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Woodstock (UK Parliament Constituency)
Woodstock, sometimes called New Woodstock, was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom named after the town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Woodstock in the county of Oxfordshire. History The Parliamentary Borough comprised the town of Woodstock and (from 1832) the surrounding countryside and villages. It elected two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of England from its re-enfranchisement in 1553 until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. Under the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act 1832, the representation of the borough was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the borough was abolished and was reconstituted as the Mid or Woodstock Division of Oxfordshire when the three-member Parliamentary County of Oxfordshire (UK Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banbury (UK Parliament Constituency)
Banbury is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Oxfordshire created in 1553 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Its current Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP is Sean Woodcock of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, who gained the seat at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. Constituency profile The constituency has relatively high economic dependence on agriculture, as well as modern industry (particularly motorsport), research and development, public services and, to a lesser extent, defence. It is centred on the large market town of Banbury. It is a partly rural seat, with the northwest of the constituency on the edge of the Cotswolds. The area has experienced significant urban growth and is popular with commuters who favour its fast transport links to Birmingham, Oxford and London by rail, or the M40. History The constituency was creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooke (died 1558)
William Cooke or Bill Cooke may refer to: Sports * Harry Cooke (born William Henry Cooke, 1919–1992), English footballer * William Cooke (cricketer) (1868–1954), New Zealand cricketer * William Cooke (footballer) (1915–?), English footballer * Bill Cooke (defensive end) (born 1951), American football defensive end * Bill Cooke (footballer) (1888–1950), Australian rules footballer Politicians * William Cooke (died 1558), MP for New Woodstock and Portsmouth * William Cooke (died 1589), MP for Stamford and Grantham * Sir William Cooke (of Highnam) (1572–1619), English Member of Parliament * William Cooke (died 1703) (1620–1703), MP for Gloucester * William Cooke (1682–1709), MP for Gloucester * William Mordecai Cooke Sr. (1823–1863), Confederate politician *William Cooke, MP for Lewes * William Wilcox Cooke (died 1816), Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court Others * William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879), English inventor * William Ernest Cooke (1863� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lee (died 1608)
Sir Richard Lee (died 22 December 1608) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1593 and 1608 and served as Ambassador to Russia. Family Lee was the illegitimate son of Sir Anthony Lee of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire by Ann Hassall, daughter of Richard Hassall of Hassall and Hankelow, Cheshire. He was half-brother to Sir Henry Lee K.G. of Ditchley, Master of the Ordnance and Robert Lee. Career He was abroad in 1582, possibly in Russia and he was a volunteer against the Spanish Armada in 1588. His first marriage to the widow of Sir Gerald Croker of Hook Norton led to prolonged legal proceedings over the inheritance of two manors. Through his second marriage he acquired a manor known as Dane John or the 'Dungeon' in Canterbury, and went to live there. He became Freeman of Canterbury in 1590 and was a J.P. for Kent from about 1591. He was a common councilman by 1593 in which year he was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scott (MP For New Woodstock)
William Scott may refer to: Academics * William A. Scott (psychologist), American social psychologist * William Alphonsus Scott (1871–1921), Irish Roman Catholic architectural historian * William Amasa Scott (1862–1944), American economist * William Anderson Scott (1813–1885), Presbyterian minister, author, and educator * William Berryman Scott (1858–1947), American paleontologist * William Earl Dodge Scott (1852–1910), American ornithologist * William Henry Scott (historian) (1921–1993), anthropologist and historian * William Henry Scott (university president) (1840–1937), American academic administrator * William Richard Scott (born 1932), American sociologist * W. R. Scott (economist) (William Robert Scott, 1868–1940), political economist Arts and entertainment * Sir William Scott of Thirlestane (1645–1725), Scottish poet * William Bell Scott (1811–1890), British poet and artist * William Scott (artist) (1913–1989), British artist * William Edoua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (MP For New Woodstock)
John Lee may refer to: Academia * John Lee (astronomer) (1783–1866), president of the Royal Astronomical Society * John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University of Edinburgh principal * John Lee (pathologist) (born 1961), English * John Lee (political scientist) (born 1973), Australian * John Lee (Australian actor) (1928–2000) Australian actor * John Lee (blues musician), (1915–1977) American country blues musician * John Lee (British actor) (1725–1781), British actor * John Lee (Labour politician) (1927–2020), retired Labour politician in the United Kingdom * John Alan Lee (1933–2013), Canadian sociologist and LGBT activist * John M. Lee (born 1950), American mathematician * John Ning-Yuean Lee (born 1945), Taiwanese biologist * J. R. E. Lee (John Robert Edward Lee Sr., 1864–1944), president of Florida A&M University Arts and entertainment * John Lee (British actor) (1725–1781), British actor * John Lee (Australian actor) (1928–2000), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Stonor
