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William Shippen (MP)
William Shippen (''bap''. 30 July 1673 – 1 May 1743) was an English Jacobite and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1707 to 1743. Shippen was educated at Stockport Grammar School, and entered Brasenose College, Oxford on 16 July 1687. Shortly one year after his matriculation he was elected king's scholar at Westminster. Admitted a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge on 26 June 1691 he became a scholar there the next year. Shippen went to the Middle Temple in 1693 and graduated with a BA the year after and was called to the bar in 1699., Stephen W. Baskerville, �Shippen, William (bap. 1673, d. 1743)��, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Dec 2009. On 17 July 1712 he married Frances Stote (''d''. 1747), daughter of Sir Richard Stote of Jesmond Hall, Northumberland. Shippen made several contributions to the fierce propaganda war between Tories and Whigs in the early 18th century. In reign of Queen Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shippen (1672-1743), Attributed To Enoch Seeman
William Shippen may refer to: * William Shippen (MP) (1673–1743), English Member of Parliament * William Shippen Sr. (1712–1801), American physician * William Shippen Jr. William Shippen Jr. (October 21, 1736 – July 11, 1808), was the first systematic teacher of anatomy, surgery and obstetrics in Colonial America and founded the first maternity hospital in America. He was the 3rd Director General of Hospitals ... (1738–1808), his son, American physician * William Castlebury Shippen (1829–1911), American politician in Iowa {{hndis, Shippen, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1713 British General Election
The 1713 British general election produced further gains for the governing Tory party. Since 1710 Robert Harley had led a government appointed after the downfall of the Whig Junto, attempting to pursue a moderate and non-controversial policy, but had increasingly struggled to deal with the extreme Tory backbenchers who were frustrated by the lack of support for anti-dissenter legislation. The government remained popular with the electorate, however, having helped to end the War of the Spanish Succession and agreeing on the Treaty of Utrecht. The Tories consequently made further gains against the Whigs, making Harley's job even more difficult. Contests were held in 94 constituencies in England and Wales, some 35 per cent of the total, reflecting a decline in partisan tension and the Whigs' belief that they were unlikely to win anyway. Summary of the constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used were the same throughout the existence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrews Windsor
Brigadier-General Andrews Windsor (1678–1765), of Southampton, was a British Army officer and politician. He was born the fourth son of Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth and was the child of his father's second marriage to Ursula Widdrington, daughter of Sir Thomas Widdrington, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He was styled " The Honourable". His younger brothers were Dixie Windsor, MP and Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor. He joined the army as a Cornet in the Royal Horse Guards in 1698, and was promoted captain and then lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Foot Guards in 1703, as a brevet-colonel in 1706 and colonel in 1709–15 in the 28th Foot. He was finally made brigadier-general in 1711. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bramber Bramber is a former manor, village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It has a ruined mediaeval castle which was the ''caput'' of a large feudal barony. Bramber is loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Cleave More, 2nd Baronet
Sir Cleave More, 2nd Baronet (5 March 1664 – 1730), of Bank Hall, Walton, Lancashire, was a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1709 to 1710. More was the fifth, but eldest surviving son of Sir Edward More, 1st Baronet, of Bank Hall Walton and his wife Dorothy Fenwick, daughter of Sir William Fenwick of Meldon, Northumberland. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in October 1678. He was educated at Westminster School; and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1682. In 1691, he married Anne Edmunds, daughter. of John Edmunds of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire. At the 1708 British general election, More stood for Parliament as a Whig at Bramber but was defeated in the poll. However he petitioned and was seated as Member of Parliament for Bramber on 15 January 1709. He spent much of his time in Parliament taking forward a scheme to provide a water supply for Liverpool. He voted for the naturalization of the Palatines, in 1709 and for the impeachment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale (d
William Hale may refer to: * William Hale (cattleman), the so-called "King of the Osage Hills", U.S. cattleman and convicted murderer *William Hale (director) (born 1934), American film and television director *William Hale (New Hampshire politician) (1765–1848), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire * William Hale (British inventor) (1797–1870), British inventor and rocket pioneer *William Hale (professor) (born 1940), specialist on Turkey and Turkish politics, and Professor of Politics *William Gardner Hale (1849–1928), American classical scholar * William Hale (Wyoming politician) (1832–1885), Wyoming Territory governor, 1882–1885, and Iowa legislator * William Hale (died 1717), British Whig politician * William Bayard Hale (1869–1924), American journalist *William Ellery Hale (1836–1898), American businessman *Willie Hale (born 1945), American R&B musician *William Hale (priest) (1795–1870), author and Archdeacon of London *William Harlan Hale (1910–1974), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor
