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Hugh Wyndham
Hugh Wyndham may refer to: * Sir Hugh Wyndham (judge) (1602–1684), English judge of the Common Pleas and Baron of the Exchequer * Hugh Wyndham (Minehead MP) (c. 1624–71), MP for Minehead 1661–71 * Sir Hugh Wyndham (diplomat) (1836–1916), British diplomat, minister to Serbia, Brazil and Romania * Hugh Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield (1877–1963), British peer, politician and author {{hndis, name=Wyndham, Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wyndham (judge)
Sir Hugh Wyndham Serjeant-at-law, SL (1602 – 24 December 1684), of Silton, near Gillingham, Dorset, Gillingham, Dorset, was an English Court of Common Pleas (England), Judge of the Common Pleas and a Baron of the Exchequer. Origins He was born in 1602, at Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, the eighth son of Sir John Wyndham (1558–1645) of Orchard Wyndham, by his wife Joan Portman, daughter of Sir Henry Portman (d.1590) of Orchard Portman, Somerset. His younger brother was the judge Sir Wadham Wyndham (judge), Wadham Wyndham (d.1668). Education He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford: the college had been founded by his paternal grandmother's brother, Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609), Nicholas Wadham (d.1609). He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 19 March 1622, and was called to the bar on 16 June 1629, becoming a Bencher in 1648. On 2 January 1643 he was made MA of University of Oxford, Oxford University by Royal Warrant. Career Judicial service under Cromwell In February 1654, he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wyndham (Minehead MP)
Hugh Wyndham may refer to: * Sir Hugh Wyndham (judge) (1602–1684), English judge of the Common Pleas and Baron of the Exchequer * Hugh Wyndham (Minehead MP) (c. 1624–71), MP for Minehead 1661–71 * Sir Hugh Wyndham (diplomat) Sir George Hugh Wyndham (18 November 1836 – 10 February 1916) was a British diplomat who was minister to Serbia, Brazil and Romania. Career George Hugh Wyndham was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford and entered the Diploma ... (1836–1916), British diplomat, minister to Serbia, Brazil and Romania * Hugh Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield (1877–1963), British peer, politician and author {{hndis, name=Wyndham, Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wyndham (diplomat)
Sir George Hugh Wyndham (18 November 1836 – 10 February 1916) was a British diplomat who was minister to Serbia, Brazil and Romania. Career George Hugh Wyndham was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1857. He accompanied Sir Frederick Bruce to China in 1859 and stayed there for two years. He then served as consul-general at Warsaw and subsequently as Secretary of the legations or embassies at Athens, Madrid, St Petersburg and Constantinople (where in 1883 it fell to him, as Chargé d'Affaires to the Sublime Porte, to sign a declaration amending the convention for the suppression of the slave trade that had been agreed between the UK government and the Sultan of Turkey in 1880). Wyndham was promoted to be Minister Resident to the King of Serbia in 1885 and upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the following year. In 1888 he was moved to be minister to Brazil and remained there until mid-1894. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
