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Thomas Fludyer
Sir Thomas Fludyer (1711 – 19 March 1769) was an English merchant and banker who was a Whigs (British political party), Whig Member of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1767–9. Biography Fludyer was the second son of Samuel Fludyer, a London clothier originally from Frome, Somerset, and Elizabeth de Montsalier, daughter of a Huguenot refugee. Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet was his elder brother. He was a first cousin once removed of Samuel Romilly, whose grandfather had married Judith de Montsalier. He was by upbringing a English Dissenters, religious dissenter. In 1734, Fludyer was accepted into the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. In 1738, he was a junior partner in his brother's firm, which grew to dominate the wool market in London if not all of England. He was knighted on 9 November 1761 at a reception for George III at Guildhall, London, during his brother's term as Lord Mayor of London, Lord Mayor. Parliamentary career Sir Thomas canvassed for Devizes (UK Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whigs (British Political Party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism and parliamentary government, but also Protestant supremacy. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl Of Ailesbury
Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, Order of the Thistle, KT (30 April 1729 – 19 April 1814), styled The Honourable Thomas Brudenell until 1747 and known as the Lord Bruce between 1747 and 1776, was a British courtier. Background and education Born Thomas Brudenell, he was the youngest son of George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan and Elizabeth Brudenell, Countess of Cardigan (1689-1745), Lady Elizabeth Bruce. He was the younger brother of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan and the Honourable Robert Brudenell. He was educated at Winchester College. In February 1747, aged 17, he succeeded his uncle, the Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin, 4th Earl of Elgin and 3rd and last Earl of Ailesbury, as 2nd Baron Bruce of Tottenham according to a special remainder in the letters patent. In 1767 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Bruce. Public life When the Wiltshire Militia was embodied on 8 November 1758 he was commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet (1710–1800) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 43 years from 1737 to 1780. His election in 1741 was instrumental in the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's premiership. Early life Bayntun-Rolt was the second son of Edward Rolt of Sacombe, Hertfordshire and his wife Anne Bayntun, daughter of Henry Bayntun of Spye Park. Following the death of his uncle John Bayntun, he succeeded to the Bayntun properties at Spye Park and elsewhere in 1717, and took the additional name of Bayntun. Political career Bayntun-Rolt's estate brought him a major interest in the parliamentary seat at Chippenham. He was returned as an opposition Whig Member of Parliament at a by-election on 22 June 1737. At the 1741 general election he was re-elected with Sir Edmond Thomas, another opposition candidate, after a contest against two government candidates. The two defeated government candidates petitioned and the ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brudenell, 5th Earl Of Cardigan
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan (20 April 1725 – 24 February 1811), styled The Honourable James Brudenell until 1780 and known as The Lord Brudenell between 1780 and 1790, was a British courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brudenell. Background and education Brudenell was born in London, England, the second son of George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan, by Lady Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin. He was the brother of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, the Honourable Robert Brudenell and Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury. He was educated at Winchester College, Hampshire and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, from where he graduated in 1747 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Public life Brudenell was Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury from 1754 to 1761, for Hastings from 1761 to 1768, for Great Bedwyn from March to November 1768 and for Marlborough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice-Admiral Thomas Cotes (4 June 1712 – 16 July 1767) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Naval career Promoted to post captain in 1740, Cotes was appointed to the command of the third-rate HMS ''Edinburgh'' in 1745 and saw action at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. He was promoted to rear admiral in May 1755 by virtue of his seniority on the Captain's List. Seven Years' War Cotes was named Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's Jamaica Station in early 1757, shortly after formal declaration of the Seven Years' War against France. The appointment followed a series of British setbacks in the Caribbean, including the French capture of two Royal Navy ships. In 1756 there were eight British vessels at the Jamaica Station, including three 60-gun ships of the line: , and . All were in poor condition, especially ''Dreadnought'' and the fifty-year-old ''Mary''. Cotes' predecessor, Admiral Townshend, had written to Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke (author)
