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Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl Of Farnham
Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham Privy Council of Ireland, PC (c. 1720 – 16 November 1779), styled The Honourable Robert Maxwell from 1756 to 1759, was an Irish peer and a Member of both the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland. Early life Farnham was the eldest son of John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham and Judith Barry, daughter of James Barry, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He inherited the Farnham estate in County Cavan on the death of his father in 1759. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cavan in 1757. Career Farnham was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Lisburn (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Lisburn in 1743, a seat he held until 1759. Crossing to England he also became Member of Parliament for Taunton (UK Parliament constituency), Taunton at a ruinously expensive by-election in 1754, his father putting up £3,000 which had to be more than matched from the government's "secret service" funds to secure his election. He afterwards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privy Council Of Ireland
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 Ireland, early modern period the council gained more influence at the expense of the viceroy, but 18th-century Ireland, 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 of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant had formal and ceremonial power, while policy formulation rested wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stafford-Howard, 3rd Earl Of Stafford
William Matthias Stafford-Howard, 3rd Earl of Stafford, ''de jure'' 4th Baron Stafford FRS (24 February 1719 – 28 February 1751) was an English peer. Early life Stafford-Howard was born on 24 February 1719. He was the only son of Anne Holman (d. 1725) and William Stafford-Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford, who were first cousins. His younger sisters were Lady Mary Stafford-Howard (who married, as his second wife, Count Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, son of Louis, Duke of Rohan), Lady Anastasia Stafford-Howard and Lady Anne Stafford-Howard, who both became nuns. His paternal grandparents were the former Mary Southcote (a daughter of Sir John Southcote) and John Stafford-Howard (a son of the 1st Viscount Stafford), who served as King James II's Ambassador to King Louis XIV when the former was exiled at Saint-Germain. After the King's death, his father served as vice- chamberlain to the King's widow, Queen Mary.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 British General Election
The 1754 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Owing to the extensive corruption and the Duke of Newcastle's personal influence in the pocket boroughs, the government was returned to office with a working majority. The old parties had disappeared almost completely by this stage; anyone with reasonable hopes of achieving office called himself a 'Whig', although the term had lost most of its original meaning. While 'Tory' and 'Whig' were still used to refer to particular political leanings and tendencies, parties in the old sense were no longer relevant except in a small minority of constituencies, such as Oxfordshire, with most elections being fought on local issues and the holders of political power being determined by the shifting allegiance of factions and aristocratic families rather than the stren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Sulivan
Laurence Sulivan (1713–1786) was an Anglo-Irish politician, Member of Parliament first for Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ... in 1762 and then for Ashburton in 1768. He was also Chairman of the British East India Company. Sulivan was born in Ireland and moved to work for the East India Company, returning to England in 1753 with a moderate fortune, which enabled him to purchase Ponsbourne Park in Hertfordshire in 1761. He was elected a Director of the East India Company for 1755–8, 1764–5, 1769–70, 1771–2, 1778–80 and 1783 to his death. He was Deputy Chairman for 1763–4, 1772–3, 1780–1 and Chairman for 1758–9, 1760-2 and 1781–2. He had married in India and had two sons. Ponsbourne passed to his son Stephen, who sold it in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halliday (died 1754)
John Halliday (c. 1709–1754) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1754. Halliday was the eldest son of John Halliday of Yard House and his wife Mary Trowbridge, daughter of Edmund Trowbridge of Lipyeate, Somerset. He married Mary Welman, daughter of Isaac Welman of Poundisford Park, Somerset in 1737. He was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1746-47 Halliday was returned unopposed for Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ... at the 1754 general election. He died a week after the new Parliament assembled on 8 June 1754, aged 44. He was succeeded by his son John who was also MP for Taunton. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Halliday, John 1700s births 1754 deaths British MPs 1754–1761 High sheriffs of Somerset Members of the Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Carpenter, 1st Earl Of Tyrconnell
George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (26 August 1723 – 9 March 1762), known as The Lord Carpenter between 1749 and 1761, was a British peer and politician. Background Carpenter was the only surviving son of George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter by Elizabeth (née Petty), of Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire, England."The Life of Lord George Carpenter", published 1736 in London.Carpenter, John R. ''Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009'' (DVD format). George the 3rd is RIN 11687.Carpenter, Amos B. ''A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America'', a.k.a. "The Carpenter Memorial", Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898), reprinted and duplicated by many organizations in print, CD, and DVD formats. See page 829. *Note: This 900-plus page tome was remarkable for its day, but many corrections has been made in the genealogies it contains over the last century. The best compiled corrections to this work and related lines is in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Price (MP)
Francis Price may refer to: * Francis Price (planter) (1635–1689), English planter in Jamaica * Francis Wilson Price (1895–1974), missionary of the Presbyterian Church {{hndis, Price, Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Smyth (politician)
Edward Smyth may refer to: * Sir Edward Smyth, 2nd Baronet (1637–1713), English landowner * Edward Smyth (sculptor) (1749–1812), Irish sculptor * Edward Selby Smyth (1819–1896), British general * Edward Smyth (bishop) (1665–1720), Bishop of Down and Connor See also * Edward Smith (other) * Edward Smythe (other) {{hndis, Smyth, Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Price (politician)
Nick Price (born 1957) is a Zimbabwean professional golfer. Nick or Nicholas Price may also refer to: * Nick Price (illustrator), British illustrator of The Wombles, ''Tumtum and Nutmeg'', and ''Doctor Snuggles'' * Nick Price (actor), appearing in the Three Investigators film series *Nicholas Price (born 1983), backing drummer for Meg & Dia * Nicholas A. Price (born 1962), visual artist See also * Michael Price (other) (aka Mick Price) {{Hndis, name=Price, Nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl Of Farnham
Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham PC (Ire) (1723 – 7 October 1800), styled The Honourable Barry Maxwell from 1756 to 1779, was an Irish peer and politician. He succeeded as the 3rd Baron Farnham in 1779, and was later created the 1st Viscount Farnham in 1781 and, in 1785, he was further advanced in the Peerage of Ireland as the 1st Earl Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the Peerages in the United Kingdom, peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ... of Farnham. Background He was the son of John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham and Judith Barry. Political career He was Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas between 1741 and 1800, was called to the Irish Bar in 1748 and was appointed a Bencher in 1757. On his brother's death in November 1779, he succeeded as the 3rd Baron Farnham, inheriting the Farnham estate. He commissioned James Wyat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Cosby, 1st Baron Sydney
Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby, 1st Baron Sydney ( – 22 January 1774) was an Anglo-Irish politician and diplomat. Background Cosby was the son of Pole Cosby, of Stradbally, Queen's County, and Mary, daughter of Henry Dodwell. Dudley Cosby was his grandfather. Political and diplomatic career Cosby was elected to the Irish House of Commons as one of two representatives for Carrick in 1763, a seat he held until 1768. In 1763 he was also appointed Minister Resident to Denmark, where he was to assist the aged Envoy Extraordinary, Walter Titley. He arrived in Copenhagen in February 1764, but returned to Britain already the following year. In 1768 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland The peerage of Ireland consists of those Peerage, titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lordship of Ireland, Lord or Monarchy of Ireland, King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great B ... as Lord Sydney, of Leix, Baron Stradb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
