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Governor Of Cork
The Governor of Cork was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Cork in Ireland. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was abolished from the next vacancy. List of governors of Cork Governors *1644: Major Muschamp *1651: Colonel Robert Phaire (for Parliament) (page 175) *1672: Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon *1678: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon *1689: Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare and M. Boileau (for King James II) *1690: Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone and Roger McElligott (for King James II) *1690: Colonel Hales and Colonel Hastings (for King William) *1691: Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington *1691: Sir Richard Cox *1692: Sir Toby Purcell *1698: Sir James Jeffreys *1698–1700: ''Position abolished'' *1701: Sir James Jeffreys *1722: James Jeffreys (son of above) *1746–?1750: Gervais Parker *1752–1764: Lieut-General Sir James St Clair *1764–1768: Lord Robert Bertie *1768–1778: Col. John Wynne *1778–1782: Nicholas Lysaght * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
County Cork
County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, County Cork, Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen. , the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-List of Irish counties by population, most populous county in Ireland. Cork County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county, while Cork City Council governs the city of Cork and its environs. Notable Corkonians include Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins, Jack Lynch, Mother Jones, Roy Keane, Sonia O'Sullivan, Cillian Murphy and Graham Norton. Cork borders four other counties: County Kerry, Kerry to the west, County Limerick, Limerick to the north, County Tipperary, Tipperary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lord Robert Bertie
General Lord Robert Bertie (14 November 1721 – 10 March 1782) was a senior British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1751 to 1782. Early life Bertie was the fifth son of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and the third son by the Duke's second wife Albinia Farrington and was educated at Eton College in 1728. In 1745 he inherited his mother's estate at Chislehurst.Paula WatsonBERTIE, Lord Robert (1721-82), of Chislehurst, Kent.in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754'' (1970). Online version Retrieved 25 August 2012. Military career Bertie joined the Coldstream Guards as an ensign in 1737, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1741 and captain in 1744. He was granted brevet rank as colonel in 1752, major-general in 1758, lieutenant-general in 1760 and general in 1777. He was Regimental Colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot from 1754 to 1776, and of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards from 1776 to 1782. Bertie also commanded a regiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Leland (British Army Officer)
John Leland may refer to: *John Leland (antiquary) (c. 1503–1552), English antiquary *John Leland (Baptist) (1754–1841), United States Baptist minister *John Leland (journalist) (born 1959), ''New York Times'' reporter, columnist, and book author * John Leland (politician) (died 1808), British Army general and English Member of Parliament for Stamford, 1796–1808 * John Leland (Presbyterian) (1691–1766), English Presbyterian minister * John E. Leland, American engineer and Director of the University of Dayton Research Institute See also * John Leland Atwood (1904–1999), American aerospace engineer *John Leland Center for Theological Studies __NOTOC__ The John Leland Center for Theological Studies, known as Leland Seminary, is an American nondenominational theological institute in the Baptist tradition based in Arlington County, Virginia, with several satellite locations elsewhere in ... in Virginia, United States * John Leland Champe (1895–1978), American archa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale
Lieutenant-Colonel William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale (3 May 1724 – 4 December 1787), was an Irish landowner, soldier and politician. Tonson was the son of Richard Tonson, for many years Member of Parliament for Baltimore, by his second wife Peniel Gates, daughter of a Colonel Gates. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the 53rd Regiment of Foot and served in the Spanish invasion of Portugal in 1762 under William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. William Courthope (ed.''Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Twenty-Second edition'', page 677. London, 1838./ref> In 1768 he was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Tuam, a seat he held until 1776, and then represented Rathcormack until 1783. The latter year he was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Riversdale, of Rathcormack in the County of Cork. Lord Riversdale married Rose Bernard, daughter of James Bernard and sister of the 1st Earl of Bandon, in 1773. They had eight sons and two daughters. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James St John Jeffereyes
James St John Jeffereyes (1734 – 14 September 1780), also recorded as St John Jeffreys, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, landowner and politician. Biography Jeffereyes was the son of the diplomat James Jeffreys and Anne Brodrick, and the grandson of Sir James Jeffreys and St John Brodrick. He entered Trinity College Dublin on 12 February 1752, but did not graduate and instead joined the British Army. By 1766 he had attained the rank of major in the 24th Regiment of Foot and he served as Lieutenant-Governor of Cork from 1768 to 1769. Between 1758 and 1776, Jeffereyes sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Midleton, before representing Randalstown from 1776 until his death in 1780. In Parliament, Jeffereyes was an opponent of Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, the local magnate. In 1778 Jeffreys supported the popery bill granting Irish Roman Catholics greater property rights; Shannon opposed it. Jeffereyes was noted for his work as a reforming landlord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
