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Edward Norreys (1634–1712)
Sir Edward Norreys (August 1634 – September/October 1712) was an English Tories (British political party), Tory politician. Biography Norreys was the second but only surviving son of Francis Norreys (1609–1669), Sir Francis Rose (also known by the surname Norreys) of Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire and Hester Rouse, daughter of John Rouse (MP), Sir John Rouse. His father was the illegitimate son of Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire and Sarah Rose. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1650 before entering Lincoln's Inn in 1654. Between 1656 and 1658 he travelled in France. Norreys was knighted by Charles II of England, Charles II on 22 November 1662 and on 9 November that year he married Jane Clarke, daughter of Sir John Clarke of Shabington. In 1666 he was appointed a justice of the peace for Oxfordshire and he was made a deputy lieutenant of the county two years later. Norreys was elected to the House of Commons of England as the Member of Parliament for O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tories (British Political Party)
The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of Parliament of England, England, Parliament of Scotland, Scotland, Parliament of Ireland, Ireland, Parliament of Great Britain, Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whigs (British political party), Whig efforts to exclude James II of England, James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds of his Catholic Church, Catholicism. Despite their fervent opposition to state-sponsored Catholicism, Tories opposed his exclusion because of their belief that inheritance based on birth was the foundation of a stable society. After the succession of George I of Great Britain, George I in 1714, the Tories had no part in government and ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s (although the term continued to be used in subsequent years as a term of self-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James II Of England
James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II of England, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, his reign is now remembered primarily for conflicts over religion. However, it also involved struggles over the principles of Absolute monarchy, absolutism and divine right of kings, with his deposition ending a century of political and civil strife by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over the Crown. James was the second surviving son of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France, and was created Duke of York at birth. He succeeded to the throne aged 51 with widespread support. The general public were reluctant to undermine the principle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pudsey
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Horde
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a 1969 nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Cope, 5th Baronet
Sir John Cope, 5th Baronet (19 November 1634 – 11 January 1721) was an English landowner, banker and Whig politician. Biography Cope was the third but second surviving son of Sir John Cope, 3rd Baronet by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Fane, daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. From 1651 he was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, before undertaking the Grand Tour to France, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries in 1654. In 1660 he was a lieutenant in the foot regiment of Viscount Falkland and was serving with the regiment in Dunkirk when it was sold to France in 1662. He was a captain of foot by 1667. On 2 November 1672 he married Anne Booth, daughter of Philip Booth of Dunkirk. Cope's elder brother, Sir Anthony Cope, disapproved of the match and limited Cope to receiving only a life interest in the family estates, with much of the estate subsequently being inherited by a relative, Sir Jonathan Cope. Cope nonetheless became a considerable landowner in Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet
Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet (16 November 1632 – 11 June 1675) was an English natural philosopher, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1675. Cope was the son of Sir John Cope, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Elizabeth Fane daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He succeeded to the baronetcy of Hanwell on the death of his father in 1638. His grandfather was Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet of Hanwell. Hanwell Castle and Sir Anthony Cope Hanwell Castle, located in Oxfordshire, was a significant site owned by the Cope family, who played an influential role in the region's history for centuries. The castle and its gardens became central to scientific and philosophical advancements during the 17th century under the stewardship of Sir Anthony Cope. A Pioneer of Natural Philosophy Sir Anthony Cope was a distinguished figure with a profound interest in natural philosophy. He graduated from the University of Oxford and transformed Hanwell Castle a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Wenman, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Wenman, 1st Baronet (c. 1630 – 2 September 1680) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1664 to 1679. Background Wenman was the second son of Sir Francis Wenman of Caswell, Oxfordshire and his wife Ann Sandys, daughter of Sir Samuel Sandys of Omberslade, Worcestershire. His father, who was MP for Oxfordshire in the Short Parliament, died in 1641. Wenman's elder brother was killed in the King's service during the Cornish campaign of 1644. Wenman died at the age of around 50. Political career Wenman was created baronet of Caswell on 29 November 1662. In 1664, he was elected Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. With the exception of the Long Parliament, it was the longest-lasting English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring ... and sat until 1679. Family Wenman married Mary Wenm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Wyche
