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John Grobham Howe (died 1679)
John Grobham Howe (1625–1679) of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679. Howe was the younger son of Sir John Howe, 1st Baronet, and his wife Bridget Rich, daughter of Thomas Rich of North Cerney. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1645. In 1659, Howe was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Gloucestershire in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester'' Williams gives his father Sir John Howe, 1st Baronet, as MP for Gloucestershire in 1654 and 1656, but History of Parliament suggests it may have been the younger Howe. Howe died at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langar Hall
Langar Hall is a Grade II listed house, now a hotel, next to the church in Langar, Nottinghamshire. The current building dates back to the 18th century, but parts are "probably a survival of an earlier building". History The Howes came into possession of Langar Hall and its estates in 1677 through the marriage of John Grobham Howe to Annabella, one of the daughters of Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland and Martha Jones. The original Norman stone castle was replaced by a three-storey stone mansion by John Howe. He died at the age of about 54 and was buried at Langar. Scrope Howe succeeded his father to the estate. He was MP for Nottingham from 1673 to 1698, Groom of the Bedchamber to William III and Surveyor General of the Roads. He was created Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe of Langar in 1701. He died in 1712 and was buried in Langar Church. Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe married Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, the mistress of George I and , daughter of Johann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet (11 December 1629 – 31 July 1681) of Clearwell, Gloucestershire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1679. Throckmorton was the son of Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1606–64) and his wife Margaret Hopton, daughter of Robert Hopton. In 1656, Throckmorton was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in the Second Protectorate Parliament. Throckmorton was knighted on 28 May 1660. In June 1660 he was elected MP for Wotton Basset in a by-election to the Convention Parliament. Also in 1660, he was appointed Deputy Constable of St Briavel's, Deputy Warden of the Forest of Dean, Keeper of the Gawle in Dean Forest and Riding Forester and aleconner in Dean Forest. In 1664 succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father and was elected MP for Gloucestershire in the Cavalier Parliament in succession to his father. He sat until 1679. He was popular with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English MPs 1659
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Politicians From Gloucestershire
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Members Of Lincoln's Inn
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1679 Deaths
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1625 Births
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Sir Ralph Dutton, 1st Baronet
Sir Ralph Dutton (c.1645-1721), 1st Baronet, was an English landowner and politician. Life He was the younger son of the royalist Sir Ralph Dutton (1601–46) of Standish, Gloucestershire, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber extraordinary to Charles I, and Mary Duncomb, the co-heiress of a London haberdasher and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Bennett. He married Grizel, the daughter of Sir Edward Poole of Kemble, Wiltshire, about 1674. She died in 1678, having borne a daughter. In that year her husband became a baronet, for a payment of £1100. The following year he inherited Sherborne from his childless brother William. In 1679 he married Mary, heiress of Peter Barwick of London, physician to Charles II. They had several children baptized at Westminster. Sir Ralph represented Gloucestershire in parliament in 1679–81 and in 1689–98, when he was aligned with the Whigs. In 1705 he stood as a Tory and was defeated. He was a JP and deputy lieutenant and served as colonel of the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet (c.1654 – November 1695) of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. Life He was born the only son of Sir Christopher Guise, 1st Baronet of the Elmore baronets of Gloucestershire and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1669. He then travelled in France for a while. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy and to Elmore Court in 1670. He acted as a local Justice of the Peace and as a Deputy-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (?1674-81, 1689-death). He was Mayor of Gloucester for 1690–91 and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire from 1691 to his death. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in February 1679, August 1679 and 1681 but defeated in the election of 1685 by the Court party candidate and forced to take refuge in the Netherlands. He returned in 1688 with William of Orange and then took part in the capture of Bristol as Colonel of a foot regiment. Re-elected for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet (1606 – 28 May 1664), of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1661 until his death on 28 May 1664. Origins Throckmorton was born about 1606 to Sir William Throckmorton, 1st Baronet (died 1628) and Cicely Baynham, daughter of Thomas Baynham (died 1611) of Clearwell, Gloucestershire by Mary Winter, daughter of Sir William Winter of Lydney. Career Throckmorton received an education in law at the Inner Temple which he left in 1623. On the death of his father on 18 July 1628, he succeeded to the Throckmorton Baronetcy, aged 22. Throckmorton was a Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire from 1634 to 1645. He served as Chief Forester in the Forest of Dean from 1634 to 1645. This last office he held probably as a result of the location of his manor of Clearwell within the forest, which manor had previously been held by his maternal an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hale (jurist)
Sir Matthew Hale (1 November 1609 – 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise '' Historia Placitorum Coronæ'', or ''The History of the Pleas of the Crown''. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited his faith. In 1626 he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College), intending to become a priest, but after a series of distractions was persuaded to become a barrister like his father, thanks to an encounter with a Serjeant-at-Law in a dispute over his estate. On 8 November 1628, he joined Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the Bar on 17 May 1636. As a barrister, Hale represented a variety of Royalist figures during the prelude and duration of the English Civil War, including Thomas Wentworth and William Laud; it has been hypothesised that Hale was to represent Charles I at his state trial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Stephens (MP For Tewkesbury And Gloucestershire)
Sir Edward Stephens (1597 – c. 1670) of Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1660. Stephens was the eldest son of Thomas Stephens of Over Lipiatt who was the Prince of Wales's attorney-general. He became a student of Middle Temple in 1612. He was the brother of John Stephens Stephens was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1634 and elected in November 1640 Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury in the Long Parliament. The election resulted in a double return and was declared void, but he was returned again in 1641. He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge and imprisoned. In April 1660, Stephens was elected MP for Gloucestershire in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted on 11 July 1660. Stephens died in or around 1670 at Little Sodbury. He had married Anne Crewe, daughter of Sir Thomas Crewe of Stene, Northamptonshire and was succeeded by his son Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
