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Henry Perrot
Henry Perrot (29 September 1689 – 6 January 1740), of Northleigh, Oxfordshire, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1740. Perrot was the eldest son of James Perrot of Northleigh and his wife Anne. His father was nicknamed "Golden Perrot" because of his wealth. He came from a staunchly royalist family which had long connections with the University of Oxford. He married as his second wife on 2 April 1719, Martha Bouchier, daughter of Brereton Bouchier of Barnsley, Gloucestershire, and a niece of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. He succeeded his father in 1725. Perrot was returned unopposed as a Tory Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire at a by-election on 17 May 1721. He was returned unopposed again at the general elections of 1722, 1727 and 1734. He voted consistently against the Administration, and became involved in Jacobite intrigues. In the winter of 1737, he went to the south of France, where he met the exiled Duke of Ormonde Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Leigh
North Leigh is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the Hamlet (place), hamlet of East End and since 1932 has also included the hamlet of Wilcote. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,929. Early history Green Wood fort, about south of the village in the grounds of Estell manor, is an British Iron Age, Iron Age hill fort. The course of Akeman Street Roman roads in Britain, Roman road linking Corinium Dobunnorum, Cirencester with Roman London, London forms part of the northern boundary of the parish. Two Roman villas have been excavated in the parish. One is about northwest of the centre of the village and is not on display. The other, known as North Leigh Roman Villa, is about north of East End. It is under the care of English Heritage and is open to the public. In 1928 the remains of eight Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon burials from the 7th century AD we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet
Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet ( 1698–1740), of Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, was an English Jacobite and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1740. Early life Stapleton was brought up on Nevis in the British Leeward Islands, the son of Sir William Stapleton, 3rd Baronet and his wife Frances Russell, daughter of Sir James Russell who had acted as governor of the island. In 1699, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 17 April 1714, aged 15. He married Catherine Paul, co-heiress daughter of William Paul of Braywick, Bray, Berkshire and his wife Lady Catherine Fane, daughter of Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland on 28 April 1724. With the marriage he came into possession of Greys Court. Career In the 1720s Stapleton associated with Jacobites including Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton. At the general election of 1727 he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1722–1727
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1740 Deaths
Events January–March * January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second voyage to the Indies. The wreckage is discovered more than 250 years later, in 2004. * February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, Wilmington, Royal Colony of North Carolina, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston. * March 16 – Edward I (Moskito), King Edward of the Miskito Indians signs a treaty making his kingdom, located on the coast of modern-day Nicaragua, a protectorate of Great Britain. * March 25 – Construction begins on Bethesda Orphanage for boys near Savannah, Georgia, founded by George Whitefield. April–June * April 8 – War of the Austrian Succession: The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1689 Births
Events Notable events during this year include: * Coup, war, and legislation in England and its territories. ** The overthrow of Catholic king James II of England, James of England, Ireland, and Scotland in the Glorious Revolution. ** The latter realms entering the Nine Years' War, Nine Years War and its expansion to the American colonies in the King William's War. ** The Bill of Rights 1689, Bill of Rights becomes law in England. * Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō, Bashō goes on a voyage, resulting in the classic ''Oku no Hosomichi, Narrow Road to the Interior''. * The death of Pope Innocent XI and the election of the 241st Pope Alexander VIII. * The Holy Roman Empire wins the Battle of Niš (1689), Battle of Niš, fought against the Ottoman Empire. * Morocco wins in the Siege of Larache (1689), Siege of Larache against Spain. * Peter the Great decrees the construction of the Great Siberian Road to China. January–March * January 22 (January 12, 1688 Old Style and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lee, 3rd Earl Of Lichfield
George Henry Lee II, 3rd Earl of Lichfield PC (1718–1772) was a British politician and peer. He was made a Privy Councillor and Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1762, holding both honours until death. Previously, he had served as member of parliament for Oxfordshire from 1740 until acceding to the peerage in 1743. Birth and origins George was born on 21 May 1718 in London. He was the son of George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield and his wife Frances Hales. His father was the 2nd Earl of Lichfield and a great-grandson of King Charles II through his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Fitzroy by his mistress Barbara Villiers. George's mother was a daughter of Sir John Hales, 4th Baronet of Hackington, who had brought her up as a Catholic and was the 2nd Earl of Tenterden in the Jacobite peerage. George had two brothers and six sisters, who are listed in his father's article. Early life From birth he was styled Viscount Quarendon as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet (1715–1779) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1768. Early life He was the son of Robert Dashwood, and his grandfather from whom he inherited the baronetcy was Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet; his mother was Dorothy Reade, daughter of Sir James Reade, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon (now Abingdon School). He was a Steward of the OA Club in 1746. Kirtlington Park He inherited large estates in Oxfordshire, being on a Grand Tour when he came into them in 1734, and built an imposing house at Kirtlington. Kirtlington Park was constructed in the years 1742 to 1746, by William Smith of Warwick and John Sanderson, starting from plans by James Gibbs; the grounds were laid out by Lancelot Brown. Dashwood also built up a significant library, and in 1747 was paying James Lovell, the sculptor and interior decorator. In 1931 the rococo dining room was exported, and it is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Herbert (died 1721)
James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 languages, including Chinese and Russian. Biography Born in London, Herbert was the son of Herbert Herbert, a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market. He attended a Catholic school in Bethnal Green called Our Lady of the Assumption, then at 11 won a scholarship to St Aloysius Grammar School in Highgate. He left school at 15 and studied at Hornsey College of Art, joining the art department of John Collings, a small advertising agency. He left the agency to join Charles Barker Advertising where he worked as art director and then group head. Herbert lived in Woodmancote, near Henfield in West Sussex. He had two brothers: Peter, a retired market trader and John, an insurance broker. Herbert would write his drafts in longhand on "jumbo pad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs), who are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England began to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1801 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Banks Jenkinson, 4th Baronet
Sir Banks Robert Jenkinson, 4th Baronet (24 January 1687 – 2 July 1738), was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1717 to 1727. Biography Jenkinson was the second son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Sarah Tomlins (daughter of Thomas Tomlins of Bromley, Middlesex), and was baptised on 24 January 1687. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 18 February 1703. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1705 and was called to the bar in 1713. He succeeded his brother Sir Robert Jenkinson, 3rd Baronet, on 29 October 1717. He married Catherine Dashwood, daughter of Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet, MP of Northbrook, Oxfordshire, on 12 June 1718. Jenkinson succeeded his brother as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire at a by-election on 4 December 1717. He voted as a Tory, against the Administration. The 2nd Earl of Abingdon put him up unsuccessfully for the recordership of Oxford in 1721. He was returned unopposed as MP at Oxfordshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
