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Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radicals (UK), Radical Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP.Ronald K. Huch, Paul R. Ziegler 1985 Joseph Hume, the People's M.P.: DIANE Publishing. Early life He was born the son of a shipmaster James Hume in Montrose, Angus, who died shortly after he was born. He attended Montrose Academy, where he knew the older James Mill; and from 1790 was apprenticed to a local surgeon-apothecary, John Bale. Medical career Hume studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and then the University of Edinburgh. He had as patron David Scott (of Dunninald), David Scott MP. Before he qualified, he saw wartime service as surgeon-mate on the hoy HMS Hawke (1794), HMS ''Hawke''; and then was on the East Indiaman Hope (1797 EIC ship), ''Hope'' for 18 months. In 1799 Hume sailed to India, nominated to the Bengal service by Jacob Bosanquet of the British East India Company. He wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Overview Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to :Fellows of the Royal Society, around 8,000 fellows, including eminent scientists Isaac Newton (1672), Benjamin Franklin (1756), Charles Babbage (1816), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1920), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1945), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955), Satyendra Nath Bose (1958), and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Johnstone, 6th Baronet
Sir John Lowther Johnstone, 6th Baronet (1783–1811) was a British Army officer and politician. Life He was the son of George Johnstone, who died in 1787, and his wife Charlotte Dee. His mother married again, in 1790, to Charles Edmund Nugent. Johnstone was brought up in the expectation of inheriting from his paternal uncle, the wealthy Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, a property developer who died in 1805, and who had changed his surname from Johnstone. He left one child, Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath, who died in 1808. In consequence of his uncle's death, Johnstone became 6th Baronet, and inherited a Scottish estate in Dumfriesshire. Johnstone had joined the Coldstream Guards in 1800, with rank of ensign, and fallen into bad company. Through the Duke of Cumberland he was given a staff position with General Richard Vyse, but continued to run up heavy debts and make unwise associations. In 1806 Johnstone left the army, aiming to enter politics. He was defeated for D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Chalmers (MP)
Patrick Chalmers FSA (31 October 1802 – 23 June 1854) was a British soldier, writer and politician. He was the son of another Patrick Chalmers, a merchant from Aldbar, from whom he inherited Aldbar Castle, near Brechin. After being educated in Germany he studied at the Queen's College in Oxford University from 1818, though he left before obtaining a degree. He then joined the army, serving in Ireland as part of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, where he rose to the rank of captain. In 1826, after his father's death, he sold his commission and returned to Aldbar. In 1832 he attempted to run for office as the member of parliament for Montrose Burghs, but was defeated by Horatio Ross. He ran again in 1835 and succeeded, being re-elected in 1837 and 1841. In 1842 he was forced to resign due to ill-health, having an unidentified disease at the base of his spine, becoming the first Member of Parliament to be appointed as Steward of the Manor of Northstead. In later life he became a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montrose Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Montrose Burghs was a district of burghs constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1950. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to represent the parliamentary burghs of Montrose, Angus, Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Inverbervie. In 1950, Montrose, Brechin and Inverbervie were merged into North Angus and Mearns (UK Parliament constituency), North Angus and Mearns, and Arbroath and Forfar were merged into South Angus (UK Parliament constituency), South Angus. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1830s Elections in the 1840s Chalmers resigned by accepting the office of List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead, Steward of the Manor of Northstead, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1850s Hume's death caused a by-election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Connell (MP)
John O'Connell (24 December 1810 – 24 June 1858) was one of seven children (the third of four sons) of the Irish Nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell and his wife Mary. He followed his father as a Member of Parliament and leader of the Repeal Association. Life Educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College Dublin, and the King's Inns, O'Connell was then called to the bar, but did not practice.John O’Connell at Ricorso He served in the United Kingdom Parliament as Member of Parliament for |
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel(I) O’Connell (; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Ireland, down to the poorest class of tenant farmers, secured the final instalment of Catholic emancipation in 1829 and allowed him to take a seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom Parliament to which he had been twice elected. At Palace of Westminster, Westminster, O'Connell championed liberal and Reformism, reform causes (being internationally renowned as an Abolitionism, abolitionist) but he failed in his declared objective for Irelandthe repeal of the Acts of Union 1800, Act of Union 1800 and the restoration of an Parliament of Ireland, Irish Parliament. In 1843, a threat of military force induced O'Connell to call a halt to an unprecedented campaign of open-air mass meetings. The loss of prestige, combined with the pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkenny City (UK Parliament Constituency)
