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St Mawes (constituency)
St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall, England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in 1832. History The borough consisted of the manor of St Mawes, a decayed fishing port and market town in the west of Cornwall. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start. The right to vote rested with the portreeve and "resident burgesses or free tenants", making it essentially a scot and lot borough (there were 87 voters in 1831), but the control of the "patron" was entirely secure. In practice the patron always worked in close collusion with the Crown, and the members returned were generally court nominees throughout the borough's existence. In the 1760s the Boscawen family ( the Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Cornwall (UK Parliament Constituency)
West Cornwall was a county constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election. Boundaries In 1832 the county of Cornwall, in south west England, was split for parliamentary purposes into two county divisions. These were the West division (with a place of election at Truro) and East Cornwall (where voting took place at Bodmin). Each division returned two members to Parliament. The parliamentary boroughs included in the West division, between 1832 and 1885, (whose non-resident 40 shilling freeholders were eligible to vote in the county constituency) were Helston, Penryn and Falmouth, St Ives and Truro. (Source: Stooks Smith). 1832–1885: The Hundreds of Kerrier, and Penwith, and in the hundred of Powder, the western division, i.e. the parishes of St Allen, St Anthony in Roseland, St Clement, Cornelly, Creed-with- Grampound, Cuby-with-Tregony, St Erme, Feock, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marquess Of Buckingham
Marquess of Buckingham may refer to: * George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628) Marquess of Buckingham from 1618 until elevated to Duke of Buckingham in 1623 * George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813), created Marquess of Buckingham in 1784 * Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839) Marquess of Buckingham from 1813 until elevated to Duke of Buckingham in 1822 See also * Duke of Buckingham Duke of Buckingham held with Duke of Chandos, referring to Buckingham, is a title that has been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. There have also been earls and marquesses of Buckingham. ... created four times {{DEFAULTSORT:Buckingham Extinct marquessates in the Peerage of England Extinct marquessates in the Peerage of Great Britain Noble titles created in 1618 Noble titles created in 1784 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Fuller (lawyer)
Sir Nicholas Fuller (1543 – 23 February 1620) was an English barrister and Member of Parliament. After studying at Christ's College, Cambridge, Fuller became a barrister of Gray's Inn. His legal career there began prosperously—he was employed by the Privy Council to examine witnesses—but was hampered later by his representation of the Puritans, a religious tendency which did not conform with the established Church of England. Fuller was repeatedly in contention with the ecclesiastical courts, including the Star Chamber and Court of High Commission, and was once expelled for the zeal with which he defended his client. In 1593 he was returned as the Member of Parliament for St Mawes, where he campaigned against the extension of recusancy laws. Outside of Parliament, he successfully brought a patents case which not only undermined the right of the Crown to issue patents but accurately predicted the attitude taken by the Statute of Monopolies two decades later. Returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Cope
Sir Walter Cope ( – 30 July 1614) of Cope Castle in the parish of Kensington, Middlesex, England, was Master of the Court of Wards, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, public Registrar-General of Commerce and a Member of Parliament for Westminster. Origins Walter Cope, probably born at Hardwick Manor near Banbury in Oxfordshire, was the third son of Edward Cope (d.1557) of Hanwell, Oxfordshire by his wife Elizabeth Mohun, a daughter of Walter Mohun of Overstone, Northamptonshire. Walter's mother later remarried to George Carleton of Wollaston, Northamptonshire. He was the grandson of Sir Anthony Cope and Jane Crewys and was a second cousin of Lady Burghley. Career In 1570 he entered Gray's Inn as a law student. He became a Gentleman Usher to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and in 1574 was appointed as feodary for Oxfordshire for the Court of Wards and Liveries. By 1593 he had become Burghley's secretary and the trusted friend of Sir Sir Robert Cecil, Burghley's son. In 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (died 1597)
John Potts may refer to: * John Potts (athlete) (1906–1987), English Olympic athlete *John Potts (American frontiersman), a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition * John Potts (baseball) (1887–1962), Major League Baseball right fielder * John Potts (British politician) (1861–1938), British Labour Party politician * John Potts (cricketer) (born 1960), English cricketer *John Potts (engraver) (1791–1841), English engraver * John Potts (footballer) (1904–1986), English footballer * John Potts (Pennsylvanian) (1710–?), founder of Pottstown, Pennsylvania *Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet ('1592–1673), English politician See also *John Pott John Potts (or Pott) was a physician and Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century. Biography John Potts is said to have taken his degree of M.A., at Oxford University in 1605. H ... (died 1645), 17th-century Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chaloner (courtier)
