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| William Warwick Hawkins (1816 β 8 February 1868) was a British Conservative politician. Hawkins was elected Conservative MP for Colchester at the 1852 general election and held the seat until 1857 when he did not seek re-election. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr William Hawkins,Q25893711,49,0 | |
| "John Nicholls ( c. 1745 β1832) was an English lawyer and politician. Nuchollas was the son of Frank Nicholls, who was a physician to King George II. His mother Elizabeth was a daughter of the physician Richard Mead. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1767. He married a granddaughter of Edmund Gibson, the Bishop of London from 1723 to 1748. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bletchingley from 1783 to 1787, and for Tregony from 1796 to 1802. References",Q19974206,94,1 | |
| "Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (14 March 1860 β 14 June 1917) was a British politician and judge who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South as well as Solicitor General for Scotland and later a Senator of the College of Justice. Life He was born in Perth, the fourth son of John Dewar, Sr. the distiller and founder of John Dewar & Sons. His brothers, Thomas and John, ran the family business. He was educated at Perth Academy and then at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1882. He was admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1885, and in 1892 was appointed the Advocate-Depute for the Glasgow circuit, a minor governmental post, which he held until 1895 when the Conservative Party came into power. In an 1899 by-election he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South, defeating Major-General A.G. Wauchope, but was defeated himself in the 1900 general election by Sir Andrew Agnew. He stood again in the 1906 general election, where he won the seat. He had been made King's Counsel in 1904, and served as Solicitor General for Scotland from February 1909 β 1910. He was re-elected in the January 1910",Q4798455,200,0 | |
| "Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik, 6th Baronet (19 November 1787 β 23 December 1867) was a Scottish politician who served as the Tory MP for Edinburghshire, Stamford and Dover. Early life Clerk was born near Edinburgh on 19 November 1787. He was the son of Capt. James Clerk (d. 1793), third son of Sir George Clerk-Maxwell, 4th Baronet and Janet Irving. His brother John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie, advocate, was father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk-Maxwell. His sister Isabella married the sometime Solicitor General for Scotland, James Wedderburn (1782β1822) of the Wedderburn baronets. He studied at the High School in Edinburgh and then went to the University of Oxford, graduating DCL in 1810. Career Clerk sat as Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire from 1811 to 1832 and again from 1835 to 1837, for Stamford from 1838 to 1847 and then for Dover from 1847 to 1852. He served as one of the Commissioners of Weights and Measures from 1818 to 1821. He held political office as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1819 to 1830 (from 1827 to 1828 he was a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral (The Duke of Clarence), as Under-Secretary of State for",Q7526860,200,1 | |
| "Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB (1814 β 16 July 1883, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was an English orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament. He wrote and edited a number of books on South Asian countries. These included a Sindhi vocabulary and a grammar of the Hindustani language. Life and works Born a member of an Anglo-Indian family, he was educated at Charterhouse and at Merton College, Oxford. A brother was Captain William Joseph Eastwick. He joined the Bombay infantry in 1836, but, owing to his talent for languages, was soon given a political post. In 1843 he translated the Persian Kessahi Sanjan , or History of the Arrival of the Parsees in India ; and he wrote a Life of Zoroaster, a Sindhi vocabulary, and various papers in the transactions of the Bombay Asiatic Society. Compelled by ill-health to return to Europe, he went to Frankfurt, where he learned German and translated Schiller's Revolt of the Netherlands and Bopp's Comparative Grammar . In 1845 he was appointed professor of Hindustani at Haileybury College. Two years later he published a Hindustani grammar, and in subsequent years a new edition of Saadi's GulistΓ‘n , with a translation in prose and verse, also",Q326162,200,1 | |
| "James Maitland, 9th Earl of Lauderdale (12 May 1784 β 22 August 1860), styled Viscount Maitland between 1789 and 1839, was a British peer and Whig politician. Background and education Lauderdale was the son of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, and Eleanor, daughter of Anthony Todd. He was educated at Eton and the University of Edinburgh. Political career Lauderdale sat as Member of Parliament for Camelford from 1806 to 1807, for Richmond, Yorkshire, from 1818 to 1820 and for Appleby from 1828 to 1832. In 1839 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire between 1841 and 1860. Family Lord Lauderdale died at Thirlestane Castle, Berwickshire, in August 1860, aged 76. He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Admiral Sir Anthony Maitland. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Lauderdale",Q6138829,155,0 | |
| "Edward Southwell Russell, 23rd Baron de Clifford (30 April 1824 β 6 August 1877) was a British Whig politician. Russell was the son of Commander John Russell, third son of Lord William Russell, and Sophia Coussmaker, Baroness de Clifford. He was baptised on 27 May 1824 at Ratley, Warwickshire, England and, then educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. On his father's side, he was related to the Dukes of Bedford, and was a second cousin of the Prime Minister during his term in parliament, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. In 1853, he married Harriet Agnes Elliot, daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot and Clara Genevieve nΓ©e Windsor. They had at least four children: Maud Clara Russell (1853β1947); Edward Southwell Russell (1855β1894); Charles Somerset Russell (1857β1886); and Katherine Russell (1861β1950). Russell was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Tavistock in 1847 and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election. He became the 23rd Baron de Clifford upon the death of his mother in 1874. After his death three years later, the title passed to his son and namesake, Edward Southwell Russell. At this point, his will was proven by probate at under Β£90,000. References External links Hansard",Q26240540,200,0 | |
| "Sir Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland, 1st Baronet , (1 May 1832 β 1909) was an antiquary, banker and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1881 to 1909. Hartland was born in a small rural village, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, or close to Evesham, Worcestershire the son of Nathaniel Hartland and his wife Eliza Dixon of dissenting Christian sects, termed at the time nonconformists. He was educated at nearby Cheltenham College and in London at Clapham Grammar School. Hartland was a traveller β he published Tapographia; or a collection of tombs of royal and distinguished families, collected during a tour of Europe . He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1854. He adopted the prefix of Dixon to his surname in 1861. In 1875, he purchased land at Middleton-on-Sea and Felpham in Sussex in addition to his other home and agricultural holding at the time The Oaklands , Charlton Kings. In business, he was a partner in Woodbridge Lace & Co and the Uxbridge Old Bank, a bank of a main historic market town in Middlesex for which town and its many nearby parishes he was MP",Q5497660,200,1 | |
