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Wyndham Family
Baron Leconfield, of Leconfield, in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1859 for Col. George Wyndham (1787–1869). He was the eldest illegitimate son and adopted heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), by Elizabeth Ilive, his future wife (see Earl of Egremont for earlier history of the family), from whom he inherited Petworth House in Sussex, Egremont Castle and Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria and Leconfield Castle in Yorkshire, all formerly lands of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland (1644–1670), inherited by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), on his marriage to the Percy heiress Elizabeth Percy (1667–1722) and inherited as one of the co-heirs of his son Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Egremont (1684–1750), by the latter's nephew Sir Charles Wyndham, 4th Baronet (1710–1763), of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, who inherited by special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arms Of Wyndham, Baron Leconfield And Egremont
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West Sussex (UK Parliament Constituency)
West Sussex (formally the Western division of Sussex) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Sussex, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace ..., elected by the bloc vote system. It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election. Boundaries 1832–1885: The Rapes of Arundel, Bramber and Chichester. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1830s Elections in the 1840s Wyndham resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1850s Prime resigned by accep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield
Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (17 February 1872 – 16 April 1952), was a British peer, army officer and political figure. He succeeded his father as third Baron Leconfield in 1901. Early life and education Wyndham was born at the family estate, Petworth House, in Sussex. A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, and Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny. His grandfather, George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, was the eldest illegitimate son and heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, from whom the family derived their considerable wealth. He was educated at Winchester College. Military career He served in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards, 1st Life Guards from 1892 to 1898 and was appointed a Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant of the Reserve on 27 January 1900,. In 1901, during the Second Boer War, he became the commanding o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (31 July 1830 – 6 January 1901), was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament. Early life and education A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, Leconfield was the eldest surviving son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and Mary Fanny Blunt. His father was the eldest natural son and adopted heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, and succeeded to the Egremont estates on the death of his cousin, George Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont, in 1845. George Wyndham was his nephew. Leconfield was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. After leaving university, he joined the 1st Life Guards, from which he retired with the rank of captain. Career Leconfield was elected to the House of Commons for West Sussex in 1854, a seat he held until he succeeded his father as second Baron in 1869 and entered the House of Lords. He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Sussex, and vice-chairman and alderm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex
West Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Surrey to the north, East Sussex to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. The largest settlement is Crawley, and the county town is the city of Chichester. The county has a land area of and a population of . Along the south coast is a near-continuous urban area which includes the towns of Bognor Regis (63,855), Littlehampton (55,706), and Worthing (111,338); the latter two are part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, which extends into East Sussex and has a total population of 474,485. The interior of the county is generally rural; the largest towns are Crawley (118,493) and Horsham (50,934), both located in the north-east; Chichester is in the south-west and has a population of 26,795. West Sussex contains seven local government Non-metropolitan district, districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county administered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petworth
Petworth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Chichester (district), Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the junction of the A272 road, A272 east–west road from Heathfield, East Sussex, Heathfield to Winchester and the A283 road, A283 Milford, Surrey, Milford to Shoreham-by-Sea road. The parish includes the settlements of Byworth and Hampers Green and covers an area of . to the south west of Petworth along the A285 road lies Chichester and the south-coast. In 2001 the population of the parish was 2,775 persons living in 1,200 households of whom 1,326 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population was 3,027. History The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 44 households (24 villagers, 11 smallholders and nine slaves) with woodland and land for ploughing and pigs and of meadows. At that time it was in the ancient Hundred (county division), hundred of Rotherbridge#The Hundred of Rotherbridge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Wyndham
Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Wyndham, (19 January 1865 – 17 April 1941) was a British Army soldier. Background and family Wyndham was born on 19 January 1865 as the son of Hon. Percy Wyndham and Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell. He was the brother of George Wyndham and Mary Constance Wyndham. He was married twice, first in 1892 to Edwina Johanna Fitzpatrick (who died in 1919), then in 1923 to Violet Leverson, daughter and biographer of the writer Ada Leverson. His second son with Edwina was the painter Richard Wyndham. His son with Violet Leverson was the writer and editor Francis Wyndham. Military career Wyndham was commissioned into the 16th (the Queen's) Lancers in August 1884. He was promoted to captain on 10 September 1890, and major on 1 April 1900. On the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Wyndham went to South Africa where he served on the Staff, and was present at the Relief of Ladysmith. During the later parts of the war he was in command of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wyndham
George Wyndham, PC (29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls. Background and education Wyndham was the elder son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, third son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. He was the brother of Guy Wyndham and Mary Constance Wyndham. His mother was Madeleine Campbell, sixth daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, and Pamela, through whom he was the great-grandson of the Irish Republican leader Lord Edward FitzGerald, whom Wyndham greatly resembled physically. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Coldstream Guards in March 1883, serving through the Suakin Expedition of 1885. Political career Wyndham started his political career in 1887, when he became private secretary to Arthur Balfour. In 1889, he was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Souls
The Souls was a small loosely-knit but distinctive elite social and intellectual group in the United Kingdom from 1885 to the turn of the century. Many of the most distinguished British politicians and intellectuals of the time were members. The original group of Souls reached its zenith in the early 1890s and had faded out as a coherent clique by 1900. Formation The group formed as a response to the damper on social life caused by the political tension of the Irish Home Rule debate. Existing social circles were rent by angry arguments between proponents and opponents of the Gladstone ministry's efforts in 1886 to bring about full Home Rule. Many people in society wanted a salon where they could meet without fighting about politics. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a member of the group, described the aims and objectives of The Souls, and above all, of what they wanted to avoid.In my disappointment about Egypt I turned with redoubled zest to my social pleasures of the year before, and at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Wyndham (1835–1911)
Percy Scawen Wyndham, (30 January 1835 – 13 March 1911) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician, collector and intellectual. He was one of the original members of The Souls, and built Clouds House at East Knoyle, Wiltshire. Background and education Wyndham was a younger son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and his wife Mary Blunt, daughter of William Blunt, and was educated at Eton College, Eton. He served in the Coldstream Guards and achieved the rank of Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), captain. Political career In 1860, Wyndham was returned to Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament as one of two representatives for West Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency), Cumberland West (succeeding his uncle Henry Wyndham (British Army officer), Sir Henry Wyndham), a seat he held until 1885. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Sussex. He owned the Wiltshire manor of Pertwood from 1877 until his death, and he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Egremont
John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont, 7th Baron Leconfield (born 21 April 1948), generally known as Max Egremont, is a British biographer and novelist. Early life and education Egremont is the eldest son of John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont, and Pamela Wyndham-Quin. He is a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. His father was raised to the peerage as Baron Egremont in 1963, the same year as his grandfather succeeded his older brother in the Leconfield barony. They took their seats in the House of Lords on the same day. Egremont grew up at Petworth House. He was educated first at Heatherdown School near Ascot, then at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read modern history. He succeeded to both baronies upon the death of his father in 1972. Career Egremont has worked for the American publishing firm Crowell Collier Macmillan and on the staff of U.S. Senator Hugh Scott in Washington, D.C. Writing Egremont's first book, ''The Cousins: The Frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac (cartoon), Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and wiktionary:unflappability, unflappability. Macmillan was seriously injured as an infantry officer during the First World War. He suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war he joined Macmillan Publishers, his family book-publishing business, then entered Parliament at the 1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 general election for Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency), Stockton-on-Tees. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton. He opposed the appeasement of Germany practised by the Conservative government. He rose to high office du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
