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Blois Baronets
The Blois Baronetcy, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1686 for Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, Charles Blois. He represented Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency), Ipswich and Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency), Dunwich in the British House of Commons, House of Commons. The seventh Baronet was a Major in the 1st Dragoons and fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Evelyn Macleod, Baroness Macleod of Borve (''née'' Blois), was the granddaughter of the eighth baronet, who had six sons and six daughters. Judge Inigo Bing is the grandson of the ninth baronet. Blois baronets, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall (1686) *Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (1657–1738) **William Blois (1691–1734) *Sir Charles Blois, 2nd Baronet (1733–1760) *Sir Charles Blois, 3rd Baronet (1692–1761) *Sir Ralph Blois, 4th Baronet (1706–1762) *Sir John Blois, 5th Baronet (1740–1810) *Sir Charles Blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Macleod, Baroness Macleod Of Borve
Evelyn Hester Macleod, Baroness Macleod of Borve DL (19 February 1915 – 17 November 1999) was a British public servant. Born Evelyn Hester Blois, she was the eldest daughter of Revd. Gervase Vanneck Blois (1881–1961), rector of Hanbury, Worcestershire (and son of Sir John Blois, 8th Baronet) and his wife Hester, daughter of Herbert Pakington, 3rd Baron Hampton. She was educated at Lawnside boarding-school in Great Malvern, was presented as a debutante at court and played tennis for Worcestershire. On 3 July 1937, she married Mervyn Charles Mason (1907–1940) near Malmesbury, Wiltshire. During World War II, she worked for the London ambulance service and her husband was a Lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps. In 1940, he was killed after his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland and she later married the future politician, Iain Norman Macleod. In June 1952, Macleod was struck by meningitis and polio and was subsequently paralysed in one leg, but managed to walk with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arms Of Blois Baronets
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Baronetage Of England
Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary to prove a claim of succession. When this has been done, the name is entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. Persons who have not proven their claims may not be officially styled as baronets. This was ordained by Royal warrant (document), Royal Warrant in February 1910. A baronetcy is considered vacant if the previous holder has died within the previous five years and if no one has proven their succession, and is considered dormant if no one has proven their succession in more than five years after the death of the previous incumbent. All extant baronetcies, including vacant baronetcies, are listed below in order of precedence (i.e. date). All other baronetcies, including those which are extinct, dormant or forfeit, are on a separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage, baronetage, knightage and landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. His first publication, a ''Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom'', was updated sporadically until 1847, when the company began publishing new editions every year as ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'' (often shortened and known as ''Burke's Peerage''). Other books followed, including '' Burke's Landed Gentry'', '' Burke's Colonial Gentry'', and '' Burke's General Armory''. In addition to its peerage publications, the ''Burke's'' publishing company produced books on Royal families of Europe and Latin America, rulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (14 September 1657 – 9 April 1738), of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1695 and 1709. Early life Charles was the son of Sir William Blois, of Grundisburgh Hall and his first wife Martha Brooke (died 1657), daughter of Sir Robert Brooke (1572–1646) of Cockfield Hall and his wife Elizabeth. However as his mother died very soon after his birth, Charles's father remarried to Jane Barnardiston (daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588–1653) of Kedington, Suffolk), who had previous been married to Charles's uncle John Brooke, brother of Martha. Jane was therefore the only mother that he knew. The principal heir to Cockfield Hall, his uncle Robert Brooke, died in 1669 in a bathing accident in the river Rhone in France. Charles's father Sir William Blois dying in 1676 (when Abigail Hodges, Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ipswich () is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since July 2024 by Jack Abbott of the Labour Party. History The constituency was created as Parliamentary Borough in the fourteenth century, returning two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and from 1801 to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The constituency's parliamentary representation was reduced to a single seat with one MP under the Representation of the People Act 1918. Prior to the 1983 general election, when north-western areas were transferred to the Central Suffolk constituency, the Parliamentary and Municipal/County Boroughs were the same Before the Reform Act 1832, the franchise in Ipswich was in the hands of the Ipswich Corporation and the Freemen. Ipswich was seen as a partisan seat with active Blue (Tory inclined) and Yellow (Whig inclined) factions dominating elections for both Parliament a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunwich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1296 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act. History In 1296, when Dunwich was first accorded representation in Parliament, it was a flourishing port and market town about from Ipswich. However, by 1670 the sea had encroached upon the town, destroying the port and swallowing up all but a few houses so that nothing was left but a tiny village. The borough had once consisted of eight parishes, but all that was left was part of the parish of All Saints, Dunwich – which by 1831 had a population of 232, and only 44 houses ("and half a church", as Oldfield recorded in 1816). In fact, this made Dunwich by no means the smallest of England's rotten boroughs, but the symbolism of two Members of Parliament representing a constituency that was essentially underwater captured the im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs), who are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England began to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1801 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army (1804–1815), French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon, Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition. One was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British-led force with units from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover, Duchy of Brunswick, Brunswick, and Duchy of Nassau, Nassau, under the command of field marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. The other comprised three corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Blücher. The battle was known contemporaneously as the ''Battle of Mont-Saint-Jean, Belgium, Mont Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inigo Bing
Inigo Geoffrey Bing (born 1 April 1944) is a retired judge. Biography Bing is the son of Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing, and Christian Frances Blois, daughter of Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten Blois, 9th Baronet. Inigo Bing's early education was at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with an LLB degree in law in 1966. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1967. Between 2012 and 2017 he studied history and philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, gaining a BA (1st class honours) and an MA (distinction). Bing was a Labour Party member of Lambeth London Borough Council between 1971 and 1978. He stood for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1983 General Election and the 1987 General Election for Braintree, and came second each time to Tony Newton of the Conservative Party. Bing was a District Judge (formerly Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate) from 1989 to 2000. He was a Recorder from 1996 to 2000. Bing was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial To John Ralph Blois, Holy Trinity Blythburgh
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures, statues, fountains or parks. Larger memorials may be known as monuments. Types The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars. Memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses. Online memorials are often created on websites and social media to allow digital access as an alternative to physical memorials which may not be feasible or easily accessible. When somebody has died, the family may request that a memorial gift (usually money) be given to a designated charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person. Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called gras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blois
William Blois (or Bloys), (7 July 1600 - 1673) was an English politician based in Suffolk during the seventeenth century. He was one of the two MPs for Ipswich in the English parliaments from 1661 to 1670 and Suffolk in 1654 and 1656. William was the first son of William Blois, a merchant, of Ipswich and Grundisburgh Hall and his wife Frances, daughter of John Tye of Ipswich. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Thomas Wingfield of Letheringham. References Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher Departments of France, department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the mos ... 1600 births 1673 deaths {{1661-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
