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James Darcy (1617–1673)
James Darcy (1617 - 1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Darcy was the son of Conyers Darcy, 4th Baron Darcy (died 1654) and his wife Dorothy Belasyse, daughter of Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet of Newburgh Priory. He was baptised on 30 November 1617. He was a commissioner for militia for Yorkshire in March 1660. In April 1660, Darcy was elected Member of Parliament for Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ... in the Convention Parliament. He was a J.P. for the North Riding of Yorkshire from July 1660 to 1666 and a commissioner for assessment from August 1660 until his death. In June 1661 he was appointed Master of the Royal Stud at £200 per year and was contracted to supply twelve horses a year for £800. He was rece ...
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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 ...
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Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl Of Holderness
Conyers Darcy, 1st Earl of Holderness (24 January 1598/1599 – 14 June 1689) was a British noble; created Earl of Holderness in 1682. Personal life Darcy was born the son of Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and Dorothy Belasyse. He was baptised on 24 Jan 1598/1599 at Kirkby Fleetham, co York (IGI Batch P015071 "Parish register transcripts, 1591-1812" Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Fleetham, Yorkshire). He married Grace Rokeby, daughter of Thomas Rokeby, on 14 October 1616. He succeeded to the titles of Baron Darcy de Knayth, Baron Conyers and Baron Darcy of Meinhill upon his father's death in 1654. He was created 1st Earl of Holderness on 5 December 1682. Lord Holderness had two children: *Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness (/1622-13 December 1692) * Grace Darcy (–1658); married Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet (1631 – 1 July 1678), of Ganton, North Yorkshire, Ganton in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Member ...
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1617 Births
Events January–March * January 5 **Pocahontas and Tomocomo of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe, in the Virginia colony of America, meet King James I of England as his guests, at the Banqueting House at Whitehall. **'' The Mad Lover'', a play by John Fletcher, is given its first performance. * February 27 – The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia. Sweden gains Ingria and Kexholm. * March 4 – On Shrove Tuesday, angry rioters burn down London's Cockpit Theatre because of its increase in the price of admission to its plays. Three rioters are killed when the actors at the theater defend themselves. * March 7 – Francis Bacon is appointed as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and is designated by King James I to serve as regent during the time that the King of England is away from Westminster to travel to Scotland. * March 21 – Pocahontas (Rebecka Rolfe), daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Algonquian tri ...
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Joseph Cradock
Joseph Cradock, FSA (1741/2 – 1826) was an English man of letters, writer, bibliophile and amateur actor. Biography Early life Joseph was born at Leicester on 9 January 1741/2, the only surviving son of Joseph Cradock of Leicester and Gumley. He was inoculated against smallpox in spite of the prevailing prejudice. His father was threatened by the mob, and had to pay the surgeon 100 ''l''. His mother died in 1749, and his father afterwards married Anne Ludlam (died 1774), sister of two well-known mathematicians. Cradock was educated at Leicester Grammar School. His father died in 1759, and he was soon afterwards sent to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which Richard Farmer, his schoolfellow, was then tutor. He had already acquired a taste for the stage and for London society, and left Cambridge without daring to face the examination for a degree.Stephen 1887, p. 435. London In 1765 Cradock married Anna Francesca, third daughter of Francis Stratford of Merivale Hall ...
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John Yorke (died 1663)
John Yorke may refer to: *John Yorke (Master of the Mint) (c.1490-1569), English merchant and Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge * John Yorke (c.1566–1634), English recusant landowner *John Yorke (1633–1663), British Member of Parliament for Richmond *John Yorke (1685–1757), British Member of Parliament for Richmond *John Yorke (1728–1801), British Member of Parliament for Reigate and Higham Ferrers *John Yorke (British Army officer) (1814–1890), British general *John Yorke (Conservative politician) (1836–1912), English landowner and Conservative politician *John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke (1840–1909), British naval commander *John Yorke (producer) John Roland Clifford Yorke (born 9 July 1962) is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003–2005, controller of BBC drama production 2006–2012 and MD of Company Pictures (2013–2015). Yorke wrote ..., BBC television producer See also * John York (other) ...
