer to: Places in England *Mildenhall, Suffolk, town **RAF Mildenhall, air force station **The Mildenhall Treasure, Roman silver hoard **Mildenhall Town F.C. *Mildenhall, Wiltshire, village People with the surname *Andrew Mildenhall (born 1966), English cricketer *Bill Mildenhall (born 1953), Australian basketball player and referee, and Australian rules football player *Bruce Mildenhall (born 1953), Australian politician *John Mildenhall (1560–1614), British explorer and adventurer, one of the first British travellers to make an overland journey to India *Neil Mildenhall (born 1968), Australian rules footballer *Steve Mildenhall (born 1979), English footballer *William James Mildenhall (1891–1962), early photographer of Canberra, Australia **The Mildenhall photographic collection, created by William James Mildenhall Other *"Mildenhall", a song by American dream pop band The Shins from their 2017 album, ''Heartworms (album), Heartworms'' {{Disambiguation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fens
The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers (Ditch, dykes and drains) and automated pumping stations. There have been unintended consequences to this reclamation, as the land level has continued to sink and the dykes have been built higher to protect it from flooding. ''Fen'' is the local term for an individual area of marshland or former marshland. It also designates the type of marsh typical of the area, which has pH, neutral or alkaline water and relatively large quantities of dissolved minerals, but few other plant nutrition, plant nutrients. The Fens are a National Character Area, based on their landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity. The Fens lie inland of the Wash, and are an area of nearly in the south east of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet
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Speaker Of The House Of Commons (United Kingdom)
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019, following the retirement of John Bercow. Hoyle began his first full parliamentary term in the role on 17 December 2019, having been unanimously re-elected after the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. The speaker Speaker (politics), presides over the House's debates, determining which members may speak and which Amend (motion), amendments are selected for consideration. The speaker is also responsible for maintaining order during debate, and may punish members who break the rules of the House. By convention, the Speaker is strictly non-partisan; accordingly, a Speaker is expected to renounce all affiliation with their former political parties when taking office and afterwards. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (24 September 1677 – 7 May 1746) was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the subject of much gossip as his wife eloped with his cousin Thomas Hervey and lived openly with him for the rest of her days. He is, however, perhaps best remembered as being one of the early editors of the works of William Shakespeare. He was identified with the Hanoverian Tory faction at the time of the Hanoverian Succession in 1714. Life He was the son of William Hanmer (born ca. 1648, Angers, France, died ca. 1678?, state that William was aged 15 when he entered Pembroke College, Oxford on 17 July 1663, so he was probably born c. 1648. says that William predeceased his father Thomas, the 2nd Baronet (1612–1678). William thus may have been under 30 when he died. Thomas was born in 1677. the son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet), and of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry North, 2nd Baronet
Sir Henry North, 2nd Baronet (c.1635 – 5 July 1695) was an English Tory politician. North was the son of Sir Henry North, 1st Baronet and Sarah Rayney. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds and St John's College, Cambridge. On 29 August 1671 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Between 1678 and 1688, North was a Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk. In 1685, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Suffolk, holding the seat in 1687. He did not seek re-election in 1689 following the Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII, James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II, Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange ..., and died in 1695 at which point his title became extinct. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Broke, Robert, 1st Baronet Year of birth uncertain 1695 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Baronets in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry North (died 1620)
Henry North (1556–1620), of Wickhambrook and Mildenhall, Suffolk, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Cambridge in 1584, and for Cambridgeshire in 1597. Henry was the third son of Roger North, 2nd Baron North and his wife Winifrid, the daughter of Richard Rich Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564. He was .... References 1556 births 1620 deaths People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1597–1598 People from Mildenhall, Suffolk {{1597-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger North, 2nd Baron North
Roger North, 2nd Baron North (1530 – 3 December 1600) was an English Peerage, peer and politician at the court of Elizabeth I. Biography He was the son of Edward North, 1st Baron North, for whom the title Baron North had been created. After representing Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridgeshire in several parliaments (1555, 1559 and 1563), North acceded to his title in 1564. He may have succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire as well, and was Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire before 1573. He was appointed Treasurer of the Household in 1596 after the death of Francis Knollys (the elder), Sir Francis Knollys. North played card games called "Forty-fives, maw" and Primero with Elizabeth on 6 August 1576. The queen came to his house at Kirtling Tower, Kirtling for three days on 1 September 1578. The visit cost Lord North £642. He gave the queen a jewel worth £120.Lawrence Stone, ''Crisis of the Aristocracy'' (Oxford, 1965), p. 452. North w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward North, 1st Baron North
Edward North, 1st Baron North ( 1504 – 1564) was an English peer and politician. He was the Clerk of the Parliaments 1531–1540 and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire 1557–1564. A successful lawyer, he was created the first Baron North, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. Family Born about 1504, North was the only son of Roger North of Nottinghamshire, a merchant and haberdasher, and Christiana, the daughter of Richard Warcup of Sinnington, Yorkshire. After the death of Roger North in 1509, Christiana married, as her second husband, Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London. Edward North had a sister, Joan, who married William Wilkinson (d. 1543), a mercer in the city of London, and sheriff in 1538–9, by whom she had three daughters. After her husband's death she was silkwoman to Anne Boleyn. She died as a Marian exile in 1556 at Frankfurt. Career Edward North studied at St Paul's School under William Lyly, and later entered Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbot Of St Edmunds
The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England, until its dissolution in 1539. It is in the town that grew up around it, Bury St Edmunds in the county of Suffolk, England. It was a centre of pilgrimage as the burial place of the Anglo-Saxon martyr-king Saint Edmund, killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869. The ruins of the abbey church and most other buildings are merely rubble cores, but two very large medieval gatehouses survive, as well as two secondary medieval churches built within the abbey complex. History In the early 10th century the allegedly "incorrupt" (i.e. not decomposed) body of the martyred king, St Edmund, was translated from ''Hægelisdun'' (a placename long and widely thought - but probably in error - to refer to Hoxne) to ''Beodricsworth'', afterwards known as St Edmundsbury, a site that had probably had a monastery founded by St Sigeberht some three centuries earlier. At this time the early shrine was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name , meaning "Book of Winchester, Hampshire, Winchester", where it was originally kept in the royal treasury. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. Written in Medieval Latin, it was Scribal abbreviation, highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The survey's main purpose was to record the annual value of every piece of landed property to its lord, and the resources in land, labour force, and livestock from which the value derived. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. Richard FitzNeal wrote in the ( 1179) that the book was so called because its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
