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Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet
Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet (c. 1662–1718), of Youlston Park, Devon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1685 and 1718. Chichester was the second son of Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet and his second wife, Mary Colly. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother Sir John Chichester, 2nd Baronet in September 1680. He married Elizabeth Drewe, daughter of Thomas Drewe of Broadhembury Grange on 15 April 1684. In 1684, having sold the family estate of Raleigh and acquired a new one at Youlston, near Barnstaple, he became a freeman of Barnstaple. In 1685, Chichester was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple and was re-elected to the Convention parliament in 1689. He did not stand in 1690 and remained out of parliament until returned for Barnstaple again at the 1713 general election. He was returned unopposed again at the 1715 general election. Chichester died on 3 February 1718. He had four s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youlston Park
Youlston Park, also known as Youlston House, is a privately-owned 17th-century mansion house situated at Shirwell, near Barnstaple, North Devon, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The parkland is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The game larder and stables are individually listed Grade II. The pair of entrance lodges are listed Grade II*. The mediaeval origins of the house including a detached hall and a kitchen block were incorporated into the new house built in the late 17th century by Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency), Barnstaple, who died in 1718. (He was a younger son of the first of the Chichester baronets.) The south-facing two-storey entrance front has seven bays, two of which are set within each of the gabled projections to the east and west. The entrance porch supported by four classical columns sits within the western projection. A recessed wing of seven bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hooper (1654-1731)
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions '' Land of the Tiger'' and '' Andes to Amazon'', as well as the TV movies ''The Girl in the Café'' and ''My Family and Other Animals'' among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award for Original Score in 2004 for '' The Young Visiters'' and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for '' Prime Suspect: The Final Act''. He studied at the Royal College of Music in the early 1970s where he scored his first films. His highest-profile scores were for ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', for which he reunited with old friend director David Yates, with whom he had worked before on '' The Tichborne Claimant'', ''The Way We Live Now'', '' State of Play'', ''The Young Visiters'' and ''The Girl in the Café''. These were Hooper's most notable works on blockbuster films. For ''Half-Blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Great Britain For English Constituencies
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British MPs 1715–1722
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English MPs 1689–1690
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1718 Deaths
Events January – March * January 7 – In India, Sufi rebel leader Shah Inayat Shaheed from Sindh who had led attacks against the Mughal Empire, is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss peace. * January 17 – Jeremias III reclaims his role as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, chief leader within the Eastern Orthodox Church, 16 days after the Metropolitan Cyril IV of Pruoza had engineered an election to become the Patriarch. * February 14 – The reign of Victor Amadeus over the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg (now within the state of Saxony-Anhalt in northeastern Germany) ends after 61 years and 7 months. He had ascended the throne on September 22, 1656. He is succeeded by his son Karl Frederick. * February 21 – Manuel II (Mpanzu a Nimi) becomes the new monarch of the Kingdom of Kongo (located in western Africa in present day Angola) when King Pedro IV (Nusamu a Mvemba) dies after a reign of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660s Births
Year 166 ( CLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio (or, less frequently, year 919 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 166 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Dacia is invaded by barbarians. * Conflict erupts on the Danube frontier between Rome and the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni. * Emperor Marcus Aurelius appoints his sons Commodus and Marcus Annius Verus as co-rulers (Caesar), while he and Lucius Verus travel to Germany. * End of the war with Parthia: The Parthians leave Armenia and eastern Mesopotamia, which both become Roman protectorates. * A plague (possibly small pox) comes from the East and spreads throughout the Roman Empire, lasting for roughly twenty years. * The Lombards invade Pannonia (modern Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Basset (1683-1721) (1941–2006), American folk singer and songwriter
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John Basset may refer to: *Sir John Basset (1462–1528), courtier in the reign of Henry VIII *John Basset (1518–1541), servant to Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal *John Basset (writer) (1791–1843), writer on Cornish mining See also *Basset family, English gentry *John Bassett (other) *Jean Basset (other) *John Bassette John Bassette (December 28, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was a folk singer/songwriter, poet and cable television personality in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, United States, area. He was born in Hampton, Virginia, USA. Musical career Bassette fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rolle (1679–1730)
John Rolle (1679–1730) of Stevenstone and Bicton, Devon, Bicton in Devon, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons from 1703 to 1705 and in the British House of Commons from 1710 to 1730. He declined the offer of an earldom by Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen Anne, but 18 years after his death his eldest son was raised to the peerage in 1748 by King George II as Baron Rolle. Origins Rolle was the second son of John Rolle (died 1689) by his wife Lady Christiana Bruce, daughter of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and 2nd Earl of Elgin (c. 1626–1685). His elder brother was Robert Rolle (d. 1710), Robert Rolle (died 1710), MP. Education Rolle attended Queens' College, Cambridge in 1696 and entered the Inner Temple in 1697 for his training as a lawyer. He was called to the bar in 1705. Inheritance As Rolle's father had predeceased his own father Sir John Rolle (died 1706), John Rolle (1626� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Acland (1679-1729)
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (26 November 1906 – 24 November 1990) was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party in 1942, having previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP). He joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was later a Labour MP. He was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). First years Richard Thomas Dyke Acland was born on 26 November 1906 at Broadclyst, Devon, the eldest son of Sir Francis Dyke Acland (1874–1939), 14th Baronet, a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and of his first wife Eleanor Acland, née Cropper (1878–1933), a Liberal politician, suffragist, and novelist.Stenton and Lees ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament'' vol. iv p. 1 He had two brothers and one sister; his brother Geoffrey Acland also became a Liberal politician. He was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, before qualifying as a barrister (admitted at the Inner Temple in 1930). He briefl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
