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George Simon Harcourt
George Simon Harcourt (28 February 1807 – 24 October 1871) was a British politician. The son of John Simon Harcourt of Ankerwycke, Harcourt was educated at Eton School and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1834, he served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. He stood in the 1837 Buckinghamshire by-election, winning the seat for the Conservative Party, and he held the seat at the 1837 UK general election. In Parliament, he was considered to be on the liberal wing of the party, with a particular interest in agricultural matters. He stood down at the 1841 UK general election. In 1834, Harcourt commissioned a large house, built in a pseudo-Norman style on Magna Carta Island, in the River Thames in Surrey. The island is a claimed site of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 and within the house there is still a large inscribed stone that Harcourt installed to commemorate the signing. The house is now Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of p ...
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John Simon Harcourt
John Simon Harcourt (14 December 1772 – 21 February 1810) of Ankerwycke, Buckinghamshire, was member of Parliament for Westbury 18 April 1800 - 1802. In 1791, Harcourt bought the manor house (now known as St. Dunstan's) at Lisson village near Marylebone along with several acres of farm land for development. This land was parcelled out to his step-father Admiral Molyneux Lord Shuldham, Edward Homer of Marylebone and a Pentonville carpenter by the name of John Watson. The resulting streets were Harcourt Street, Molyneux Street, Shouldham Street, Homer Row, Homer Street Homer Street is a quiet one-way street in the Marylebone neighbourhood of the City of Westminster. It runs from Old Marylebone Road in the north to Crawford Street in the south. The street is part of the Marylebone Ward of Westminster City Counci ... and Watson's Mews.Bebbington, Gillian. (1972) ''London Street Names''. London: B.T. Batsford. pp. 162 & 177. References 1772 births 1810 deaths Memb ...
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James Backwell Praed
James Backwell Praed (30 May 1779 – 13 January 1837) was a British politician. Praed lived at Tyringham in Buckinghamshire. In 1807, he served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. At the 1835 UK general election, Praed stood in Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. He won the seat, and died in office in early 1837. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Praed, James Backwell 1779 births 1837 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies High sheriffs of Buckinghamshire UK MPs 1835–1837 ...
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High Sheriffs Of Buckinghamshire
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
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1871 Deaths
Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Bapaume – Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the south German states unite into a single nation state, known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. The Constitution of the German Confederation comes into effect. It abolishes all restrictions on Jewish marriage, choice of occupation, place of residence, and property ownership, but exclusion from government employment and discrimination in social relations remain in effect. * January 21 – Battle of Dijon: Giuseppe Garibaldi's group of French and Italian volunteer troops, in support of the French Third Republic, win a battle against the Prussians. * February 8 – 1871 French legislative election elects the first legislatu ...
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1807 Births
Events January–March *January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies. *January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with bankruptcy because of the imminent abolition of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on July 29, and it takes effect on January 1, 1808. *February 3 – Napoleonic Wars and Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Montevideo – The British Army captures Montevideo from the Spanish Empire, as part of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata. *February 7 – Napoleon leads the forces of the French Empire in an invasion of the Russian Empire, and begins fighting at the Battle of Eylau against Russian and Prussian forces. *February 8 – Battle of Eylau: Napoleon fights a hard but inconclusive battle against the Russians un ...
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Gore Ouseley
Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet Royal Guelphic Order, GCH, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (24 June 1770 – 18 November 1844), was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844. He negotiated Treaty of Gulistan, an important treaty between Russia and Persia in 1813 which redrew their common borders. Early life Sir Gore Ouseley was born in Limerick in Ireland to Ralph Ouseley (1739), Ralph and Elizabeth (born Holland) Ouseley. Gore's father's family was originally from Shropshire. Gore and his brother were tutored at home in the company of brother William Ouseley, William and cousin Gideon Ouseley. All three had notable careers. India Whilst serving the British Government and posted in Lucknow he became a friend of the local Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II, Saadat Ali Khan and was responsible for building a palace called Dilkusha Kothi on the banks of the River Gomti, Gomti near Lucknow. This ...
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Charles Scott-Murray
Charles Robert Scott-Murray (28 December 1818 – 27 August 1882) was a British Conservative politician. Life He was the son of Charles Scott Murray of Danesfield House, and his wife Augusta Eliza Nixon, widow of John Buller M.P., and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1837 and graduated B.A. in 1841. On his father's death in 1837, he inherited Danesfield House and had it enlarged by Anthony Salvin. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1844, in Rome, and became a patron of Augustus Pugin, paying for St Peter's Church, Marlow. Scott-Murray was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire at the 1841 general election and held the seat until 1845 when he resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Hempholme. One of Scott-Murray's chaplains was Thomas John Capel. The association played a part in the reception as a Catholic of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. Family Scott-Mur ...
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Caledon Du Pré
Caledon George Du Pré (28 March 1803 – 7 October 1886) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1839 to 1874. Du Pré was the son of James Du Pré of Wilton Park Estate, Beaconsfield, and his wife Madelina Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 4th Baronet. His father was MP for Gatton, Aylesbury and Chichester. Du Pré was an officer in the 1st Life Guards and became a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire. In February 1839, Du Pré was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated ''Bucks'') is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshir .... He held the seat until the 1874 general election, when he did not stand for re-election. Du Pré died at the age of 83. Du Pré married his cousin Louisa Corn ...
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1839 Buckinghamshire By-election
Events January–March * January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre. * January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. * January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype photography process. * January 19 – The British Aden Expedition captures Aden. * January 20 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, leading to the restoration of an independent Peru. * January – The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. * February 11 – The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River. * February 24 – William Otis receives a U.S. patent for the steam shovel. * March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia. * March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, ...
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1841 United Kingdom General Election
The 1841 United Kingdom general election was held between 29 June and 22 July 1841. Following increasing government defeats, the Conservatives under Sir Robert Peel won a decisive victory against the governing Whigs. The Conservatives campaigned mainly on an 11-point programme modified from their previous electoral effort and designed by Peel, whilst the Whigs emphasised reforming the import duties on corn, replacing the existing sliding scale with a uniform rate. The Whig position lost them support amongst protectionists, and the Whigs saw heavy losses in constituencies like the West Riding, where aristocratic Whig families who held a strong tradition of unbroken representation in Parliament were rejected by the electorate. O'Connell, who had been governing with the Whigs through a compact, felt the government's unpopularity rub off on him. His own party was shattered in the election. Barely a dozen Repealers retained their seats, and O'Connell himself lost in Dublin whi ...
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Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Buckinghamshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. Its most prominent member was Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Boundaries and boundary changes This county constituency consisted of the historic county of Buckinghamshire, in south-eastern England to the north-west of the modern Greater London region. Its southern boundary was the River Thames. See History of Buckinghamshire for maps of the historic county and details about it. The county returned two knights of the shire until 1832 and three 1832–1885. The place of election for the county was at the county town of Aylesbury. Aylesbury replaced Buckingham as the county town in 1529. The county, up to 1885, also contained the borough constituencies of Amersham (originally enfranchised with 2 seats from 1300, r ...
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