Francis may refer to: People and characters *Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church (2013–2025) *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Francis (surname) * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 Places * Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada ** Francis (electoral district) * Francis, Nebraska, USA * Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska, USA * Francis, Oklahoma, USA * Francis, Utah, USA Arts, entertainment, media * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell * Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis (TV series), a Indian Bengali-language animated television series Other uses * FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia * Francis turbine, a type of water turbine See also * Saint Francis (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Unton
Sir Henry Unton (or Umpton) (c. 155723 March 1596) was an Elizabethan era, Elizabethan English people, English diplomat. Life Unton was born at Wychwood and was the second son of Sir Edward Unton (high sheriff), Edward Unton (d. 1583) of Littleworth, Vale of White Horse, Wadley House, near Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). His mother Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick (died 1588), Lady Anne Seymour (d. 1588) was a daughter of the Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector under Edward VI of England, Edward VI. His elder brother was Edward Unton (captain), Edward Unton, who died in 1589. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Unton became the member of parliament for New Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency), New Woodstock in 1584. He served with the English forces in the Netherlands in 1585 and 1586, being present at the battle of Zutphen, skirmish of Zutphen. In 1586 he was knighted by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. In 1591, through the go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Tanfield
Sir Lawrence Tanfield (c. 1551 – 30 April 1625) was an English lawyer, politician and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He had a reputation for corruption, and the harshness which he and his wife showed to his tenants was remembered for centuries after their deaths. Background He was the eldest son of Robert Tanfield of Burford by his wife, Wilgiford Fitzherbert. He was educated at Eton College and the Inner Temple. He was called to the bar by 1579. His career flourished largely due to the patronage of his first wife's uncle, Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, the Queen's Champion. Career He was elected Member of Parliament for Woodstock in 1584, 1586, 1589, 1593, 1597 and 1601 and returned as a knight of the shire for Oxfordshire in 1604. He was knighted in 1604. He was appointed Serjeant-at-law in 1603, puisne judge of the King’s Bench in 1606 and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1607. As a judge, he was often accused of corruption, though none of the charges against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Whiton
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Johnson (MP)
Martin Johnson may refer to: *Martin Johnson (rugby union) (born 1970), English rugby union footballer and manager *One half of Martin and Osa Johnson (1884–1937), a husband-and-wife adventurer/explorer/filmmaker team from Kansas * Martin Johnson (musician) (born 1985), lead singer of Boys Like Girls * Martin Johnson (racing driver) (born 1963), British auto racing driver * Martin Hume Johnson (born 1944), Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Sciences at the University of Cambridge. * Martin Michael Johnson (1899–1975), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nelson, British Columbia, then Archbishop of Vancouver 1964–1969 * Martin N. Johnson (1850–1909), U.S. Senator from North Dakota * Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), U.S. oceanographer * Marty P. Johnson, CEO of Isles, Inc. in Trenton, NJ * Martin Johnson (Hollyoaks), a fictional character from British soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Martin Johnson (MP), Member of Parliament for Woodstock The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Peniston
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), a 1969 novel by He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Chamberlain (MP)
George Chamberlain may refer to: People * George Chamberlain (bishop) (1576–1634), Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres * George Chamberlain (MP), member of parliament for Woodstock * George C. Chamberlain (1837–1896), Minnesota state representative * George E. Chamberlain (1854–1928), American politician who served as governor and United States Senator from Oregon * George Henry Chamberlain (1862–1943), American politician and lawyer from Ohio * George Agnew Chamberlain (1879–1966), American novelist and diplomat * George Philip Chamberlain (1905–1995), RAF air vice marshal *George Richard Chamberlain George Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025) was an American actor and singer who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show '' Dr. Kildare'' (1961–1966). He subsequently earned the title "King of the Mini- ..., American actor and singer Other * SS ''George Chamberlain'', a World War II US Navy Liberty ship * George D. Chamberlain High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
