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Sir Theophilus Biddulph, 1st Baronet
Sir Theophilus Biddulph, 1st Baronet (1612 – 25 March 1683) was the son of Michael Biddulph (Parliamentarian), Michael Biddulph of Elmhurst, Staffordshire, Elmhurst, Staffordshire. He was a London Silkman who was knighted in 1660 and created a baronet in the Baronetage of England on 2 November 1664. His residence was Westcombe Park, Westcombe Manor, Greenwich, Kent. He was Member of Parliament for City of London (elections to the Parliament of England), London 1656–1659 and for Lichfield, Staffordshire 1661–1679. He is mentioned in the diary of Samuel Pepys for 1664–5. He died at Greenwich aged 72, and was buried 14 April 1683 at Stow Church, Lichfield and was succeeded by Sir Michael Biddulph, 2nd Baronet, his son Michael. His brother Michael Biddulph (died 1666), Michael was also MP for Lichfield. References * Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Biddulph, Theophilus, 1st Baronet 1612 births 1683 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England People from Elmhurst, Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Biddulph (Parliamentarian)
Michael Biddulph may refer to: * Michael Biddulph (died 1666) (1610–1666), member of parliament for Lichfield (1660–1661) * Sir Michael Biddulph, 2nd Baronet (c. 1652–1718), English member of parliament for Lichfield five times *Michael Biddulph (elder) (fl.1640s), MP for Licfield * Michael Biddulph (1661–1697), member of parliament for Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency), Tamworth * Sir Michael Biddulph (British Army officer) (1823–1904), British general officer and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod * Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph (1834–1923), English politician, member of parliament in Herefordshire See also *Biddulph (other) {{hndis, Biddulph, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foote
Sir Thomas Foote, 1st Baronet (1598 – 12 October 1687) was a wealthy Citizen and grocer of London. He was Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1649. During the Protectorate he was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1657, and after the Restoration (England) he was made a baronet by Charles II. Biography Thomas Foote was a son of John Foote and Margaret (''née'' Brooke) of London and grandson of John Foote of Royston. In 1646 Foote was made a Sheriff of London and in 1649 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He represented London in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments, and was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 5 December 1657 (this honour passed into oblivion at the restoration of the monarchy in May 1660). Foote was created a baronet, of London, on 21 November 1660, with the title to revert on his death to his son-in-law, Arthur Onslow of West Clandon. Foote died on 12 October 1687, in his 89th year and was buried in All Saints Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1661 English General Election
Events January–March * January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeats them. * January 29 – The Rokeby baronets, a British nobility title is created. * January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution in London, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. * February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Chinese Qing Dynasty dies, and is succeeded by his 7-year-old son the Kangxi Emperor. * February 7 – Shah Shuja, who was deprived of his claim to the throne of the Mughal Empire by his younger brother Aurangzeb, then fled to Burma, is killed by Indian troops in an attack on his residence at Arakan. * February 14 – George Monck’s regiment becomes ''The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards'' in England (which later becomes the Coldstream Guards). * March 9 – Following the death o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Minors
Thomas Minors (16 October 1609 – September 1677) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660. Minors was the only son of Robert Minors of Uttoxeter and his wife Gertrude Hunt, daughter of Edmund Hunt of Marchington. He became a draper in Lichfield and was sheriff of Lichfield from 1642 to 1643. He did not take part in the Civil War, while the city was held by the Royalists, but he was a Presbyterian and probably supported the parliamentarian cause. He was commissioner for assessment from 1647 to 1652 and was bailiff from 1648 to 1649. In 1653 he was commissioner for poor prisoners and became J.P. for Staffordshire until July 1660. In 1654, Minors was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield for the First Protectorate Parliament. He was also commissioner for scandalous ministers. In 1656 he was re-elected MP for Lichfield in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment in 1657 and ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet (1624 – 24 June 1693) was an English politician and member of the Lyttelton family. He was a Royalist officer during the English Civil War. After the Restoration, from 1678 to 1679 he sat in the House of Commons. Biography Lyttelton was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet (1593–1650), from whom he inherited the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley in 1649. He joined the Royalist forces at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, where they were routed by the Parliamentarians, and consequentially spent 17 months imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was nevertheless appointed High Sheriff of Worcestershire for 1654–1656. He was elected member of parliament for Lichfield in 1678 and sat until 1679. Family Lyttelton married twice: firstly Philadelphia, the daughter and co-heiress of the Hon. Thomas Carey, groom of the bedchamber to Charles I and secondly Lady Elizabeth Newport, daughter of Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dyott (died 1677)
