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Joseph Ashe (English Politician)
Joseph Ashe may refer to: *Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet (1618–1686), English MP for Downton * Joseph Ashe (English politician) (c. 1684–1725), English MP for Chippenham Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, ... * Joseph Ashe (Irish politician) (1717–c. 1760), Irish MP for Trim {{hndis, Ashe, Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet
Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet (16 February 1617 – 15 April 1686) was an England, English British Whig Party, Whig politician and merchant. He was born into a rising and prominent family of clothiers in Somerset, the third surviving son of James Ashe of Westcombe, and his wife Grace Pitt, daughter of Richard Pitt of Melcombe Regis, Dorset. Educated in London at the Merchant Taylors school, Joseph spent the 1640s as a merchant in Antwerp with his business associate Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet, John Shaw. On his return he married Mary Wilson, the daughter of a London Draper, later raising with her seven daughters and two sons. During the English Civil War, Civil War, his elder brothers in Parliament John Ashe (of Freshford), John and Edward Ashe (died 1656), Edward Ashe both served on the committee responsible for confiscating Royalist estates, of which John was the chairman. Joseph himself was arrested on suspicion of corresponding with the enemy, and may have been involved with J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ashe (English Politician)
Joseph Ashe may refer to: *Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet (1618–1686), English MP for Downton * Joseph Ashe (English politician) (c. 1684–1725), English MP for Chippenham Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, ... * Joseph Ashe (Irish politician) (1717–c. 1760), Irish MP for Trim {{hndis, Ashe, Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chippenham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chippenham is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Sarah Gibson (politician), Sarah Gibson, a Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat. The 2024 constituency includes the Wiltshire towns of Calne, Chippenham, Corsham and Royal Wootton Bassett. In May 2023, the incumbent Chippenham MP, Michelle Donelan, announced she would be standing for the new Melksham and Devizes (UK Parliament constituency), Melksham and Devizes constituency. In July 2023, the local Conservative Association announced that their candidate for the new Chippenham constituency would be a local unitary councillor, Nic Puntis. History A parliamentary borough of Chippenham was enfranchised in 1295. It sent two burgess (title), burgesses to Parliament until 1868 and one thereafter until the borough constituency was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
