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Sir Thomas Webster, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Webster, 1st Baronet (1679 – 30 May 1751), of Copped Hall, Essex, and Battle Abbey, Sussex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1727. Webster was the eldest son of Sir Godfrey Webster, a well-to-do clothier of Fenchurch St., London, and the Nelmes, Havering, Essex and educated at the Middle Temple from 1697. On 2 October 1701, he married Jane Cheek, the daughter and heiress of Edward Cheek of Sandford Orcas, Somerset and his wife Mary Whistler. She was the daughter and co-heiress of the wealthy merchant Henry Whistler (who died in 1718), from whom a fortune descended to the Webster family, which they acknowledged by using Whistler as a Christian name in the Webster family. In 1703 he purchased the estate of Copped Hall in Essex for over £20,000 from Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and was created a Baronet the same year. He also served as High Sheriff of Essex for the year 1703 ...
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Copped Hall
Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Waltham Abbey, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999. Today, Copped Hall refers to the upstanding house, while Copt Hall or Copthall refer to the older Tudor architecture, Tudor and earlier houses. Copped Hall is visible from the M25 motorway between junctions 26 and 27. There was a separate Manor of Copped Hall, Copped Hall (or Coppeed Hall) in Totteridge, which is not to be confused with this building. History Foundation King Richard I of England, Richard I bestowed the lands on Richard Fitz Aucher to hold them fee simple, in fee, and hereditarily of the Abbey. During the reign of Edward I of England, Edward I Copthall continued in the possession of the Fitz Aucher family until it came into the hands of the Abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII. Heyday Sir Thomas Heneage received the estate of Cop ...
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Isaac Rebow
Sir Isaac Rebow (16551726) was a clothier and merchant who served as Member of Parliament for Colchester in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Early life Rebow was baptised in the Dutch Church in Colchester on 15 July 1655. His parents came from two prominent Colchester families with Flemish origins. His father was the clothier and merchant John Rebow, while his mother, Sarah, was the daughter of the wealthy Colchester bay-maker and merchant Francis Tayspill. John Rebow received a grant of arms in April 1685 and died in April 1699. Career Business Rebow had a wide range of business interests, which he appears to have conducted on a non-partisan basis despite his Whig political interests. He invested £3000 in the South Sea Company (enough to qualify him as a director), had a large shareholding in the East India Company, and exported over 10,000 pieces of silver to India between 1697 and 1700. In 1696 he was a commissioner taking subscriptions for Nicholas Ba ...
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British MPs 1707–1708
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English MPs 1705–1707
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Baronets In The Baronetage Of England
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th century; however, in its current usage it was created by James I of England in 1611 as a means of raising funds for the crown. Baronets rank below barons, but seemingly above all knights grand cross, knights commander and knights bachelor of the British chivalric orders, that are in turn below in chivalric precedence than the most senior British chivalric orders of the Garter and the Thistle. Like all British knights, baronets are addressed as "Sir" and baronetesses as "Dame". They are conventionally seen to belong to the lesser nobility, although William Thoms in 1844 wrote that: The precise quality of this dignity is not yet fully determined, some holding it to be the head of the , while others, again, rank Baronets as the ...
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1751 Deaths
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Webster Baronets
There have been two Webster baronetcies. Webster baronets, of Copthall, in the County of Essex (1703) Created on 21 May 1703 in the Baronetage of England. * Sir Thomas Webster, 1st Baronet (1676–1751, Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester 1705–1711, 1713–1714 and 1722–1727 * Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd Baronet (after 1699–1779), MP for East Grinstead 1741–1761 * Sir Godfrey Webster, 3rd Baronet (died 1780) * Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet (1747–1800), MP for Seaford 1786–1790 and Wareham 1796–1800 * Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, 5th Baronet (1789–1836), MP for Sussex 1812–1820 * Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, 6th Baronet (1815–1853) * Sir Augustus Frederick George Douglas Webster, 7th Baronet (1819–1886) * Sir Augustus Frederick Walpole Edward Webster, 8th Baronet (1864–1923) Extinct on the death of the 8th Baronet Webster baronets, of Alverstone, Isle of Wight (1900) Created on 25 January 1900 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Bar ...
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Samuel Tufnell
Samuel Tufnell (15 September 1682 – 1758), of Langleys, Essex, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1747. Early life Tufnell was the son of John Tufnell, brewer, of St Mary's Undershaft, London, and Monken Hadley, Middlesex, and his wife Elizabeth Jolliffe, daughter of John Jolliffe, MP, merchant and alderman of London. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1698.,The alumni appears to conflate Samuel Tufnell of Middle temple with an entry for Nathanie Tusnaile On the death of his father in 1699, he succeeded to the family estate, under the trusteeship of his uncles, Sir William Jolliffe and Sir Edward Northey. He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1699 and called to the bar in 1703. He undertook a Grand Tour through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland from 1703 to 1705. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1709 In 1710 he purchased the manor of Langleys, at Great Waltham, not far from Maldon and i ...
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Stamp Brooksbank
Stamp Brooksbank (23 June 1694 – 24 May 1756) was an English MP and Governor of the Bank of England. He was the eldest son of warehouseman and haberdasher Joseph Brooksbank of Hackney House and Cateaton St., Cheapside, London. He was the heir of his mother's father Richard Stamp, the elder brother of Sir Thomas Stamp, Lord Mayor of London in 1692. He became a successful merchant trading with Turkey and was a member of the New England Company in 1726. He succeeded his father in 1726 to Healaugh Manor, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire. He was elected MP for Colchester in 1727 and for Saltash in 1743, being re-elected for the same constituency in 1747. He was a director of the Bank of England from 1728 to 1740 and from 1743 to 1755, as deputy governor from 1740 to 1741 and as governor from 1741 to 1743. He built Hackney House in Clapton in 1732. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Thomson of Hackney and Nonsuch Park, Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of Engl ...
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Matthew Martin (mariner)
Matthew Martin (1676-1749) of Alresford Hall, Essex, was an East India Company mariner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1742. Martin was christened at St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe, on 17 May 1676, the second son of Samuel Martine (1640-1694) of Wivenhoe who was a mariner. In about 1702, he married Sarah Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, who was commander of an East Indiaman. In 1710 his mother and his brother Samuel both died and he inherited the family property at Wivenhoe. Martin was a captain in the service of the East India Company, and commanded the Marlborough Indiaman which sailed to India and China between 1711 and 1721. In 1712 after defending it against three French war ships, he brought his ship safely into Fort St. George with a cargo worth £200,000. The Company gave him a reward of £1,000 and a gold medal set with 24 large diamonds. He purchased Alresford Hall, near Colchester, in 1720 and was granted a patent of arms on 18 Sept. 1722. He ...
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