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Thomas Leveson-Gower
Hon. Thomas Leveson-Gower (6 May 1699 – 12 August 1727) was an English Tory politician from the Leveson-Gower family. He sat in parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency), Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1720 until his death. He was the son of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower (1675–1709) and Lady Catherine Manners (1675–1722), daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and his third wife, Catherine Manners, Duchess of Rutland, Catherine Noel. Three of his brothers also served in parliament: John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694–1754), William Leveson-Gower (died 1756), William Leveson-Gower (1697–1756), and Baptist Leveson-Gower (1701–1782). Leveson-Gower was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In the 1722 British general election, 1722 general election, he was returned unopposed, on his family's interest. In May 1725, he was chosen a member of the committee "to manage the evidence" against former Lord Chancellor Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leveson-Gower Family
Leveson-Gower ( ), also Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, is the name of a historically prominent British noble family. Over time, several members of the Leveson-Gower family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the family include the dukedom of Sutherland, as well as the ancient earldom of Sutherland (created c. 1230) and the earldom of Granville (created 1833). Several other members of the family have also risen to prominence. Name Leveson-Gower is a well-known example of an English surname with counterintuitive pronunciation. The name ''Leveson'' is a patronymic from Louis or Lewis. In early modern times it was often rendered ''Luson'': for example, in 1588, Elizabeth I received a letter from the King of Denmark concerning the depredations of Walter Leveson of Lilleshall Abbey, in which he is consistently referred to as ''Sir Walter Luson''. ''Gower'' is a locational name, possibly derived from a place so-named in Kent, or from the Gower Peninsula in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Brian Broughton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Brian Broughton, 3rd Baronet (1677–1724) of Broughton Hall, Staffordshire was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1724. Broughton was born at Beaudesert, Staffordshire on 19 September 1677, the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Broughton, 2nd Baronet and his wife Rhoda Amcotts, daughter of John Amcotts of Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Kensington and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 2 October 1695 and at Middle Temple on 30 July 1698. In 1699, he was awarded BA at Cambridge. He married Elizabeth Delves, daughter of Sir Thomas Delves, 4th Baronet, of Doddington, Cheshire on 10 February 1710, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father also in 1710. Broughton was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme on 2 June 1715 after a petition, having come third in the poll at the 1715 general election. He was returned unopposed for Newcastle-under-Lyme at the 1722 general election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of England For Newcastle-under-Lyme
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British MPs 1722–1727
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1727 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Peace of Utrecht, Treaty of Utrecht. Britain refuses and the Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar begins on February 22. * January 6 – Martin Spanberg and two other members of the First Kamchatka expedition arrive in Okhotsk, after a journey from Saint Petersburg of almost two years. After the end of winter, the 63-member group, commanded by Vitus Bering, proceeds to the Kamchatka River, to prepare for exploration of the Arctic. * January 9 – The world-famous Charité Hospital is established in Berlin, to be used for research and to help the poor. Prussia's Frederick William I of Prussia, King Frederick William I had ordered the conversion of a 16-year old institution, originally built in anticipation of an epidemic of the bubonic plague. * January 12 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1699 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – A violent earthquake damages the city of Batavia on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 28 people. * January 20 – The Parliament of England (under Tory dominance) limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 'native born' men; hence, King William III's Dutch Blue Guards cannot serve in the line. By an Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland. * January 26 – The Republic of Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Karlowitz with the Ottoman Empire, marking an end to the major phase of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. The treaty marks a major geopolitical shift, as the Ottoman Empire subsequently abandons its expansionism and adopts a defensive posture while the Habsburg monarchy expands its influence. * February 4 – A group of 350 rebels in the Streltsy Uprising are executed in Moscow. * March 2 – '' The Edinburgh Gazette'' is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley And Ward
John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (6 March 1704 – 6 May 1774), known as John Ward until 1740 and as the 6th Baron Ward from 1740 to 1763, was a British Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Life Ward was the son of William Ward (1677-1720), William Ward and the grandson of the Hon. William Ward (d. 1714), second son of Humble Ward, 1st Baron Ward. His mother was Mary, daughter of the Hon. John Grey, younger son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford. He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of Sedgley on the death of his father in 1720, and the entailed portion of the Dudley estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 10th Baron Dudley, William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740. He was returned to Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency), Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1727, a seat he held until 1734. In 1740 he succeeded his second cousin as the sixth Baron Ward and entered the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet
Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Baronet (3 August 1702 – 20 January 1768) of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1724 and 1768. Early life Bagot was the eldest surviving son of Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet, MP, and his wife Frances Wagstaffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Wagstaffe of Tachbrook, Warwickshire. In 1712, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy and Blithfield. He was educated at Isleworth and Colney Hatch, Middlesex and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1720. He married Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth MP, on 27 July 1724. Career Bagot was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme at a by-election on 20 November 1724. He earned a reproach from his brother in law, Lord Lewisham, for his neglect of his parliamentary duties. At the 1727 British general election he was returned unopposed as MP for Staffordshire. He voted consistently agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crewe Offley
Crewe Offley (1682–1739) of Wychnor Hall, Staffordshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1706 and 1734. Early life Offley was baptized on 14 November 1682, the second son of John Offley of Madeley, Staffordshire and his wife Anne Crewe, daughter of John Crewe of Crewe Hall, Cheshire. In 1698, he succeeded his mother to Wychnor, and in 1711 to some of the estates of his great-uncle Sir John Crewe of Utkinton. He married Margaret Lawrence, daughter of Sir Thomas Lawrence of Chelsea, Middlesex on 2 May 1710. Career Offley's family held a significant electoral interest in Cheshire. At the 1705 general election Offley's elder brother John Crewe Offley decided to stand for Cheshire allowing Offley to stand at Newcastle-under-Lyme on the family interest Although defeated at the polls, he was seated on petition on 27 February 1706, together with his Whig partner, John Lawton, after proving bribery and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl Of Macclesfield
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, (23 July 1666 – 28 April 1732) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1710. He was Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1718 and acted briefly as one of the regents before the arrival of King George I in Britain. His career ended when he was convicted of corruption on a massive scale and he spent the later years of his life in retirement at his home, Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire. Early life Parker was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek and his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Venables of Nuneham, Cheshire. Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet, a leading figure in Irish public life for three decades, was his first cousin. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School at Newport, Shropshire, Derby School in 1680 and at Rev. Samuel Ogden's school at Derby. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1684 and at Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner in 1685. On 23 April 1691, he marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
