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List Of Mayors Of Norwich
This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the city of Norwich. Norwich had elected a mayor since 1403 when a Charter of Henry IV allowed the Freemen of the city to elect Councillors, Aldermen, Sheriffs and a Mayor serving for one year. The city was awarded the dignity of a lord mayoralty by letters patent Letters patent (plurale tantum, plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, President (government title), president or other head of state, generally granti ... in 1910 "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East Anglia and of its close association with his Majesty". When Norwich became a metropolitan borough in 1974 the honour was reconfirmed by letters patent dated 1 April 1974. Mayors of Norwich ''Source (1900–2013):'' Norwich City Council Notes Lord mayors of Norwich Source: Norwich City Council References {{Lists of mayors in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clover - Portrait Of Crisp Brown, Mayor Of Norwich 1817
Clovers, also called trefoils, are plants of the genus ''Trifolium'' (), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest diversity in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are small annual plant, annual, biennial plant, biennial, or short-lived perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants, typically growing up to tall. The leaves are trifoliate (rarely, they have more or fewer than three leaflets; the more (or fewer) leaflets the leaf has, the rarer it is; see four-leaf clover), with stipules adnation, adnate to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the flower, calyx. Other closely related genera often called clovers include ''Melilotus'' (sweet clover) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rogers (MP)
William Rogers (1497/98 – 1553), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ... in 1542 and mayor of the city in 1542–43. References 1490s births 1553 deaths Politicians from Norwich Mayors of Norwich English MPs 1542–1544 Members of the Parliament of England for Norwich {{1542-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Rugge
Francis Rugge (1535 – 18 October 1607), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. Rugge was the fourth son of Robert Rugge (d. 1559), Mayor of Norwich, by Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wood of Norwich. Robert's brother was William Rugge,Bishop of Norwich. Francis was born in 1535. Rugge was a freeman of Norwich in 1563, an alderman in the same city from about 1570, sheriff of Norwich in 1572 to 1573, and Mayor of Norwich This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the city of Norwich. Norwich had elected a mayor since 1403 when a Charter of Henry IV allowed the Freemen of the city to elect Councillors, Aldermen, Sheriffs and a Mayor serving for one ye ... in 1587-1588, again in 1598-1599, and lastly in 1602-1603. He reprsented Norwich as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1589. Rugge married Anne, the daughter of John Aldrich. He also inherited his father’s position as a Norwich mercer. When his father died in 1559, the younger Rugge was left two manors a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gleane (MP)
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Thomas Gleane may refer to: *Thomas Gleane of the Gleane baronets * Thomas Gleane (MP), MP for Norwich (UK Parliament constituency) Norwich was a borough constituency in Norfolk which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Layer (merchant)
Christopher Layer (1531 – 19 June 1600), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an Kingdom of England, English merchant, Burgess (title), burgess of Norwich, and briefly a Member of Parliament. Biography Layer was the son of William Layer, Mayor of Norwich and began his career as a grocer. He was one of the leading citizens of Norwich, serving as sheriff for 1569–1570, alderman in 1570 and List of Lord Mayors of Norwich, mayor in 1581–1582 and 1589–1590. He imported goods from the Netherlands and invested in land and houses in Norwich, at Theberton, and elsewhere in Suffolk, and at Booton, Cawston, and Cringleford in Norfolk. His attempts to enclose the common at Great Witchingham in Norfolk led him into a long series of lawsuits. Layer served briefly as one of the two Member of Parliament, Members of Parliament for Norwich (UK Parliament constituency), Norwich in 1584–1585 and again in 1597–1598. During his second Parliament the two burgesses for Norwich were appointed to committ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bowde
Simon Bowde (died 1595) of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ... in 1584 and mayor of the city in 1579–80. References Year of birth missing 1595 deaths Politicians from Norwich Mayors of Norwich English MPs 1584–1585 {{1584-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Layer
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a 1969 novel by Hes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Suckling
Robert Suckling (1520–1589), of St. Andrew's, Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician, mercer and merchant adventurer. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich in 1571 and 1586. Life Suckling was born in 1520, the first son of Richard Suckling, a baker of Norwich, who served as one of the city's aldermen. Suckling was a mercer and a merchant adventurer. He became a freeman of Norwich in 1548, and served as an alderman in 1559, as sheriff in 1564–65, and mayor in 1572–73 and 1582–83. He was a Member of Parliament for Norwich in 1571 and 1586. In 1562 he bought and rebuilt a large house in St Andrews Street in Norwich, part of which survives, incorporated into a cinema. He also had property at Woodton and elsewhere in the area. He died in November 1589. An inventory of his property taken in 1590 included four Bibles and a copy of Calvin's ''Institutes''. Suckling was married three times: to Elizabeth Barwick (d. 1569), to Margaret Pettingale (d. 1576), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Wood
Sir Robert Wood of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. Wood was the son of Edmund Wood and Elizabeth Peyrs of Norwich. Wood was Mayor of Norwich, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1578. Wood was knighted on Queen Elizabeth I's progress in Norfolk, in 1578. Wood married Anne, daughter of Augustine Steward Augustine Steward (1491 – 1571), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. Career Steward was a mercer and an armiger. He was admitted a freeman of the city of Norwich on 12 March, 1516 and after serving for some years on the common cou ..., Mayor of Norwich, and they had five children: Edmond, Robert, Elizabeth, Austin, and Peter. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Robert Politicians from Norwich Mayors of Norwich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parker (died 1570)
Thomas Parker (ca. 1510 – 1570), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician and haberdasher. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich (UK Parliament constituency), Norwich and mayor of the city in 1568–69. References 1510s births 1570 deaths Haberdashers Politicians from Norwich Mayors of Norwich English MPs 1563–1567 {{1563-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sotherton
Thomas Sotherton (by 1525 – 1583), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich in 1558 and 1559 and mayor of the city in 1565-66. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Sotherton (d.1540) of Norwich by Agnes Wright. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Steward of Norwich. They had four sons and four daughters. Children Children of Thomas Sotherton and Elizabeth Steward: * Augustine Sotherton of Hesleden (Hellesdon) near Norwich, ''m''. Anne, daughter of Thomas Peck of Norwich, and had: *# Samwell Sotheron of Hesleden, ''m''. Mary, daughter of Thomas Gilbert of Burlingham in Norfolk, and had Thomas, who ob. s.p, Gilbert and Anne *# Thomas *# Elias *# Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Warner of Hofton (Hoveton Hoveton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English county of Norfolk, within The Broads, the Norfolk Broads. Hoveton is located south of North Walsham and north-east of Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Michell (MP For Norwich)
Robert Michell (died 1563), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ... in 1563 and mayor of the city in 1560–61. References Year of birth missing 1563 deaths Politicians from Norwich Mayors of Norwich English MPs 1563–1567 {{1563-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
