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John Crewe (the Elder)
John Crewe Jr. (1709 – 18 September 1752) was a British politician and landowner who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheshire from 1734 until his death in 1752. A member of the prominent Crewe family of Cheshire, he was a Tory and consistently opposed the government during his parliamentary career. Following his death, his brother Charles Crewe briefly succeeded him as MP for Cheshire until 1754. Early life John Crewe Jr. was born in 1709, the eldest son of John Crewe (d. 1749) and Anne Shuttleworth, daughter of Richard Shuttleworth, MP for Lancashire. The Crewe family were established Cheshire gentry, owning Crewe Hall, a notable Jacobean mansion in the county. His siblings included Charles Crewe (1705–1776), who later succeeded him in Parliament, as well as Ranulph, Thomas, Mary, and Anne. Crewe studied at Hart Hall, Oxford, in 1727, gaining an education typical of the landed gentry of the time. On 6 May 1738, he married Elizabeth Shuttleworth, daughter of Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency for the county of Cheshire. 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 1832. As a county palatine it was unrepresented in Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 ( 34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two knights of the shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that. It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832. Members of Parliament 1545–1659 * ''Constituency created'' (1545) * ''Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament'' (1654) 1659–1832 * ''Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament'' (1659) *''Constituency abolished'' (1832) See also * List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituenci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Crewe
Baron Crewe, of Crewe in the County of Chester, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 February 1806 for the politician and landowner John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe, John Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire. This branch of the Crewe (or Crew) family descended from Ranulph Crew, Sir Ranulph Crewe (1558–1646), Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He was the brother of Thomas Crewe, Sir Thomas Crewe, also Speaker of the House of Commons and the father of John Crew, 1st Baron Crew (a title which became extinct in 1721; see Baron Crew). Sir Ranulph's grandson John Crewe was the father of Ann Crewe, who married John Offley, of Madeley Old Manor, Madeley Manor, Staffordshire. Their son John Offley Crewe, John assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Crewe in lieu of his patronymic in 1708. He sat as a Knight of the Shire for Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency), Cheshire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1752 Deaths
In the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days (11 days were dropped), as September 3–13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – The British Empire (except Scotland, which had changed New Year's Day to January 1 in 1600) adopts today as the first day of the year as part of adoption of the Gregorian calendar, which is completed in September: today is the first day of the New Year under the terms of last year's Calendar Act of the British Parliament. * February 10 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, and the first to offer medical treatment to the mentally ill, admits its first patients at a temporary location in Philadelphia. * February 23 – Messier 83 (M83), the " Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" and the first to be cataloged outside the " Local Group" of galaxies nearest to Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is discovered by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1709 Births
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – Battle of St. John's: The French capture St. John's, the capital of the British colony of Newfoundland. * January 6 – Western Europe's Great Frost of 1709, the coldest period in 500 years, begins during the night, lasting three months, with its effects felt for the entire year.Pain, Stephanie.1709: The year that Europe froze" ''New Scientist'', 7 February 2009. In France, the Atlantic coast and Seine River freeze, crops fail, and 24,000 Parisians die. Floating ice enters the North Sea. * January 10 – Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England. * February 1 or 2 – During his first voyage, Captain Woodes Rogers encounters marooned privateer Alexander Selkirk, and rescues him after four years l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whigs (British Political Party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism and parliamentary government, but also Protestant supremacy. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Parliament Of Great Britain
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 558 seats of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1747, the 10th Parliament of Great Britain. List External links History of Parliament: Members 1754–1790History of Parliament: Constituencies 1754–1790 References {{GreatBritainMPs 1747 1747 in Great Britain 1747 Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II ... Lists of members of the Parliament of Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Parliament Of Great Britain
List of MPs elected in the 1741 British general election This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1741, the 9th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency. Elections took place between 30 April 1741 and 11 June 1741. __NOTOC__ By-elections * List of Great Britain by-elections (1734–54) See also * 1741 British general election * List of parliaments of Great Britain * Unreformed House of Commons References * ''The House of Commons 1715–1754'', ed. R Sedgwick (1970) External links History of Parliament: Members 1715–1754History of Parliament: Constituencies 1715–1754 {{GreatBritainMPs Elections to the Parliament of Great Britain, 1741 British MPs 1741–1747, 1741 1741 in Great Britain Lists of members of the Parliament of Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Parliament Of Great Britain
List of MPs elected in the 1734 British general election This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1734, the 8th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency. Elections took place between 22 April 1734 and 6 June 1734. __NOTOC__ By-elections * List of Great Britain by-elections (1734–54) See also * 1734 British general election * List of parliaments of Great Britain * Unreformed House of Commons References * ''The House of Commons 1715–1754'', ed. R Sedgwick (1970) External links History of Parliament: Members 1715–1754History of Parliament: Constituencies 1715–1754 {{GreatBritainMPs 1734 1734 Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Cotton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet (2 January 1695 – 27 August 1748) was an English politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheshire from 1727 to 1734 and for Lostwithiel Lostwithiel (; ) is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, increasing to 2,899 at the 2011 census. The Lostwi ... from 1741 to 1747.History of Parliament Online: Sir Robert II Cotton, First Baronet, of Combermere, Cheshire (c.1635–1712) accessed October 2017. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe
John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (27 September 1742 – 28 April 1829), of Crewe Hall in Cheshire, was a British politician. He is chiefly remembered for his sponsorship of the Parliament Act 1782 ( 22 Geo. 3. c. 41), also known as 'Crewe's Act', which barred customs officers and post office officials from voting. Early life Crewe was the eldest son of John Crewe, Member of Parliament for Cheshire between 1734 and 1752, and grandson of John Offley Crewe who had also held the same seat before him. On his father's death in 1752 he succeeded to Crewe Hall. Parliamentary career In 1764 he was chosen High Sheriff of Cheshire, and he entered parliament at a by-election in 1765 as Whig member for Stafford; but at the next general election, in 1768, he was returned unopposed for Cheshire, which he represented for the next 34 years. He was never opposed for Cheshire, and presumably was highly regarded locally: the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' records that he was ''"an enlight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham County Borough, Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary. The largest settlement is Warrington. The county has an area of and had a population of 1,095,500 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. The areas around the River Mersey in the north of the county are the most densely populated, with Warrington, Runcorn, Widnes, and Ellesmere Port located on the river. The city of Chester lies in the west of the county, Crewe in the south, and Macclesfield in the east. For Local government in England, local government purposes Cheshire comprises four Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas: Cheshire East, Cheshire We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hart Hall
Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college’s Old and New Quadrangles are connected by the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas. The first foundation on the Hertford site began in the 1280s as Hart Hall and became a college in 1740 but was dissolved in 1816. In 1820, the site was taken over by Magdalen Hall, which had emerged around 1490 on a site adjacent to Magdalen College. In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College. In 1974, Hertford was part of the first group of all-male Oxford colleges to admit women. Hertford College specialises in both Irish studies and Irish history. Hertford has long been associated with I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