| "Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet , FRS (18 February 1816 β 20 December 1904) was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, in the north of England. He was described as being ""as famous in his day as Isambard Kingdom Brunel"". Bell was an energetic and skilful entrepreneur as well as an innovative metallurgist. He was involved in multiple partnerships with his brothers to make iron and alkali chemicals, and with other pioneers including Robert Stirling Newall to make steel cables. He pioneered the large-scale manufacture of aluminium at his Washington works, conducting experiments in its production, and in the production of other chemicals such as the newly discovered element thallium. He was a director of major companies including the North Eastern Railway and the Forth Bridge company, then the largest bridge project in the world. He was a wealthy patron of the arts, commissioning the architect Philip Webb, the designer William Morris and the painter Edward Burne-Jones on his Yorkshire mansions Rounton Grange and Mount Grace Priory. Early life Bell was the son of Thomas Bell, one of the founders of the iron and alkali company Losh, Wilson and Bell, and his wife Katherine",Q377614,200,1 | |
| David Charles Guthrie (1861 β 12 January 1918) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire in the 25th Parliament between 1892 and 1895. Guthrie was first elected at the 1892 general election. References External links David Guthrie on Hansard,Q26756827,47,0 | |
| "George Hibbert (13 January 1757 β 8 October 1837) was an English merchant, politician, slave-owner, ship-owner, amateur botanist and book collector. With Robert Milligan, he was also one of the principals of the West India Dock Company which instigated the construction of the West India Docks on London's Isle of Dogs in 1800. He also helped found the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1824. Family background Hibbert came from a family made rich from cultivating multiple sugar plantations in the West Indies. The Hibbert estates run by his uncle Thomas Hibbert were in Agualta Vale, Jamaica, including Hibbert House (currently the headquarters of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust); another uncle, John, had also settled in Jamaica. George Hibbert was born in Stockfield Hall, Manchester, the son of Robert Hibbert and Abigail Hibbert (nΓ©e Scholey). Around 1780 he went to London to join the West India trading house of Hibbert, Purrier and Horton (later Hibberts, Fuhr and Purrier) at 9 Mincing Lane. He eventually became head of the firm, described in 1800 as the 'first house' in the Jamaican trade. According to his biographer J. H. Markland, this was due to his ""common sense, judgement and sagacityβ¦ [which] inspired confidence and",Q5540581,200,1 | |
| "Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet (20 November 1805 β 26 December 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1880. Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone was the son of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Home-Elphinstone, 1st Baronet and his wife Graeme Hepburn daughter of Colonel Hepburn, of Keith. He was educated at the Musselburgh Grammar School. He served as a naval officer for the Honourable East India Company for many years and retired as Commander in 1834. In 1848, he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire. Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Greenock in 1852. He was elected Member of Parliament for Portsmouth in 1857 and held the seat until 1865 when he was defeated. He stood unsuccessfully at Aberdeenshire in 1866. At the 1868 general election he was re-elected for Portsmouth and held the seat until 1880. He died in 1886 at the age of 81. Family Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone married Mary Heron Maxwell, daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir John Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet, in April 1836. His younger brother Charles Elphinstone-Dalrymple (sic) FSA(Scot) (1817-1891) was a noted antiquarian, geneaologist and expert on topography. He was",Q6132286,200,0 | |
| "Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners , (24 February 1756 β 31 May 1842) was a British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827. Background and education Manners-Sutton was the sixth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton (third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland) and his wife Diana Chaplin, daughter of Thomas Chaplin. His elder brother the Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828 and the father of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1834. His father had assumed the additional surname of Sutton on succeeding to the estates of his maternal grandfather Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton. Manners-Sutton was educated at Charterhouse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1773, graduated B.A. as 5th wrangler 1777, M.A. 1780), was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1775, and called to the Bar in 1780. Political, legal and judicial career Manners-Sutton was elected Member of Parliament for Newark in 1796, a seat he held until 1805, and served under Henry Addington as Solicitor-General from 1802 to 1805. From 1800 to 1802 he was Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales (later King George",Q7792153,200,0 | |
| "John Albert Bright (1848 β 11 November 1924) was an English industrialist and Liberal Unionist and Liberal politician. Family and education J A Bright was the eldest son of the Liberal reformer, orator and statesman, John Bright. His family were steeped in Radical and reforming politics. His fatherβs brother, Jacob Bright was Liberal MP for different seats in Manchester between 1867 and 1895. His aunt was Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815-1906) a dedicated campaigner for womenβs rights and the wife of Duncan McLaren the Liberal MP for Edinburgh from 1865 to 1881. His brother, William Leatham Bright (1851-1910), was Liberal MP for Stoke-on-Trent from 1885 to 1890. As a prominent member of the Society of Friends, John Bright employed Lydia Rous as a teacher for his children. In time he sent his son to the Quaker Grove House School, in Tottenham, London. John Albert later attended University College, London, where he won a prize for experimental physics and gained his B.Sc in 1867. In 1883, he married Edith Eckersley Shawcross, the daughter of W T Shawcross from Rochdale. They had one son and a daughter. Career John Albert had no desire to follow in his fatherβs footsteps and pursue a Parliamentary",Q6218435,200,1 | |
| "Sir Richard Baggallay PC (1816 β 1888) was a British barrister, politician, and judge. After serving as Attorney-General under Benjamin Disraeli from 1874 to 1875, Baggallay was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery (Lord Justice of Appeal from 1877), serving until his resignation in 1885. Background and education Baggallay was one of the sons of Richard Baggallay, of Stockwell, a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company and a significant warehouseman of the City of London (d.1870, will sworn at under Β£30,000). He attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he graduated with a BA in 1839 followed by an MA in 1842. He was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1843. Political and legal career Bagallay sat as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford from 1865 to 1868. He was knighted on 14 December 1868 after losing his seat, but was re-elected in 1870 as MP for Mid Surrey, holding the seat until 1875. He served briefly as Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli in 1868 and again in 1874, and as Attorney-General under Disraeli from 1874 to 1875. In 1875, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed to the newly established Court of",Q7323902,200,0 | |
