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John Thurlow Brace
John Thurloe Brace (born c. 1685) of Astwood, Buckinghamshire was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1728. Brace was the eldest surviving son of Francis Brace, an attorney of Bedford, and his second wife Anne Thurloe, daughter of John Thurloe, who was secretary to Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Bedford School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 8 January 1702, aged 16. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1705. He succeeded his father in 1712 and inherited the estate of Astwood, near Bedford, through his mother. Before 1716, he married Anna Maria Harris. Brace, was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Bedford at the 1715 general election and voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. At the 1722 general election he was defeated by George Huxley George Huxley ( 1687–1744), of Stoke, Buckinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1741. Huxley was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astwood, Buckinghamshire
Astwood is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the border with Bedfordshire, approximately east of Newport Pagnell and west of Bedford. The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means "valley of the dammed". The churchyard of the parish church of St Peter is considered by some as being one of the prettiest dogging sites in the county. Most of the older buildings in the village have thatched roofs making for a quaint rural setting. Astwood and Hardmead civil parish Together with the neighbouring village of Hardmead, it forms the civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ... of Astwood and Hardmead. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Rolt
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim-Zophim, Ramathaim in the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1722–1727
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
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Alumni Of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Bedford School
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1685 Births
Events January–March * January 6 – American-born British citizen Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University in the U.S. is named, completes his term as the first leader of the Madras Presidency in India, administering the colony on behalf of the East India Company, and is succeeded by William Gyfford. * January 8 – Almost 200 people are arrested in Coventry by English authorities for gathering to hear readings of the sermons of the non-conformist Protestant minister Obadiah Grew * February 4 – A treaty is signed between Brandenburg-Prussia and the indigenous chiefs at Takoradi in what is now Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a third fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast. * February 6 – Catholic James Stuart, Duke of York, becomes King James II of England and Ireland, and King James VII of Scotland, in succession to his brother Charles II (1660–1685), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland since 1660. James II and VII reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Metcalfe (Bedford MP)
James Metcalfe (died 1730) of Roxton, Bedfordshire was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1730. Metcalfe's parentage has not been ascertained. He acquired his property at Roxton, Bedfordshire after 1715. At the 1727 British general election Metcalfe stood on the Tory interest for Parliament at Bedford. He was defeated in the poll, but on petition, by a compromise, he was declared duly elected on 16 April 1728. Though a Tory, he supported the Administration in Parliament, and voted with them on the civil list arrears in April 1729, and on the Hessians in February 1730. Matcalfe was taken seriously ill by 26 November 1730 and was buried on 4 December 1730 at Roxton. He left one surviving daughter Sarah, who married John Affleck John Affleck (12 February 1710 – 17 February 1776) was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1743 and 1761. Affleck was the second and eldest surviving son of Gilbert Affleck of Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Orlebar
John Orlebar (1697–1765), of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Orlebar was the only son of John Orlebar of Red Lion Square London, master in Chancery, and his wife Elizabeth, Whitfield. daughter of John Whitfield of Ives Place, Maidenhead, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College from 1707 to 1715. He was admitted at Middle Temple on 26 November 1707 and matriculated from King's College, Cambridge at Easter 1715. On 27 May 1720, he was called to the bar. In 1721, he succeeded his father. He married Mary Rolt, daughter of Samuel Rolt, MP of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, on 29 December 1729. Hinwick House Orlebar was returned in a contest as a Whig Member of Parliament for Bedford at the 1727 British general election. He voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. In 1728 the Whig members of the Bedford corporation tried to turn out their Tory recorder, Lord Bruce, by legal procee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Farrer (MP)
William James Farrer (3 April 184516 April 1906) was a leading English Australian agronomist and plant breeder. Farrer is best remembered as the originator of the "Federation" strain of wheat, distributed in 1903. His work resulted in significant improvements in both the quality and crop yields of Australia's national wheat harvest, a contribution for which he earned the title 'father of the Australian wheat industry'. Early years Farrer was born on 3 April 1845 in the town of Docker, Westmorland in the English north west (now Cumbria). The son of Thomas Farrer, a tenant farmer, and his wife Sarah William, William Farrer was selected for a scholarship at Christ's Hospital, London where he was awarded a gold and silver medal for mathematics and soon earned a scholarship to Pembroke College where, after earning a B.A. at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1868, Farrer emigrated to Australia in 1870. A sufferer of tuberculosis, Farrer hoped to find Australia's drier warmer climate m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cater (MP)
John Edward Cater (17 January 1932 – 21 March 2009) was an English actor. Early life John Edward Cater was born 17 January 1932 in Hendon, north London. His father, like his grandfather, was a florist. His mother was a violinist who performed with the dance trio The Piroinos. He was diagnosed with hereditary haemochromatosis, which led his body to absorb too much dietary iron, but it caused him few problems for most of his life. Cater was just four years old when he enrolled in dance school. He was attending Hendon Preparatory School when, in 1939, he and his entire class were evacuated from London to Devon. He remained in Devon until he was 16 years old, graduating from Shebbear College. Upon graduation, he was called up for his national service, in which he served in the Royal Army Educational Corps. After leaving the army, Cater enrolled at RADA in 1948. Cater made his professional acting debut with the Dundee Repertory Theatre after graduating from RADA. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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