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Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore
General Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore, PC (Ire) (18 April 1726 – 6 August 1801) was an Irish British Army officer and politician. Military career Cuninghame was the son of Colonel David Cuninghame and his wife Margaret Callander of Craigforth. He was a General in the Army who fought at an early age at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 with the 14th Foot. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1793 to 1796. Cuninghame sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Tulsk from 1751 to 1761, for Armagh Borough from 1761 to 1768 and for Monaghan Borough from 1768 to 1796. Between 1788 and 1789 he represented East Grinstead in the British House of Commons. Lord Rossmore later sat as an Irish Representative Peer in the House of Lords from January 1801 until his death in August 1801. He was childless and was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his wife's nephew Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore. Lady Rossmore died in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Barrington (judge)
Sir Jonah Barrington, K.C. (1756/57 – 8 April 1834), was an Irish lawyer, judge and politician. Jonah Barrington is most notable for his amusing and popular memoirs of life in late 18th-century Ireland; for his opposition to the Act of Union in 1800; and for his removal from the judiciary by both Houses of Parliament in 1830, still a unique event. Barrington family Barrington was the third son, one of thirteenW. N. Osborough, ‘Barrington, Sir Jonah (1756/7–1834)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 or sixteen children; six at least, and probably seven, were sons; of John Barrington, an impoverished Protestant gentleman landowner in County Laois and his wife Sibella French of Peterswell, Co. Galway. He was raised and schooled by his grandparents in Dublin and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1773, aged 16 but he left Trinity College without a degree. He joined the Irish Volunteers and supported the Irish Patriots in the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby (politician)
Hon. John Ponsonby, PC (Ire) (29 March 171316 August 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Biography Ponsonby was the second son of Brabazon Ponsonby, who was created the Earl of Bessborough in 1739, and his first wife, Sarah Margetson Colvill. He was the grandson of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon. In 1739, Ponsonby entered the Irish House of Commons for Newtownards, becoming its speaker in 1756. He also served as First Commissioner of the Revenue and he became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1746. In 1761, Ponsonby was elected for Kilkenny County and Armagh Borough, and sat for the first. In 1768, he stood also for Gowran and Newtownards, and in 1776 for Carlow Borough, but chose each time Kilkenny County, which he represented until 1783. Subsequently, Ponsonby was again returned for Newtownards and sat for this constituency until his death in 1787. Belonging to one of the great families which at this time monopolized the government of Ireland, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Russell, Marquess Of Tavistock
Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (27 September 1739 – 22 March 1767) was a British politician and the eldest son of the 4th Duke of Bedford and his second wife Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower. From 1759 to 1761, he sat in the Irish House of Commons as Whig Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough and then in the British House of Commons for Bedfordshire until 1767. He was elected as a Bailiff to the board of the Bedford Level Corporation in 1761, a position he held until his death. On 8 June 1764, he married Lady Elizabeth Keppel, the youngest child of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle. They had three sons: * Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802) * John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839) * Lord William Russell (1767–1840) Lord Tavistock died in 1767 after falling from his horse while hunting. Their eldest son succeeded his grandfather as 5th Duke of Bedford in 1771. References * 1739 births 1767 deaths British courtesy marquesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet (12 December 1704 – 21 November 1789) was an Irish politician. He was the third son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet and Alice Wyndham, daughter of Colonel John Wyndham. In 1763, he succeeded his nephew Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet as baronet. Knatchbull was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Armagh Borough in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 until 1760. Knatchbull married Grace Legge, second daughter of William Legge. They had five daughters and three sons. He died, aged 84, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Edward Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa .... References 1704 births 1789 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bagwell (1715–1784)
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John Bagwell may refer to: * John Bagwell (1715–1784), Irish MP for Tulsk 1761–68 * John Bagwell (died 1816) (1751–1816), MP for Tipperary * John Bagwell (Liberal politician) (1811–1883), Liberal politician, MP for Clonmel, Lord of the Treasury * John Philip Bagwell (1874–1946), Irish railway executive and politician, grandson of the above See also *Bagwell (surname) Bagwell may refer to: People named Bagwell *Buff Bagwell (b. 1970), a ring name of American professional wrestler and actor Marcus Alexander Bagwell * Jeff Bagwell (b. 1968), US baseball player *John Philip Bagwell (1874–1946), Irish politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Caulfeild (1698–1771)