William Burke (1728 or 1730–1798) was an English pamphleteer, official, and politician. He was one of the supposed authors of ''Junius's Letters''. Early life William Burke, the son of barrister John Burke and only very questionably a kinsman of Edmund Burke, called though "cousin", was born in London. He was admitted to Westminster School in 1743, and elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1747. He contributed a copy of elegiacs to the university collection on the death of the Prince of Wales in 1751, and took the degree of B.C.L. in 1755. The two kinsmen were travelling companions in 1752, worked together on the ''Account of the European Settlements in America'', which seems to have been written by W. Burke, and joined in befriending Emin the Armenian. In 1763 Burke appeared as the friend of Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney, and a confidential mediator between him and George Grenville. He was under-secretary to Henry Seymour Conway, the Secretary of State for the Southern Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Margaret's, Lee
St. Margaret's Church, Lee, is a Church of England parish church in Lee, London. It was built between 1839 and 1841 in a simple early Victorian style (to a design by Norwich architect John Brown (architect), John Brown), replacing an earlier church which had been built on the foundations of the older mediaeval church nearby dating to around 1120. It is Anglican and is located on the south side of Lee Terrace/Belmont Hill, in Lee Green, south-east London. Extensive and lavish interior decoration was carried out between the years of 1875 and 1900. By 1980 it had fallen into dilapidation and an extensive 20-year restoration programme was carried out. On completion of the restoration, the church is one of the best preserved examples of a decorated Gothic Revival architecture, gothic revivalist interior in London. Between 1813 and 1830 there had been an attempt to rebuild the medieval church, involving the architect Joseph Gwilt. This failed when it became clear that the foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee, Kent
Lee, also known as Lee Green, is an area of South East London, England, straddling the border of the London Borough of Lewisham and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located northwest of Eltham and southeast of Lewisham. It was in Kent before becoming part of the County of London in 1889, and then Greater London in 1965. The churchyard of St Margaret's Church (current church rebuilt 1839–41, architect: John Brown) is the burial place of three Astronomers Royal: Edmond Halley, Nathaniel Bliss and John Pond. History Early history The Manor of Lee was a historic parish of the Blackheath hundred and existed up to 1900 when it was merged with the parish of Lewisham to create the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham. While modern Lee is centred on Lee railway station and the road of Burnt Ash Hill, the parish was based around Lee High Road which today stretches into the town centre of Lewisham. The River Quaggy formed much of the boundary between the two parishes, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham
Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham ( – 16 May 1723) was an English aristocrat. Early life Roper was born . He was the son of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham and Hon. Elizabeth Browne. Both of his elder brothers, John and Christopher, succeeded to their father's barony but died unmarried.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 682. His paternal grandparents were Christopher Roper, 4th Baron Teynham and Philadelphia Knollys (a daughter of Sir Henry Knollys of Grove Place). His maternal grandparents were Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu and Lady Elizabeth Somerset (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Worcester). Career On 23 September 1699, upon the death of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Roper, 18th Baron Dacre
Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321, when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, heiress of a large estate in Cumbria centred on Naworth Castle and lands in North Yorkshire around what is now Castle Howard. However, the status of the Multon barony is uncertain after Margaret's death in 1361. Lord Dacre's younger son, the third Baron, was murdered in 1375. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baron. The latter's grandson was Thomas Dacre, the sixth Baron. The second creation was when the sixth Baron's second son (Ralph Dacre) was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre (of Gilsland) in 1459 (see below). However, this new creation became extinct on his death in 1461, having been killed at the Battle of Towton and buried in the churchyard of nearby All Saints' Church, Saxton, Yorkshire, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Champion (politician)
Sir George Champion (1713-1754) of St Clement's Lane, London, and Baulking, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741. He was notably passed over for the role of Lord Mayor of London. Early life Although born in London, George Champion descended from the Champion family of Baulking, near Uffington, Berkshire. He was baptised on 29 November 1713 at St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, the son of George Champion (born 1687) of Uffington, Berkshire and his wife Catherine Bould.London Metropolitan Archives, St Bride Fleet Street, Register of burials, 1709 - 1726, P69/BRI/A/014/MS06550 He was the cousin of the London-based merchant Alexander Champion. He married Susanna Andrews, daughter of Sir Jonathan Andrews of Kempton Park, Middlesex. She died on 3 September 1738. Career Champion became a London merchant and was a Common Councillor for Langbourn ward from 1726 to 1729. In 1729 he became a freeman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
