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High Sheriff Of Kent
The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrument to a sheriff shall be construed accordingly in relation to sheriffs for a county or Greater London." () Formerly the high sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now obsolete, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The high sheriff changes every March. The current High Sheriff is Jonathan Neame. This is a list of high sheriffs of Kent. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry De Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham ( 1260 – 25 August 1339)L. G. Pine, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms'' (London, UK: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 77. lord of the manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling, also in Kent, was an English peer. Origins He was the son and heir of John de Cobham (d. 1300), G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., volume III, page 343. of Cobham and of Cooling, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of Rochester Castle in Kent and one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by his wife Joan de Septvans (d. 1298),Belcher whose monumental brass survives in Cobham Church, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert de Septvans of Chartham in Kent. His uncle was Sir Henry de Cobham (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Butler I
John Butler I of Graveney, Kent, England, was an English politician. Butler was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1398–1399 and was elected a Member of Parliament for Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ... in May 1413. Butler married, before June 1398, Joan Faversham (1376–1408), the third daughter of Richard Faversham of Graveney; she eventually inherited her father's estate. They had one daughter, Ann, who married John Martin. References Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from the Borough of Swale 14th-century births 15th-century deaths High sheriffs of Kent English MPs May 1413 {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Potyn
Nicholas Potyn (died 1398) was an English politician. Life Potyn was the son of MP John Potyn of Rochester, Kent. He married a woman named Alice. The heir to his manors in Kent was his only daughter, Juliana (d.1417), whose second husband was Thomas St. Leger, a younger son of Sir Ralph St. Leger. He was buried at the chapel of Holy Trinity at St. Dunstan-in -the-East. St Dunstan-in-the-East was a Church of England parish church on St Dunstan's Hill, halfway between London Bridge and the Tower of London in the City of London. The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and the ruins are now a public garden. Career He was controller of customs for London from 1375 to 1377 and JP for Kent from 1394 until his death. Potyn was MP for Kent in 1391, 1393 and January 1397, and was appointed Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Haute
Sir Nicholas Haute (20 September 1357 – c. 1415), of Wadden Hall (Wadenhall) in Petham and Waltham, Kent, Waltham, with manors extending into Lower Hardres, Elmsted and Bishopsbourne, in the county of Kent, was an English knight, landowner and politician. Haute of Wadenhall The de Haute family were established at Wadenhall from the 13th century, when Sir William de Haute (died c. 1302) held office as lay steward to Christ Church, Canterbury, Christchurch Priory, Canterbury. He was perhaps briefly succeeded by his son Henry de Haute, who married Margery, an heiress of the de Marinis (Marignes) family, and then by Henry's son Sir Henry de Haute (c.1300-1370), who succeeded to Wadenhale in 1321, after a period of wardship in his minority superintended by his uncle Richard de Haute. Henry de Haute the younger soon married Annabel atte Halle, of a Dover family to whose lands she became heir. Sir Henry had seisin of his share of the de Marinis patrimony, partible by gavelkind, in 134 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burcester
Sir William Burcester (died 1407) was an English politician. Life Burcester, whose name may have come from the town of Bicester, was originally from Oxfordshire. At some point before July 1378, Burcester married the twice-widowed Margaret Gisors of London. She died 1 July 1393. On 6 January 1396, he married another widow named Margaret, the widow of the MP Thomas Brewes. Career He was a tax-collector and justice of the peace for Kent. He was knighted while fighting in France under the Earl of Stafford in 1378 or 1379 and appointed Sheriff of Kent for 1390. He was elected Member of Parliament for Kent in 1393. He was apparently loyal to Richard II of England. Death Burcester died at his manor house in Southwark. He was buried in the Minories Minories ( ) is the name of a small former administrative unit, and also of a street in the Aldgate area of the City of London. Both the street and the former administrative area take their name from the Abbey of the Minoresses of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brockhill
