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Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet
Colonel Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet (29 January 1774 – 10 March 1849) of Bushy Park, Dublin was a Tory UK Member of Parliament, who represented Dublin City from 1804 to 1826. Early life Robert Shaw Jr was born in 1774, the eldest son of Robert Shaw Sr. His father had moved to Dublin in the mid-18th century, prospered as a merchant and became Accountant-General of the Post Office. Shaw was also the great-great-grandson of William Shaw, who, in 1689, had gone to Ireland and fought for King William at the Battle of the Boyne and been rewarded with the grant of land there. Career In 1796, Shaw became a Dublin Sheriff's peer, a position he held until 1808, and was appointed High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1806–07. He was an alderman of Dublin from 1808 to 1841 and was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1815–16. Between 1799 and 1800, Shaw served in the Irish House of Commons for Bannow. After the Acts of Union, Shaw replaced the former Tory MP John Claudius Bere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushy Park House At Night
Bushy may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Ron Bushy (born 1945), co-founder and drummer of the rock band Iron Butterfly * Bushy Graham (1905–1982), Italian-American boxer * Bushy or Bushie, informal American term for supporter of George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, or Jeb Bush Places * Bushy Island, Queensland, Australia * Bushy Islet, Queensland, Australia * Bushy Mountain, New South Wales, Australia * Bushy Lake, California, United States Other uses * Bushy, spelling of the name of the historical character John Bussy as it appears in Shakespeare's play ''Richard II'' See also * Bushy Park (other) * Bushy Creek * Bushy House * Bushy Run * Bushy-crested (other) * Bushi (other) * Bushey (other) Bushey is a town in England. Bushey may also refer to: * Bushey railway station, Hertfordshire, England * Bushey Studios, a British film studio in the town * Bushey Grammar School Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumbent’s death or resignation, or when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office (because of a recall, a prohibited dual mandate, criminal conviction, or failure to maintain a minimum attendance), or when an election is invalidated by voting irregularities. In some cases a vacancy may be filled by a method other than a by-election (such as the outgoing member's party nominating a replacement) or the office may be left vacant. These elections can be held anytime in the country. An election to fill a vacancy created when a general election cannot take place in a particular constituency (such as if a candidate dies shortly before election day) may be called a by-election in some jurisdictions, or may have a distinct name (''e.g.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ellis (Irish Politician)
Thomas Ellis (c. 1774–1832) was a Tory UK Member of Parliament representing Dublin City in 1820–1826. In a by-election on 30 June 1820 Ellis replaced the deceased former Whig MP the Right Honourable Henry Grattan. The Whig candidate defeated in the by-election was the great orators son also called Henry Grattan Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 – 4 June 1820) was an Irish politician and lawyer who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century from Britain. He was a Member of the Irish Parliament (MP) from 1775 to 18 .... Ellis retained the seat until he retired, at the dissolution of Parliament, in 1826. References *''Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922'', edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978) *''The Parliaments of England'' by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) * 1770s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Grattan
Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 – 4 June 1820) was an Irish politician and lawyer who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century from Britain. He was a Member of the Irish Parliament (MP) from 1775 to 1801 and a Member of Parliament (MP) in Westminster from 1805 to 1820. He has been described as a superb orator and a romantic. With generous enthusiasm he demanded that Ireland should be granted its rightful status, that of an independent nation, though he always insisted that Ireland would remain linked to Great Britain by a common crown and by sharing a common political tradition. Grattan opposed the Act of Union 1800 that merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain, but later sat as a member of the united Parliament in London. Early life Henry Grattan was born in Fishamble Street, Dublin, and baptised in the nearby church of St. John the Evangelist in 1746. A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin City (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Dublin City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition in 1801. History Dublin City had an electorate of between three and four thousand, making it the largest of the county-borough constituencies. In the 1760s the radical politician Charles Lucas (politician), Charles Lucas used the seat as his political base. It was succeeded by the Westminster constituency of Dublin City (UK Parliament constituency), Dublin City in 1801, remaining as a two-seat constituency. Members of Parliament, 1264–1801 *1557 James Stanihurst (speaker) *1560 James Stanihurst (speaker) and Robert Golding *1569 James Stanihurst (speaker) *1585 George Taylor and Nicholas Ball *1613-1615 Richard Bolton (lawyer), Richard Bolton and Richard Barry *1634-1635 Richard Barry and Nathaniel Catelyn Speaker *1639–1649 Richard Barry and John Bysse *First Protectorate Parliament, 1654–55: Daniel Hutchinson *Second Protectorate Parliament, 1656–58: Richard Tighe (mayor), Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John La Touche (1775–1820)
