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Purefoy
Purefoy is the surname of: *James Purefoy (born 1964), English actor *Robert Purefoy, also Robert Parfew (d. 1557), bishop of Hereford *William Purefoy (c. 1580–1659), one of the regicides of Charles I of England *George Purefoy-Jervoise George Purefoy-Jervoise (10 April 1770 – 1 December 1847) was an English politician. He was the eldest son of Rev. George Hudleston Jervoise Purefoy Jervoise of Britford, Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School in 1781–1786 and Cor ... (1770–1847), English politician See also * Wilfred Bagwell-Purefoy (1862–1930), British breeder of racehorses {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series ''Rome'', Nick Jenkins in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series ''The Following'', Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sundance series ''Hap and Leonard''. In 2018, he starred as Laurens Bancroft in ''Altered Carbon'', a Netflix original series. Following an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film ''V for Vendetta'' (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), he was cast as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second and 2022 third season of the '' Gotham'' prequel television series, ''Pennyworth'', in a main role. He was born in Somerset and attended Sherborne School before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Early life Purefoy was born in Taunton, Somerset, the eldest son of Anthony Chetwynd Purefoy and Shirley, ''née'' Taylor. The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.David PlantWilliam Purefoy, Regicide, c.1580–1659the British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website Born into a long-established Warwickshire family, Purefoy was educated at Cambridge University and Gray's Inn. He travelled extensively on the continent of Europe, returning with extreme Calvinist views. He was elected member of parliament for Coventry in 1628 until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. After serving a year as the High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1631 he was elected in April 1640 MP for Coventry for the Short Parliament, and re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He held a command in the parliamentary army in 1648 and was a member of the Council of State t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Purefoy-Jervoise
George Purefoy-Jervoise (10 April 1770 – 1 December 1847) was an English politician. He was the eldest son of Rev. George Hudleston Jervoise Purefoy Jervoise of Britford, Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School in 1781–1786 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1787–91. He inherited the Herriard estate in Hampshire from his uncle Tristram Jervoise of Britford. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury, 17 February 1813 – 1818, and for Hampshire 1820–1826. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire This is a list of High Sheriffs of Hampshire. This title was often given as High Sheriff of the County of Southampton until 1959. List of High Sheriffs *1070–1096: Hugh de Port "Domesday Book Online" *1105: Henry de Port (son of Hugh) *1129: W ... for 1830–1831. He married twice: firstly Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Hall of Preston Candover, Hampshire and secondly Anna Maria Selina, the daughter of Wadham Locke of Rowdeford, Wilts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Parfew
Robert Parfew (or Robert Warton) (died 22 September 1557) was an English Benedictine abbot, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, and bishop successively of St Asaph and Hereford. Life He was probably born in the late years of the fifteenth century. He is known by different names, variants of two.Parfew or Purefoy or Parfey, on the one hand; Warton, Wharton, or Warblington, on the other. In the records of his election assent, confirmation, and consecration at St. Asaph's, his name is given as Wartton. The arms the bishop used were those of the Parfews or Purefoys, and there were members of that family connected in various ways with the cathedral when Warton was bishop of St. Asaph. David Richard Thomas, cited in the DNB, concluded that the family name was Parfey or Parfew, and that the local name of Warton in various forms was adopted. He was a Cluniac monk, and became Abbot of Bermondsey. In 1525 he is said to have proceeded B.D. at Cambridge. The list of supremacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
