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William Baker (1743–1824)
William Baker (3 October 1743 – 20 January 1824) was a British politician. Life William Baker was the eldest son of Sir William Baker (British politician), William Baker, MP, educated at Eton College (1753–60). Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1761, he did not matriculate there. He studied law at the Inner Temple (1761), where he was called to the bar in 1775. He succeeded his father in 1770, inheriting and renovating the Bayfordbury country house in Hertfordshire. He was elected a Sheriff of London for the same year. Baker was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Aldborough (UK Parliament constituency), Aldborough 4 March 1777 – 8 September 1780, Hertford (UK Parliament constituency), Hertford 7 September 1780 – 30 March 1784, Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Hertfordshire 23 June 1790 – 10 July 1802 and 11 February 1805 – 11 May 1807 and Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency), Plympton Erle 22 March 1768 – 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of William Baker (1743–1824) (by Sir Thomas Lawrence)
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait may be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Conyers (MP Born 1717)
John Conyers (13 December 1717 – 8 September 1775) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Edward Conyers, MP and was educated at University College, Oxford (1735). He succeeded his father in 1742, inheriting a somewhat dilapidated Copt Hall, near Epping, Essex, which he demolished and rebuilt. He was a Tory member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Reading from 1747 to 1754 and for Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ... from 25 February 1772 to 8 September 1775. He married twice; firstly Hannah, the daughter of Richard Warner, of North Elmham, Norfolk and secondly his cousin, Lady Henrietta Frances, the daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret. They had 13 children, of whom 8 survived. References 1717 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dimsdale
Baron Thomas Dimsdale (29 May 1712 – 30 December 1800) was an English medical doctor, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1790. He was created Baron Dimsdale of the Russian Empire by Catherine the Great after inoculating her against smallpox. His cousin, housekeeper and third wife Elizabeth Dimsdale was a diarist and recipe collector. Early life He was born in Theydon Garnon, Essex, the son of John Dimsdale, a surgeon, and his wife Susan. The family were Quakers. He was trained in medicine by his father before training further at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, after which he began to practise medicine in Hertford in 1734. Careers Dimsdale developed a particular interest in the prevention of smallpox by inoculation (variolation), a deliberate infection of the patient via the skin with a mild form of the disease to give protection against more virulent strains. He published ''The present method of inoculating for the small-pox'' in 1767 which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Feilde
Paul Feilde (1711–1783) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1770 to 1780. Feilde was the fourth son of Edmund Feilde of Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire and his wife Martha Paul, daughter of James Paul of Braywick, Berkshire, and was baptised on 6 October 1711. He was educated at Westminster School in 1722 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1724. In 1737 he was called to the bar and he was a London magistrate and a practising barrister until he succeeded to the family estates on the death of the last of his brothers in 1762. Also in 1762, he became Recorder of Hertford. Feilde's great-grandfather Edmund Feilde had represented Hertford under Charles II and his father's cousin Thomas Plumer Byde had been MP for Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Calvert (1726–1804)
John Calvert (1726–1804), was an English brewer and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 48 years between 1754 and 1802. Calvert was born on 6 May 1726 the son of Felix Calvert of Albury Hall and his wife Mary Calvert daughter of Felix Calvert of Nine Ashes, Hertfordshire who was his second cousin. The Calvert family were London brewers who owned the Peacock Brewhouse in Whitecross Street and the Hour Glass brewhouse in Thames Street. Calvert was returned as Member of Parliament for Wendover by Lord Verney in a by-election on 25 February 1754 and was re-elected in the 1754 general election. His father died on 29 April 1755 and he inherited a partnership in the family business at the Peacock Brewery, Whitecross Street which he ran successfully for many years. In 1761 Calvert was returned unopposed as MP for Hertford and again in 1774. He then lost his seat at Hertford in the 1780 general election but was returned by Lord Weymouth as MP for Tamworth in a by-electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mellish
Charles Mellish (6 July 1737 – 29 December 1796) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1784. Early life Mellish was born in 1737 in London, England. He was the only surviving son of William Mellish, MP, of Blyth, Nottinghamshire, and his first wife, Kitty da Costa. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1761 and was called to the Bar in 1766. He inherited Blyth Hall, Nottinghamshire on the death of his father in 1791. Career Mellish was Recorder of Newark, Nottinghamshire from 1770 to 1777, and again from 1779 to 1794. He was Commissioner of Stamps from 1793 to 1796. Mellish managed the Yorkshire estates of Viscount Galway, with whom he was connected by marriageNote: his half-sister had married the 2nd Viscount Galway and was thereby eligible to be, and was elected as, Member of Parliament for Pontefract in the 1774 general election. In the 1780 general election Mellish was placed by the Duke of Newcastle as MP for Aldborough, Yorkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet MP (31 July 1733 – 10 January 1802), of Norwood Park in Nottinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1796. Family background and education Sutton was the younger son of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Sutton, KB, MP, politician and diplomat, and Judith Tichborne, previously the third wife and widow of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. She was the daughter of Sir Benjamin Tichborne of Beaulieu and niece of Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard. He was a great-grandson of Henry Sutton, younger brother of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton (which peerage became extinct in 1723). The Sutton baronets were thus distantly relatedThe 2nd Baron was nephew of Henry Sutton; his daughter the Duchess of Rutland was great-niece of Henry Sutton, and his grandson the Marquess of Granby (1721–1770) was thus a third cousin of Sir Richard Sutton). to the dukes of Rutland, who were descended from the marriage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hanger, 3rd Baron Coleraine
William Hanger, 3rd Baron Coleraine (6 August 1744 – 11 December 1814), styled The Honourable William Hanger between 1762 and 1794, was a British politician. Hanger was the second surviving son of Gabriel Hanger, 1st Baron Coleraine, by Elizabeth Bond, daughter and heiress of Richard Bond, of Hereford. He sat as Member of Parliament for East Retford between 1775 and 1778, for Aldborough between 1778 and 1780 and for St Michael's between 1780 and 1784. In 1794 he succeeded his elder brother John in the barony. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords (although it did entitle him to a seat in the Irish House of Lords. Lord Coleraine died in December 1814, aged 70, and was succeeded in the title by his younger brother, George George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Smith (1717–1788)
Abel Smith (baptised 14 March 1717 – 12 July 1788) of Wilford House in the parish of Wilford, near Nottingham, England, was one of the leading bankers of his timeJ. Leighton Boyce, ''Smith's the Bankers 1658–1958'' (1958). and served thrice as a Member of Parliament. Some secondary sources refer to him as Abel Smith II in order to distinguish him from other members of Smith family (bankers), his family with the same name. Origins He was baptised on 14 March 1717 at Nottingham, the third son and successor of Abel Smith (died 1756), a banker of Nottingham, the second son and heir of Thomas Smith (1631–1699), a Mercer (occupation), mercer at Nottingham who in 1658 founded Smith's Bank. His mother was Jane Beaumont (1689–1743), a daughter of George Beaumont of Chapelthorpe in Yorkshire.Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", ''The Genealogist'', 26 (2012):58–76. Career He was apprenticed at the age of fifteen to William Wilberforce, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wilkinson (MP)
Charles Wilkinson (1725-1782), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1777, during which time he was judged insane. Wilkinson was the son of Andrew Wilkinson, MP for Aldborough and his wife Barbara Jessop. He was admitted at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 2 July 1742, and entered Middle Temple on 23 July 1742. He was called to the bar in 1749. Wilkinson's father was estate agent to the Duke of Newcastle and Charles helped his father in managing the Duke's pocket boroughs of Aldborough and Boroughbridge. In 1774 Events January–March * January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I. * January 27 ** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and feathers British customs ... he was returned as Member of Parliament for Aldborough. By May 1775 Wilkinson had suffered a mental breakdown. and on 8 September was confined under the care of Dr. Willis. The Duke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first Creation)
Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (1744 – 28 November 1823), known as Sir Richard Philipps, Bt, from 1764 to 1776, was a Welsh landowner and Tory (political faction), Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1765 and 1812. Background and education Philipps was the son of Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, of Picton Castle, and was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He succeeded in the baronetcy in 1764. Political career Philipps was returned to parliament for Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency), Pembrokeshire in 1765 (succeeding his deceased father), and held the seat at the 1768 British general election, 1768 general election. However, in 1770 his election was declared void. In 1774 he was returned for Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency), Plympton Erle in Devon, a seat he held until 1779. In 1776 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Milford. As this was an Irish peerage he was able to remain in the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henry Ourry
Captain Paul Henry Ourry (3 October 1719 – 31 January 1783) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who represented Plympton Erle in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1763 to 1775. Early life Ourry was the second son of Louis Ourry, a Huguenot of Blois and his wife Anne Louise Beauvais, daughter of Louis Beauvais and was born on 3 October 1719. Naval career Ourry joined the Royal Navy and was Lieutenant in 1742 serving on HMS ''Elizabeth'' from 1742 to 1744 and saw action at the Battle of Toulon. From 1746 to 1748 he served on HMS ''Salisbury''. He married Charity Treby, daughter of George Treby MP former secretary at war on 26 August 1749. From 1751 to 1752 he served on HMS ''Monmouth'' and from 1752 to 1756 on HMS ''Deptford'' He was promoted to Master and Commander in 1756 and awarded command of the fireship , then at anchor at Port Mahon. War with France broke out in May 1756, while Ourry was ''en route'' to Port Mahon to assume command of his vessel. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