| "William Mure (10 July 1799 β 1 April 1860) was a Scottish scholar and Conservative politician. He sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1855 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire and was Laird of Caldwell in Ayrshire. Early life William Mure was born on 10 July 1799 at Caldwell House, near Ayrshire. He was the eldest son of William Mure of Caldwell (d. 1831), colonel of the Renfrew militia, and Lord Rector of Glasgow University from 1793 to 1794, and Anne Blair Mure (d. 1854). She was the eldest daughter of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741β1787) of Dunskey, Wigtownshire. His paternal grandfather was William Mure (1718β1776), Baron of the Exchequer, and a descendant of the Mures of Rowallan. His younger brother was M.P. and judge David Mure, Lord Mure (1810β1891). He was educated at Westminster School, at the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards in Germany at the University of Bonn. Succession Mure succeeded to the Caldwell estates on his father's death, 9 February 1831. Career When he was about twenty-two he contributed to the Edinburgh Review an article on Spanish literature. His first independent publication was Brief Remarks on the Chronology",Q8015942,200,0 | |
| "John Edward Jenkins (2 July 1838 β 4 June 1910), known as Edward Jenkins or J. Edward Jenkins , was a barrister, author and Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was best known as an author of satirical novels, and also served as the Agent-General of Canada, encouraging emigration to the new Dominion. He contested several parliamentary elections, but won only one, and sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1880. Early life Jenkins was born in Bangalore, Mysore, India, the eldest son of Rev. Dr. John Jenkins (1813β1898), a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from 1837 to 1841. His father moved to Canada in 1847 as a Methodist minister, before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia in 1853, and minister of a Presbyterian Church in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 1865. His mother was Harriet Shepstone of Mysore. Edward's uncles included David James Jenkins, the MP for Penryn and Falmouth, and Rev. Ebenezer Jenkins, the chairman of Wesleyan Indian Missions. He was educated in Montreal at the High School and at McGill University, and then at the University of Pennsylvania. He then moved to London, where he studied law with a conveyancer, Mr. Raymond,",Q5343750,200,0 | |
| "Sir William Edward Rouse-Boughton, 2nd and 10th Baronet (14 September 1788 β 22 May 1856) was a Member of Parliament for Evesham in Worcestershire. Origins He was the only son and heir of Sir Charles Rouse Boughton, 1st and 9th Baronet (d.1821) by his wife Catherine Pearce Hall. He had two sisters, Louisa and Caroline. Career He is said to have attended Westminster School from 1803 to 1805, but the records are not clear. He attended Christ Church, Oxford after which for several years he enjoyed a European Grand Tour until 1813. In 1818 he was nominated as Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Evesham, which seat his father had held, but was ousted on petition by Sir Charles Cockerell. His political leanings were far from clear and in his address of thanks, he described himself as ""unbiased by any political party of connexion"". He regained his seat in 1820 and he remained MP for Evesham until 1825. His opposition leanings became apparent once in office. He inherited the two baronetcies after his father's death in 1821. Marriage and children On 24 March 1824 he married Charlotte Knight (1800β1842), a renowned horticulturalist, the daughter and heiress of the",Q8017802,200,1 | |
| "Michael Dunne (1800 β 20 September 1876) was an Irish Liberal, Whig and Independent Irish Party politician. He was a farmer and lived in Ballymanus, Stradbally, Queen's County, a house and land the family rented from the Grattans. Michael's son William Dunne (1843-1915) was a racehorse trainer and bred two consecutive Irish Derby winners (Soulouque in 1879 and King of the Bees in 1880) and Cortolvin who went on to win the 1867 Grand National. Michael was a Justice of the Peace. Dunne became an Independent Irish Party MP for Queen's County at the 1852 general election and, standing as a Whig in 1857 and a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until 1865 when he did not seek re-election. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Michael Dunne",Q26722115,132,0 | |
| "Sir Thomas Sutton Western, 2nd Baronet (7 October 1821 β 20 June 1877) was an English Liberal Party politician. He was elected at the 1857 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Maldon in Essex. He was re-elected in 1859, but defeated at the 1865 general election. Western then stood in the Eastern division of Suffolk at the 1868 general election, but did not win a seat. On 2 February 1848 he married Giulietta Romana, daughter of Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Baronet. There were no children and she died on 20 September 1850. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Western",Q7529300,105,0 | |
| "Thomas Emerson Headlam (25 June 1813 β 3 December 1875) was an English barrister and politician, who became judge advocate-general. Life He was the eldest son of John Headlam, Archdeacon of Richmond and rector of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, and his wife Maria Morley, daughter of the Rev. Thomas W. Morley of Clapham, born at Wycliffe rectory, and baptised on 25 June 1813. He was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became sixteenth wrangler and B.A. 1836, and M.A. 1839. Headlam was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 3 May 1839, and practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer, going the northern circuit and attending the North Riding sessions. After a contest he was elected a Member of Parliament in the Liberal interest for Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30 July 1847, and sat for that town until the dissolution in 1874. During his political career he carried through the House of Commons the Trustee Act, 5 August 1850. In 1851 he was appointed a Q.C., in the same year a bencher of his inn, in 1866 reader, and in 1867 treasurer. He was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the North Riding of Yorkshire and for Northumberland, and in",Q7789349,200,0 | |
| "Luke Patrick Hayden (c. 1850 β 23 June 1897) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented South Leitrim from 1885 to 1892 and South Roscommon from 1892 until his death in 1897. He was the son of Luke Hayden, a blacksmith at Roscommon, and was educated locally. He was secretary of one of the first Home Rule County organizations, the branch started in Co. Roscommon at the beginning of the movement. In about 1877 he succeeded O'Conor Eccles as proprietor of the Roscommon Messenger . He was Chairman of the town commissioners of the borough of Roscommon from 1880 until his death. For a time, he was a justice of the peace, but was dismissed on account of his Nationalist opinions. He spent 7 months as a suspect in prison in Galway and Monaghan in 1881 and 1882. He won the new seat of South Leitrim by a huge majority over the Conservative candidate in the 1885 general election and was then returned unopposed in the 1886 general election. When the Irish Parliamentary Party split over",Q6702028,200,0 | |
