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Thomas Saunders (MP For Devon)
Thomas Saunders may refer to: Politicians *Thomas Saunders (MP for Devon), English MP for Devon, 1653–1659 *Thomas Saunders (MP for Coventry), English MP for Coventry *Thomas Saunders (died 1565) (1513–1565), English MP for Gatton, Reigate and Surrey *Thomas Saunders (born 1593), English MP for Buckinghamshire *Thomas Saunders (born 1626) (1626–1670), English MP for Wallingford *Thomas Saunders (born 1641), English MP for Milborne Port *Thomas E. Saunders (born 1951), member of the Indiana House of Representatives Others *Thomas Saunders (colonel), co-author of the Petition of the three colonels of 1654 *Thomas Saunders (governor) (1713–1775), British governor of Madras from 1750 till 1755 *Thomas Harry Saunders (1813–1870), known as T. H. Saunders, British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks *Thomas William Saunders (1814–1890), British metropolitan police magistrate *Thomas Saunders (academic), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University *Thomas A. Saunders III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon (UK Parliament Constituency)
Devon was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency covering the county of Devon in England. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Elections were held using the plurality-at-large voting, bloc vote system of elections. Under the Reform Act 1832, it was split into two divisions, North Devon (UK Parliament constituency), North Devon and South Devon (UK Parliament constituency), South Devon, for the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 general election. Boundaries The constituency consisted of the historic counties of England, historic county of Devon, excluding the city of Exeter which had the status of a County corporate, county in itself after 1537. (Although Devon contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry (UK Parliament Constituency)
Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345. The city is governed by Coventry City Council, and the West Midlands Combined Authority. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, and again from 1842 to 1974, Coventry had a population of 345,324 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 13th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap; it is the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Saunders (died 1565)
Thomas Saunders (by 1513 – 18 August 1565) was an English politician. Family Thomas Saunders was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Saunders of Charlwood, Surrey, by Alice Hungate, the daughter of John Hungate.Saunders, Thomas (by 1513-65), of London and Charlwood, Surrey, History of Parliament Retrieved 15 June 2013. Career Saunders entered the in 1527. He was solicitor for the households of Queens and |
Thomas Saunders (born 1593)
Sir Thomas Saunders (1593–1653) was an English knight and Buckinghamshire landowner. He was a Member of Parliament, Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and a Parliamentarian army officer during the English Civil War. His surname was often written as Sanders. Early life Sir Thomas Saunders was the third son of Richard Saunders of Amersham (died 1601) and his wife, Elizabeth née Blount. The Saunders had been major landowners in Buckinghamshire for several generations and his father had been lord of the manors of Moreton in Dinton and Pitchcott. Through his mother, Sir Thomas' first cousin was Henry Blount (knight) Saunders matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1613. He was admitted to the Middle Temple that same year. Estate The manor of Pitchcott had passed from Richard Saunders to John Saunders, his eldest son. John Saunders died in 1623 and the manor passed to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Sir Walter Pye. Sir Walter and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Saunders (born 1626)
Thomas Saunders (1626 – c. 1670) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Saunders was the son of John Saunders of Reading and Woolstone in Berkshire (the latter now in Oxfordshire) and his wife Margaret Evelyn, daughter of John Evelyn of Godstone, Surrey. He succeeded his father in 1638 and purchased the estate of Mongewell Mongewell is a village in the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Crowmarsh in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about south of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Wallingford. Mongewell is on the east bank of the Thames, li ... Park in Oxfordshire, across the River Thames from Wallingford, also in Berkshire (but now in Oxfordshire). In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wallingford in a by-election to the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Berkshire from August 1660 and for Oxfordshire from 1661. He was J.P. for Oxfordshire from 1661, and for Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milborne Port (UK Parliament Constituency)
Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough located in Somerset. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832 as a rotten borough. Members of Parliament ''Milborne Port re-franchised in 1628'' MPs 1640–1832 Notes References *Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807*D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) *''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808* J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) * Henry Stooks Smith, ''The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847'', Volume 3 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1850)* See also * Milborne Port {{Somerset constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas E