Lieutenant-General Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor (8 June 1738), styled The Honourable Thomas Windsor until 1699, was a British Army officer, landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1712. He was then elevated to the British House of Lords as one of Harley's Dozen. Life Windsor was the second son of Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth, by his second wife Ursula Widdrington, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Widdrington, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Frances Fairfax. He was made a Page of Honour to James II in 1685 (a post he held until the king was deposed in 1688) and a few months later was returned to Parliament for Droitwich, despite being only around sixteen at the time. Lord Willoughby de Eresby wanted both him and Peter Legh (died 1744) expelled as minors. Windsor took no part in the proceedings of Parliament and was not re-elected in 1687. During the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Asgill
John Asgill (25 March 1659 – 10 November 1738) was an eccentric English writer and politician. Life Asgill attended Nonconformist (Protestantism) services in his youth. He studied law at the Middle Temple, 1686, and was called to the bar in 1692. He founded the first land bank in 1695 with Nicholas Barbon, which, after proving to be a profitable venture, merged with the land bank of John Briscoe in 1696. However, after profits dropped, the bank closed in 1699. He was then elected that year as Member of Parliament for Bramber.. In 1700 Asgill had published ''An Argument Proving, that … Man may be Translated'', a pamphlet aiming to prove that death was not obligatory upon Christians, which, much to his surprise, caused a public outcry and led to his expulsion from the Irish House of Commons in 1703, only a short time after he had stood successfully for Enniscorthy. He had moved to Ireland where the act for returning the forfeited estates which had been given away by Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, is generally regarded as the ''de facto'' first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although the exact dates of Walpole's dominance, dubbed the "Robinocracy", are a matter of scholarly debate, the period 1721–1742 is often used. He dominated the Walpole–Townshend ministry, as well as the subsequent Walpole ministry, and holds the record as the longest-serving British prime minister. W. A. Speck wrote that Walpole's uninterrupted run of 20 years as prime minister "is rightly regarded as one of the major feats of British political history. Explanations are usually offered in terms of his expert handling of the political system after 1720, ndhis unique blending of the surviving powers of the crown with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Sandys
Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (; 10 August 1695 – 21 April 1770), was a British Whig politician who represented Worcester in the House of Commons from 1718 until 1743, when he was created Baron Sandys. He held numerous posts in the government of the United Kingdom, namely Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, Cofferer of the Household and First Lord of Trade. He was also a justice in eyre. Early life Sandys was the eldest son of Edwin Sandys (himself a descendant of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York), and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir James Rushout . He was educated at New College, Oxford, matriculating in 1711 aged 16. He left Oxford in 1715 without graduating, and embarked on a Grand Tour of Continental Europe. Opposition In 1718, at the age of 22, Sandys was elected MP for Worcester, as a Whig. He represented the seat for 25 years. Initially a supporter of Robert Walpole's government, in 1725 Sandys and his uncle Sir John Rushout went int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lockhart (politician)
Sir George Lockhart of Lee (1673 – 17 December 1731), of Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, also known as Lockhart of Carnwath, was a Scottish writer and Jacobite politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1702 to 1707 and as a Tory in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1715. He was a member of the Commission on the Union before 1707 but acted as an informant to his Jacobite colleagues and later wrote an anonymous memoir of its dealings. He supported the Stuart cause in the Jacobite rising. Early life Lockhart was the son of Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath and his second wife Philadelphia Wharton, daughter of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and sister of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton one of the leaders of the Whig Junta. After his father’s death, Lockhart succeeded to a sizable estate at the age of eight years. His Whiggish guardians removed his tutor, John Gillane, the family’s episcopalian chaplain. His education was placed in the hands of Presbyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's Protestant elder daughter (the prince's half-sister) Mary II and her husband (the prince's cousin) William III became co-monarchs. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics such as James from the English and British thrones. James Francis Edward was raised in Continental Europe and known as the Chevalier de St. George. After his father's death in 1701, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish crowns as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland, with the support of his Jacobite followers and Louis XIV of France, a cousin of his father. Fourteen years l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of London
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new Norman ruling class. The castle was also used as a prison from 1100 ( Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 ( Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