| "David Robertson, 1st Baron Marjoribanks (2 April 1797 β 19 June 1873), was a Scottish stockbroker and politician. Background Born David Marjoribanks, he was the fourth son of Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet, MP and Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635 and is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the lowland clan Marjoribanks. In 1834 Marjoribanks married Marianne-Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Haggeston of the Haggeston baronets and co-heir of her mother, Margaret (d. 1823), herself the heiress of William Robertson of Ladykirk. After the marriage Marjoribanks changed his name to Robertson in order to keep his wife's money and property. Career Robertson worked for a stockbroking firm specialising in Mexican bonds. He eventually served as Member of Parliament for Berwickshire as a member of the Liberal party from 1859 to 1873, the former parliamentary constituency of his brother Charles Marjoribanks. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire between 1860 and 1873. The latter year he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Marjoribanks , of Ladykirk in the County of Berwick, choosing the original family surname",Q5239121,200,0 | |
| "William Emmerson Kendrick Laslett (1799 β 26 January 1884) was an English lawyer, landowner and Member of Parliament. Early life Christened in Worcester on 14 October 1799, he was the eldest son of Thomas Emmerson Laslett (1765-1816), a Worcester banker, and his wife Sophia Jenkins (-1836). After initial training in a bank, he qualified as a solicitor and as a barrister and practised law in Worcester. His inheritance and his profits were largely invested in land and by 1829 he had acquired the manor and hall of Abberton, which was his residence for the rest of his life. Marriage After the death in 1841 of Robert James Carr, the Bishop of Worcester, which left his eldest daughter Maria Carr (1801-1888) penniless, Laslett offered to marry her and to settle a modest annual income on her. After the wedding at Aldingbourne on 3 February 1842, she went to live with Laslett and his unmarried sister Sophia Laslett (1804-1851) at Abberton Hall. Relations between the three were unsatisfactory and Maria ran away, living in Scotland under an assumed name. In time, Laslett accepted the situation and agreed to a formal separation. Details of this unhappy interlude were used by Ellen Wood in",Q8014330,200,0 | |
| "Henry Danby Seymour (1 July 1820 β 4 August 1877) was a British gentleman and Liberal Party politician. Life Seymour was the eldest son of Henry Seymour and wife Jane Hopkinson. Alfred Seymour was his brother. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1838, graduating B.A. in 1842. In 1862 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. A member of the Liberal Party, Seymour sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1850 to 1868 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, the body which oversaw the activities of the East India Company, from 1855 until the Company's abolition in 1858. In November 1876 he was elected to the London School Board. Works Seymour climbed Mount Ararat with Khachatur Abovian in 1846, and wrote two topographical works, Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof and Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan . In 1856 Seymour donated fragments of the Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum. He translated as A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs a work in two volumes by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, with Philip Smith: this was published in 1879, after his death. Collector",Q16063838,200,1 | |
| "Morgan Treherne (6 August 1803 β 11 July 1867), known as Morgan Thomas until 11 November 1856, was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life and family Then Thomas was the second son of Rees Goring and Sarah Goring (nΓ©e Sarah Hovel). He studied at Tooting School in Cheam, Surrey, and then went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated with a BA in 1824, and an MA in 1827. He was then called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1827. He married Louisa Frances Dalrymple, only child of John Apsley Dalrymple, in 1835, but they had issue. On 11 November 1856, he eschewed the surname 'Thomas', replacing it by deed poll with the old family of 'Treherne'. Political career Treherne stood multiple times for parliament during his life β in 1832, 1833, 1835, 1837, 1857, and 1859 β contesting Coventry each time. He was eventually elected for the seat at a by-election in 1863 and held the seat until his death in 1867. Other activities Treherne was also a Justice of the Peace for Sussex and Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Morgan Treherne",Q26259225,196,0 | |
| "Henry Fynes Clinton (14 January 1781 β 24 October 1852) was an English classical scholar, chronologist and Member of Parliament. Life He was born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, the eldest son of Rev. Charles Fynes, prebendary of Westminster and perpetual curate of St. Margaret's, Westminster. For some generations his family bore the name of Fynes, but his father resumed the older family name of Clinton in 1821. His brother was the barrister and MP Clinton James Fynes Clinton. Henry was educated at Southwell Grammar School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied classical literature and history. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1808 to study law. From 1806 to 1826 he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldborough. He died at Welwyn, Herts, where he had purchased the residence and estate of the poet Edward Young. He had married twice; firstly Harriott, the daughter of Rev. Charles Wylde of Nottingham and secondly Katherine, the daughter of Rt. Rev. Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor. They had 2 sons who predeceased their father and 9 daughters. Works His reading was methodical (see his Literary Remains ). His Fasti , on classical chronology, has required correction on the basis of later research.",Q3132788,200,0 | |
| "Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford KG (16 October 1819 β 14 January 1891) was an English politician and agriculturalist. Life Known as Hastings, the 9th Duke was born in Curzon Street, London, the son of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Lady William Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford. He was commissioned into the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1838, retiring in 1844. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire from 1847 until 1872, when he succeeded to the dukedom on the death of his cousin William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford, and took his place in the House of Lords. In 1886, he broke with the party leadership of William Ewart Gladstone over the First Irish Home Rule Bill and became a Unionist. He took an active interest in agriculture and experimentation on his Woburn Abbey estate and was President of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1880. On 1 December 1880, he was made a Knight of the Garter. From 1884 until his death he was Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. He died in 1891, aged 71 at 81 Eaton Square, London, by shooting himself as a result of insanity, while suffering",Q31178,200,0 | |
