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Samuel Kent (MP)
Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was an MP for Ipswich in the 8th, 9th, and 10th Parliament of Great Britain, sitting from 23 January 1735 to his death in 1759. He was a younger son of Thomas Kent of Christchurch, Southwark, a Norway merchant. He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1729–30. In 1731 he acquired the Fornham Hall estate at Fornham St. Genevieve, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.Beatson at p. 182, n.9 As an MP he reliably voted with the Whig court of George II. He died in 1759. He had married Sarah, the daughter of Richard Dean, skinner, of London, and had 2 sons and a daughter, Sarah, who married Charles Egleton (later Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet). His estate passed in turn to a son and then his daughter Sarah and her husband. References * Robert Beatson Robert Beatson, LL.D. FRSE FSA (1741–1818) was a Scottish compiler and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born on 25 June 1741 at Dysart i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms Member of Congress, congressman/congresswoman or Deputy (legislator), deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian (other), parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Broke (Ipswich MP)
Philip Broke (1702 – 21 September 1762), of Broke Hall, Nacton, Suffolk, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1730 to 1733. Broke was the eldest son of Robert Broke of Nacton and his wife Elizabeth Hewitt, daughter of John Hewitt, of Waresley, Huntingdonshire. In 1714, he succeeded his father to the family estate at Nacton . He was admitted at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 5 July 1726. He married Anne Bowes, daughter of Martin Bowes of Bury St. Edmunds in 1732. Broke was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Ipswich after a contest at a by-election on 27 January 1730. He spoke against the Hessians on 4 February 1730, and voted consistently against the Government. He did not stand at the 1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1754–1761
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Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For Ipswich
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1759 Deaths
In Great Britain, this year was known as the ''Annus Mirabilis'', because of British victories in the Seven Years' War. Events January–March * January 6 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. * January 11 – In Philadelphia, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. * January 13 – Távora affair: The Távora family is executed, following accusations of the attempted regicide of Joseph I of Portugal. * January 15 – **Voltaire's satire ''Candide'' is published simultaneously in five countries. ** The British Museum opens at Montagu House, Bloomsbury, Montagu House in London (after six years of development). * January 27 – Battle of Río Bueno (1759), Battle of Río Bueno: Spanish forces, led by Juan Antonio Garretón, defeat indigenous Huilliche people, Huilliches of southern Chile. * February 12 – Ali II ibn Hussein becomes the new Bey of Tunis, Ruler of Tunisia upon the death of his brother, Muhamma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1683 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – The Brandenburger—African Company, of the German state of Brandenburg, signs a treaty with representatives of the Ahanta tribe (in what is now Ghana), to establish the fort and settlement of Groß Friedrichsburg, in honor of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William (german: Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is .... The location is later renamed Princes Town, also called Pokesu. * January 6 – The tragic opera ''Phaëton (Lully), Phaëton'', written by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault, is premiered at the Palace of Versailles. * January 27 – Gove's Rebellion breaks out in the Province of New Hampshire in North America as a revolt against the Royal Governor, Edward Cranfield. Most of the participants, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Montgomerie
George Montgomerie (30 August 1712 – 26 March 1766) was a British Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of George Montgomerie of Horndon-on-the-Hill, Essex and educated at Eton College (1728-31), the Middle Temple (1731) and St. John’s College, Cambridge (1732). He served as a Yellow ( Whig (MP) for Ipswich between 20 November 1759 and 27 March 1761.. He was also the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift ... for 1759–60. He died in 1766. He had married Catherine, the daughter of Jacob Sawbridge, MP and had one daughter, who married Crisp Molineux, MP. References 1712 births 1766 deaths People from Horndon-on-the-Hill People educated at Eton College Members of the Middle Temple Alumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Staunton (Ipswich MP)
Thomas Staunton (1706? – 1 October 1784) was an Irish lawyer and a member of both the Irish and British Parliaments. He was the son of John Staunton of Galway, Ireland, who was MP for Galway Borough and held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland), and Bridget Donnellan, daughter of Edmund Donnellan, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin from 1723. He was called to the Irish bar in 1729. He then moved to London to study law at the Inner Temple in 1727 and at Lincoln's Inn in 1740. He was called to the English bar in 1740. He was elected to represent Galway Borough (his father's old constituency) in the Irish Parliament, sitting from 1732 to 1761. He was a Member of the British Parliament for Ipswich from 1757 to 1784 in the yellow interest. He married twice; firstly Jane, the daughter of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard and Mary Randyll (Mary was reputed to be a woman of "scandalous life"), and sister of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington and of Anne Vane, mistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ipswich is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since December 2019 by Tom Hunt (politician), Tom Hunt of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. History The constituency was created as Parliamentary Borough in the fourteenth century, returning two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and from 1800 to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The constituency's parliamentary representation was reduced to a single seat with one MP under the Representation of the People Act 1918. Prior to the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election, when north-western areas were transferred to the Central Suffolk constituency, the Parliamentary and Municipal/County Boroughs were the same. Ipswich was the only seat won by a Labour Party ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