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Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet
Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet (1614 – 8 February 1681) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. Wyvill was the son of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 2nd Baronet of Constable Burton Hall and his wife Isabel Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Sedbury Yorkshire. He was baptised on 6 December 1614. Wyvill is credited with a rare little octavo in the Bodleian Library entitled ''Certaine serious Thoughts which at several times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author onogram, ‘C. W.’ Esquire. Together with a chronological table denoting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbour states & were contemporary with our English Kings'' published in London in 1647. This volume of verse is described at some length in Brydges's ''Censura Literaria'' (1808, vii. 261–4), and there dubiously attributed to C. Warwick. The Wyvill arms on the title-page point almost conclusive ...
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Francis Thorpe
Francis Thorpe (1595–1665) was an English barrister, judge and politician. Early life He was the eldest son of Roger Thorpe of Birdsall, North Yorkshire and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Danyell of Beswick. He was admitted a student of Gray's Inn on 12 February 1611, and of St John's College, Cambridge, on 8 November following. He graduated B.A. in 1613. Thorpe was called to the bar on 11 May 1621, was ancient of Gray's Inn in 1632, bencher in 1640, and autumn reader in 1641. He was made recorder of Beverley in 1623, and held the post until raised to the bench in 1649, when he was succeeded by his stepson, William Wise. He was recorder of Kingston upon Hull from 1639 till 1648, and made the public speech at the reception of Charles I on his visit to the town in April 1639. The Civil War On 24 March 1641 Thorpe was called as a witness at the trial of the Earl of Strafford. On the outbreaking of the First English Civil War, Thorpe took the side of Parliament, ser ...
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Thomas Chaloner (regicide)
Thomas ChalonerIn some contemporary records, likHouse of Commons Journal Volume 8 9 June 1660 his name is also spelt Thomas Challoner (1595–1661) was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant. He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of the courtier Sir Thomas Chaloner. In January 1649, he and his younger brother, James Chaloner (1602–1660), served as two of the 135 commissioners of the court that tried King Charles I. Subsequently, Thomas signed the King's death warrant, whilst James did not. In 1660, at the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, Chaloner was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, which gave a general pardon, and escaped to the Continent to avoid a trial for high treason. He died at Middelburg in the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territorie ...
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James Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy Of Navan
James Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Navan ( – 19 July 1731) was a British Tory politician and peer. He was the son of James Darcy, son of Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth, and Isabel Wyvill. He served in the House of Commons of England as the Member of Parliament for Richmond between 1698 and 1701. He was re-elected to sit for the seat from 1702 to 1705. On 13 September 1721 he was created Baron Darcy of Navan in the Peerage of Ireland.''Royal Genealogies: Or the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes from Adam to These Times''
(Bettenham, 1736), p. 810. (Retrieved 2 June 2016). The title was created with special remainder to male heirs of his daughter, Mary. He was married four times, ...
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Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy De Knayth
Conyers Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Meinhill, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 4th Baron Conyers (August 1570 – 3 March 1653) was an English noble and father of the 1st Earl of Holderness. Personal life Conyers Darcy was the son of Thomas Darcy and Elizabeth Conyers and grandson of John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers. He was educated at St Peter's School, York. He inherited Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire and married Dorothy Belasyse, daughter of Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet and his wife Ursula. They had six sons and seven daughters. The eldest son to outlive his father was Conyers Darcy; later The Hon. Conyers Darcy. At the time of the Bishops' Wars, Darcy was Colonel Colonel ( ; abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military Officer (armed forces), officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, a colon ... of the Richmondshire Trained Band.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''Th ...
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Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 2nd Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men who are knights and belong to certain orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the ''suo jure'' female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms, or Miss. Etym ...
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Commissioner For Loyal And Indigent Officers
The Commissioners for loyal and indigent officers were a body formed by a 1662 act of the Parliament of England (14 Cha. 2. c. 8) to provide relief to impoverished Royalist officers who had served in the English Civil War. After the English Restoration The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 164 ... in 1660, the relief of those who had served Charles II and his father presented an important political issue. The act establishing the commission provided for the distribution of £60,000 among "loyal and indigent" officers certified by the commissioners. The funds for relief were charged on the tax revenues of Cornwall, Rutland, Monmouthshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, and Anglesey authorized by the Taxation Act 1661 ( 13 Cha. 2. St. 2. c. 3). The commissioners were to choose a ...
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