Richard Dyott (1619 – 5 November 1677) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1667 and 1677. He was a Royalist soldier who fought in the English Civil War. Dyott was the son of Richard Dyott of Freeford Manor, near Lichfield and his wife Dorothy Dorrington, daughter of Richard Dorrington of Stafford. He was captain of the Lichfield Volunteers who fought for King Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill. He accompanied the royal family to the Netherlands during the Commonwealth and returned to England shortly before the Restoration. In 1667 Dyott was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield. He held the seat until his death in 1677. Dyott married firstly on 7 February 1664 Katherine Gresley, daughter of Thomas Gresley of Drakelow. He married secondly on 28 April 1670 Anne Greene, by whom he had a son Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lane (MP)
Colonel John Lane of Bentley (1609 – 31 August 1667) was the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, Staffordshire from 1661 to 1667. A Royalist colonel, he had given refuge to King Charles II at his Bentley estate following the Royalist defeat in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, during the English Civil War The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Cavaliers, Royalists and Roundhead, Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of th .... Charles left Bentley in the guise of the servant of his sister Jane Lane who was travelling to Bristol (see Escape of Charles II ). He was appointed MP shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy. He died in 1667 and was succeeded by Richard Dyott. References 1609 births 1667 deaths Cavaliers English MPs 1661–1679 People from the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall {{1661-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lichfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lichfield is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency in Staffordshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 by Dave Robertson (British politician), Dave Robertson of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Boundaries 1918–1950 The Boroughs of Lichfield and Tamworth, the Urban Districts of Perry Barr and Rugeley, the Rural District of Lichfield, and parts of the Rural Districts of Tamworth and Walsall. 1997–2010 The Lichfield District, District of Lichfield wards of All Saints, Alrewas, Armitage with Handsacre, Boney Hay, Central, Chadsmead, Chase Terrace, Chasetown, Colton and Ridwares, Curborough, Hammerwich, Highfield, King's Bromley, Leomansley, Longdon, Redslade, St John's, Stowe, Summerfield, and Whittington, and the Borough of East Staffordshire wards of Bagots and Yoxall. 2010–2024 The District of Lichfield wards of All Saints, Alrewas and Fradley, Armi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Pennington (Lord Mayor)
Sir Isaac Penington (c. 1584 – 16 December 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1642 and a prominent member of Oliver Cromwell's government. Biography Penington was the son of Robert Penington and followed him in becoming a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He inherited several estates from his father and purchased one of his own. He made a fortune as a wine and cloth merchant. From 1626 he acted as financial agent to his second cousin, Admiral John Penington. He increased his commercial holdings in 1629 by becoming a partner in the brewery business of his second wife's family. He and his wife, Mary, the widow of Roger Wilkinson, a Citizen of the City of London, were both staunch Puritans. In 1638 Penington was elected Sheriff of London and became an alderman of the City of London for Bridge Without ward on 29 January 1639. He was Prime Warden of the Fishmongers Company in 1640. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Riccard
Sir Andrew Riccard (c. 1604 – 6 September 1672) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. Background & family Riccard was born in Portesham, the son of Walter Riccard. He married firstly Catherine, daughter of a leading East India merchant and MP. Their only surviving daughter Christiana married successively Lord Kensington, son of the second Earl of Holland, and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, by whom she was ancestress of the succeeding Lords. He married, secondly, Susanna Bateman who survived him and was buried 17 Mar 1686 at St Olave’s. Portesham In 1634 Riccard was rich enough to pay for a coat of arms, which included, as a crest referring to his eastern trade, a ‘Saracen’s head’ wearing a turban. He is said to have used the motto ‘Possum’ (Latin ‘I am able’) which was also the common name of the village of his birth. He purchased the manor of Portesham, which (on his death) passed to his daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Avery 's papers contain a letter, allegedly to Samuel Avery from his brother ...
Samuel Avery (died 1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. Avery was a merchant of the City of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. In 1645 he was elected alderman of the City of London for Cripplegate ward. He was Master of the Merchant Taylors Company for 1645 to 1646 and was Commissioner for Customs from 1645 to 1649. On 16 September 1647 he became alderman instead for Bassishaw ward and remained until 1653. He was Sheriff of London for the year 1647 to 1648. In 1654, Avery was elected member of parliament for City of London in the First Protectorate Parliament. Samuel Hartlib Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb (c. 1600 – 10 March 1662) M. Greengrass, "Hartlib, Samuel (c. 1600–1662)", ''Oxford D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet
Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet (20 April 1584 – 16 May 1671) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1654 and 1660. He was the eldest son of Edward Langham of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, who he succeeded in 1607. He was apprenticed to Sir Richard Napier, a Turkey merchant, for whom he worked in the Near East. On his return he became a Turkey merchant himself, made a considerable fortune in the City of London and became a prominent member of the Levant and East India Companies. He built up an estate in Northamptonshire which included the purchase of the Cottesbrooke estate in 1635. He was an alderman and Sheriff of London in 1643. He was committed to the Tower of London twice, with the Lord Mayor and other aldermen of London for refusing to publish an act for the abolition of royalty. In 1654 he was elected Member of Parliament for the City of London (UK Parliament constituency), City of London for the First Protectorate Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