| "William Hodgson Barrow (1 September 1784 β 29 January 1876) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1851 to 1874. Barrow was the son of the Rev. Richard Barrow, of Southwell and his wife Mary Hodgkinson, daughter of George Hodgkinson. His uncle was William Barrow archdeacon of Nottingham. He was educated at the Collegiate School at Southwell, and practised as an attorney from 1806 to 1833. He was a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Botanic Society, and the Archaeological Society. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Nottinghamshire and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1845. In 1851 Barrow was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for South Nottinghamshire. He was returned unopposed at the five succeeding general elections and held the seat until 1874, when at 89 he retired. Barrow died unmarried at the age of 91. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by William Barrow",Q8012381,163,1 | |
| "Daniel Gaskell (11 September 1782 β 20 December 1875) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected at the 1832 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly enfranchised borough of Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He claimed to have attached himself to no party and often voted with Radical and Irish MPs. This prompted joint Whig Conservative opposition at subsequent elections. He was re-elected in 1835, at the same election that returned his nephew, James Milnes Gaskell as M.P. for Wenlock. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1837 general election by the Conservative Party candidate William Lascelles. Gaskell, whose home was at Lupset Hall, Yorkshire, was a generous benefactor to the local area. In 1842 he purchased land in the nearby village of Horbury and built a school to ensure that the children of Horbury's poor were provided with elementary education free of charge. He contributed Β£3,000 towards new premises for the Wakefield Mechanics' Institute in 1855 and in 1865 donated Β£1,000 to assist poorer Unitarian congregations in the north of England. He died in 1875 aged ninety-three. There is a monument to him in the Westgate Unitarian Chapel, in",Q5217250,200,0 | |
| Edward Dawson (14 March 1802 β 1 June 1859) was an English Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire from 1832 to 1835. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Dawson,Q5342546,40,0 | |
| "Kenelm Thomas Digby (1840 β 20 November 1893) was an Irish Home Rule League and Liberal politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Queen's County as a Liberal candidate in 1868, and then again as a Home Rule candidate in 1874, but did not stand at the next election in 1880. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Kenelm Digby",Q19757443,66,0 | |
| "Admiral of the Blue Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet , (also Coffin-Greenly ; 16 May 1759 β 23 July 1839) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Coffin was born in Boston and served in the navy on a number of ships during the War of Independence. He fought at Cape Henry with Arbuthnot and at St. Kitts with Hood, eventually being promoted to command a number of small ships on the American coast. Despite his rise through the ranks, he clashed occasionally with the naval hierarchy, with the first incident occurring while still a newly commissioned commander aboard HMS Shrewsbury . An incident over unqualified lieutenants led to his court-martial, though he was acquitted. A more serious incident occurred after the end of the war with America, when Coffin was particularly active off the Canadian coast. A charge was brought of issuing false musters, and though the practice was endemic in the navy, led to his dismissal from the ship. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Howe, then intervened to have him dismissed from the Royal Navy entirely, a decision that was later",Q7527341,200,0 | |
| "Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 β 24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818. Life and Politics He was born the eldest son of Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet, of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, whom he succeeded in 1772, inheriting his title and the Wormleybury estate. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1774 and also elected at the 1774 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Petersfield in Hampshire, and holding the seat until the 1780 general election, when he did not contest Petersfield again. He was returned to the House of Commons 27 years later, at the 1807 general election as an MP for the borough of Hastings in Sussex. He resigned the seat in early 1812 in order to contest a by-election in Boston, where he was defeated in April 1812, and was then re-elected for Hastings at a by-election later the same month. At the 1812 general election, he contested both Boston and Hastings, but was elected only in the latter, and held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he contested neither",Q4668916,200,1 | |
| "Samuel Gregson (1793β1865) was a nineteenth-century British merchant, politician, philanthropist. Eldest son of Samuel Gregson (1762β1846), manager of the Lancaster Canal Company, he won a scholarship to Lancaster Royal Grammar School. In London he was Chairman of the East India and China Trading Association and a commodities trader. After establishing a successful trading business, Gregson inherited land in Lancashire and also Manorial Rights and property in Cheshire through marriage. He predominantly, and his family provided the land and financial resources to construct Christ Church, Lancaster. Gregson was a co-founder of the Natural History Museum. See also The Gregson Centre References External links ODNB",Q18808657,103,1 | |
| "Sir James Hamlyn Williams, 3rd Baronet (25 November 1790 β 10 October 1861) was a Welsh politician. Hamlyn Williams was educated at Winchester College. He had houses at Edwinsford in Carmarthenshire, and Clovelly Court in Devon. He served as a major in the 7th Queen's Own Hussars in the Peninsula War. At the 1831 UK general election, he followed his father and grandfather in standing in Carmarthenshire. He won the seat as a Whig, but lost it at the 1832 UK general election. He regained it in 1835, but lost it again at the 1837 UK general election. In Parliament, he called for the immediate abolition of slavery, and for the removal of taxes on various staple goods. In later life, Hamlyn Williams focused his time on hunting, becoming honorary gamekeeper for Caio, Mallaine and Talley, and also became the Sheriff of Carmarthenshire. References",Q24292009,144,0 | |
| "Jeremiah Jordan J.P. (1830 β 31 December 1911) was an Irish nationalist politician from County Fermanagh. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1892, and from 1893 to 1910, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Early life Jordan was born in Tattenbar, eldest son of Samuel Jordan, farmer, and was educated at the Mulnlburtlin National School, as well as at the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. He is buried in Aghavea Church of Ireland churchyard, situated about 3 miles outside the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh. A merchant by profession, he became a member of the Fermanagh Urban Council, the Enniskillen Board of Guardians, the Fermanagh C.C. and of the Joint Committee of the Asylum for Tyrone and Fermanagh. He was connected with Temperance and kindred movements for many years. He was a member of the Tenant's Association, the Land League, the Irish National League and the United Irish League (UIL), successively. In 1902 he became the first nationalist chairman of Fermanagh County Council. The local branch of the UIL in Enniskillen which was largely dominated by working-class members was disaffiliated after it criticised merchants",Q16043736,200,0 | |
