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John Byne
John Byne (1635–1661) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1659 to 1661. Byne was the eldest son of Edmund Byne of Rowdell (near Washington, West Sussex) and his wife Elizabeth Goring, daughter of Henry Goring of Highden (also near Washington, West Sussex). He was baptised on 8 October 1635. In 1646 he succeeded to the estate of Rowdell on the death of his father. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bramber in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was also commissioner for militia for Sussex in 1659. He was commissioner for assessment from January 1660 until his death and captain of militia horse from April 1660 to his death. In April 1660 he was re-elected MP for Bramber in the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for sewers for West Sussex from October 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Bramber in the Cavalier Parliament and was seated after a double return. Byne died at the age of 26 and was buried at Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet
Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet (4 October 1627 – 18 January 1701) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England at various times between 1645 and 1701. During the Civil War, he fought on the Parliamentarian side as a colonel in the New Model Army. Life Fagg was the son of John Fagg of Rye, in Sussex, and his wife Elizabeth Hudson (or Hodgson). He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then entered Gray's Inn. Fagg sat as Member of Parliament for Rye in the Long Parliament from 1645 to 1653. He was appointed one of the commissioners for the Sussex Militia in 1648. In 1649 he purchased the manor of Wiston from John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet. From 1654 to 1659, Fagg was MP for Sussex in the First, Second and Third Protectorate Parliaments. After the death of Oliver Cromwell, Fagg was commissioned to raise a regiment of foot by the Rump Parliament in 1659 and was taken prisoner by forces loyal to the military regime when he tried to secure Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1660
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People From Washington, West Sussex
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1661 Deaths
Events January–March * January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeats them. * January 29 – The Rokeby baronets, a British nobility title is created. * January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution in London, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. * February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Chinese Qing Dynasty dies, and is succeeded by his 7-year-old son the Kangxi Emperor. * February 7 – Shah Shuja, who was deprived of his claim to the throne of the Mughal Empire by his younger brother Aurangzeb, then fled to Burma, is killed by Indian troops in an attack on his residence at Arakan. * February 14 – George Monck’s regiment becomes ''The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards'' in England (which later becomes the Coldstream Guards). * March 9 – Following the death of his me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1635 Births
Events January–March * January 23 – 1635 Capture of Tortuga: The Spanish Navy captures the Caribbean island of Tortuga off of the coast of Haiti after a three-day battle against the English and French Navy. * January 25 – King Thalun moves the capital of Burma from Pegu to Ava. * February 22 – The ''Académie française'' in Paris is formally constituted, as the national academy for the preservation of the French language. * March 22 – The Peacock Throne of India's Mughal Empire is inaugurated in a ceremony in Delhi to support the seventh anniversary of Shah Jahan's accession to the throne as Emperor. * March 26 – Philipp Christoph von Sötern, the Archbishop-Elector of Trier, is taken prisoner in a surprise attack by Spanish Habsburg troops, leading to a declaration of war against Spain by France and the beginning of the Franco-Spanish War. April–June * April 13 – Druze warlord Fakhr-al-Din II is executed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Temple
James Temple (1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir Alexander Temple, although his elder brother died in 1627. As a child, Temple moved with his father from Rochester to Chadwell St Mary in Essex and then to Etchingham in Sussex, where he settled. Temple gained military experience as a member of the Duke of Buckingham's expedition to the Isle of Ré in 1627. As a puritan, he joined the Parliamentary army at the outbreak of the Civil War and fought at the Battle of Edgehill. He rose to become a colonel and commanded Tilbury Fort, an important defensive position on the approach to London by river. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bramber in September 1645 to replace an ejected Royalist. He sided with the army in opposing any compromise with the King, and was appointed as a judge at the trial of King C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thetford (UK Parliament Constituency)
Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election. It was disenfranchised under the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868, which had resulted in a net increase of seven seats in Scotland, offset by the disenfranchisement of seven English Boroughs. Below are those MPs who held the seat from just prior to the Restoration onwards. Members of Parliament MPs 1529–1660 MPs 1660–1868 FitzRoy family Due to the town's close proximity to Euston Hall (the main residence of the FitzRoy family), the seat for Thetford has been held by various members of the family: *1733-54 & 1774-82: Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore *1739-41: Lord Augustus FitzRoy *1774-80: Hon. Charles FitzRoy *1782-84: George FitzRoy, Earl of Euston *1806-12: Lord William FitzRoy *1812-18: Lord John FitzRoy *1818-30: Lord Charles FitzRoy *1830-34: Lord James FitzRoy *1847-63: William FitzRoy, Earl of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington, West Sussex
Washington is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located west of Steyning and east of Storrington on the A24 between Horsham and Worthing. The parish covers an area of . In the 2001 census 1,930 people lived in 703 households, of whom 820 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was 1,867. The village lies at the foot of the South Downs escarpment. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary. There is one pub, the ''Frankland Arms'', a primary school and a village hall with an adjoining sports field. The hamlet named Rock lies to the north of the A283 road. Landmarks Chanctonbury Ring, a hill fort based ring of trees atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, lies on the border of the parish and the neighbouring parish of Wiston. Chanctonbury Hill is a Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Sussex, kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for many purposes into the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex. Brighton and Hove, though part of East Sussex, was made a unitary authority in 1997, and as such, is administered independently of the rest of East Sussex. Brighton and Hove was granted city status in the United Kingdom, city status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city. The Brighton and Hove built-up area is the 15th largest conurbation in the UK and Brighton and Hove is the most populous city or town in Sussex. Crawley, Worthing and Eastbourne are major towns, each with a population over 100,000. Sussex has three main geographic su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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