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Sir Thomas Gerard, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Gerard, 2nd Baronet (c. 1584 - 15 May 1630) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624. Gerard was the son of Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet of Bryn and of Etwall and his wife Cecily Maney, daughter of Sir Walter Maney, of Staplehurst. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in February 1621. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool. Gerard died in 1630 at the age of about 45. Sir Thomas married, firstly, Frances Molyneux (died 1626), daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet (1560–1622) was a member of parliament for Lancashire, Mayor of Liverpool and Receiver-General of the Duchy of Lancaster. Life Molyneux was the son of William Molyneux and his wife Bridget Caryll. His grandfa ... of Sefton in 1610. They had seven sons and three daughters; their son William became 3rd Baronet and died 7 April 1681. He married, secondly, Dorothy Moore, widow of J ... [...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 Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, incorporated Wales) 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 Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom 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 the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet (1560 – 16 February 1621) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. Gerard was the son of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn Hall and his wife Elizabeth Port, daughter of Sir John Port, of Etwall, Derbyshire. His brother Fr. John Gerard, was later ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and operated an underground ministry in Elizabethan England. Thomas Gerard matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 20 July 1578, aged 18. In 1579 he was a student of the Inner Temple. His parents and brother John were Catholics and he was tutored by a Catholic. His first wife Cecily was "a recusant and indicted thereof" and he employed a "notorious recusant" to educate his child and was described as "of evil affection in religion" in 1590. Gerard was involved in an unfortunate incident in July 1583. He and wife were looking after a young Lancashire heiress Suzanne Abraham. A fencing master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etwall
Etwall is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, southwest of Derby on the A50 road, A50. The population at the 2011 Census was 2,906. Geography Etwall is located between the A516 road, A516 bypass and the A50 road, A50 in south Derbyshire. The A516 draws heavy traffic heading for the M1 motorway, M1 north. The village has its own public library, several schools including a state pre-school, state primary, an independent day school and the large secondary school, John Port Spencer Academy. The St Helen's Church, Etwall, parish church is St Helen's. A war memorial is located in the shadow of a memorial tree which was planted in the 1800s. There is also a Buddhist centre at Ashe Hall established by Kelsang Gyatso. Some of the inhabitants work at the Toyota car factory which is located east of the village. The part of the village that is closely adjacent to the A50, and the Toyota Car factory, is separately named as Etwall Common. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Gerard
There have been three baronies created for the Gerard family who lived historically at Bryn, Greater Manchester, Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire and Kingsley, Cheshire, in the 13th century. The third and current barony was created in 1876. History The earliest traceable member of the family that gave rise to the Barons Gerard was a William Fitz Gerard, who lived during the reign of Henry III of England and obtained his lands in Kingsley, Cheshire, by marriage Emma, daughter of Richard de Kingsley. Traditional genealogical sources have shifted this man back in time and given the family a shared origin with the Hiberno-Norman FitzGeralds, Dukes of Leinster in the Peerage of Ireland, and they adopted the same arms as that famous family, ''argent, a saltire gules'', before the 17th century in place of an earlier coat bearing a lion. They were noted as having exasperated heralds by long ignoring their entreaties to be allowed to record the family's pedigree, arms, and early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool (UK Parliament Constituency)
Liverpool was a borough United Kingdom constituencies, constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs). In 1868, this was increased to three Members of Parliament. The borough franchise was held by the Freedom of the City, freemen of the borough. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings. In 1800 there were around 3000 electors, with elections in this seat being nearly always contested. The borough returned several notable Members of Parliament including Prime Minister George Canning, William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, Banastre Tarleton, noted soldier in the American War of Independence and most notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet (1560–1622) was a member of parliament for Lancashire, Mayor of Liverpool and Receiver-General of the Duchy of Lancaster. Life Molyneux was the son of William Molyneux and his wife Bridget Caryll. His grandfather, Sir Richard Molyneux (1528–1568), was MP for Liverpool from 1562 to 1571. He was educated at University College, Oxford. In 1581, Molyneux was appointed by substitution MP of Wigan, replacing Sir Edward Fitton and knighted in 1586. In 1588–89, he was Mayor of Liverpool and in 1588 and 1596 High Sheriff of Lancashire. He was knight of the shire (MP) for Lancashire in 1584, 1593 and 1604. He held the office of Receiver-General of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1607. He was created Baronet Molyneux in 1611. On his death, he was buried in Sefton parish church. His seats were Sefton Hall, Sefton and Lytham Hall, Fylde. He left his estates to his son Richard. Family Molyneux married firstly a daughter of Lord Strange and secondly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas May (MP For Liverpool)
Thomas May (1594/95 – 13 November 1650) was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era. Early life and career until 1630 May was born in Mayfield, Sussex, the son of Sir Thomas May, a minor courtier. He matriculated at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1613. He wrote his first published poem while at Cambridge, an untitled three-stanza contribution to the University's memorial collection of poems on the death of Henry Prince of Wales in 1612.''Epicedium Cantabrigiense in obitum immaturum & semper deflendum, Henrici ...'' (Cambridge: 1612), p.103 Although the majority of this volume's poems are in Latin, May's (along with a few others) is in English. It uses the trope of Pythagorean transmigration, which he re-employs in later works. Acquaintance with Carew, Massinger and Jonson In 1615 May registered as a lawyer at Gray's Inn in London. There is no record of what he did for the next five years. During the 1620s May was associated with drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnson (MP For Liverpool)
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James Stanley, 7th Earl Of Derby
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (31 January 160715 October 1651) was an English nobleman, politician, and supporter of the Cavalier, Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Before inheriting the title in 1642 he was known as Lord Strange. He was English feudal barony, feudal Lord of the Isle of Man ("Lord of Man"), where he was known as "Yn Stanlagh Mooar" ("the Great Stanley"). Origins He was born at Knowsley Hall, near Lathom House, on 31 January 1607, the eldest son of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), Order of the Garter, KG, by his wife Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby, Elizabeth de Vere, a daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Through his paternal grandmother, he was a great-great-grandson of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, thereby making him a direct descendant of Henry VII of England, Henry VII. Early life After travelling abroad he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Liverpool (UK Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1580s Births
Year 158 ( CLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tertullus and Sacerdos (or, less frequently, year 911 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 158 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * The earliest dated use of Sol Invictus, in a dedication from Rome. * A revolt against Roman rule in Dacia is crushed. China * Change of era name from ''Yongshou'' to ''Yangxi'' of the Chinese Han dynasty. Births *Gaius Caesonius Macer Rufinianus, Roman politician (d. 237) Deaths * Wang Yi, Chinese librarian and poet (b. AD 89 AD 89 (Roman numerals, LXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Roman consul, Consulship of Titus Aurelius Fulvus (father of Antoninus Pius), Fulv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
