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Richard Thompson (MP For Reading)
Richard Thompson (died 1735), of Coley Park, Coley, Reading, Berkshire, was a merchant in Jamaica and a Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons between 1720 and 1734. Thompson was the son of William Thompson and his wife Elizabeth. He owned a sugar plantation in Jamaica, maintained by many slaves. He became a colonel in the Jamaica militia and a member of the Jamaica assembly. From 1704 to 1711 he was a member of the council of Jamaica. In February 1711 he told the Board of Trade that he did not intend to return to Jamaica and was replaced on the local council. He married Jane Nicoll, and bought the manors of Whitley and Coley on the outskirts of Reading in 1727. Thompson was High Sheriff of Berkshire for the year 1719 to 1720. In the course of the year there was an unexpected by-election at Reading (UK Parliament constituency), Reading on 15 March 1720, when he was returned in a contest as a Whig Member of Parliament. Later in 1720 he was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coley Park
Coley Park is a Suburban village to the south of the town of Reading, Berkshire, Reading in the England, English county of Berkshire. It is largely built on the country estate of the same name, surrounding Coley House. It is primarily a residential area, although it is also home to the Berkshire Independent Hospital and has previously been the site of government offices. Geography Coley Park is an area of south-west Reading, bounded to the north by the Berkeley Avenue and the older district of Coley, Berkshire, Coley, to the south and east by the River Kennet, and to the west by the Reading–Basingstoke line, Reading to Basingstoke railway line, and the suburb of Southcote, Berkshire, Southcote. To the south, the Holy Brook marks the limit of the built-up area, with the water meadows of the River Kennet, Kennet Valley beyond, crossed by the now disused Coley branch line beyond. Besides the water meadows, there are two public open spaces within the suburb, Courage Park, Reading, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
General Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan (1684/5 – 24 September 1776)Falkner, James"Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', 24 May 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2018. was a British Army officer and Whig politician. Early life Cadogan was the younger son of Henry Cadogan of Liscarton, County Meath, and his wife, the former Bridget Waller, second daughter of the regicide Sir Hardress Waller. In 1726, he inherited his title on the death without male issue of his elder brother William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan,Watson, J.N.P. ''Marlborough's Shadow: The Life of the First Earl Cadogan''. Leo Cooper, 2003. whose titles, other than 1st Baron Cadogan, became extinct. Career He joined the Army, serving during the War of the Spanish Succession where he saw action at the Battles of Oudenarde and Malplaquet. His career benefited from his brother's close connection to the Army's Captain General the Duke of Marlborough. He rose, by 1715, to the ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1727–1734
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1735 Deaths
Events January–March * January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem '' Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'' is published in London. * January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera '' Ariodante'' is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. * February 3 – All 256 people on board the Dutch East India Company ships '' Vliegenthart'' and ''Anna Catherina'' die when the two ships sink in a gale off of the Netherlands coast. The wreckage of ''Vliegenthart'' remains undiscovered until 1981. * February 14 – The Order of St. Anna is established in Russia, in honor of the daughter of Peter the Great. * March 10 – The Russian Empire and Persia sign the Treaty of Ganja, with Russia ceding territories in the Caucasus mountains to Persia, and the two rivals forming a defensive alliance against the Ottoman Empire. * March 11 – Abraham Patras becomes the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) upon the death of Dirck van Clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Grey (MP)
Henry Grey (17 August 1683 – 9 September 1740) was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1740. Grey was born as Henry Neville, the younger son of Richard Neville of Billingbear House in Berkshire and his wife Katherine Grey, daughter of Ralph Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Werke. He travelled abroad in Holland, Germany, Italy and France between 1699 and 1700. In 1707, he changed his surname to Grey by an act of Parliament, ( 6 Ann. c. ''2'' ) to inherit the estates of his uncle Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Werke, in Northumberland. Grey entered Parliament for Wendover at a by-election on 21 November 1709, through the influence of his friend Richard Hampden. He successfully contested this seat at the 1710 British general election, but was defeated when he stood at Orford in the same election. Financial difficulties and attempts to sell his northern estates precluded him from taking an active part in Parliament. He was politically a Whig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Potenger
Richard Potenger, of Reading and Compton, Berkshire, (c.1690–1739) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1739. Potenger was the eldest son of Nicholas Potenger of Pangbourne, Berkshire, and the Inner Temple. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1704 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 20 October 1705, aged 15. In 1711 he was called to the bar. He married Anne Mason in April 1714. He came into the family properties of Maidenhatch, in Pangbourne, and in Compton. Potenger was appointed Recorder of Reading in 1720 and he held the role for the rest of his life. At the 1727 British general election, he was returned after a contest as Member of Parliament for Reading. He voted with the Administration on the Hessians in 1730 and on the army in 1732, but against on the Excise Bill in 1733. He was returned in a contest at the 1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Kent
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Anthony Blagrave (died 1744)
Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include ''Antonio'' in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; ''Αντώνιος'' in Greek; ''António'' or ''Antônio'' in Portuguese; ''Antoni'' in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; ''Anton'' in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; ''Antoine'' in French; '' Antal'' in Hungarian; and ''Antun'' or ''Ante'' in Croatian. The usual abbreviated fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British General Election
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below. There have been 58 general elections held in the UK up to and including the 2024 general election. Election results In 1801, the right to vote in the United Kingdom was severely restricted. Universal suffrage, on an equal basis for men and women over the age of 21, was established in 1928. Before 1918, general elections did not occur on a single day and polling was spread over several weeks. The majority figure given is for the difference between the number of MPs elected at the general election from the party (or parties) of the government, as opposed to all other parties (some of which may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Buckingham (1674–1720)
Owen Buckingham (16 December 1674 – 5 March 1720) of Moulsford, Berkshire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons between 1708 and 1720. He died in a drunken fight with a friend. Buckingham was the eldest surviving son of Owen Buckingham (died 1713), Sir Owen Buckingham of Moulsford and of St. Mildred's, Bread Street, London, former Lord Mayor of London and Elizabeth, the first of his six wives. He was admitted to the Russia Company in 1698. Later, he travelled abroad in Austria and Italy, and studied at University of Padua, Padua University in 1706. Buckingham was returned as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) in a contest for Reading (UK Parliament constituency), Reading at the 1708 British general election in succession to his father. He acted as teller for the Whigs and supported the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709. He voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. , At the 1710 British general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
