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Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1621 – 22 August 1699) of Cottesbrook, Northamptonshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662. Langham was the eldest son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1638, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1640 to train for the law. He was knighted in 1660 and appointed Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1664. In 1656, Langham was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Northampton in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1661, Langham was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in the Cavalier Parliament but the election was declared void on 13 June. Langham was again elected MP for Northampton in February 1662 but the election was also declared void on 26 April 1662. Langham inherited the baronetcy on the dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Booth, 1st Earl Of Warrington
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (13 January 1652 – 2 January 1694) was a Member of Parliament, Privy Councillor, Protestant protagonist in the Revolution of 1688, Mayor of Chester and author. Life Booth was a son of George Booth, Baron Delamer and Lady Elizabeth Grey. His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter. Booth served as a Member of Parliament for Cheshire in 1678, 1679 and 1679–1681, and was conspicuous for his opposition to Catholics. On 7 July 1670, he married Mary Langham, daughter of Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet. At a treason trial in the House of Lords in January 1685/6, Delamer was accused of participation in the Monmouth Rebellion, and the presiding judge in the case was Judge Jeffreys, as Lord High Steward, sitting with thirty other peers. The defence secured an acquittal. During the Revolution of 1688, Booth declared in favour of William III of England, Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Harvey (MP For Northampton)
Francis Harvey (1611–1703) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1661. Harvey was the son of William Harvey of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire and was baptised on 20 December 1611. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 19 October 1627, aged 14 and was awarded B.A. on 11 June 1629. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1637. In 1656, Harvey was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Northampton in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1660, Harvey was elected MP for Northampton in the Convention Parliament but was unseated on petition on 21 Jun 1660. He was re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Holman
Philip Holman (c. 1593 – July 1669) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659. Holman was a scrivener of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He acquired property at Warkworth, Northamptonshire from the Chetwood family and rebuilt part of the manor house. He became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1638. In 1651 he was elected alderman of the City of London for Walbrook ward and was also elected Sheriff of London. In 1659, Holman was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. Holman died at the age of 76 and was buried in the church at Warkworth. Holman was the father of Sir John Holman, 1st Baronet Sir John Holman, 1st Baronet (c. 1633 – 1700) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1661 and 1685. Holman was the son of Philip Holman of Warkworth, Northamptonshire and scrivener of London, and his .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Knightley
Sir Richard Knightley (1533 – 1 September 1615) of Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and leading patron of the Puritans during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Knightleys were one of the leading families of Northamptonshire. Biography Knightley was the eldest son of Valentine Knightley of Fawsley and his wife Anne (née Ferrers). He succeeded his father in 1566 and was knighted in 1565. He was MP for Northampton in the Parliaments of 1584 and 1586, and for Northamptonshire in those of 1589 and 1598. He also served as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1568–1569 and 1581–1582. In 1587 he was commanded by Queen Elizabeth to be present at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (which took place in Northamptonshire). He was a conspicuous member of the Puritan faction in Parliament, and in November 1588 was involved in the printing of the Marprelate tracts. In the late spring of 1588 Elizabeth Hussey allowed the printer Robert Waldeg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Blake (MP)
Alexander Blake was a Member of Parliament for Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ... in 1654–5, 1656–8, and 1658–9. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing English MPs 1654–1655 English MPs 1656–1658 English MPs 1659 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew
Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew (1624 – 30 November 1697) of Steane, Northamptonshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1679, when he inherited the peerage Baron Crew. Life Crew was the son of John Crew, 1st Baron Crew and his wife Jemima Waldegrave, daughter of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford Hall, Essex. He was a student of Gray's Inn in 1641 and was studying in Padua in 1647. In 1656, Crew was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Brackley in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1660, Crew was elected MP for Brackley in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Brackley for the Cavalier Parliament in 1661. In 1679 he inherited the barony on the death of his father. Crew died at the age of 73. As he had no male issue, his fortune was devolved upon his daughters as co-heiresses, while the barony passed to his brother, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boteler
William Boteler ('' fl.'' 1640s and 1650s) was a member of the Parliament of England. After the English Civil War, he was appointed Major-General for Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland during the Rule of the Major-Generals. Early life He was born in Barnwell, Northamptonshire, the son of Noel or Neville Boteler; Ivan Roots considers that the clergyman Edward Boteler (died 1670) was his brother. Political career In April 1640, Boteler was elected MP for Bedford in the Short Parliament in a double return and was taken off. He became a Colonel of Horse (cavalry) in the New Model Army. He was zealous and uncompromising in his hostility to his religious and political enemies, and was a severe persecutor of Quakers in Northamptonshire. In 1656 he advocated that James Nayler should be stoned to death for blasphemy. Boteler was also aggressive in his persecution of Royalists in his area, unlawfully imprisoning the Earl of Northampton for failing to pay his taxes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Claypole
John Claypole (21 August 1625 – 26 June 1688)or John Claypoole . was an officer in the Parliamentary army in 1645 during the English Civil War. He was created Lord Claypole by Oliver Cromwell, but this title naturally came to an end with the Restoration of 1660. Claypole married Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell's second daughter, before October 1646, and raised a troop of horse for Parliament to oppose Charles II in 1651. He was master of the horse to his father-in-law the Lord Protector. A Member of Parliament in 1654 and 1656, he was one of Cromwell's peers in 1657. After the restoration of the monarchy he lived quietly, but may have been briefly imprisoned as a suspect in a plot in 1678, only to be released when no evidence of his involvement was presented. Background Claypole was descended of a gentle family.The family of Claypole is certainly ancient, taking their name from the manor so called in Lincolnshire. Two clergymen, Hugo, and John, are mentioned by Newcourt, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Dryden, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Dryden, 2nd Baronet (c. 1580 – c. 1658) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1654. Dryden was the son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Wilkes, daughter of William Wilkes of Hodnel, Warwickshire. In 1632, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1634. In November 1640, Dryden was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Long Parliament. In 1654, he was re-elected MP for Northamptonshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. Dryden married firstly Priscilla Quarles, daughter of James Quarles of Romford Essex, and sister of the poet Francis Quarles, and secondly Anne Parvis, daughter of Henry Parvis of Ruckholts, Essex. He had no children from his first two wives. He married thirdly Honor Bevill, daughter of Sir Robert Bevill, of Chesterton, and by her had a family. His eldest son Robert succeeded to the baronetcy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Claypole, Senior
John Claypole was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Biography Claypole was the son of Adam Claypole of Lolham Hall, Maxey, Northamptonshire, and his wife Dorothy Wingfield, daughter of Robert Wingfield, of Upton, near Castor, Northamptonshire and his wife Elizabeth Cecil, who was sister to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. His name was spelt in a great variety of ways, including Cleypole, Cleypoole, Chappole, Clappoole, Claipol, and Claypole.Mark Noble, ''Memoirs of several persons and families who, by females, are allied to, or descended from the Protectorate-House of Cromwell, chiefly collected from original papers and records. To which is added a catalogue of such persons who were raised to honors or great employments by the Cromwells, with the lives of many of them.'' Volume II, Birmingham, Printed by Pearson and Rollanson, 1784. "Chapter 24 John Cleypole, Esq"pp. 249–362/ref> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet
Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet (19 September 1613 – 9 October 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at times between 1654 and 1660. Norwich was created baronet of Brampton in the county of Northampton on 24 July 1641. In 1654, he was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. In 1660, Norwich was elected MP for Northampton in the Convention Parliament. Norwich died at the age of 48 Norwich married firstly Anne Smith, daughter of Sir Roger Smith of Edmondthorp, Leicestershire. He married secondly Mary Atkins, daughter of Sir Henry Atkins of Cheshunt, He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son by his first wife Roger Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' .... References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