Sir Thomas Chaloner (1559 – 17 November 1615) was an English courtier and Governor of the ''Courtly College'' for the household of Prince Henry, son of James I. He was also responsible for introducing alum manufacturing to England. He was Member of Parliament for St Mawes in 1586 and for Lostwithiel in 1604. His third son was the Regicide Parliamentarian Thomas Chaloner. He is sometimes confused with his cousin Thomas Chaloner, a naturalist who prospected for alum. Elizabethan period Chaloner was the illegitimate son of statesman and poet Sir Thomas Chaloner, and Ethelreda Frodsham; his father died in 1565, and his mother then married Edward Brocket (son of Sir John Brocket, knt., of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire). He owed his education mainly to his father's friend, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, at St Paul's School, London and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was noted for his poetical abilities, but took no degree. In 1579 Chaloner wrote the dedication to Lord Burgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampson Lennard
Sampson Lennard (died 20 September 1615), of Chevening in Kent, was an English Member of Parliament who represented an unusually large number of different constituencies during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.N.M.S., 'Lennard, Sampson (c.1544-1615), of Chevening and Knole, Kent; later of Hurstmonceaux, Suss.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603'' (Boydell & Brewer 1981)History of Parliament online A prominent member of the Kent and Sussex gentry, Lennard was High Sheriff of Kent in 1590–1. He entered Parliament in 1571 as member for Launceston (Cornwall). He subsequently also represented Bramber (1584–5), St Mawes (1586–7), Christchurch (1589), St Germans (1593), Rye (1597), Liskeard (1601) and Sussex (1614). Lennard married Margaret Fiennes (1541–1612), daughter of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre, and after her brother's death in 1594 he successfully claimed the barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Southouse
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes "Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Onslow (MP) (1913–1971)
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William Onslow may refer to: *William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (1853–1911) *William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow, (11 June 1913 – 3 June 1971), known as Viscount Cranley until 1945, was a British peer, politician and army officer. Onslow was the eldest son of Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Gates (British MP)
Geoffrey Gates (c.1550 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - ?) was a Puritan MP for various Cornish constituencies. He represented St Mawes constituency, West Looe constituency and Camelford constituency. He was elected to St Mawes in the 1572 United Kingdom general election, to West Looe in 1584 and to Camelford in 1586. Gates also wrote a treatise A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions." Tre ... called The Defence of Militarie Profession. References 1550 births Year of death unknown Politicians from Suffolk English MPs 1572–1583 English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1586–1587 Members of the Parliament of England for West Looe Members of the Parliament of England for St Mawes Members of the Parliament of England for Camelford {{Cornwall-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Hind
Rowland may refer to: Places ;in the United States *Rowland Heights, California, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County * Rowland, Kentucky, an unincorporated community *Rowland Township, Michigan * Rowland, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Rowland Township, North Carolina **Rowland, North Carolina, a town *Rowland, Nevada, a ghost town *Rowland, Oregon, a ghost town ;Elsewhere *Rowland, Derbyshire, England, a village and civil parish *Rowland (crater), on the Moon People *Rowland (given name), people so named *Rowland (surname), people so named Other *The title character of Childe Rowland, a fairy tale by Joseph Jacobs, based on a Scottish ballad *Rowland Institute for Science, now part of Harvard University *Rowland Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States See also *Roland (other) *Rowlands *Rowlan Rowlan ( ) is an Irish Surname and the anglicized version of the name Ó Rothlain . It, therefore, shares a link with the surnames Rowland, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Amice
Israel Amice (or Amyce, c.1548 - 1607) was an MP in Cornwall, representing St Mawes constituency. He was elected in the 1571 United Kingdom general election but did not return to Parliament after the next election. Amice produced a survey map of Castle Hedingham in 1592 at the request of Lord Burghley William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 15204 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1 ..., who employed him at the time. References 1548 births 1607 deaths People from Hertfordshire English MPs 1571 Members of the Parliament of England for St Mawes {{Cornwall-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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