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Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet (c. 1653–1722) of Rougham and Rushbrooke Hall was an English politician and landowner. Davers was the son of Sir Robert Davers, 1st Baronet, a Royalist who had made his fortune exploiting enslaved Africans on his plantation in Barbados.William Betham, ''The Baronetage of England'' (1803), p. 58. He owned 300 acres worked by 200 "negroes". Davers was born in Barbados before coming to England between 1680 and 1682. He then returned to Barbados and took his seat in the Council there on 13 June 1682. On 30 November 1683 he was one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer and of Pleas of Barbados. He inherited his father's baronetcy in 1684 and was picked to serve as High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1685, but did not take up the role. He moved back permanently to England in 1687 and became the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds in 1689. He sat in the Commons for the seat for a second term from 1703 to 1705, after which he was elected MP for Suf ...
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Rushbrooke Hall
Rushbrooke Hall was a British stately home in Rushbrooke, Suffolk.GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rushbrooke, in St Edmundsbury and Suffolk , Map and description, ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7644 (Accessed 12 February 2015)''Suffolk Institute'' (Volume VII, 10 January 2014) http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20VII%20Part%203%20%281891%29_Rushbrooke%20Hall%20%282%20Jul%201891%29%20F%20Haslewood_327%20to%20331.pdf (Accessed 12 February 2015), p.327-33. For several hundred years it was the family seat of the Jermyn family. It was demolished in 1961. The original manor house on the moated site to the south of the village of Rushbrooke is believed to have been constructed in the reign of King John. Originally named after the local landowning Rushbrooke family, between 1230 and 1703 the manor and estate was held by the Jermyn family. The older manor was largely ...
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Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl Of Dysart
Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart (30 January 1649 – 23 February 1727 n.s.), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1651 to 1698, was a British Tory Member of Parliament and nobleman. Dysart was the son of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet (d.1669), and Elizabeth, 2nd Countess of Dysart (d.1698). Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, Lionel succeeded to his father's baronetcy on his death, but also a raft of debts which bred in him a habit of frugality which was not shed in later years. In 1673, he contested Suffolk as a Tory; defeated by Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet, he had the return falsified by the sheriff, Sir William Soame, and took his seat in Parliament. An election committee declared Barnardiston elected who initially obtained £1,000 damages from him in a suit before the King's Bench, but the decision was overturned by the Court of Exchequer Chamber. Huntingtower was made a freeman of Eye in 1675. He briefly served as Member of Parliament for Orford in 167 ...
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English MPs 1698–1700
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Baronets In The Baronetage Of England
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th century, however in its current usage was created by James I of England in 1611 as a means of raising funds for the crown. A baronetcy is the only British hereditary honour that is not a peerage, with the exception of the Anglo-Irish Black Knights, White Knights, and Green Knights (of whom only the Green Knights are extant). A baronet is addressed as "Sir" (just as is a knight) or "Dame" in the case of a baronetess, but ranks above all knighthoods and damehoods in the order of precedence, except for the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, and the dormant Order of St Patrick. Baronets are conventionally seen to belong to the lesser nobility, even though William Thoms claims that: The precise quality of this dignity ...
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1722 Deaths
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: * 17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *'' Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christ ...
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1653 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage. * January– The Swiss Peasant War begins after magistrates meeting at Lucerne refuse to hear from a group of peasants who have been financially hurt by the devaluation of the currency issued from Bern. * February 2 – New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. * February 3 – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile. * February 10 – Swiss peasant war of 1653: Peasants from the Entlebuch valley in Switzerland assemble at Heiligkreuz to organize a plan to suspend all tax payments to the authorities in the canton of Lucerne, after having been snubbed at a magisterial meeting in Lucerne. More communities in the canton join in an alliance concluded at Wolhusen on February 26. * February – The Morning Star Rebellion (''Morgonstjärneupproret'') of peasants breaks out ...
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Davers Baronets
The Davers Baronetcy, of Rougham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 May 1682 for Robert Davers, who had made a great fortune in Barbados before acquiring the Rougham estate in Suffolk. The second and fourth Baronets represented Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk in Parliament. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Bury St Edmunds. Despite having an alleged nine illegitimate children, the 6th Baronet left his estates to his nephew, Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol, and his baronetcy became extinct. Thomas Davers, third son of the second Baronet, was an admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ... in the Royal Navy. The family seat was Rushbrooke Hall from 1703 to 1806. Davers baro ...
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Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet
Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet (1685 – 23 July 1731) of Grimston Hall, Suffolk was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1731. Early life Barker was the son of Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet and his wife Bridget Bacon, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. In 1696, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. He attended Ipswich school and was admitted at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 7 April 1702, aged 16. He married Mary Bence, only daughter of John Bence, MP, of Heveningham, Suffolk. Career After having narrowly failed to get elected in a by-election a year earlier, Barker was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Ipswich in a contest at the 1708 British general election where his father in law was retiring as an MP. He voted against the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. At the 1710 British general election, he was returned again in a contest for Ipswich. He was listed among the 'Tory patriots' who voted agai ...
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Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (24 September 1677 – 7 May 1746) was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the subject of much gossip as his wife eloped with his cousin Thomas Hervey and lived openly with him for the rest of her days. He is, however, perhaps best remembered as being one of the early editors of the works of William Shakespeare. He was identified with the Hanoverian Tory faction at the time of the Hanoverian Succession in 1714. Life He was the son of William Hanmer (b. c. 1648 in Angers, France, d. c. 1678?, state that William was aged 15 when he entered Pembroke College, Oxford on 17 July 1663, so he was probably born c.1648. says that William predeceased his father Thomas, the 2nd Baronet (1612–1678). William thus may have been under 30 when he died. Thomas was born in 1677. the son by his second marriage of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd ...
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