| "Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet , FRS (29 May 1758 β 6 April 1829) was a Cornish landowner, mine-owner, Tory Member of Parliament, and patron of steam power. He was Recorder of Grampound, of Tregony, and of St Ives, Cornwall. The Hawkins family Christopher Hawkins was the second son of Thomas Hawkins of Trewithen, a considerable landowner and former MP for Grampound. Thomas Hawkins had a lifelong fear of smallpox and died following an inoculation to prevent it. Christopher's elder brother John was drowned in the River Thames whilst at Eton, whilst a younger brother Thomas died ""of a fever in consequence of eating an ice-cream after dancing."" His youngest brother, John Hawkins, survived and became a noted geologist. On his father's death in 1766, Christopher inherited his estates. Career as MP Hawkins was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1783. He then followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a member of parliament at the age of 26. He subsequently earned notoriety as the leading commoner engaged in 'boroughmongering', the purchase and sale of rotten boroughs, parliamentary constituencies that had very few electors and as a result could be bought and sold through patronage, influence, and straightforward bribery. At",Q7526323,200,1 | |
| "Thomas Snape (1835 β 9 August 1912) was a British industrialist and Liberal politician. Snape was born in Salford, and was initially employed by John Hutchinson and Sons, a company that pioneered the use of the Leblanc process to produce soda ash, and led to the creation of a large chemical industry in Widnes, Lancashire. He subsequently established his own business, T. Snape and Company , with its works in the town. In 1890 Snape's became a constituent part of the United Alkali Company. Snape was a prominent member of the Methodist Free Church and a supporter of the temperance and peace movements. He stood as Liberal candidate for parliament on a number of occasions, but was only successful at the 1892 general election, when he became MP for Heywood. He lost his seat three years later to George Kemp of the Conservatives. Although no longer in parliament, Snape continued his involvement with politics. At the time of his death he was a county alderman on Lancashire County Council, and a justice of the peace for the county. Thomas Snape died at his residence in Liverpool in 1912, aged 77. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs External links Hansard",Q7794067,200,0 | |
| "Robert Gent-Davis (1 July 1857 β 1903) was an English businessman and Conservative politician. Davis was born at Pimlico, the son of Robert Davis and his wife nΓ©e Gent. He was educated privately and became a distillers chemist. He became head of the firm of Sparks, White, & Co Distillers' Chemists of Smithfield. He became the owner of a newspaper, the South London Standard , which was to support his electoral campaign. Gent-Davis was elected Member of Parliament for Kennington in 1885. In 1886, he was accused of corrupt electoral practices for expenses in connection with the purchase of the newspaper and voter registration but the judge ruled in his favour. However, in November 1888 he was sent to prison for contempt of court when he failed to pay into Court a large sum of money in trust which he had appropriated for his own use. He was forced to resign his seat. Gent-Davis died in the Fulham district at the age of 45 in the 2nd quarter of 1903. He married in 1880, Blanche Ellen Dixon, daughter of William Dixon of the Admiralty. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Gent-Davis",Q7344707,195,1 | |
| "John Ingram Lockhart (5 September 1766 β 13 August 1835) was a British politician. At the end of his life he was known as John Wastie . He sat as a Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1807 until 1818, and again from 1820 until 1830. He was Recorder of Romsey until 1834, and was Recorder of Oxford from March 1834 until his death the following year. Life John Ingram Lockhart, of Sherfield House, near Romsey, Hampshire, and Great Haseley House, Oxfordshire, was the youngest son of three children of James Lockhart of Melchett Park, Wiltshire, and London, a partner in Lockhart, Wallace, and Co., bankers, Pall Mall; his mother was Mary Harriot Gray, of the Society of Friends. James Lockhart was his brother. Lockhart was baptised on 3 October 1765 at St Dunstan-in-the-East, London. He went to Eton College in 1779, and then University College, Oxford under the tutelage of Edward Hawtrey (1741β1803), where he matriculated on 5 May 1783, aged 17. He entered Lincoln's Inn 7 May 1783, studied 1786 to 1787 another year of law at GΓΆttingen University and was called to the bar on 14 June 1790. He went the Oxford circuit, and was created Doctor",Q6240804,200,0 | |
| "Sir William Guyer Hunter , (1829 β 14 March 1902) was a British surgeon-general in India, principal of medical colleges and Conservative politician. He took part in official enquiries into vaccination and cholera. Life Hunter was born at Calcutta, India and was educated at King's College London and Aberdeen University. He began his training at Charing Cross Hospital in 1844 at the same time as Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Fayrer, and passed, in 1850, into the Bombay medical department as an assistant-surgeon. He became Principal of Grant Medical College in 1866, a post he held for ten years. He was appointed Vice Chancellor of Bombay University in 1880 by Sir Richard Temple. He returned to London and was a member of the Royal Commission on Vaccination which was initiated in 1879 and sat for seven years. Hunter was surgeon to the Queen in 1881. In 1883 there was an outbreak of cholera in Egypt which had fallen under British jurisdiction in the previous year. There was an international dispute as to whether the disease was brought from Calcutta and hence should be dealt with by quarantine or whether it was indigenous. Hunter was sent as a medical commissioner and",Q8010294,200,1 | |
| "John Cornelius Fordyce (1735β1809) was Member of Parliament for New Romney from 1796 to 1802, and for Berwick-Upon-Tweed from 1802 to 5 April 1803. He was the son of Thomas Fordyce of Ayton, an Edinburgh lawyer and Elizabeth Whitefoord, daughter of Adam Whitefoord, 1st Baronet. Fordyce became a banker and by the age of 24 was a Director of the Royal Bank. His own bank, Fordyce, Malcolm and Co., collapsed in 1772. He entered Parliament in 1796, sitting for New Romney until 1802 and then Berwick-Upon-Tweed until 1803. He married Catharine, the daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet of Monreith, Wigtown, and with her had at least two sons and four daughters. One of their daughters, Magdalen, married William Blair, who went on to become the MP for Ayrshire. References",Q21548627,131,0 | |
| "John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield , (21 December 1735 β 30 May 1821) was an English politician and soldier. He was a leading authority on agriculture and commerce and appointed President of the Board of Agriculture in 1803. He is also remembered as the close friend and patron of eminent historian Edward Gibbon, to whom he acted as literary executor and editor. Biography Holroyd was the eldest son of Isaac Holroyd (1708β1778), Esq. of Dunamore, County Meath, and Dorothy Baker (1708β1777). His grandfather was Isaac Holroyd (1643β1706), merchant, belonging to an old Yorkshire family which settled in Ireland after the Restoration. He first took the name of Baker on inheriting the estates of his uncle, Rev. James Baker, in 1768 and added Holroyd on the death of his own father in 1778. In 1760, upon entering the Army, he led a mounted light infantry regiment called the Royal Foresters under the command of John Manners, Marquess of Granby. After the war, he was promoted to the rank of captain. It took almost 20 years before his service was called again, into war among several European powers. He started as a major and rose to the ranks of colonel",Q6220354,200,0 | |
