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Arthur Brownlow
Arthur Chamberlain Brownlow (20 March 1645 – 27 March 1711) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was the son of Patrick Chamberlain of County Louth, and Letitia (Lettice) Brownlow, eldest daughter of Sir William Brownlow (1591–1661), a High Sheriff of Armagh and his wife Eleanor O'Doherty (or O'Dougherty), daughter of the Irish rebel leader, Sir Cahir O'Doherty. He took his grandfather's family name as a condition of inheriting his estate. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. Like his grandfather, Brownlow was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh for 1668 and 1669, and represented County Armagh in the Irish House of Commons between 1689 and 1711. Brownlow was one of only six Protestant members to sit in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689; he was cleared of any wrongdoing during the Irish Parliament of 1692.O'Hart, JohnThe Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689 ''Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'' (5th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State religion, established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English Dissenters, English Dissenting churches, such as the Methodism, Methodist Church, though some were Catholic Church, Catholics. They often defined themselves as simply "British", and less frequently "Anglo-Irish", "Irish" or "English". Many became eminent as administrators in the British Empire and as senior Irish military diaspora#Britain, army and naval officers since the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain were in a real union with the Kingdom of Ireland for over a century, before politically uniting into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. The term is not usually applied to Presbyterianism, Presbyteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Richardson (1656–1727)
William Richardson (1656–1727) was an Irish politician in Ireland. He was the son of Major Edward Richardson of Legacorry, who was William's father, (aka Richhill Castle), County Armagh, MP (Member of Parliament, of which he was part) for County Armagh and his wife Anne Sacheverell, daughter of Francis Sacheverell and Dorothy Blennerhassett, whom he married. He was educated at the university he attended for education, Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed to the position of High Sheriff in the County Armagh, the full job title of which was High Sheriff of Armagh, for 1690, which was the year after 1689, and elected the MP (Member of Parliament, of which he was part) for County Armagh in 1692, which was after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and 1715, which was after his first election in 1692, and for Hillsborough in 1703, which was in the same century as 1799. He married Elizabeth, his wife, the daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Ireland (pre-1801) For County Armagh Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish MPs 1703–1713
Irish commonly refers to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the island and the sovereign state *** Erse (other), Scots language name for the Irish language or Irish people ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish English, set of dialects of the English language native to Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity Irish may also refer to: Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownlow Family
Brownlow may refer to: People * Baron Brownlow, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain * Brownlow baronets, two Baronetcies * Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844–1921), British soldier and politician * Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan (1795–1847), Anglo-Irish politician * Charles Brownlow, 2nd Baron Lurgan (1831–1882), Anglo-Irish politician * Charles Henry Brownlow (1831–1916), senior Indian Army officer * Chas Brownlow (1861–1924), Australian rules football administrator for whom the Brownlow Medal is named * David Brownlow, sound engineer * James Patton Brownlow (1842–1879), American military officer and railway superintendent * John Bell Brownlow (1839–1922), American political staffer * Kevin Brownlow (born 1938), British filmmaker and film historian * Louis Brownlow (1879–1963), American political scientist and consultant on public administration; chairman of the Brownlow Committee * Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (1899–1978), British peer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Anglo-Irish People
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century Anglo-Irish People
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French '' Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1711 Deaths
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward Hyde to replace Thomas Cary, as the governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina. Hyde's policies are deemed hostile to Quaker interests, leading former governor Cary and his Quaker allies to take up arms against the province. * January 24 – The first performance of Francesco Gasparini's most famous opera '' Tamerlano'' takes place at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice. * February – French settlers at '' Fort Louis de la Mobile'' celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile (Alabama), by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart (the first Mardi Gras parade in America). * February 3 – A total lunar eclipse occurs, at 12:31 UT. * February 24 ** Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1645 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – The Long Parliament adopts the ''Directory for Public Worship'' in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, replacing the Book of Common Prayer ( 1559). Holy Days (other than Sundays) are not to be observed. * January 10 – Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London. * January 14 – English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentarians. * January 29 – English Civil War: Treaty of Uxbridge, Armistice talks open at Uxbridge. * February 2 – Battle of Inverlochy (1645), Battle of Inverlochy: The Scottish Covenanters are defeated by James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Montrose. * February 15 – English Civil War: The New Model Army is officially founded. * February 28 – English Civil War: The Uxbridge armistice talks fail. * March 4 – English Civil War: Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Prince Rupert leaves Oxford for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
