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Peter Burrell (1692–1756)
Peter Burrell (6 August 1692 – 16 April 1756), of Langley Park, Beckenham, Kent, and Mark Lane, Fenchurch St., London, was a Great Britain, British merchant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1722 to 1756. Early life Burrell was the son of Peter Burrell of Kelseys, Beckenham, Kent and his wife Isabella Merrik, second daughter of John Merrik, and older brother of Sir Merrik Burrell, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from 1704 to 1707. He became a merchant in trade with Portugal. On 14 March 1723, he married Amy Raymond, daughter of Hugh Raymond. Career Burrell was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Haslemere (UK Parliament constituency), Haslemere in a contest at the 1722 British general election. He voted with the Government, except on the Excise Bill, which he opposed. He was sub-governor of the South Sea Company from 1724 to 1733 and a Director of Exchange Assurance from 1726 to 1738. He was returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, largest European island, and the List of islands by area, ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The island of Ireland, with an area 40 per cent that of Great Britain, is to the west – these islands, along with over List of islands of the British Isles, 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, comprise the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a land bridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's List of islands by population, third-most-populous islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Burrell (10 October 1732 – 20 January 1796) was an English antiquarian. Biography He was the third son of Peter Burrell of Beckenham, Kent, and was born in Leadenhall Street on 10 October 1732. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, whence he graduated as Bachelor of Laws, LL.B in 1755, and Doctor of Laws, LL.D in 1760, and in the latter year (3 November) was admitted as an advocate at Doctors' Commons. He practised chiefly in the admiralty court, and there were in the possession of his grandson, Sir Sir Walter Burrell, 5th Baronet, Walter Burrell, two volumes of his own manuscript reports of cases decided in that court between the years 1766 and 1774. They were edited by Mr. R. G. Marsden in 1885. Burrell was made chancellor of Anglican Diocese of Worcester, Worcester in 1764, and held the same office in the diocese of Rochester, continuing in both posts till his death. He was elected M.P. for Haslemere (UK Parliament constituency), Haslemere in 1768, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1734–1741
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1756 Deaths
Events January–March * January 16 – The Treaty of Westminster is signed between Great Britain and Prussia, guaranteeing the neutrality of the Electorate of Hanover, controlled by King George II of Great Britain. * January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, to Anna Maria and Leopold Mozart. * February 7 – Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops. * February 10 – The massacre of the Guaraní rebels in the Jesuit reduction of Caaibaté takes place in Brazil after their leader, Noicola Neenguiru, defies an ultimatum to surrender by 2:00 in the afternoon. On February 7, Neenguiru's predecessor Sepé Tiaraju has been killed in a brief skirmish. As two o'clock arrives, a combined force of Spanish and Portuguese troops makes an assault on the first of the Seven Towns established as Jesuit missions. Defending their town with cannons made out of bamboo, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1692 Births
Events January–March * January 24 – At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine are killed in the Raid on York (1692), Candlemas Massacre, carried out by French soldiers led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki and Penobscot Indians under the command of Penobscot Chief Madockawando during King William's War, between the French colonists and their indigenous allies, against the English colonists. * January 30 – English Army General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a close adviser to King William III of England, is fired from all of his jobs by the English Secretary of State, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, the Earl of Nottingham, on orders of Mary II of England. * February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Robert Campbell slaughter around 40 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in Scotland (from whom they have previously accepted hospitality), for delaying to sign an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Valence Jones
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). The Germanic name is on record beginning in the 8th century, in variants ''Chugo, Hugo, Huc, Ucho, Ugu, Uogo, Ogo, Ougo,'' etc. The name's popularity in the Middle Ages ultimately derives from its use by Frankish nobility, beginning with Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the Great (898–956). The Old French form was adopted into English from the Norman period (e.g. Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1098; Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d. 1101). The spelling ''Hugh'' in English is from the Picard variant spelling '' Hughes'', where the orthography ''-gh-'' takes the role of ''-gu-'' in standard French, i.e. to express the phoneme /g/ as opposed to the affricate /ʒ/ taken by the grapheme ''g'' before front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
Major general George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC (26 January 1716 – 26 August 1785) was a British Army officer, politician, and peer who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1775 to 1782. Serving in the North ministry during the American War of Independence, he received significant blame for Britain's defeat in the conflict; Sackville's issuance of confusing instructions to British commanders in North America coupled with his failure to understand either the geography of Britain's American colonies or the determination of the rebels' resolve have led historians to support such arguments. Sackville served in the British army in the War of the Austrian Succession and in Seven Years' War, including at the decisive Battle of Minden, after which he was court-martialled. His political career ended with the fall of the North ministry in March 1782. Early life and education Sackville was the third son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, and his wife Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cayley (MP)
William Cayley (c.1695 — 14 February 1768), of Scampton, Lincolnshire, was a British consul in the Iberian peninsula from 1726 to 1746, Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover 7 February 1752 - April 1755., and a Commissioner of Excise from 1755 to 1767. Family His father was Simon Cayley, seventh son of Sir William Cayley, the second of the Cayley baronets. Spain and Portugal In 1722 William Cayley went to Lisbon as secretary to Sir Thomas Saunderson, the British minister there. The following year he was appointed chargé d'affaires in Lisbon. He was British consul in Cadiz from 1726 to 1739, and then, in 1739, on the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear, consul in Faro, Portugal. There is a collection of his diplomatic correspondence from 1735 onwards in the British Library, a number of letters reporting to the Duke of Newcastle and others, including Admiral Nicholas Haddock, on ship movements and other matters of interest to the British government, partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Carteret Webb
Philip Carteret Webb (14 August 1702 – 22 June 1770) was an English barrister, involved with the 18th-century antiquarian movement. He became a member of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1747, and as its lawyer, was responsible for securing the incorporation of the Society in 1751. This act was important in putting the society on level terms, in terms of finance and national prestige, with the Royal Society, which some antiquaries saw as a rival.R. Sweet, ''Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain,''(Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 89-91 Webb has remembered also as an agent of the crown in the '' North Briton'' scandal (1763), assisting Robert Wood to seize the papers of radical journalist John Wilkes, whose inflammatory writings had offended the king. Early life He was born at Devizes in Wiltshire, and was admitted attorney-at-law on 20 June 1724. He practised at first in Old Jewry, then moved to Budge Row, and afterwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James More Molyneux
James More Molyneux (c. 1723–1759), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1759. Molyneux was the son of Sir More Molyneux of Loseley Park and his wife Cassandra Cornwallis, daughter of Thomas Cornwallis of Abermarlais, Carmarthenshire. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 27 September 1742, aged 19. He married Margaret Sherard, daughter of Robert Sherard of Carcolston, Nottinghamshire on 11 October 1753. The Molyneux family had inherited the manor of Haslemere which gave them a strong interest in the borough and the right to appoint the returning officer. They had not exercised their interest for many years, but perhaps Molyneux's marriage allowed him to revive it at the 1754 general election. He was returned then as Member of Parliament for Haslemere. Molyneux predeceased his father and died without issue on 24 June 1759. His brother Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
