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Sir Francis Vincent, 7th Baronet
Sir Francis Vincent, 7th Baronet, ( – 22 May 1775) of Stoke D'Abernon, was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1775. Early life Vincent was born in . He was the eldest son of Elizabeth Sherman and Sir Henry Vincent, 6th Baronet, MP for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency), Guildford between 1728 and 1734. His sister, Hester Vincent, married John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde. His paternal grandparents were Sir Francis Vincent, 5th Baronet, MP for Surrey (UK Parliament constituency), Surrey, and Rebecca Ashe (a daughter of Jonathan Ashe, merchant of London). His maternal grandparents were Bezaliel Sherman (a Levant_Company, Turkey merchant of London) and Annie Norton.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1277. He was educated at Lincoln's Inn in 1734 and succeeded his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary), Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County, Delaware, New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading, Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldborough (UK Parliament Constituency)
Aldborough was a parliamentary borough located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, abolished in the Great Reform Act 1832. Boundaries Aldborough was a small borough (not even including the whole parish of Aldborough, since Boroughbridge, also within the boundaries, was also a borough with its own two MPs). By the time of the Reform Act 1832 it had a population only just over 500 and an electorate of less than 100. This made it a pocket borough and easy for the local landowner to dominate. History Aldborough returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1558 until 1832. (currently unavailable) It was a "scot and lot" borough, meaning that any man paying the poor rate was eligible to vote. In the 18th century, Aldborough was controlled by the Duke of Newcastle Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne was a title that was created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first grant of the title was made in 1665 to William C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trench Chiswell
Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell (baptised 23 March 1734 – 3 February 1797) was an English banker, antiquarian and MP. He committed suicide after his bankruptcy. Life Henry Muilman' marriage with Phillips took place at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf. Richard Muilman was born as the son of the Dutch merchant/banker Peter Muilman (Amsterdam, 10 December 1706-Marylebone, 4 February 1790) who settled in Bishopsgate in 1722, close to London’s Dutch Church, the remaining fragment of Austin Friars. Peter Muilman married Mary Chiswell in 1734 and owned Kirby Hall, Essex near Great Yeldham. For many years his father and uncle Henry cooperated with their brothers, bankers in Amsterdam. They traded on Denmark, Russia, Dutch Guiana and the Caribbean. In 1757 Richard joined the Muilman company, which cooperated with the Clifford family in speculating on the rise of EIC-stocks and in the circulation of bills of exchange but the Cliffords were hit by the credit crisis of 1772. Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet
Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet (1747 – 17 August 1791) was an English diplomat. Early life Vincent was born in 1747. He was the eldest son of Mary Howard and Sir Francis Vincent, 7th Baronet, who served as MP for Surrey from 1761 until his death in 1775. His paternal grandparents were Sir Henry Vincent, 6th Baronet and the former Elizabeth Sherman. His maternal grandparents were Lt.-Gen. Hon. Thomas Howard, Governor of Berwick, and Mary Morton (a daughter of Rt. Rev. William Morton, Bishop of Meath).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1277. Career Upon the death of his father in 1775, he succeeded as the 8th Baronet Vincent, of D'Abernon. Sir Francis served as British Resident Minister in Venice in 1790. Personal life On 12 July 1779, Vincent married Mary Chiswell (1757–1826), the only child of Trench Chiswell, MP for Aldboro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Meath
The Bishop of Meath is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient Kingdom of Meath. In the Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric. History Until the early twelfth century, the Kingdom of Meath had been divided into eight small monastic episcopal sees, which were located at Clonard, Duleek, Kells, Trim, Ardbraccan, Dunshaughlin, Slane, and Fore. By the time of the Synod of Rathbreasail, held in 1111, the last five had been united to the see of Clonard. Duleek was still recognized as a separate bishopric at the Synod of Kells, held in 1152, but disappeared not long after that date. The see of Kells was ruled together with Breifne (later Kilmore) in the second half of the twelfth century, but after 1211 Kells was incorporated into the diocese of Meath. During the twelfth century, the bishops of Clonard were frequently called the "bishop of Meath" or "bishop of the men of Meath". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moreton
William Moreton (1641 – 21 November 1715) was an English prelate in the Church of Ireland who served as the Bishop of Meath from 1705-1716. Life He was born in Chester in 1641, eldest son of Edward Moreton (1599–1665), prebendary of Chester. His father, son of William Moreton of Moreton, was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, was incorporated at Oxford M.A. 1626 and D.D. 1636; was appointed vicar of Grinton, Yorkshire (1634); rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire, chaplain to Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper, and prebendary of Chester, all in 1637 ; and vicar of Sefton, Lancashire, in 1639. It appears that his property was sequestrated in 1645, and that he was nominated by Lord Byron a commissioner to superintend the capitulation of Chester to the parliamentary forces in January 1646. Restored to his benefices at the Restoration, he died at Chester on 28 February 1664–65, and was buried in Sefton Church, where a Latin inscription commemorates his equanimity under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking. The county has an area of and a population of 1,214,540. Much of the north of the county forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area, which includes the Suburb, suburbs within the M25 motorway as well as Woking (103,900), Guildford (77,057), and Leatherhead (32,522). The west of the county contains part of Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, built-up area which includes Camberley, Farnham, and Frimley and which extends into Hampshire and Berkshire. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley (22,693) and Godalming (22,689). For Local government in England, local government purposes Surrey is a non-metropolitan county with eleven districts. The county historically includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bookham
Great Bookham is a village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'' ("the village by the beeches"). The Bookhams are surrounded by common land, and Bookham railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham, serves both settlements. The villages are astride the A246, which is the and direct route between the two towns. Once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads which give the impression of one large village. On the southern edge of the village is Polesden Lacey, a country house surrounded by more than of grounds. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public. History According to a charter c.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there were granted to the Abbey ''twenty dwellings at Bocham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Howard (British Army Officer, Born 1684)
Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard (1684 – 31 March 1753) was an officer of the British Army and the ancestor of the family of the present Earls of Effingham. Biography Background He was the only surviving son of George Howard of Great Bookham, by his wife Ann, daughter of Thomas Kidder, of Lewes. William Courthope ed., ''Debrett's Peerage'', 22nd edition (1838p. 208Granville Leveson-GowerThe Howards of Effinghamin ''Surrey Archaeological Collections''vol. IX(1888). Pedigree facing p. 436. George Howard was a younger son of Sir Charles Howard of Eastwick and a great-great-grandson of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham through his second son Sir William Howard of Lingfield; George's elder brother Francis had succeeded as fifth Baron Howard of Effingham in 1681.Patrick Cracroft-BrennanHoward of Effingham, Baron (E, 1553/4)in ''Cracroft's Peerage'' (2012). Retrieved 31 March 2013. Thomas Howard was baptised at Great Bookham on 13 August 1684. His father died on 13 Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 British General Election
The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. This was the first Parliament chosen after the accession to the throne of King George III. It was also the first election after George III had lifted the conventional proscription on the employment of Tories in government. The King prevented the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, from using public money to fund the election of Whig candidates, but Newcastle instead simply used his private fortune to ensure that his ministry gained a comfortable majority. However, with the Tories disintegrating, as a result of the end of their proscription providing them with new opportunities for personal advancement, and the loyalty they felt to the new king causing them to drift apart, there was little incentive for Newcastle's supporters to stay together. What little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
