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Sir Roger Meredith, 5th Baronet
Sir Roger Meredith, 5th Baronet (c. 1677 – 31 December 1738) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Meredith was the son of Sir Richard Meredith, 2nd Baronet and his wife Susanna Skippon, daughter of Philip Skippon of Foulsham Norfolk. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother Sir Richard Meredith in 1723. In 1727, Meredith was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent and held the seat to 1734. Meredith lived at Leeds Abbey in Kent. He died in December 1738 and was buried at Leeds church, Kent in January 1739 having a monument erected to his memory. Meredith married Maria Gott, widow of Samuel Gott and daughter of Francis Tyssen of Shacklewell. They had no children and on his death, the baronetcy became extinct. He devised his estates to his niece Susanna Meredith, daughter of his brother colonel Henry Meredith. References 1670s births 1738 deaths British MPs 1727–1734 Members of the Par ... [...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] |
Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet (1 August 1687 – 7 March 1733), of Waldershare, Kent, and Dover Street, Westminster, was an English Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1733. Furnese was the son of Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet, and his first wife, Anne Brough, daughter of Robert Brough.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . pp. 1–2. He was educated at Eton College in 1697, and spent some time in Germany and Austria as a young man. Furnese was abroad at the time of the 1708 British general election, but shortly after his return from the Continent, he was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Truro in a by-election on 16 December 1708. He voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. There was pressure for Furnese to stand for Thetford at the 1710 British general election, but he was appointed to the Commission of the Peace for Kent and returned in a contest as Whig MP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1727–1734
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1738 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – At least 664 African slaves drown, when the Dutch West Indies Company slave ship ''Leusden'' capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River, during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves locked below decks to die. * January 3 – George Frideric Handel's opera '' Faramondo'' is given its first performance. * January 7 – After the Maratha Empire of India wins the Battle of Bhopal over the Jaipur State, Jaipur cedes the Malwa territory to the Maratha in a treaty signed at Doraha. * February 4 – Court Jew Joseph Süß Oppenheimer is executed in Württemberg. * February 11 – Jacques de Vaucanson stages the first demonstration of an early automaton, ''The Flute Player'' at the Hotel de Longueville in Paris, and continues to display it until March 30. * February 20 – Swedish Levant Company founded. * March 28 – Mariner Robert Jenkins presents a pickled ear, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1670s Births
Year 167 ( CLXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Quadratus (or, less frequently, year 920 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 167 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one '' epoch'' of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. For example, it is the year as per the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Copt ... became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Lucius Verus, Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus and Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus become Roman Consuls. * The Marcomanni tribe wages war against the Roman Empire, Romans at Aquileia. They destroy Aqueduct (bridge), aqueducts and irrigation conduits. Marcus Aurelius repe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vane, 1st Viscount Vane
William Vane, 1st Viscount Vane (1682 – 20 May 1734), of Fairlawne, Fairlawn, Kent, was a British Whig (British political party), Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1708 and 1734. Early life Vane was baptized on 17 February 1682, the second surviving son of Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard and Lady Elizabeth Holles. His father inherited Raby Castle, Durham, England, Durham and Shipbourne, Fairlawne, Kent in 1662.Mounsey p. 23 His paternal grandfather was Henry Vane the Younger who was beheaded at Tower Hill in 1662. His mother was a daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and the sister of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. He inherited a substantial fortune from his mother's family. Career At the 1708 British general election, Vane was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for County Durham (UK Parliament constituency), County Durham on his father's interest. He was active as a teller for various electoral disputes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Dering, 5th Baronet
Sir Edward Dering, 5th Baronet (1705 – 15 April 1762) was an English politician. Early life Edward Dering was the elder son and heir of Sir Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet of Surrenden in Pluckley, Kent by his wife Ellen, only child of Edward Fisher of Mitcham, Surrey. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1711, while still a child, following his father's death in a duel; his mother had died in 1707. He entered Westminster School in 1719 and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 31 January 1721/2, where he graduated MA on 17 December 1725. Career Dering's political career began when he stood for Member of Parliament for Kent in the election of 1727; he was unsuccessful on that occasion, but was returned unopposed in a by-election in 1733 following the death of Sir Robert Furnese. He retained the seat in the elections of 1734, 1741 and 1747 but was defeated in 1754.History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. (1970). Vol. i p. 611. Politically, Dering was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Twisden, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Twisden, 3rd Baronet (10 November 1668 – 12 September 1728) was a British Tory Member of Parliament and lawyer. Twisden went to the Inner Temple. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ... from 1722 to 1727. He died aged 59. References 1728 deaths 1668 births British MPs 1722–1727 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Inner Temple {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Meredith, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Meredith, 2nd Baronet (died 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659. Meredith was the son of Sir William Meredith, 1st Baronet of Leeds Abbey, Kent and his wife Susanna Barker of London. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ... and admitted at Gray's Inn on 10 March 1649. In 1656, Meredith was elected Member of Parliament for Kent in the Second Protectorate Parliament and in 1659 he was elected MP for Sandwich in the Third Protectorate Parliament. Meredith succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1675 and lived at Leeds Castle. He died in 1679 and was buried at Leeds Church on 5 September 1679. Meredith married Susanna Skippon daughter of Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet (c. 1674 – 3 April 1730) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1702 to 1705 and in the House of Commons of Great Britain variously between 1713 and 1730. Knatchbull was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Dering, daughter of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet. In 1702, Knatchbull was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester and held the seat to 1705. In 1712, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. In 1713, he was elected MP for Kent and represented the constituency until 1715. He was elected MP for Kent again in 1722 and held the seat until 1727. In the following year, he was returned for Lostwithiel, a seat he held until his death on 3 April 1730. Knatchbull married Alice Wyndham, daughter of Colonel John Wyndham and sister of Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham before 1698. They had eight children, three daughters and five sons. Knatchbull died at Golden Square in Middles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shacklewell
Shacklewell is a small locality to the east of Roman Ermine Street (now the A10), in the London Borough of Hackney.'Hackney: Shacklewell', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10, Hackney, ed. T F T Baker (London, 1995), pp. 35–38. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol10/pp35-38 etrieved 28 June 2022 The area was originally a hamlet that developed on Shacklewell Lane in the Ancient Parish and later Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, now a part of the larger modern London Borough of Hackney. The place name is no longer commonly used, and the areas is now generally regarded as part of Dalston, which was originally a separate hamlet 500 yards to the south, and also part of the Parish and Borough of Hackney. Shacklewell took its name from "some springs or wells which were of high repute in former days, but the very site of which is now forgotten." History The place name was first recorded in 1490, when Thomas Cornish, a London sadd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