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment *Thomas (Burton novel), ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petition Of The Three Colonels
The petition of the three colonels or The Humble Petition of Several Colonels of the Army was a document of the English Interregnum. Written by the Republican agitator John Wildman in the name of John Okey, Thomas Saunders, and Matthew Alured—three colonels in the New Model Army—it criticised Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate, called for the institution of the Council of Officers' Agreement of the People of December 1648 and was circulated in the army during 1654. On 18 October that year, after the petition had been ceased and the three officers arrested, John Wildman published it. Okey was court-martialled A court-martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the mili ..., found not guilty of treason, and set free once he resigned his commission. Saunders was not tried after he resigned his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Colonial Governors And Presidents Of Madras
This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. English Agents In 1639, the grant of Madras to the English was finalized between the factors of the Masulipatnam (now Machilipatnam) factory (trading post), represented by Francis Day, and the Raja of Chandragiri. In 1640, Andrew Cogan, the chief of the Masulipatnam factory, made his way to Madras in the company of Francis Day and the English and Indian employees of the Masulipatnam factory. The Agency of Madras was established on 1 March 1640 and Cogan was made the first Agent. The official title was 'Governor of Fort St George' and the Governor was usually referred to as Agent. Cogan served in the post for three years and was succeeded by Francis Day. After four agents had served their terms, Madras was upgraded to a Presidency during the time of Aaron Baker. However financial considerations forced the compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Harry Saunders
Thomas Harry Saunders (19 September 1813, London – 5 February 1870, Dartford), usually called T. H. Saunders, was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist. He was the youngest of the five children of hoop-maker John Saunders, and started a career in paper-making while in his twenties, becoming partner in a paper mill in 1840. He married Mary Marchant in 1844. He won medals at international exhibitions for his firm's ''light and shade'' watermarks, which contributed to his success at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. At the Irish exhibition of 1853 there was special mention for his "specimens of paper ornamented with a water mark, showing gradations of light and shade". The description continued, "This kind of paper is intended to prevent frauds in bills of exchange . . ." and the watermarks attracted many banks as customers, and made T. H. Saunders & Co important suppliers of postage stamps and banknotes to many countries in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas William Saunders
Thomas William Saunders (1814–1890), was an English metropolitan police magistrate. And a notable revising barrister-at-law. Biography Saunders, second son of Samuel E. Saunders of Bath, by Sarah, his wife, was born on 21 February 1814. He was entered a student at the Middle Temple on 16 April 1832, and called to the bar on 9 June 1837. He was appointed by Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet to be recorder of Dartmouth From 1855 to October 1860 he was recorder of Dartmouth, and from that date to 1878 recorder of Bath. For some years he was a revising barrister, and in December 1872 became a commissioner for hearing municipal election petitions. Richard Assheton Cross appointed him a metropolitan police magistrate on 2 September 1878, and he sat at the Thames police-court until his resignation a few days before his death. He died at Bournemouth on 28 February 1890, having married, on 16 August 1854, Frances Gregory, daughter of William Galpine of Newport, Isle of Wight Newport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice-Chancellor Of Oxford University
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford is the chief executive and leader of the University of Oxford. The following people have been vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford (formally known as The Right Worshipful the Vice-Chancellor): __TOC__ Chronological list * 1230 – Elyas de Daneis * 1270 – Robert Steeton * 1288 – John Heigham * 1304 – John de Oseworhd * 1311 – Walter Gifford * 1325 – Richard Kamshale * 1333 – Richard FitzRalph * 1336 – John de Ayllesbury * 1337 – John de Reigham * 1347 – Hugh de Willoughby * 1348 – William de Hawkesworth * 1367 – John de Codeford * 1368 – John de Codeford * 1377 – Robert Aylesham * 1382 – Fr Peter Stokes * 1386 – Henry Nafford or Yafford * 1389 – John Lyndon * 1391 – John Ashwardby * 1394 – Richard Ullerston * 1396 – Nicholas Faux * 1397 – William Farendon or Faringdon * 1399 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
