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John Maule (MP)
John Maule (1706 – 2 July 1781), of Inverkeilor, Forfarshire, was a Scotland, Scottish Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1739 to 1748. Maule was the second surviving son of Harry Maule, of Kellie, Forfar and his second wife Anne Lindsay, daughter of Patrick Lindsay of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire. His father was shire commissioner in the Parliament of Scotland. He was half brother to William Maule, 1st Earl Panmure. Maule was secretary to Lord Ilay, later Duke of Argyll, who was manager of elections in Scotland for Walpole and the Pelhams. In 1737 Maule was appointed Keeper of Register of Sasines. He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Aberdeen Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Aberdeen Burghs at a by election on 8 June 1739 and supported the administration. He was elected again at the 1741 British general election but at the time of the second Jacobite rebellion of 1745 came under suspicion of being a Jacobite because of his ancestry. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverkeilor
Inverkeilor is a village and parish in Angus, Scotland. It lies near the North Sea coast, midway between Arbroath and Montrose, Angus, Montrose. The A92 road now bypasses the village. The population of Inverkeilor parish in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 972, up from 902 in United Kingdom Census 1991, 1991. The population has been accommodated in recent years by the building of new houses in the village. The parish was previously known as ''Conghoillis'', and William J. Watson, Watson writes that it was dedicated to a Saint Mo Chonóc of Cell Mucroisse, who may be associated with Forteviot or St Andrews, or perhaps County Wexford in Ireland. The 12th century Red Castle, Angus, Red Castle built by the Barclay family is to the east of Inverkeilor, overlooking Lunan Bay. To the south-west is Ethie Castle, formerly the seat of the Earl of Northesk, which appears under the name of ''Knockwinnoch'' in Sir Walter Scott's novel ''The Antiquary''. Inverkeilor currently has a restaura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 British General Election
The 1747 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw Henry Pelham's Whig government increase its majority and the Tories continue their decline. By 1747, thirty years of Whig oligarchy and systematic corruption had weakened party ties substantially; despite that Walpole, the main reason for the split that led to the creation of the Patriot Whig faction, had resigned, there were still almost as many Whigs in opposition to the ministry as there were Tories, and the real struggle for power was between various feuding factions of Whig aristocrats rather than between the old parties. The Tories had effectively become an irrelevant group of country gentlemen who had resigned themselves to permanent opposition. Summary of the constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constitue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1734–1741
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For Scottish Constituencies
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1781 Deaths
Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in England. * January 2 – Virginia passes a law ceding its western land claims, paving the way for Maryland to ratify the Articles of Confederation. * January 5 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces, led by Benedict Arnold. * January 6 – Battle of Jersey: British troops prevent the French from occupying Jersey in the Channel Islands. * January 17 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cowpens: The American Continental Army, under Daniel Morgan, decisively defeats British forces in South Carolina. * February 2 – The Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so. * February 3 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War – Captur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1706 Births
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Monday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 26 ** War of Spanish Succession: Bavarian uprising of 1705–06, The uprising by Bavarians against the occupation of the Electorate of Bavaria by Habsburg monarchy, Austrian troops ends after 75 days, and ends the plans of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian, the Elector of Bavaria, to bring Bavaria under the rule of the House of Wittelsbach. ** Great Northern War – Battle of Grodno (1706), Battle of Grodno: A coalition of 34,000 Swedish and Polish troops besieges the then-Lithuanian city in the winter time, and clashes with 41,000 Russian and Saxon troops. After almost three months of fighting that lasts to April 10, Sweden takes control of the city, which is now located in Belarus. * February 6 – The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is incorporated by governor Don Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Maitland (MP)
Charles Maitland (13 November 1751) was a Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ... politician. He was son of Hon Alexander Arbuthnot, Baron of the Exchequer and MP in the Scottish Parliament who had assumed the surname of his wife Jean Maitland, the heiress of Sir Charles Maitland, Bt of Pitrichie. He succeeded his father to the Pitrichie estate in 1721. He qualified as an advocate in 1727 and was the first Sheriff-Depute of Edinburgh in 1748. Later that year he was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer and was replaced as Sheriff-Depute. He represented Aberdeen Burghs in the British Parliament from 1748 to 1751. He died unmarried in 1751. References * 1700s births 1751 deaths People from Aberdeenshire Scottish sheriffs Members of the Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Middleton (1678–1739)
Brigadier-General John Middleton MP (1678 –1739) was a British Army officer and Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons almost continuously between 1713 and 1739. Early life He was baptised in Aberdeen on the 27th of September 1678. Middleton was the fourth (but first surviving) son and sixth child of Rev Prof George Middleton DD (1645-1726) and Janet or Jane Gordon, daughter of James Gordon of Seaton. He was grandson of Alexander Middleton (younger brother of John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton) and Margaret Gordon. Both Alexander and George Middleton served as Principal of King's College, Aberdeen. John's younger brother, Robert, was father of Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham. In about 1712, John Middleton married Elizabeth Cunningham, daughter of William Cunningham of Enterkin, Ayr. Military career Middleton obtained a commission in the Army in the reign of King William III, and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1706. He served in Spain in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1741 British General Election
The 1741 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw support for the government party increase in the quasi-democratic constituencies which were decided by popular vote, but the Whigs lost control of a number of rotten and pocket boroughs, partly as a result of the influence of the Prince of Wales, and were consequently re-elected with the barest of majorities in the Commons, Walpole's supporters only narrowly outnumbering his opponents. Partly as a result of the election, and also due to the crisis created by naval defeats in the war with Spain, Walpole was finally forced out of office on 11 February 1742, after his government was defeated in a motion of no confidence concerning a supposedly rigged by-election. His supporters were then able to reconcile partially with the Patriot Whigs to form a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent Islands of Scotland, islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. To the south-east, Scotland has its Anglo-Scottish border, only land border, which is long and shared with England; the country is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the north-east and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. The population in 2022 was 5,439,842. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow is the most populous of the cities of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the 9th century. In 1603, James VI succeeded to the thrones of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, forming a personal union of the Union of the Crowns, three kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Aberdeen Burghs was a district of burghs United Kingdom constituencies, constituency which was represented from 1708 to 1800 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1832 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland burgh constituencies of Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Aberdeen, Arbroath (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Arbroath, Brechin (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Brechin, Inverbervie (Burgh), Inverbervie and Montrose (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Montrose. Boundaries The constituency consisted of the Aberdeen, burgh of Aberdeen in the Aberdeenshire (historic), County of Aberdeen, the Inverbervie, burgh of Inverbervie in the Kincardineshire, County of Kincardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
