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Weobley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Weobley was a parliamentary borough in Herefordshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons in 1295 and from 1628 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45), enacted by the Whig government of Pri .... Members of Parliament MPs 1628–1660 MPs 1660–1832 Notes References *Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807* J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) * {{Rayment-hc, w, 2, date=March 2012 Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832 Rotten boroughs Constituenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herefordshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
The county constituency of Herefordshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England bordering on Wales, was abolished when the county was divided for parliamentary purposes in 1885. It was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. The undivided county was represented from 1290 by two Knights of the Shire until 1832 and three thereafter. After the county was split two new county constituencies were created, the North division or Leominster (UK Parliament constituency), Leominster and the South division or Ross (UK Parliament constituency), Ross. Boundaries The constituency consisted of the historic counties of England, historic county of Herefordshire. Although Herefordshire contained a number of parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected one or two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Birch (soldier)
Colonel John Birch (7 September 161510 May 1691) was a soldier and politician from Manchester in England. He fought for the Roundheads, Parliamentarians in the First English Civil War, and was a Member of Parliament at various times between 1646 and 1691. Considered a moderate, he was excluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge of December 1648, and prevented from taking his seat for Leominster (UK Parliament constituency), Leominster under the Protectorate. After the 1660 Stuart Restoration, he was restored to favour and sat on over 122 Parliamentary Committees. During the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, he supported barring the Catholic James II of England, James II from the throne, and subsequently backed the 1689 Glorious Revolution. A contemporary Gilbert Burnet later described him as "...the roughest and boldest speaker in the House, [with the language and phrases of a carrier...he spoke always with much life and heat, but judgment was not his talent." Personal details John Birch wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Buckworth, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Buckworth, 2nd Baronet (1704–1759), of Rathbone Place, London, and West Sheen, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741. Buckworth was baptized on 5 April 1704, the eldest son of Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet, Sheriff of London, and his wife Elizabeth Hall, daughter of John Hall of Yarmouth, Norfolk. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 12 June 1709. He was educated at Eton College in about 1716 and joined the army. In 1718 he was a lieutenant and captain in the 1st Foot Guards but was out of the army by 1727. Buckworth stood for Parliament at Heytesbury in 1722 but was defeated. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Weobley in the 1734 British general election and served as an opposition politician. He did not stand at the 1741 British general election, but ran again for the Weobley constituency in 1747 Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cornewall
Captain James Cornewall ( – 11 February 1744) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician who became a national hero following his death in action at the Battle of Toulon in 1744. Cornewall's monument in Westminster Abbey was the first ever to be erected by the Parliament of Great Britain at public expense. Early life and career Cornewall was born in 1698, the youngest son of Henry Cornewall and his second wife Susanna, and was baptised at Moccas on 17 November 1698. His naval career began as a Volunteer-per-order, serving first upon from March 1721 before transferring to in December of the same year. Three years later, he was given his first independent command, he was promoted to captain of the Fifth-rate on 3 April 1724. He spent four years aboard this ship, principally in the waters off Boston, protecting trade and suppressing piracy. John Knox Laughton compares this phase of his life to "the opening chapters of Fenimore Cooper's '' Water Witch'' and '' Red Rov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Philpott
Nicholas Philpott (c. 1695–1732), of Newton, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1718 to 1727. Philpott was the eldest son of Nicholas Philpott of Hereford and Vowchurch, Herefordshire. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 22 April 1714, aged 18. Philpott was returned as Member of Parliament for Weobley at a by-election on 22 November 1718. Lord Coningsby undertook that the Government would pay half his expenses. In Parliament he voted with the Administration on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and on the Peerage Bill {{short description, Proposed British law of 1719 The Peerage Bill was a 1719 measure proposed by the British Whig government led by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, and Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, which would have largely halted th .... He was returned again at the 1722 general election. He was put forward as candidate at the 1727 general election but withdrew on a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilston Castle
Dilston Castle is an unglazed 15th-century uninhabited tower house (and inactive Catholic chapel built for one family's services) at Dilston in the parish of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. Both are scheduled monuments and Listed building, Grade I listed buildings giving them recognition for historic and architectural value as well protection from demolition. The three-storey tower was built by Sir William Claxton on the site of an earlier Peel tower, pele tower in the 15th century. The Radclyffe family In 1621 the castle was acquired by the Earl of Derwentwater, Radclyffe family coverture, as a result of the marriage of Edward Radclyffe to the Claxton heiress. The Catholic Radclyffes built a private chapel adjacent in 1616 which stands; it also has ancient monument and listed building status. Four of the Radcliffe children including Margaret Radcliffe were abroad in a convent. In 1622 Sir Francis Radclyffe incorporated the tower house into a new manor house, which was to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cornewall