| "John McLaren, Lord McLaren , FRSE (17 April 1831 β 6 April 1910) was a British Liberal politician and judge. In the scientific world he is remembered as a mathematician and astronomer. Life The son of Duncan McLaren, a former Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament, and his wife Grant Aitken, he was born at 21 South St David Street, in Edinburgh's New Town. He studied law at Edinburgh University. He was admitted to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates in 1856. In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Robert William Thomson. He served as the society's vice president for three sessions: 1885 to 1891; 1892 to 1898; and 1901 to 1906. He held the office of Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland 1869β1880. He reorganised the Liberal party and arranged Gladstone's Midlothian campaign of 1879β1880. He was elected Member of Parliament for Wigtown Burghs in April 1880 and appointed Lord Advocate, losing his seat on seeking re-election on 20 May 1880. He failed to be elected at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 21 July 1880, but was returned for Edinburgh on 28 January 1881. McLaren's father Duncan McLaren had resigned as MP for Edinburgh,",Q6248044,200,1 | |
| "George Bellas Greenough FRS FGS (18 January 1778 β 2 April 1855) was a pioneering English geologist. He is best known as a synthesizer of geology rather than as an original researcher. Trained as a lawyer, he was a talented speaker and his annual addresses as founding president of the Geological Society of London were influential in identifying and guiding contemporary geological research. He also courted controversy, after using his presidential address in 1834 to cast aspersions on a paper on great earthquakes by Maria Graham. Greenough advocated an empirical approach to the early science; his scepticism of theoretical thinking courted controversy amongst some contemporaries, especially his doubts of the usefulness of fossils in correlating strata. He compiled a geological map of England and Wales, published in 1820, and in the penultimate year of his life used similar methods to produce the first geological map of British India. Greenough characterised himself as follows: Κ»bright eyes, silver hair, large mouth, ears and feet; fondness for generalisation, for system and clearliness; great diligence, patience and zeal; goodnature but hasty; firmness of principle; hand for gardening.ΚΌ Early life Greenough was born in London, as George Bellas , named after his father, George Bellas,",Q327370,200,1 | |
| "James Watney Jr. (19 May 1832 β 2 November 1886) was a prominent member of the Watney family and a Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. Family and early life Born in 1832, Watney was the eldest son of the brewer James Watney and his wife Rebecca Spurrell. His youngest brother was the physician Herbert Watney. Watney played first-class cricket for Surrey (1851) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (1851β1852). He married Blanche Maria Georgiana, daughter of Frederick Salmon Burrell, on 8 July 1856 and lived at Haling Park in Croydon, Beddington in Surrey. and Thorney House, Palace Gate, in Kensington. He had three children: Florence Blanche Watney (1857β1863), Vernon James Watney (1860β1928) and Claude Watney (1868β1919). Business and political career In 1856 Watney and his brother Norman joined their father as partners in the Stag Brewery in Pimlico. The firm, then known as Elliot, Watney & Co., changed its name to James Watney & Co. in 1858 following the retirement of John Lettsom Elliott. Watney's father kept the management almost entirely to himself until his death in 1884, and the following year Watney & Co. Ltd. was established as a private limited company. Watney contested the 1871 by-election in",Q6145179,200,1 | |
| "Major-General Sir John Mark Frederick Smith (11 January 1790 β 20 November 1874) was a British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers. He was also the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chatham from 1852 to 1853 and 1857 to 1865. He was a Gentleman Usher and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was son of Major-general Sir John Frederick Sigismund Smith, K.C.H., of the Royal Artillery (died 1834), and grand-nephew of Field-marshal Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth, commander-in-chief of the Prussian army. He was born at the Manor House, Paddington, Middlesex, on 11 January 1790. After passing through the Royal Military College, then at Great Marlow, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Smith received a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 1 December 1805, and in January 1806 joined his corps at Chatham. In 1807 Smith went to Sicily. He served in 1809 under Major-general Sir Alexander Bryce, the commanding Royal Engineer of the force of Sir John Stuart, at the siege and capture of the castle of Ischia and at the capture of Procida in the Bay of Naples. He also took part, in the same year, in the capture of the islands of",Q6246745,200,1 | |
| "Sir Henry Edwards (1820 β 4 February 1897) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1867 until 1885, when Weymouth and Melcombe Regis ceased to be a parliamentary borough. Early life Born in London, Edwards was the eldest son of John Edwards of Somerton Court, Somerset, and Elizabeth Brayley. Charity He made generous gifts to the town β ten cottage homes known as Edwards Avenue and 'Edwardsville' in Rodwell Avenue, and also properties in James Street, all designed for elderly inhabitants of the borough. Sir Henry also provided an annual dinner for the elderly of Weymouth (known as the Edwards Dinner Gift). The properties are all today operated under the name Edwards Homes and run by Weymouth Town Charities who run the Sir Henry Edwards and the Sir Samuel Mico Charities. Death Edwards died at his home at 53 Berkeley Square, London, after several months of illness. At the time of his death, he was lauded as the most generous benefactor in the history of Weymouth. Commemoration Edwards generosity in Weymouth is celebrated by a statue in Alexandra Gardens on the esplanade, facing north east across Weymouth Bay and the beach. The book The",Q5720767,200,0 | |
| "Sir William Gibson Craig, 2nd Baronet , PC, FRSE (2 August 1797 β 12 March 1878), was a Scottish advocate and politician, who held the important position of Lord Clerk Register for Scotland. Life He was born the first son of Sir James Gibson-Craig, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Anne Thomson. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then privately in Yorkshire. William became an advocate in 1820. He became a member of the Highland Society in 1824. In 1828 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Allan. He was the Member of Parliament for Midlothian representing the Whig party from 1837 to 1841 and for Edinburgh from 1841 to 1852. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Lord John Russell's government from 1846 to 1852. He was Lord Clerk Register and Keeper of the Signet from 1862 until his death. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1863. He lived in Riccarton House to the south-west of Edinburgh. This huge Gothic mansion was demolished in the 20th century and now serves as the Riccarton Campus serving Heriot Watt University. Family His younger brother, James Thomson Gibson-Craig",Q8009851,200,1 | |