Thomas Brockhill (d. c. 1411) was an English politician. Life Brockhill was probably a younger son (or nephew) of Thomas Brockhill of Saltwood, near Hythe, MP for Kent, and thus the brother of MP John Brockhill. He had a wife, Joan, and one daughter. The family's name is still remembered in Saltwood's secondary school, Brockhill Park Performing Arts College and Brockhill Country Park. Career Brockhill was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for the period May 1383 to November 1384 and was elected Member of Parliament for Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ... in October 1382, 1385, 1395, January 1397, 1399 and 1402. References Year of birth missing 1411 deaths People from Hythe, Kent 14th-century births High sheriffs of Kent English MPs October 1382 En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Savage
Sir Arnold Savage of Bobbing, Kent (8 September 13581410) was the England, English Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1400 to 1402 and then again from 1403 to 1404 and a Knight of the Shire of Kent who was referred to as "the great comprehensive symbol of the English people" (perhaps because, like a lot of people in England, he was sued for debt by London tradersPlea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/555; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H4/CP40no555/bCP40no555dorses/IMG_0352.htm; first entry; being sued for a debt of £20/17/5 to 2 London drapers in 1399). He was born in Bobbing, Kent, a member of the Savage family, and the son and heir of Sir Arnold Savage. Who died in 1374. He was involved in the suppression of the Peasants' Revolt, Peasants' Revolt in 1381. He was appointed High Sheriff of Kent, Sheriff of Kent for 1382 and 1386 and knighted in 1385. He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Kent (UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Peckham
James Peckham (c. 1346 – 1400) was an English politician. Life Peckham was the eldest son of John and Ellen Peckham of Yaldham, near Wrotham, Kent. His first wife was named Margery. At some point by December 1376, he was married to the widow Lora Morant, the sole daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Morant, of Morant's Court, Chevening and widow of Sir Thomas Cawne. She brought him, among other estates, the manor of Barsted, near Borough Green, in Wrotham. He had two legitimate daughters and an acknowledged illegitimate son, John Wrotham. He is recorded as helpful to his stepchildren, Robert and Alice Couen, the children of his second wife Lora. Career In 1377, he was poll tax collector for Kent. Peckham was Member of Parliament for Kent 1372, October 1377, February 1383, February 1388, and September 1388. He was appointed Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Freningham
John Freningham (1345–1410) was an English politician and a member of Parliament for Kent. Life Freningham was born in East Farleigh, the eldest son and heir of Ralph Freningham, MP, and his wife Katherine. Circa 1365, he married Alice Uvedale, the daughter of Thomas Uvedale, MP. They had no children. Career Freningham was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1378-79 and 1393–94 and elected Member of Parliament for Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ... in October 1377, 1381 and 1399. He was a member of Henry IV’s council from 1 November 1399 to 10 March 1401. Death His nephew, John Pympe, son of his sister and Reynold Pympe, was his main heir. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Freningham, John 1345 births 1410 deaths People from East Farleigh Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cobham (MP)
Thomas Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham (c. 1343 – 8 February 1394) was an English nobleman and politician. Life Thomas Cobham was the eldest son of Sir John Cobham (1319–61) of Randall in Shorne, Kent and the brother of John Cobham, also an MP for Kent. he succeeded his father in 1361, inheriting the manor of Randall and Allington Castle. His first wife was Maud Morice; his second, a woman named Beatrice, who outlived him. He died in 1394 and was buried in Birling church. His main heir was his son, Reynold, from his first marriage. Career In the early 1370s Cobham twice sailed to Ireland for military service with the King's lieutenant, William of Windsor. He also joined Thomas, Earl of Warwick, for the 1372 naval expedition to relieve La Rochelle. He was knighted by 1372. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Kent in 1376, May 1382, November 1384, and November 1390. He was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1377–78. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobham, Thomas 1340s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembury
Pembury is a large village in Kent, in the south east of England, with a population of 6,128 at the 2011 census. It lies just to the north-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells. The village centre, including the village green and High Street area is a Conservation Area (United Kingdom), conservation area. History A settlement in Pembury almost certainly predates the Norman Conquest, as the village church of St Peter is of Normans, Norman origin. It is thought to have been built in the early 12th or late 11th century, though the earliest it can be dated with certainty is to 1337, when John Culpeper of Bayhall carried out building work to the church. The first recorded mention of Pembury is as "Peppingeberia" in the 12th-century ''Textus Roffensis'', though Edward Hasted states that it was also known in ancient deeds as "Pepenbery". With the widespread introduction of the motor vehicle in the early 20th century, Pembury Hospital hosted a centre of groundbreaking research and treatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
