|
Sir Thomas Miller, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Miller, 3rd Baronet (c. 1688–1733) was a British politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. Miller was the only son of Sir John Miller, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Margaret Peachey, daughter of John Peachey of Chichester. He matriculated at New College, Oxford on 29 January 1707, aged 18. He married Jane Gother, daughter of Francis Gother, or Goater, alderman of Chichester. Miller was returned as Member of Parliament for Chichester (UK Parliament constituency), Chichester in a contest at the 1715 British general election, 1715 general election and retained the seat unopposed at the 1722 British general election, 1722 general election. He did not stand in 1727 British general election, 1727. In 1717 he strongly opposed the acquittal of former Tory first minister Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Robert Harley during his Impeachment of Robert Harley, Impeachment trial. Miller succeeded his father in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs), who are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England began to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1801 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brudenell (died 1746)
James Brudenell (c.1687–1746), of Luffenham, Rutland, was a British courtier, office holder and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1746. Early life Brudenell was the second son of Francis Brudenell, Lord Brudenell and his wife Lady Frances Savile, daughter of Thomas Savile, 1st Earl of Sussex. Like all his family, Brudenell had been brought up a Roman Catholic. He and his brother George went to Italy in 1703. They enjoyed an unruly time there and while they were still in Rome, the Duke of Shrewsbury was asked to castigate Brudenell for neglecting his studies, and he may have been instrumental in converting the brothers to Anglicanism. Their guardian, Robert Constable, 3rd Earl of Dunbar, ordered them back to England in the autumn of 1704 but instead, they went on to Venice where Brudenell developed smallpox. The brothers finally returned to England at the end of April 1706. Career Brudenell was elected as Whig Member of Parliament for Chichester a ... [...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 scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1722–1727
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1733 Deaths
Events January–March * January 13 – Borommakot, Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of Thai Sa, King Sanphet IX. * January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, Orlando (opera), ''Orlando'' is performed for the first time, making its debut at the King's Theatre in London. * February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. * March 21 – The Molasses Act is passed by British House of Commons, which reinforces the negative opinions of the British by American colonists. The Act then goes to the House of Lords, which consents to it on May 4 and it receives royal assent on May 17. * March 25 – English language, English replaces Latin and Law French as the official language of English and Scottish courts following the enforcement of the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730. April–June * April 6 **After British Prime Minister Robert Walpole's proposed Excise Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1680s Births
Year 168 ( CLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Paullus (or, less frequently, year 921 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 168 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 * Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his adopted brother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia. * The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia, and subdues the Marcomanni at Carnuntum, north of the Danube. Asia * Emperor Ling of Han succeeds Emperor Huan of Han as the emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty; the first year of the ''Jianning'' era. Births * Cao Ren, Chinese general (d. 223) * Gu Yong, Chinese chancellor (d. 243) * Li Tong, Chinese general (d. 209) Deaths * Anicetus, pope of Rome (approximate date) * Chen Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lumley (MP)
Charles Lumley (1728) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1728. He was the fifth son of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, of Lumley Castle, county Durham, and Stanstead, near Chichester, Sussex, and his wife Frances Jones, daughter of Sir Henry Jones of Aston, Oxfordshire. He was the brother of James, John and Thomas Lumley, all MPs Lumley was Equerry to the Prince of Wales from 1718 and then, from about 1726, groom of the bedchamber to George II as Prince of Wales and King. He was returned unopposed for Chichester at the 1727 British general election The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was trigg ... on the joint interests of his brother Lord Scarbrough and the Duke of Richmond. Lumley died unmarried on 11 August 1728. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord William Beauclerk
Lord William Beauclerk (22 May 1698 – 1733) was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1724 to 1733. Beauclerk was the second son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife Lady Diana de Vere, daughter of Aubrey de Vere, 20th and last Earl of Oxford. He was educated at Eton College in 1707 and joined the army. He was a lieutenant in the 2nd Foot in 1716 and a captain in the Royal Horse Guards in 1721. He married Charlotte Werden, daughter of Sir John Werden, 2nd Baronet on. 13 December 1722.Charlotte Werden was buried at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 7 July 1770. Source: ''The Register Book for Burials. In the Parish of St James in Westminster in the County of Middlesex. 1754-1812''. 7 July 1770. Beauclerk was returned as Member of Parliament for Chichester at a by-election on 20 January 1724 with the support of his cousin Charles Lennox. He supported the Administration throughout his time in Parliament. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke Of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, (18 May 17018 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was a British nobleman and politician. He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, the youngest of the seven illegitimate sons of King Charles II. He was the most important of the early patrons of the game of cricket and did much to help its evolution from village cricket to first-class cricket. Early life Lennox was styled Earl of March from his birth in 1701 as heir to his father's dukedom. He also inherited his father's love of sports, particularly cricket. He had a serious accident at the age of 12 when he was thrown from a horse during a hunt, but he recovered and it did not deter him from horsemanship. March entered into an arranged marriage in December 1719 when he was still only 18 and his bride, Hon. Sarah Cadogan, was just 13, in order to use Sarah's large dowry to pay his consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kelsall
Henry Kelsall (c. 1692–1762), of Colkirk, Norfolk, was a British administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1719 to 1734. Kelsall was the son of Henry Kelsall of Chester. He was educated at Westminster School under Knipe, where he was a school-fellow of Thomas Holles, the future Duke of Newcastle. He was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 7 February 1708, aged 15 and became a fellow in 1714. Kelsall was appointed Senior clerk at the Treasury under William Lowndes in November 1714. This was presumably through the influence of Newcastle, and he retained the post for the rest of his life. Newcastle was probably also instrumental in his return as Member of Parliament for Chichester at a by-election on 3 December 1719. At the 1722 general election, the Government brought him in as MP for Bossiney. After Lowndes death in 1724, he was second in command at the Treasury to John Scrope. He served on the House of Commons committees that were resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Farington
Sir Richard Farington, 1st Baronet ( – 7 August 1719) was an English Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1681 and 1701 and in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1719. Life Farington was the son of Sir John Farington and his wife Ann May, daughter of John May, of Rawmere, Sussex. He married Elizabeth Peachey, daughter of John Peachey, of Ertham by licence dated 24 May 1687. Farington was appointed Commissioner for assessment for Sussex for 1679 to 1780. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Chichester at a by-election on 4 January 1681 in succession to his father and returned again at the general election later that year. He sat until 1685. He was commissioner for inquiry into recusancy fines in 1687 and was appointed Justice of the Peace in May 1688. In 1690, Farington was appointed Commissioner for assessment for Sussex again. He was selected as High Sheriff of Sussex for the year 1696 to 1697. By 1697 he was captain of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