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Charles Cornewall (1669 – 7 October 1718) was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician who represented Bewdley and Weobley in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1709 and 1718. Origins Cornewall was born in 1669, eldest of the eleven children of Robert Cornewall and Edith Cornwallis, and was baptised at Eye, Herefordshire, on 5 August 1669. Career Cornewall joined the navy in 1683 and was given his first command, the Sloop , on 19 September 1692. The following year he was given command of the 44-gun and sailed under the command of Admiral Edward Russell to the Mediterranean, where he would remain until 1696. On 27 January 1695, ''Adventure'' was one of a squadron of six frigates under the command of Commodore James Killegrew aboard . The flotilla was spotted by two French warships, the 60-gun ''Content'' and the 52-gun ''Trident'', who closed on them believing them to be merchant ships. They retreated on discovering their mistake and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Foley (politician)
Paul Foley (c.1688Will of his father Paul Foley (ironmaster), Paul Foley refers to 1 January 1709 as shortly after he would be of age. – 28 November 1739), Newport, Herefordshire, was an English barrister and politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1713 to 1715. Foley was the second son of Paul Foley (ironmaster), Paul Foley, who was Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1695 to 1698. He was admitted at Inner Temple at the age of 5 in 1693 but eventually was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1706 and called to the bar in 1708. He married Susannah Massingberd, daughter of Sir William Massingberd, 2nd Baronet, of Bratoft Hall, Gunby, Lincolnshire. Foley's father had died in 1699 and his parliamentary colleague Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Robert Harley took an interest in the Foley family, as he'd married his cousin Elizabeth Foley in 1685. He was instrumental in arranging with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uvedale Tomkins Price
Uvedale Tomkins Price (17 September 1685 – 17 March 1764), of Poston Lodge and Foxley, Yazor, Herefordshire, was a British Tory and later Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1734. Early life Price was the younger son of Robert Price, Baron of the Exchequer, and his wife Lucy Rodd, daughter and heiress of Robert Rodd of Foxley at Yazor, Herefordshire. He was named after Lucy's uncle Uvedale Tomkins, the son of her grandmother Lucy Uvedale by the latter's second husband Sir Thomas Tomkins, MP. He was educated at Charterhouse School and St Paul's by 1703 and was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 12 January 1704 and Lincoln's Inn on 22 October 1706. Between 1709 and 1712 he travelled abroad in France and Italy. He was married in 1714 to Anne Somerset, daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset of Poston Court in Vowchurch, Herefordshire (younger son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort), by his wife Mary, daughter and heiress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weymouth And Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament Constituency)
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons, later in that of Great Britain, and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was formed by the Union of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Act 1571 (13 Eliz. 1. c. ''9'') which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832, the combined borough continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled; the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two Members, and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885, becoming part of the new South Dorset constituency. Members of Parliament Members for Weymouth (1348–1570) Members for Melcombe Regis (1319–1570) Members for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (1570–1885) 1570–1629 1640–1832 1832–1885 Election results Elections in the 1830s Weyland was also elected for Oxfordshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Thynne (1675–1708)
Henry Thynne (8 February 1675 – 20 December 1708) was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1708. Early life Thynne was the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth (1640–1714), of Longleat, a substantial landowner in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, by his marriage to Lady Frances Finch, a daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea. He was christened on 16 February 1675 at Drayton Bassett.Henry Thynne at thepeerage.com, accessed 20 November 2011 Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition), vol. 1 (Burke's Peerage, 2003), p. 1291 He was educated at home and was very inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Birch (died 1735)
John Birch (c. 1666–1735) of Garnstone manor, Herefordshire, was an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1735. Early life and family Birch was the second son. of Rev. Thomas Birch, rector of Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire and his wife Mary. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1682, at Middle Temple in 1687 and called to the bar in 1687. His uncle Colonel John Birch, MP died in May 1691, leaving his property of Garnstone to his youngest daughter Sarah provided she married Birch, which she did a short time later. She died in 1702, leaving Birch in possession of the estate of Garnstone, which was a mile from Weobley. He married secondly Letitia Hampden, daughter of John Hampden, MP of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire on 26 January 1704. Career Birch first stood for Parliament at Weobley at the by-election in 1691 on the death of his uncle who was former MP, but lost out in a double return. He was appointed Attorne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
