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John Neeld
Sir John Neeld, 1st Baronet (1805–1891) was a member of Parliament for Cricklade between 1835 and 1859, and Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, between 1865 and 1868. Early life and career Neeld was one of five sons of Joseph Neeld (1754–1828) and his wife Mary (née Bond) (1765–1857), of Hendon, Middlesex. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1827 and an M.A. three years later. In 1840 he was a founding member of the Conservative Club and in 1845 married Lady Eliza Harriet Dickson, setting up home in London. The same year he was appointed to the office of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Victoria, for which service he was created 1st Baronet Neeld and became entitled to the style "Sir John Neeld" on 20 April 1859. In 1852 he was offered the position of Junior Lord of the Treasury by Lord Derby, but refused. Neeld became a major landowner in Wiltshire, having inherited from his brother Joseph in 1856; in 1872 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricklade (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire. From 1295 until 1885 United Kingdom general election, the general election of 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two members of parliament (MPs) to the British House of Commons, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England and House of Commons of Great Britain. Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century. From the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county constituency, county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis (, ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th-century building was the residence of Count John Maurice of Nassau. The building is now the property of the government of the Netherlands and is listed in the top 100 Dutch heritage sites. History In 1631, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, a cousin of Stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent Hofvijver pond in The Hague, at that time the political centre of the Dutch Republic. Between 1636 and 1641, the Mauritshuis was built on this piece of land, during John Maurice's governorship of Dutch Brazil. It was built in the Dutch Baroque a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl Of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt DL (27 June 1831 – 13 April 1886), styled Lord Ashley between 1851 and 1885, was a British peer. He was the son of The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Career He was commissioned a cornet in the Dorsetshire Yeomanry on 26 July 1856 and was promoted Lieutenant on 21 January 1857. On 27 January 1857, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Dorset. He resigned his Yeomanry commission in April 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull from 1857 to 1859 and Cricklade from 1859 to 1865. He was a patron and member of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. On 7 June 1858, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Antrim Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia. On 16 March 1860, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 2nd (South Middlesex) Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC). He resigned his commission in the South Middlesex on 6 September 1860 to become a Captain in the 28th (London Irish) Middlesex RVC on 17 September. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Calley (politician)
Thomas Calley (31 May 1780 – 17 September 1863) was a British landowner and politician, who represented Cricklade in Parliament from 1812 to 1818 and 1831 to 1834. Calley was born on 31 May 1780,The date is given in Farrell (2009), correcting 31 August as given in Thorne (1986). the eldest son of Thomas Browne Calley, a member of an established gentry family resident at Burderop Park for several centuries. He inherited his father's estates in 1791, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1801 commissioned in the Wiltshire Yeomanry. He married Elizabeth Keck, daughter of Anthony James Keck, in 1802. Prior to entering politics, he lived as "an unremarkable country gentleman", and was made High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1807–8. He expressed an interest in representing the borough of Cricklade at a by-election in 1811, when Lord Porchester succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords, but was persuaded to stand at the following general election instead. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard
Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard (9 December 1819 – 15 November 1898) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician. Political career Goddard was first elected MP for Cricklade in 1847 and held the seat until 1868. In 1874 he regained the seat before stepping down at the next election in 1880. Family Goddard was the first son of former Cricklade MP Ambrose Goddard and Jessy-Dorothea Lethbridge, daughter of Somerset MP Thomas Lethbridge. He married Charlotte Ayshford Sanford, daughter of former Somerset and West Somerset MP Edward Ayshford Sanford and Henrietta Langham, in 1847. Together they had five children: * Ambrose Ayshford Goddard (1848–1885) * Jessie Henrietta Goddard (1850–1920) * Fitzroy Pleydell Goddard (1852–1927) * Edward Hesketh Goddard (1855–1921) * Charles Frederick Goddard (1863–) See also * Goddard family of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire References External links * Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Thomas Howard
