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Samuel Gott (1682–1725)
Samuel Gott (1682–1725), of Stanmer, Sussex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. He was compelled to make good his brother's debts to the Treasury as receiver-general of taxes in East Sussex, which caused him to sell the family's manor in Sussex. Early life Gott was baptised on 20 April 1682, the eldest son of Peter Gott, an ironmaster and politician, and his wife Martha Western, daughter of Thomas Western of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London and Rivenhall, Essex. Career Gott was returned as Whig Member of Parliament for Lewes at a by-election on 6 December 1708 in place of his father, who had been returned for Lewes and Sussex at the 1708 British general election, and opted to sit for Sussex. Like his father, he was a Whig, and voted for the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell in 1710. He did not enjoy Parliamentary life and did not stand again at the 1710 election. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of Great Britain
The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union 1707, Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the Parliament of Scotland, third estate of the Parliament of Scotland, as one of the most significant changes brought about by the Union of the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. In the course of the 18th century, the office of Prime Minister of Great Britain, prime minister developed. The notion that a government remains in power only as long as it retains the support of Parliament also evolved, leading to the first motion of no confidence, when Lord North's government failed to end the American Revolution. The modern notion that only the support of the House of Commons is necessary for a government to survive, however, was of later development. Similarly, the custom tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Pelham (Clerk Of The Pells)
Henry Pelham (c.1661 – 1 April 1721) was an English Member of Parliament. A younger son of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet, he was returned for two Parliamentary constituencies in Sussex, where the family held considerable influence, for most of the time between 1690 and 1702. Appointed to the sinecure office of Clerk of the Pells in 1698, Pelham was a reliable Whig and Court-supporting placeman. Education and family Pelham was born in about 1661, the third son of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet. He was educated at Eton from about 1673 to 1678, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 14 February 1679. He also entered Gray's Inn in 1678. On 18 December 1683, he married Frances Byne, daughter of John Byne, by whom he had three sons and four daughters: *Henry Pelham (c.1694–1725) *John Pelham (d. 1721) * Thomas Pelham (c.1705–1737) *Elizabeth Pelham, married Thomas Pelham *Grace Pelham, married William Poole, of Hook *Frances Pelham, married Sir Francis Poole, 2nd Baronet * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1708–1710
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1725 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end. * January 6 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, ''Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen'', BWV 123, a Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata for Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany. * January 15 – James Macrae, a former captain of a freighter for the British East India Company, is hired by the Company to administer the Madras Presidency (at this time, the "Presidency of Fort St. George"), and begins major reforms. The area administered is most of Southern India, including what is now the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, parts the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1682 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – The Republic of Genoa forbids the unauthorized printing of newspapers and all handwritten newssheets; the ban is lifted after three months. * January 12 – Scottish minister James Renwick, one of the Covenanters resisting the Scottish government's suppression of alternate religious views, publishes the Declaration of Lanark. * January 21 – The Ottoman Empire army is mobilized in preparation for a war against Austria that culminates with the 1683 Battle of Vienna. * January 24 – The first public theater in Brussels, the Opéra du Quai au Foin, is opened. * February 5 – In Japan, on the 28th day of the 12th month in the year Tenna 1, a major fire sweeps through Edo (now Tokyo). * February 9 – Thomas Otway's classic play '' Venice Preserv'd or A Plot Discover'd'' is given its first performance, premiering at the Duke's Theatre. * March 11 – Work begins on construction of the Royal Hospita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pelham (of Lewes, Senior)
Thomas Pelham (c.1678–1759) was an English politician, a member of the Pelham family of Sussex. Returned on the family's electoral interest at Lewes in 1705, he provided a reliable Whig vote in the House of Commons, and a rather more sporadic attendance on the Board of Trade. Due to his neglect of the family electoral interest, he was nearly turned out in the 1734 election, and stood down in favor of his eldest son at the next election in 1741. Early life and family Thomas was born about 1678, the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Pelham. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 3 July 1693, and entered Gray's Inn in 1696. In 1704, he married his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry Pelham. They had eight sons and four daughters: * Thomas Pelham (c.1705–1743) *Henry, Charles, Henry, and James Pelham, all died young without children *John Pelham (d. 1786) *Nicholas Pelham, died without children * Henry Cressett Pelham (1729?–1803) *Frances Pelham, married Edward Cressett *E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Roger Meredith, 5th Baronet