William Inglis (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir William Inglis, KCB (1764 – 29 November 1835) was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Inglis fought in several of the bloodiest engagements of the Peninsular War, was wounded numerous times and earned national fame through his exhortation "Die hard 57th, die hard!" to his regiment as he lay seriously wounded behind their ranks at the height of the Battle of Albuera. The regiment held and the battle was won and although his wounds nearly proved fatal, Inglis returned to action again two years later to see the war out as a brigadier. Post-war, Inglis was knighted and served in several military governorships including a spell as governor of Cork, in which position he died in 1835. Early career Almost nothing is known of Inglis's childhood, save that he was born in 1764, the third son of Dr. William Inglis, head of the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. His mother was Margaret Spens, daughter of Thomas Spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brent Spencer
General Sir Brent Spencer ( – 29 December 1828) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, seeing active service during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Peninsular War he became General Wellesley's second-in-command on two occasions. He fought at Vimeiro and testified in Wellesley's favour at the inquiry following the Convention of Cintra. He led a division at Bussaco and two divisions at Fuentes de Onoro. After the latter action, he had an independent command in northern Portugal. Wellesley, now Lord Wellington, was not satisfied that Spencer was up to the responsibilities of second-in-command and he was replaced by Thomas Graham. Miffed, Spencer left Portugal and never returned. He became a full general in 1825. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sligo Borough from 1815 to 1818. Early life and family Spencer was born circa 1760, the second son of Conway Spencer of Tremary and his wife, Mary. His brother was poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was a British army officer and politician. A General (British Army), general in the British Army and a Marshal of Portugal, Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasions of the River Plate, British invasion of Buenos Aires. Early life William Beresford was born on 2 October 1768, the illegitimate son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone. Beresford received his early education in Yorkshire before in 1785 he was sent to Strasbourg, where he attended a French military academy. Early campaign experience Having spent several months at the military academy, on 27 August the same year Beresford joined the British Army as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henry Skeffington, 3rd Earl Of Massereene
Henry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Henry (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters * Henry (surname) * Henry, a stage name of François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French baritone Arts and entertainment * ''Henry'' (2011 film), a Canadian short film * ''Henry'' (2015 film), a virtual reality film * '' Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'', a 1986 American crime film * ''Henry'' (comics), an American comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson * "Henry", a song by New Riders of the Purple Sage Places Antarctica * Henry Bay, Wilkes Land Australia * Henry River (New South Wales) * Henry River (Western Australia) Canada * Henry Lake (Vancouver Island), British Columbia * Henry Lake (Halifax County), Nova Scotia * Henry Lake (District of Chester), Nova Scotia New Zealand * Lake Henry (New Zealand) * Henry River (New Zealand) United States * Henry, Illinois * Henry, Indiana * Henry, Nebraska * Henry, South Dakota * Henry County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mountifort Longfield (1746–1819)
Samuel Mountifort Longfield (1802 – 21 November 1884) was an Irish lawyer, judge, mathematician, and academic. He was the first Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin. Life He was son of Mountifort Longfield, vicar of Desert Serges (Desert Magee), County Cork, and his wife Grace, daughter of William Lysaght of Fort William and Mount North, County Cork. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduated as moderator and gold medallist in science in 1823, became a fellow in 1825, and proceeded to the degrees of M.A. in 1829 and LL.D. in 1831. In 1828 Longfield was called to the Irish bar, but did not practise. When the professorship of political economy in Trinity College was founded in 1832, he was appointed the first professor; and in 1834 he resigned his fellowship and became Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law there, a post he held for the rest of his life, from 1871 having as deputy N. Ritchie, Q.C. Longfield was reputed as a real property la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Pigott (1734–1793)
Thomas Pigott or Pigot may refer to: * Thomas Pigott (Bedfordshire MP) (c.1526–1579), MP for Bedfordshire in 1559 * Thomas Pigott (Aylesbury MP), MP for Aylesbury in 1589 * Thomas Pigott (Irish MP) (c.1615–1674), Anglo-Irish lawyer and MP * Thomas Pigot (1657–1686), English priest, linguist, and scientist {{Hndis, Pigot, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nicholas Lysaght
Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In turn, the name means "victory of the people." The name has been widely used in countries with significant Christian populations, owing in part to the veneration of Saint Nicholas, which became increasingly prominent in Western Europe from the 11th century. Revered as a saint in many Christian denominations, the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican Churches all celebrate Saint Nicholas Day on December 6. In maritime regions throughout Europe, the name and its derivatives have been especially popular, as St Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. This remains particularly so in Greece, where St Nicholas is the patron saint of the Hellenic Navy. Origins The name derives from the . It is understood to mean 'victory of the people', bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