Hon. Henry Thomas Howard (16 January 1808 – 29 January 1851) was a British soldier and politician from the Howard family. Howard was born at Charlton Park, Wiltshire, the second son of Thomas Howard, Viscount Andover, and his wife, Hon. Elizabeth Jane, daughter of James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne. In 1820, his father succeeded as the 16th Earl of Suffolk. He was educated at Charterhouse School. On 21 July 1825, he purchased a commission as an ensign in the 58th Regiment of Foot. He later became a lieutenant, and purchased an unattached captaincy on 9 November 1830. He was returned as member of parliament for Cricklade in 1841. On 24 June 1845, he married Georgiana Maria, elder daughter of Sir John Guise, 3rd Baronet, at Rendcomb Park, Gloucestershire. They had three children: *Thomas Bowes Howard (17 August 1847 – 25 February 1864), died young *Elizabeth Frances Howard (14 October 1848 – 2 March 1898), married Richard William Selby-Lowndes *Charles Henry Howard (J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Goddard
Ambrose Goddard (c.1727–1815) was a British merchant and landowner who sat in the House of Commons from 1772 to 1806. Goddard was the third son of Ambrose Goddard and his wife Elizabeth Awdry, daughter of Ambrose Awdry of Seend, Wiltshire. He was educated at Winchester College from 1743 to 1745. He settled in Lisbon where he was involved in merchant activities and was an agent for the Post Office there until 1772. On the death of his elder brother in 1770, he succeeded to the family inheritance and returned to Wiltshire. He married Sarah Williams, daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams of Pilrowth, Carmarthenshire on 16 August 1776. Goddard was returned as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire at a by-election on 21 August 1772 after a hard-fought and expensive contest. He was returned unopposed in 1774 and 1780. In 1784 he was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group who tried to bring Fox and Pitt together. He held the seat until 1806. Goddard died on 19 June 1815. He and his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gordon (MP)
Robert Gordon (1786–1864) was a British landowner and politician. Life He was the only son of William Gordon, a West Indies planter, of Auchendolly in Kirkcudbrightshire, and his wife Anna Nash, daughter of Stephen Nash of Bristol, and was educated at Eton College from 1799 to 1803. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1803, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1804, graduating B.A. in 1808 and M.A. in 1824. Gordon succeeded his father in 1802, inheriting the West Indies plantation, and estates in Sherborne, Dorset and Cricklade, Wiltshire. He was a cornet (1805) and lieutenant (1808) in the Dorset yeomanry and a captain in the Wiltshire yeomanry (1816). Appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1811–12, Gordon served as MP for Wareham from 1812 to 1818. He was then MP for Cricklade from 1818 to 1837 and for New Windsor from 1837 to 1841. He was a commissioner to the Board of Control from 1832 to 1833 and joint secretary from 1833 to 1834 and from 1835 to 1839. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 United Kingdom General Election
The 1859 United Kingdom general election was held from 28 April to 18 May 1859 following the defeat of Prime Minister the Earl of Derby's Conservative government in a vote of confidence. The newly formed Liberal Party, led by Viscount Palmerston, secured victory despite winning fewer seats than in the previous election. There is no separate tally of votes or seats for the Peelites. They did not contest elections as an organised party but more as independent Free trade Conservatives with varying degrees of distance from the two main parties. It was also the last general election entered by the Chartists, before their organisation was dissolved. , this is the last election in which the Conservatives won the most seats in Wales. The election was the quietest and least competitive between 1832 and 1885, with most county elections being uncontested. The election also saw the lowest number of candidates between 1832 and 1885, with Tory gains potentially being the result of a lack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 United Kingdom General Election
The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. Polling took place between 6 January and 6 February 1835, and the results saw Robert Peel's Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives make large gains from their low of the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 election, but the Whigs (British political party), Whigs maintained a large majority. Under the terms of the Lichfield House Compact the Whigs had entered into an electoral pact with the Irish Repeal Association of Daniel O'Connell, which had contested the previous election as a separate party. The Radicals (UK), Radicals were also included in this alliance. Dates of election The eleventh United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 19 February 1835, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neeld Baronets
The Neeld Baronetcy, of Grittleton in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 April 1859 for John Neeld, a Conservative politician and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Victoria. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1941. Joseph Neeld was the elder brother of the first Baronet. Neeld baronets, of Grittleton (1859) *Sir John Neeld, 1st Baronet Sir John Neeld, 1st Baronet (1805–1891) was a member of Parliament for Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency), Cricklade between 1835 and 1859, and Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency), Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, between 1865 and 1868. ... (1805–1891) *Sir Algernon William, 2nd Baronet (1846–1900) *Sir Audley Dallas Neeld, 3rd Baronet (1849–1941) References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Neeld Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