William Caulfeild may refer to: * William Caulfeild, 2nd Baron Caulfeild (1587–1640), Baron Caulfeild, Irish Master-General of the Ordnance * William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont (1624–1671), Irish peer, Custos Rotulorum of Armagh and Tyrone *William Caulfeild (1665–1737) William Caulfield (1665 – 24 August 1737) was an Irish barrister, Law Officer and judge: one of his sons became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Tulsk, and was later raised to the bench as justice o ..., Irish lawyer * William Caulfeild, 2nd Viscount Charlemont (died 1726), Viscount Charlemont, Irish soldier and MP for Charlemont * William Caulfeild (British Army officer) (died 1767), British soldier responsible for the construction of roads {{hndis, Caulfeild, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George Caulfeild
St George Caulfeild (16 September 1697 – 17 May 1778) was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He was a popular and respected judge, who was known in old age as "the good old man".Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1721'' John Murray London 1926 Vol. 2 p.144 He sat in the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Tulsk between 1727 and 1751. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 14 October 1751. He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1716 and called to the Irish Bar in 1723. He was solicitor to the Revenue in 1734, Solicitor-General for Ireland 1739-41, Attorney-General for Ireland 1741-1751 and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1751-60.Ball p.140 He was the fourth son of William Caulfeild, judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and his wife Lettice, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet by Eleanor, daughter of Sir George St George (knight of Carrickdrumrusk). He was the great-grandson of William Caulfeild, 2nd Baron Caulfield. He was highly este ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Gore (politician)
Frederick John Pym Gore CBE RA (8 November 1913 – 31 August 2009), was an English painter. Biography Gore was born into the world of art; his father, Spencer Frederick Gore, was a painter, President of the Camden Town Group until his early death in March 1914, and his mother, Mary Joanna (Molly) Kerr, was a dancer from Edinburgh. As a young man Gore's ambition was to be a philosopher, but as a student at Trinity College, Oxford (following in the steps of his great uncle Bishop Charles Gore), he soon found that his real passion was for drawing and painting at the Ruskin School of Art which he attended almost daily. Leaving Oxford, and arriving in London, Gore trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Polunin from whom he learnt the flat-on-the-floor method of painting backdrops for the theatre: most useful later on when as an active member of the Balalaika Dance Group as dancer and organiser of events, he enhanced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peerage Of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisions of Peerages in the United Kingdom. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland extant: two dukedoms, ten marquessates, 43 earldoms, 28 viscountcies, and 52 baronies. The Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland continues to exercise jurisdiction over the Peerage of Ireland, including those peers whose titles derive from places located in what is now the Republic of Ireland. Article 40.2 of the Constitution of Ireland forbids the state conferring titles of nobility and an Irish citizen may not accept titles of nobility or honour except with the prior ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Privy Council
His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the Dublin Castle administration which exercised formal executive power in conjunction with the chief governor of Ireland, who was viceroy of the British monarch. The council evolved in the Lordship of Ireland on the model of the Privy Council of England; as the English council advised the king in person, so the Irish council advised the viceroy, who in medieval times was a powerful Lord Deputy. In the early modern period the council gained more influence at the expense of the viceroy, but in the 18th century lost influence to the Parliament of Ireland. In the post-1800 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Irish Privy Council and viceroy Lord Lieutenant had formal and ceremonial power, while policy formulation rested with a Chief Secretary directly answerable to the British cabinet. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murray (Monaghan MP)
John Murray or Murry may refer to: Arts and media Literature and music *John Murray (publishing house), a British publishing house, founded by John Murray (1745–1793) *John Murray (publisher, born 1778) (died 1843), second head of the publishing house *John Murray III (1808–1892), third head of the publishing house *John Murray (Australian writer) (born 1963), Australian epidemiologist and writer * John Murray (novelist) (born 1950), British novelist *John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer * John Middleton Murry Jr. (1926–2002), English writer *John Murry (musician) (born 1979), American musician * John Murray Graham (1809–1881), Scottish historian, in early life John Murray Screen, radio and performing arts * John Murray (Irish broadcaster) (born 1964), Irish broadcaster and journalist *John Murray (playwright) (1906–1984), American playwright, co-author of ''Room Service'' * John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English sports commentator * John T. Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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