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John Woolmore (rugby League)
Sir John Woolmore KCH FRS (1755 – 2 December 1837) was an English mariner. He served as chairman of the East India Docks Company, and was deputy master of Trinity House. He was also (briefly) a Member of Parliament. Mariner Woolmore was born in Whitechapel. Little is known of his life before he went to India in 1768, aged 12, aboard the East India Company ship, the ''Granby'', returning to England in 1770. He joined the Marine Service of the East India Company, and was a midshipman on the Company's ships ''Duke of Richmond'' and ''Stormont'', and then second mate on ''Earl of Chesterfield''. He served as second mate on ''Harcourt'', trading to America from 1774 to 1777, with a brother as third mate. He married his first wife, Margaret Wickham , in December 1778. He was third mate on the East India Company ship from 1779 to 1781, and was then second mate on ''Earl of Chesterfield'' from 1781. Shipowner Woolmore remained in India in 1782 to become the captain of a " cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Guelphic Order
The Royal Guelphic Order (), sometimes referred to as the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, is a Kingdom of Hanover, Hanoverian order of chivalry instituted on 28 April 1815 by the Prince Regent (later King George IV). It takes its name from the House of Guelph, of which the House of Hanover was a branch. Since Hanover and the United Kingdom personal union, shared a monarch until 1837, the order was frequently bestowed upon British subjects. History Until 1837 the order was frequently awarded to officers in the British Royal Navy, Navy and British Army, Army, although it was still classed as a foreign order, with British members of the order not entitled to style themselves as "Sir" unless they were also created Knights Bachelor, as many were. The British link ended in 1837 when Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover's royal union with Great Britain ended, with Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Ernest Augustus becoming King of Hanover and Queen Victoria ascending the British throne. When Hanover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl Of Abingdon
Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon (30 April 1784 – 16 October 1854), styled Lord Norreys until 1799, was an English peer. Background Bertie was the third son of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, and Charlotte Warren, a daughter of Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family of British North America. As his two elder brothers predeceased their father, on the latter's death on 26 September 1799 he succeeded him as 5th Earl of Abingdon. His father died insolvent, having sold off much of the estates at Westbury, Wiltshire, but he retained control of the burgages and hence the disposal of the Parliamentary seats for Westbury. The 4th Earl had sold the nomination of members there since 1786 to raise money; his trustees and successor continued the practice until 1810 when he sold the manor and control of the seats to Sir Manasseh Lopes. Public life Lord Abingdon was awarded a DCL by Oxford U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1755 Births
Events January–March * January 23 (O. S. January 12, Tatiana Day, nowadays celebrated on January 25) – Moscow University is established. * February 13 – Treaty of Giyanti: The kingdom of Mataram on Java is divided in two, creating the sultanate of Yogyakarta and the sunanate of Surakarta. * March 12 – A steam engine is used in the American colonies for the first time as New Jersey copper mine owner Arent Schuyler installs a Newcomen atmospheric engine to pump water out of a mineshaft. * March 22 – Britain's House of Commons votes in favor of £1,000,000 of appropriations to expand the British Army and Royal Navy operations in North America. * March 26 – General Edward Braddock and 1,600 British sailors and soldiers arrive at Alexandria, Virginia on transport ships that have sailed up the Potomac River. Braddock, sent to take command of the British forces against the French in North America, commandeers taverns and private homes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynn Wynn
Glynn Wynn (1 September 1772 – 23 April 1809) was an English politician. He was elected at the 1807 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or Electoral district, constituency in Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain, or the United Kin ... of Westbury in Wiltshire, but died in office two years later, aged 36. References External links * 1772 births 1809 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1807–1812 Glynn {{England-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lascelles (1764-1814)
Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (7 January 1740 – 3 April 1820) was a British landowner, art collector, peer and, before which, member of parliament. Early life He was the son of Edward Lascelles, a senior customs official in Barbados, himself a son of Daniel Lascelles. Career On the death of his cousin, the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and the slave trade. He vested much of his fortune in fine art. In 1799 he (or his immediate family benefit trust) was estimated to be the third-wealthiest small family unit in Britain, owning £2.9M (). He sat as Whig member of parliament for Northallerton from 1761 to 1774 and from 1790 to 1796. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Harewood, of Harewood in the County of York. In 1812 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Lascelles and Earl of Harewood, in the County of York. Personal life O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 United Kingdom General Election
The 1806 United Kingdom general election was the second general election after the Acts of Union 1800, held from 29 October 1806 to 17 December 1806, to elect members of the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament. The general election took place in a situation of considerable uncertainty about the future of British politics, following the sudden death of William Pitt the Younger and the formation of the Ministry of all the Talents. Parliament was dissolved on 24 October 1806. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 13 December 1806, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. Political situation Since the previous general election fighting in the Napoleonic Wars with France had resumed in 1803. Tory Prime Minister Henry Addington had resigned in 1804. William Pitt the Younger formed a new coalition of pro-government Whig and Tory politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Smith (MP)
Charles Smith (September 1756 – 9 May 1814) was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1796 until its abolition in 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1806. He was the only son of Charles Smith of Stratford, Essex, who he succeeded in 1777. He was elected at a by-election in November 1796 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Saltash in Cornwall, and held the seat until 1802. He was elected at the general election in 1802 as one of the two MPs for the borough of Westbury in Wiltshire, and held that seat until the 1806 general election. He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of th ... for 1811–12. He married twice: firstly Susann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baldwin (d
William Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) Note: While birthplace is routinely listed as Massapequa, that town has no hospital, and brother Alec Baldwin was born in nearby Amityville, which does. is an American actor and the second-youngest of the four Baldwin brothers. He has starred in the films ''Flatliners'' (1990), ''Backdraft'' (1991), '' Sliver'' (1993), ''Virus'' (1999), ''The Squid and the Whale'' (2005), ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show ''Northern Rescue'' (2019). Baldwin is married to singer Chynna Phillips. Early life Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (née Martineau; December 15, 1929 – May 26, 2022), founder of The Baldwin Fund and Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr (October 26, 1927 – April 15, 1983). His father was a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. He is the brother of actors Alec, Daniel, and Stephen, sometimes collectively known as the Baldwin broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
