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Edmund Bray
Edmund Bray (1686–1725) of Barrington Park, Gloucestershire was a British politician who sat in the English House of Commons from 1701 to 1708 and in the British House of Commons from 1720 to 1722. Bray was a younger son of Reginald Bray (d. 1688) of Barrington Park and his wife Jane Rainton, daughter of William Rainton of Shilton, Shilton, Oxfordshire, who had a large family of 6 sons and 9 daughters. He married, on 16 December 1697, Frances Morgan, the daughter and heiress of Morgan baronets, Sir Edward Morgan, 3rd Baronet (d. 1682) of Llantarnam Abbey, Monmouthshire. Bray was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Tewkesbury in the January 1701 election and retained his seat in the second general election of 1701. He was wholly inactive in the House, however, and was granted leave of absence several times over long periods. He was threatened with a challenge at Tewkesbury at the election of 1702, but successfully repelled it. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrington Park
Barrington Park is a Palladian style country house standing in an estate of the same name near the villages of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire, Great Barrington and Little Barrington, Gloucestershire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The parkland in which it stands is Grade II* listed. The house was built between 1736 and 1738 for Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor to George II, for the use of his son William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot and the latter's wife Mary de Cardonnel. It was extended in 1870-3 by Edward Rhys Wingfield. The building is constructed in two storeys plus a basement of ashlar with a stone slate roof. It is rectangular in plan with the later extensions at both ends. The frontage has 9 bays of which the central 3 bays project. Several of the parks features (a dovecote and two temples) are separately Grade II* listed. History Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor of Great Barrington had belonged to Llanthony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1708 British General Election
The 1708 British general election was the first general election to be held after the Acts of Union had united the Parliaments of England and Scotland. The election saw the Whigs gain a majority in the House of Commons, and by November the Whig-dominated parliament had succeeded in pressuring the Queen into accepting the Whig Junto into government for the first time since the late 1690s. The Whigs only able to take partial control of the government, however, owing to the continued presence of the moderate Tory Godolphin in the cabinet (as Lord High Treasurer) and the opposition of the Queen. Contests were held in 95 of the 269 English and Welsh constituencies and 28 of the 45 Scottish constituencies. Following the election, Whig MP Lord Somers was appointed as Lord President of the Council. However, moderate Tory Lord Godolphin remained as Lord High Treasurer and the Godolphin–Marlborough ministry remained in place. Summary of the constituencies In England, there was 51 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1705–1707
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For Gloucestershire
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1725 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end. * January 6 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, ''Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen'', BWV 123, a Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata for Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany. * January 15 – James Macrae, a former captain of a freighter for the British East India Company, is hired by the Company to administer the Madras Presidency (at this time, the "Presidency of Fort St. George"), and begins major reforms. The area administered is most of Southern India, including what is now the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, parts the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1686 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances to the city and threatens to banish anyone who fails to pay their taxes, as well as to confiscate the goods of merchants who refuse to make sales. A compromise is reached the next day on the amount of the taxes. * January 17 – King Louis XIV of France reports the success of the Edict of Fontainebleau, issued on October 22 against the Protestant Huguenots, and reports that after less than three months, the vast majority of the Huguenot population had left the country. * January 29 – In Guatemala, Spanish Army Captain Melchor Rodríguez Mazariegos leads a campaign to conquer the indigenous Maya people in the rain forests of Lacandona, departing fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinard De La Bere
Kinard de la Bere (c. 1669–1735) was an English landowner and MP. He was the son of John de la Bere (d. 1696) of Southam, Gloucestershire and Anne, daughter of John Stephens of Lypiatt Lypiatt is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Miserden, in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, approximately east of Stroud. The parish was formed from Stroud in 1894, later in 1894 the parish was abol ..., Gloucestershire. The various branches of his mother's family frequently represented Gloucestershire in parliament. In 1699 he married Hester, the daughter and co-heiress of John Neale of Nether Dean, Beds. Her sister Anne had married his mother's nephew Thomas Stephens, a Whig MP for Gloucestershire from 1713 until his death in 1720. At the general election in 1722 he was returned to sit for Gloucestershire through the influence of the Stephens. He served only one term and did not stand in the following election. He died childess and his estate was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Moreton, 1st Baron Ducie
Matthew Ducie Moreton, 1st Baron Ducie (1663–1735) of Moreton, Staffordshire, and Tortworth, Gloucestershire, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1708 and 1720 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ducie. Some early sources call him Matthew-Ducie Moreton, as at the time it was so unusual for anyone to have more than one forename.''The Historical Register Volume XII for the Year 1727'' (London: H. Meere, 1727)p. 19 Moreton was baptized on 17 March 1663, the eldest son of Edward Moreton of Moreton and Engleton, Staffordshire and his wife Elizabeth Ducie, daughter of Robert Ducie of Little Aston, Staffordshire. His mother was heir to her uncle William Ducie, 1st Viscount Downe, of Tortworth, who died in 1679. He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1681 and awarded MA in 1682. Moreton joined the army and was a cornet in Lord Grey's independent troop of horse in 1685 at the time of the Monmouth r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
