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Benjamin Whitney
Benjamin Whitney (1744–11 December 1821) served as a Clerk of the peace and acted as a Regency-era steward for several members of the British nobility, notably for Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, from around 1813 to 1821.Norman Scarfe M.A"WHITNEY AND READ:•TWO REGENCY ESTATE-AGENTS With a short account of the Worlingham Estate 1755-1851 By NORMAN SCARFE, M.A. PDF Page 5""WHITNEY AND READ:•TWO REGENCY ESTATE-AGENTS With a short account of the Worlingham Estate 1755-1851, Page 188.", 1959 Early life Benjamin Whitney was born in 1744 in Great Houghton, Northamptonshire, England, and was the only son of Thomas Whitney and Alice Hill. Career Whitney received legal training, and his early career begins with him becoming a Clerk of the peace for Suffolk and steward for Sir John Blois of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, around 1772. This was some time after Sir John inherited the estates of Grundisburgh and Cockfield upon the death of his father, Sir Ralph in 1762. Later, Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocracy
Aristocracy (; ) is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocracy (class), aristocrats. Across Europe, the aristocracy exercised immense Economy, economic, Politics, political, and social influence. In Western Christian countries, the aristocracy was mostly equal with magnates, also known as the titled or higher nobility, however the members of the more numerous social class, the untitled lower nobility (petty nobility or gentry) were not part of the aristocracy. Classical aristocracy In ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived aristocracy as rule by the best-qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favorably with monarchy, rule by an individual. The term was first used by such ancient Greeks as Aristotle and Plato, who used it to describe a system where only the best of the citizens, chosen through a careful process of selection, would become rulers, and hereditary monarchy, hereditary rule would actually have been f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chigwell
Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is part of the urban and metropolitan area of London, and is adjacent to the northern boundary of Greater London. It is on the Central line of the London Underground. In 2011 the parish had a population of 12,987. History The manor of Chigwell was held by Earl Harold under Edward the Confessor. From the 1550s it was the property of the Hicks Beach family. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin dates back to the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building. Opposite the church is the Kings Head Hotel, a 17th century coaching inn. Toponymy According to P. H. Reaney's ''Place-Names of Essex'' the name means 'Cicca's well', Cicca being an Anglo-Saxon personal name. In medieval sources the name appears with a variety of spellings including "Cinghe uuella" and Chikewelle". Folk etymology has sought to derive the name from a lost "king's well", supposed to have been to the south-east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliab Harvey
Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey (5 December 1758 – 20 February 1830) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was as distinguished for his gambling and dueling as for his military record. Although Harvey was a significant naval figure for over twenty years, his martial reputation was largely based on his experiences at the Battle of Trafalgar, when he took his ship HMS ''Temeraire'' into the thick of the action. Harvey used ''Temeraire'' to force the surrender of two French ships of the line and later created his family motto from the names of his opponents in the engagement; "Redoutable et Fougueux". In his civilian life, Harvey pursued political interests and spent three spells as a Member of Parliament for Maldon and later Essex. During this period he was also knighted. However, Harvey was not a peaceable man and his life both in and out of the Navy was frequently punctuated by disputes with fellow officers and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley, Norfolk
Kimberley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe in the English county of Norfolk. Kimberly is located north-west of Wymondham and west of Norwich. History Kimberley's name is of Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ... origin and derives from the Old English for ''Cyneburg's'' wood clearing. In the Domesday Book, Kimberley is listed as a settlement of 31 households in the Hundred (county division), hundred of Forehoe. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglia, East Anglian estates of King William I. Kimberley Hall was built in the late Sixteenth Century as the residence of the Earl of Kimberley, Wodehouse family who had strong links to Kimberley. The gardens of the hall were sculpted by Capabili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
