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Eversfield Preparatory School
Eversfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Eversfield (1683–1749), British politician * Charles Eversfield, 2nd Baronet (c. 1708–1784) * Edward Eversfield ( 1618–c. 1676), English courtier and politician * James Eversfield (1795–1826), English landowner and High Sheriff of Sussex * John Eversfield (c. 1624–1678), English politician * Nicholas Eversfield (MP for Hastings) (c. 1584–1629), English landowner and politician * Nicholas Eversfield (MP for Bramber) (c. 1646–1684), English landowner and politician * Thomas Eversfield (1614–1649), English politician * William Markwick (1739–1812), English naturalist who changed his surname to Eversfield to obtain an inheritance {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eversfield
Charles Eversfield (15 September 1683 – 1749) of Denne Place, near Horsham, Sussex, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1705 and 1747. Early life Eversfield was the only son. of Nicholas Eversfield of Charlton Court, near Steyning, Sussex and his wife, Elizabeth Gildridge, daughter of Nicholas Gildridge of Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1684, he succeeded to the estates of his father. He married Mary Duncombe, daughter of Henry Duncombe of Weston, Surrey on 21 July 1702. Career In 1695, Eversfield inherited the estate of Denne from his uncle Anthony Eversfield and with it an electoral interest at Horsham. As soon as he came of age, he successfully contested Horsham at the 1705 English general election, being listed as a ‘Churchman’. He was relatively inconspicuous in his first Parliament but voted against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705. He was returned again for Horsham, as a Tory at the 1708 British general election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eversfield, 2nd Baronet
The Fermor, later Eversfield Baronetcy, of Welches in the County of Suffolk and of Sevenoak in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 4 May 1725 for Henry Fermor, of Castwisell House, Biddenden. Sir Henry died without a direct heir in 1734. He left funds to endow a local school that still bears his name. The title was remaindered to Charles Eversfield, of Denne Park, near Horsham, West Sussex. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by the aforementioned Charles Eversfield, the second Baronet. He was the son of Charles Eversfield, Member of Parliament for Horsham. The title became extinct on his death in 1784. On the landing in Horsham Museum hang works of art from the museum's extensive painting collection, featuring a large eighteenth-century portrait of Charles Eversfield and his wife of Denne Park House. In the painting Eversfield is giving his wife some violets which signifies fidelity, love and honesty. It is likel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Eversfield
Edward Eversfield (c. 1618 – c. 1676) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1661. Eversfield was the son of Nicholas Eversfield of'' The Grove'', Hollington. Eversfield was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bramber from 1660 to 1661. In 1660 he became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and a J.P. He was commissioner for assessment in Sussex from 1660 to 1663, for Surrey from 1664 to 1669 and for Sussex again from 1673 to 1674. In 1672 he became a freeman of Portsmouth. Eversfield first married (in 1644) Mary Muschamp daughter of Francis Muschamp of Bredinghurst, Camberwell and secondly (in 1666) Frances Roberts, widow of Richard Roberts of Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire and daughter of Thomas Carleton of Carshalton. His third wife (1670) was Cecily Warmestry, a stepdaughter of Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet (MP for Horsham), and sister-in-law of John Machell (MP for Horsham).P. Watson, 'Machell, John (1637–1704), of Hills Place, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Eversfield
James Eversfield was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Sussex. Life Baptised on 1 November 1795 in the church of St Laurence in Catsfield, he was the younger son of William Markwick, who later changed his name to Eversfield, and his wife Mary. On 15 June 1815 in the church of St James, Piccadilly he married Mary Crew (1795–1872), daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew, Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, and his wife Mary Sophia Foreman, daughter of John Foreman. In 1818 his elder brother died, making him heir to the family's extensive landholdings, which included the manor and mansion of Catsfield as well as lands in Pevensey, Ninfield, Mountfield, Battle and Bexhill. He served as High Sheriff of Sussex in 1822. Following the death of his mother in 1823, he sold the Catsfield property and moved to Denne Park outside Horsham. In 1825 he was one of the six proprietors of the Baybridge Canal at West Grinstead. Aged only 30 when he died, his will was proved on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eversfield
John Eversfield (c. 1624 – 22 May 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1661. Eversfield was the son of Nicholas Eversfield of ''The Grove'', Hollington. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and entered Inner Temple in 1641. Eversfield was Member of Parliament (MP) for Steyning from 1660 to 1661. In parliament he made no speeches and served on no committees. He was commissioner for sewers in West Sussex in 1660, an assessor for Sussex from 1663 and a J.P. from 1668. Eversfield married firstly Hester Knight, daughter of John Knight of Westergate. She brought him the wealth to buy Charlton Court, but died in 1672. Their son Nicholas Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Ancient Greek, Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In ... was MP for Bramber in 1679. Eversfield married sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Eversfield (MP For Hastings)
Nicholas Eversfield (c.1584–1629) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. Eversfield was probably the son of Thomas Eversfield of Grove, Hastings. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge in about 1595 and was awarded BA in 1599. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 3 May 1602. He was High Sheriff of Sussex for 1619–20. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Happy Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Hastings in 1625, 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Eversfield married Dorothy Goring, daughter of Edward Goring of Oakhurst. His sons Edward, John, Anthony Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the '' Antonii'', a '' gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descenda ... and Thomas bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Eversfield (MP For Bramber)
Nicholas Eversfield (c.1646–1684), of Charlton Court, Steyning, Sussex, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1679. Eversfield was the only son of John Eversfield and his first wife Hester Knight, daughter of John Knight of Westergate, who brought him the wealth to buy Charlton Court. He married Elizabeth Gildridge, daughter of Nicholas Gildridge of Eastbourne on 29 June 1674. Eversfield was Commissioner for assessment for Sussex from 1677 to 1680. He succeeded to his father’s estate in 1678 and was returned as Member of Parliament for Bramber for the first Exclusion Parliament in 1679, probably on the interest of his cousins the Goring family. In the brief Parliament, he made no speeches, and did not sit on any committees. Eversfield died in 1684 leaving a son and two daughters. He was succeeded by his son Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Eversfield
Sir Thomas Eversfield (1614–1649) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Cavaliers, Royalists and Roundhead, Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of th .... Eversfield was the son of John Eversfield of Hollington, East Sussex. His father and three brothers were also Members of Parliament for Hastings. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Eversfield, Thomas 1654 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 1614 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