Kilkenny City was an Irish borough constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Act of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, and remained in existence until its abolition at the 1918 Irish general election, 1918 general election. Boundaries This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1830s Sullivan resigned, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1840s O'Connell was also elected for Limerick City (UK Parliament constituency), Limerick City and opted to sit there, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1850s Elections in the 1860s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wood (British Army Officer)
General Thomas Wood FRS (1804 – 23 October 1872) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1847. Early life Wood was born the son of Thomas Wood MP for Breconshire and Lady Caroline Stewart. His younger brother, Sir Charles Alexander Wood, married Sophia Ann Brownrigg (a daughter of John Studholme Brownrigg, a prominent merchant and MP for Boston). His paternal grandparents were Thomas Wood (eldest son of Thomas Wood, MP for Middlesex) and Mary Williams (daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Williams, 5th Baronet). His maternal grandparents were Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (daughter of the Whig politician Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden). He was educated at Harrow School. He lived at Littleton, Middlesex, and at Gwernyfed Park, Breconshire, Wales. Career He became an officer in the Grenadier Guards. He commanded the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Charles Whitbread
Samuel Charles Whitbread (16 February 1796 – 27 May 1879) was a British Member of Parliament, member of the Whitbread brewing family and founding president of the Royal Meteorological Society. Early life and education Whitbread was the son of Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Grey. Grey was the daughter of General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey and sister of Prime Minister Charles Grey. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics, moral philosophy and classics. On 6 July 1815, Whitbread's father took his own life, whereupon his two sons, William Henry (then aged 20) and Samual Charles (19), inherited the family business and estates. Politics As a Whig MP, he represented the constituency of Middlesex (1820–1830) and was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1831. He made three major contributions to debates including to the Reform of Parliament debate, where he opposed the existence of rotten boroughs and the selling of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Byng (1764–1847)
George Byng DL JP (17 May 1764 – 10 January 1847), of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now Hertfordshire), and of Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London, was a British Whig politician. Origins He was the eldest son and heir of George Byng (1735-1789) (eldest son of Robert Byng (1703-1740), third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733)John BurkGenealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank: but uninvested with heritable honours Colburn, 1836, p. 14) of Wrotham Park, by his wife Anne Conolly, a daughter of William Conolly (d.1754), of Stratton Hall, Staffordshire and of Castletown, co. Kildare, a Member of Parliament. Anne's mother was Lady Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739). His younger brother was Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772-1860), elevated to the peerage in 1847 with the same te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesex (UK Parliament Constituency)
Middlesex was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of England, House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, then of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until abolished in 1885. It returned two members per election by various voting systems including hustings. Boundaries and boundary changes This county constituency until 1832 covered all the Historic counties of England, historic county of Middlesex, in south-eastern England, comprising Borough of Spelthorne, Spelthorne, Poyle, South Mimms and Potters Bar in other modern counties, together with the north, west, and north-west sectors of the present-day Greater London. Apart from the ability of some voters to participate in the borough franchises of the cities of London and Westminster (after dates of their inception, see top right or below), it gave rise to three more urban offshoot divisions in 1832, one of which was spl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet
Sir James Carnegie of Kinnaird and of Pitarrow, 5th Baronet DL (1799 – 30 January 1849) was a Scottish politician and ''de jure'' 8th Earl of Southesk, 8th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and 8th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars. Background Born at Kinnaird, Angus, he was the son of Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet and Agnes Murray Elliot, daughter of Andrew Elliot. In 1805 at the age of six, he succeeded his father as baronet. He was educated at home and at Eton College. In 1818, Carnegie began his Grand Tour, first visiting France, Germany and Italy, then Spain and Holland in the following year. Career Carnegie entered the British House of Commons in 1830 and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen Burghs until the following year. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Forfarshire. In 1847, he petitioned the restoration of the forfeited titles Lord Carnegie and Earl of Southesk, however after assessment by the Committee of Privileges his claim was not followed up. Family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