Sir Cyril Wyche FRS ( – 28 December 1707) was an English lawyer, politician and administrator. He served two terms in the Dublin Castle administration as Chief Secretary for Ireland and was a Lord Justice of Ireland from 1693 to 1695. He was the fifth President of the Royal Society, and represented several constituencies in both the House of Commons of England and the Irish House of Commons. Early life He was born in Constantinople, then part of the Ottoman Empire, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was baptised by and named after Patriarch Cyril Lucaris, who became his godfather. Wyche was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts (MA) in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 1665. He entered Gray's Inn in 1657 and was eventually called to the bar in 1670. In 1660, around the time of the Stuart Restoration, he was knighted by Charles II in The Hague, li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bertie (of Weston-on-the-Green)
Henry Bertie, JP (ca. 1656 – 4 December 1734), of Chesterton, Oxfordshire was an English soldier and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1678 and 1715. Early life Bertie was a younger son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey by his second wife, Lady Norreys, daughter of Edward Wray, of Rycote, Oxfordshire and widow of Hon. Edward Sackville. His mother, who died shortly after his birth, seems to have let him enough of an inheritance to be comfortably provided for, including the manor of Nutley in Long Crendon. Bertie was one of the commissioners of assessment for Oxfordshire from 1677 to 1680. When Lord Gerard raised a troop of horse in 1678 in anticipation of a war with France, Bertie was commissioned a captain; the troop was disbanded in the following year. In 1678, after Thomas Wancklyn was expelled from the House of Commons, he was nominated for the vacant Parliamentary seat at Westbury on the interest of his elder brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Norreys (1666–1706)
Francis Norreys (c.1666 – 6 June 1706) was an English Tory politician. Biography Norreys was the second son of Sir Edward Norreys. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford before entering Lincoln's Inn in 1684. In 1685 he is recorded as the cornet of a troop of horse and in 1687 he was made a freeman and bailiff of Oxford. In 1701 he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Oxford in succession to his father, likely on the interest of his kinsman Lord Norreys. He was soon identified as an opponent of the Whig government and opposed the preparations for war with France in the 1701 parliamentary session. He was returned unopposed in 1702 and continued to vote with the Tories, including in support of the Earl of Nottingham. In the 1705 election he defended his seat with ease against Whig opposition and in an analysis of the new Parliament he was again identified as a Tory. Norreys died unmarried on 6 June 1706, while still an MP and predeceasing his father, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Parliament Of Great Britain
The first Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain was established in 1707 after the merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. It was in fact the 4th and last session of the 2nd Parliament of Queen Anne suitably renamed: no fresh elections were held in England or in Wales, and the existing members of the House of Commons of England sat as members of the new House of Commons of Great Britain. In Scotland, prior to the union coming into effect, the Scottish Parliament appointed sixteen peers (see Scottish representative peers) and 45 Members of Parliaments to join their English counterparts at Westminster. Legal background to the convening of the 1st Parliament Under the Treaty of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland it was provided: Queen Anne did declare it to be expedient that the existing House of Commons of England sit in the first Parliament of Great Britain. The Parliament of Scotland duly passed an Act settling the manner of electin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of 1696
The Association was an instrument created after the failed Jacobite assassination plot of 1696 to pledge loyalty to William III of England. Modelled by Lord Somers on the Elizabethan Bond of Association, it placed intense pressure on nonresistant Tories in public life to acknowledge William as "rightful and lawful King". The Association was widely subscribed to by the public, extending well beyond the circle of officials Somers had targeted, and soon assumed the force of law, all Crown officials being required by statute to subscribe to it. Some Tories were purged from office for failure to do so, and the Association remained in legal force until 1702, when William's death rendered it a nullity and the requirement to subscribe to it was repealed. Background While High Tories opposed to James II of England's religious policies played an important role in the Glorious Revolution, many had uneasy consciences over the events that followed. The legal fiction in the Bill of Rights 1689 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
