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John Hungerford (died 1729)
John Hungerford (''c.'' 1658 – 8 June 1729) was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1692 and 1729. He was legal counsel for the East India Company, and also defended several of those accused of being Jacobites in the years following the rising of 1715. Early life Hungerford was the eldest son of Richard Hungerford of Wiltshire and his wife Ann Price, daughter of Ellis Price of Gatcome, Isle of Wight. A claimed connection with the family of Farleigh, according to William Hardy writing in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', has not been ascertained. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 7 August 1677, graduated Master of Arts (MA) at Cambridge '' per literas regias'' in 1683 and was called to the bar in 1687. He married Mary Spooner, daughter of Abraham Spooner, vintner, of London on 5 August 1687. Career By 1691 Hungerford was Cursitor of Yorkshire and Westmorland, which may have helped his political ambitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs), who are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England began to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1801 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1715 British General Election
The 1715 British general election was held on 22 January 1715 to 9 March 1715, to elect members of the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain. It returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the 1707 merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. In October 1714, soon after George I had arrived in London after ascending to the throne, he dismissed the Tory cabinet and replaced it with one almost entirely composed of Whigs, as they were responsible for securing his succession. The election of 1715 saw the Whigs win an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, and afterwards virtually all Tories in central or local government were purged, leading to a period of Whig ascendancy lasting almost fifty years during which Tories were almost entirely excluded from office. The Whigs then moved to impeach Robert Harley, the former Tory first minister. After he was impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1650s Births
Year 165 ( CLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Orfitus and Pudens (or, less frequently, year 918 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 165 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * A Roman military expedition under Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon. The Parthians sue for peace. * Antonine Plague: A pandemic breaks out in Rome, after the Roman army returns from Parthia. The plague significantly depopulates the Roman Empire and China. * Legio II ''Italica'' is levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius. * Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans. * The Romans establish a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates, a control point for the commercial route to the Persian Gulf. * Avidius Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet
Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet (c. 16861 September 1735), of Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Whig politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1735. He was a Government Minister in Sir Robert Walpole's administration. Strickland was the eldest son of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, a Yorkshire landowner and Member of Parliament, and his wife Elizabeth Palmes. At the 1708 British general election Strickland's father, who for some years had been MP for the local borough of Malton, was instead chosen as Member for Yorkshire – a much more prestigious constituency – and Strickland took his place representing Malton. From the first he was a loyal Whig and was recognised as a strong speaker. Strickland remained MP for Malton until 1715, then represented Carlisle from 1715 to 1722 and finally Scarborough for the remaining thirteen years of his life. Strickland inherited the baronetcy and Boynton Hall near Scarborough on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Squire
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (died 1744)
William Thompson (–1744), of Humbleton, Yorkshire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1701 and 1744. Thompson was the son of Francis Thompson (MP), Francis Thompson, MP of York and his wife Arabella Alleyn, daughter of Sir Edmund Alleyn, 2nd Baronet, of Hatfield Peverell, Essex. In 1693, he succeeded his father. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 6 July 1695, aged 15. Once he had come of age, Thompson was returned in a contest as Member of Parliament for Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency), Scarborough, the family borough, at the second general election of 1701. He was regularly listed as a Whig, but many of his activities in Parliament cannot be distinguished from those of others named Thompson. He was returned unopposed at the 1702 English general election and in March 1703 he was allowed a pass to travel to Holland. He was a teller for a bill to establish a land registry in Yorkshire on 18 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Baronet
Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Baronet ( 1663 – 8 January 1723), of Scorborough and later of Beverley and South Dalton, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1723. Biography Hotham was born in Bermuda, the only son of Charles Hotham (priest), Charles Hotham (1615 – ' 1672), and Elizabeth (died 1685), daughter of Stephen Thompson of Humbleton, Yorkshire. His father was a prominent Nonconformist who lost his living as rector of Wigan after the Restoration (England), Restoration and emigrated with his wife to Bermuda to take up a ministry. Minister Hotham lived there for the rest of his life. Shortly before his father's death, Hotham was sent to London where he lived under the care of his cousin Richard Thompson. Hotham was educated at Sedbergh School before entering St John's College, Cambridge in 1681, where he was awarded BA in 1685, MA in 1688 and elected a fellow from 1685 to 1692. He was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (1629–1692)
William Thompson may refer to: Academics * William Forde Thompson (), Canadian psychologist * William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar * William Gilman Thompson (1856–1927), American professor of medicine * William Oxley Thompson (1855–1933), president of Ohio State University * William Hertzog Thompson (1895–1981), American psychology professor and minister * William Irwin Thompson (1938–2020), American social philosopher and cultural critic * William Robert Thompson (1923/4–1979), Canadian psychologist and behavior geneticist Entertainment * William Thompson (poet, born circa 1712) (1712–1766), English poet * William C. Thompson (cinematographer) (1899–1963), American cinematographer * William H. Thompson (actor), (1852–1923), American actor * William Tappan Thompson (1812–1882), American humorist and journalist * Will Lamartine Thompson (1847–1909), American composer Military * William Thompson (general) (1736–1781), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount Of Irvine
Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine (25 January 1666 – 21 June 1702) was an English Member of Parliament and peer. He was the Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and Scarborough. He was the father or grandfather of all the later Viscounts Irvine. Early life The 3rd Viscount Irvine was the younger of two sons of the 1st Viscount, Henry Ingram, of Temple Newsam, and younger brother of the 2nd Viscount, Edward Ingram (c. 1662–1688). Edward inherited the title at the age of 4, on his father's death, and therefore their mother the Viscountess Essex Ingram, née Montagu (daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester), was the more important parental example. Arthur lived a little longer than his father and brother, both of whom died at the age of 26. Career Arthur inherited the titles and the benefit of his brother's estate in 1688. From 1693 to 1701, he served as a Member of Parliament for Scarborough. From 1701 to 1702, he was MP for Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Thompson (MP)
Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem. In 1888 Wilfrid and Alice Meynell read his poetry and took the opium-addicted and homeless writer into their home for a time, later publishing his first volume, ''Poems'', in 1893. In 1897, he began writing prose, drawing inspiration from life in the countryside, Wales and Storrington. His health, always fragile, continued to deteriorate and he died of tuberculosis in 1907. By that time he had published three books of poetry, along with other works and essays. Early life and study Thompson was born in Winckley Street, Preston, Lancashire and baptized four days later in St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concise Dictionary Of National Biography
''The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985'' is a dictionary of biographies of people from the United Kingdom. It was published in three volumes by Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ... in 1992.. The dictionary provides summaries of all the biographies in '' The Dictionary of National Biography'', presented in alphabetical order by last name. References Further reading * * Dictionary of National Biography Oxford dictionaries 1992 non-fiction books {{dictionary-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's College, Cambridge
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city. King's was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI of England, Henry VI soon after founding its sister institution, Eton College. Initially, King's accepted only students from Eton College. However, the king's plans for King's College were disrupted by the Wars of the Roses and the resultant scarcity of funds, and then his eventual deposition. Little progress was made on the project until 1508, when King Henry VII of England, Henry VII began to take an interest in the college, probably as a political move to legitimise his new position. The building of the college's chapel began in 1446, and was finished in 1544 during the reign of Henry VIII. King's College Chapel, Cambridge, King's College Chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