John (II) La Touche (April 1775 – 30 January 1820) was an Irish Whig politician. He was the son of John La Touche, who had represented Newcastle, Newtownards, Harristown and County Kildare in the Parliament of Ireland and subsequently sat for County Kildare from 1801 to 1802 in the United Kingdom House of Commons. John La Touche junior represented Newtownards in the Irish House of Commons from 1796 to 1797. Elected in 1798 for both Newcastle and Harristown he chose to sit for Harristown until the dissolution of the Irish Parliament on 1 January 1801 under the Acts of Union 1800. He was elected for Dublin City at the 1802 general election, defeating Tory MP the Right Honourable George Ogle. La Touche was defeated at the 1806 general election. At the 1807 general election, he was elected in an uncontested poll for County Leitrim, topping the poll at contested elections in 1812 and in 1818. He was appointed Sheriff of Leitrim for 1808–09. References *''The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet
Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet (11 December 1799 – 30 June 1876) was an Irish Conservative MP in the United Kingdom Parliament, and a judge. He was the second son of Colonel Sir Robert Shaw, Bt of Bushy Park, Dublin and his first wife Maria Wilkinson, daughter and heiress of Abraham Wilkinson. He became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland on 15 January 1835. Shaw became the 3rd Baronet on 19 February 1869 on the death of his elder brother Robert. He attended Trinity College Dublin (BA and MA 1832, LLB and LLD 1841), and subsequently Brasenose College, University of Oxford (BA). He became a member of King's Inns, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1822. He held the judicial offices of Recorder of Dublin, (a part-time municipal judge) and also of Dundalk. His status as a judge did not debar him from sitting in the House of Commons, although the propriety of the dual role was frequently questioned, and in 1832 there was an unsuccessful move in the Commons to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twickenham
Twickenham ( ) is a suburban district of London, England, on the River Thames southwest of Charing Cross. Historic counties of England, Historically in Middlesex, since 1965 it has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, whose administrative headquarters are in the area. The population, including St Margarets, London, St Margarets and Whitton, London, Whitton, was 62,148 at the 2011 census. Twickenham is the home of the Rugby Football Union, with hundreds of thousands of spectators visiting Twickenham Stadium each year. The historic riverside area has a network of 18th-century buildings and pleasure grounds, many of which have survived intact. This area has three grand period mansions with public access: York House, Twickenham, York House, Marble Hill House, Marble Hill and Strawberry Hill House. Another has been lost, that belonging to 18th-century aphorism, aphoristic poet Alexander Pope, who was known as the ''Bard of Twickenham''. Strawberry Hill, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ''Man and Superman'' (1902), ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' (1913) and ''Saint Joan (play), Saint Joan'' (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, in 1876 Shaw moved to London, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the Gradualism (politics), gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of The Rolls In Ireland
The Master of the Rolls in Ireland was a senior judicial office in the Irish Chancery under English and British rule, and was equivalent to the Master of the Rolls in the English Chancery. Originally called the Keeper of the Rolls, he was responsible for the safekeeping of the Chancery records such as close rolls and patent rolls. The office was created by letters patent in 1333, the first holder of the office being Edmund de Grimsby. As the Irish bureaucracy expanded, the duties of the Master of the Rolls came to be performed by subordinates and the position became a sinecure which was awarded to political allies of the Dublin Castle administration. In the nineteenth century, it became a senior judicial appointment, ranking second within the Court of Chancery behind the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The post was abolished by the Courts of Justice Act 1924, passed by the Irish Free State established in 1922. History of the Office Until the sixteenth century, the Master of the Rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William MacMahon
Sir William MacMahon, 1st Baronet (1776–1837) was an Irish barrister and judge of the early nineteenth century. He was a member of a Limerick family which became politically prominent through their influence with the Prince Regent, later King George IV. He was the first of the McMahon Baronets of Dublin. Background He was born in Limerick, son of John MacMahon, comptroller of the port of Limerick, and his second wife, Mary Stackpoole, daughter of James Stackpoole, a merchant; his father's relatively low social standing was something of a handicap to his career. Born a Roman Catholic, he converted to the Church of Ireland for career purposes. He is not thought to have supported Catholic Emancipation, and later quarrelled with Richard Lalor Sheil, who was a relative by marriage, on the subject. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and called to the Bar in 1799, practising on the Munster circuit. He was made Third Serjeant-at-law in 1806, Second Serjeant in 1813 and King' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830. At the time of his accession to the throne, he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III, having done so since 5 February 1811 during his father's final mental illness. George IV was the eldest child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. He led an extravagant lifestyle that contributed to the fashions of the Regency era. He was a patron of new forms of leisure, style and taste. He commissioned John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and remodel Buckingham Palace, and commissioned Jeffry Wyatville to rebuild Windsor Castle. George's charm and culture earned him the title "the first gentleman of England", but his dissolute way of life and poor relationships with his parents and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, earned him the contempt of the peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