Sir Roger Meredith, 5th Baronet (c. 1677 – 31 December 1738) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Meredith was the son of Sir Richard Meredith, 2nd Baronet and his wife Susanna Skippon, daughter of Philip Skippon of Foulsham Norfolk. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother Sir Richard Meredith in 1723. In 1727, Meredith was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent and held the seat to 1734. Meredith lived at Leeds Abbey Leeds Priory, also known as Leeds Abbey, was a priory in Leeds, Kent, England, that was founded in 1119 and dissolved in 1539. A mansion was later built on the site of the priory; it was demolished in the late 18th century. The site of the form ... in Kent. He died in December 1738 and was buried at Leeds church, Kent in January 1739 having a monument erected to his memory. Meredith married Maria Gott, widow of Samuel Gott and daughter of Francis Tyssen of Shacklewell. They had no children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shacklewell
Shacklewell is a small locality to the east of Roman Ermine Street (now the A10), in the London Borough of Hackney.'Hackney: Shacklewell', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10, Hackney, ed. T F T Baker (London, 1995), pp. 35–38. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol10/pp35-38 etrieved 28 June 2022 The area was originally a hamlet that developed on Shacklewell Lane in the Ancient Parish and later Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, now a part of the larger modern London Borough of Hackney. The place name is no longer commonly used, and the areas is now generally regarded as part of Dalston, which was originally a separate hamlet 500 yards to the south, and also part of the Parish and Borough of Hackney. Shacklewell took its name from "some springs or wells which were of high repute in former days, but the very site of which is now forgotten." History The place name was first recorded in 1490, when Thomas Cornish, a London saddle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crundale, Kent
Crundale is a mostly rural village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent in southeast England. The village covers a section of one of the dual escarpments of the North Downs at this point, about halfway between Ashford and Canterbury. Geography About a quarter of the village is woodland, and barring its western side which slopes steeply to the Great Stour, which is at above sea level, most of the rest of its land is at more than above Ordnance Datum. Amenities The community living in the civil parish is relatively small - many of its activities are shared with the neighbouring parish of Godmersham. History An early Anglo-Saxon gold buckle and other princely items from a grave dating from the mid-7th century were found in the Crundale Downs in 1861 and are now in the British Museum. The intricately designed object is notable for the representation of a three dimensional appliqué fish. The early Norman parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanmer
Stanmer is a village on the northern edge of the city of Brighton and Hove, in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England. It was formerly a civil parish until 1952 when it was split between Brighton and Falmer. In 1951 the parish had a population of 1097. History The etymological root of the name is "Stony Mere", Old English for "stone pond", referring to the sarsen stones around Stanmer village pond. The stones are not in their original situation, but have been gathered from the Downs and landscaped into the park's appearance. There have been rather inconclusive archaeological excavations at Pudding Bag Wood and Rocky Clump in the north of the park, and in Stanmer Great Wood, producing evidence of occupation from Neolithic times onwards. The village is first recorded in about 765 A.D. when (if the document is authentic) land there was granted by king Ealdwulf of Sussex to Hunlaf in order that he might found a college of secular canons at South Malling near Lewes. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gott
Peter Gott (22 May 1653 – 16 April 1712), of Stanmer, Sussex and Hatton Garden, London, was an English ironmaster and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1690 and 1712. Early life Gott was the eldest son of Samuel Gott, ironmaster of Battle, Sussex, and his wife Joan Farnden, daughter of Peter Farnden of Sedlescombe, Sussex. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1670. He succeeded his father to his estates and iron workings in 1671. By licence dated 16 July 1677, he married his cousin Martha Western, the daughter of Thomas Western of St Dunstan-in-the-East, ironmonger. In 1685 he was a baron of the Cinque Ports when he helped carry the canopy over the Queen at the coronation. In 1690, with the resumption of war, he became one of the major suppliers of iron ordnance to the government. Career Gott was Sheriff of Sussex for the year 1688 to 1689. At the 1689 English general election, he stood for Parliament at Rye and Hastings and was defeated. He was returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Sussex
East Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Kent to the north-east, West Sussex to the west, Surrey to the north-west, and the English Channel to the south. The largest settlement is the city of Brighton and Hove, and the county town is Lewes. The county has an area of and a population of 822,947. The latter is largely concentrated along the coast, where the largest settlements are located: Brighton and Hove (277,105), Eastbourne (99,180), and Hastings (91,490). The centre and north of the county are largely rural, and the largest settlement is Crowborough (21,990). For Local government in England, local government purposes, East Sussex comprises a non-metropolitan county, with five districts, and the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority of Brighton and Hove. East Sussex and West Sussex Historic counties of England, historically formed a single county, Sussex. The northeast of East Sussex is part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