| "Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough , KCH, FRS, FSA (21 October 1805 β 15 January 1860) was a British Whig Party politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham from 1816 to 1849. Early life and career Born Albert Denison Conyngham, he was the third son of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison. He was educated at Eton, and was commissioned a cornet and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, in 1821, before joining the diplomatic service. On 28 April 1826, he purchased an unattached infantry lieutenancy. In 1824, he was an AttachΓ© to Berlin, then Vienna in 1825, and Secretary of the Legation to Florence in 1828, and to Berlin, from 1829 to 1831. Conyngham was knighted in 1829, and at the 1835 general election he was elected as Whig Member of Parliament for Canterbury, a seat he held until 1841, when he did not contest the election. He was elected unopposed at a by-election in March 1847 and held the seat until he was elevated to peerage in 1850. From 1844 to 1845, he served as first President of the British Archaeological Association, and from 1855 until his death as first President of the London",Q4710027,200,1 | |
| "Sir Alfred Mellor Watkin, 2nd Baronet (11 August 1846 β 30 November 1914) was a Liberal Party politician and railway engineer. Railway career In 1863, around age 17, Watkin became an apprentice in the locomotive department of the West Midland Railway before being transferred the next year to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway where he qualified as an express engine driver. In 1866, he then became a locomotive inspector of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, and the South Eastern Railway. He became a locomotive inspector of the latter in 1873, director in 1878, and chairman of its locomotive committee of directors from 1880 to 1900. Parliamentary career He was elected Liberal MP for Great Grimsby at a by-election in 1877, gaining the seat from the Conservative Party. He did not attempt to retain the seat at the next election in 1880. Baronetage He became the 2nd Baronet of Rose Hill upon his father Edward Watkin's death in 1901, and the title became extinct upon his own death in 1914. Other activities During his life, Watkin was a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex, a Justice of the Peace, and a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold of Belgium. References External",Q26292023,200,0 | |
| "Thomas Wakley (11 July 1795 β 16 May 1862) was an English surgeon. He gained fame as a social reformer who campaigned against incompetence, privilege and nepotism. He was the founding editor of The Lancet , a radical Member of Parliament (MP) and a celebrated coroner. Early life He was born in Membury, Devon, to a prosperous farmer, Henry Wakley (1750 β 26 August 1842), and his wife, Mary nΓ©e Minifie. His father inherited property, leased neighbouring land and became a large farmer by the standards of the day and a government Commissioner on the Enclosure of Waste Land. He was described as a ""just but severe parent"" and, with his wife, had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. : 3 Thomas was the youngest son, and attended the grammar school at Chard (now Chard School), then Taunton Grammar School. When he was eleven, he sailed on a ship captained by a family friend to Calcutta. He joined the ship on 7 March 1807 as one of six midshipmen. He was discharged on 18 August 1808. When he returned, he attended school at Wiveliscombe, Somerset. At fifteen, he was apprenticed to a Taunton apothecary and then later to surgeons",Q334239,200,1 | |
| "Charles Wynn Griffith-Wynne (4 March 1780 β 22 March 1865), sometimes known more simply as Charles Griffith-Wynne , was a British Tory-leaning politician and, between 1830 and 1832, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvonshire in North Wales. Early life Wynne was born in 1780, the son of the MP Charles Finch. and Jane Wynne who had married one another in 1778. The Wynne family had been producing members of parliament for Caernarvonshire since at least as far back as the mid-seventeenth century. He received his education at Westminster School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, which he left at the end of 1797 after only about six months, possibly in connection with his parentsβ separation. He was later a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 1800 and 1812. He took the names Griffith and Wynne by royal licence on 26 June 1804, almost certainly in order to inherit from his mother's family the Wynne family estates surrounding Voelas House (subsequently demolished) in Denbighshire. Career He was politically active in the Caernarvonshire constituency from about 1825, and was elected unopposed as the constituency MP in 1830 when the king's death triggered a general election. He was considered a partisan of",Q17198948,200,0 | |
| "William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben (10 November 1767 β 10 February 1852), was a Welsh copper mine owner, philanthropist and Whig politician. Hughes was the son of Reverend Edward Hughes, of Kinmel Hall, Denbighshire, and Mary, daughter of Robert Lewis, Rector of Trefdraeth. Mary had inherited the Llysdulas estate on Anglesey from her uncle, including Parys Mountain, which later became the largest copper mine in Europe and gained the Hughes family great wealth. The Kinmel estate in Denbighshire was acquired by Reverend Edward Hughes in 1786. William Lewis Hughes was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Wallingford in 1802, a seat he held until 1831. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dinorben , of Kinmel in the County of Denbigh. He was also a philanthropist and notably founded a free school for local girls at Kinmel. Lord Dinorben died in February 1852, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his younger but only surviving son, William. William was disabled and the title became extinct on his early death only eight months after succeeding in the title. Kinmel was passed on to the late Baron's cousin, Hugh Robert Hughes, who",Q8012636,200,0 | |
| "Edward Pleydell-Bouverie PC, FRS (26 April 1818 β 16 December 1889), styled The Honourable from 1828, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of Lord Palmerston's first administration as Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1855 and as President of the Poor Law Board between 1855 and 1858. Background and education Pleydell-Bouverie was the second son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor, by his second wife, Anne Judith, third daughter of Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet. The family homes were at Longford Castle in Wiltshire and Coleshill House in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor, was his elder brother. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as a Master of Arts in 1838. Like a number of his kinsmen, he became an officer in the part-time Royal Berkshire Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 23 February 1838 and was still listed in 1852. He was a prΓ©cis writer to Lord Palmerston from January to June 1840 before he was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, on 27 January 1843. Political career In 1844 Pleydell-Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Kilmarnock Burghs, a constituency he",Q5344870,200,1 | |
| "Roderick Macleod 4th of Cadboll (24 November 1786 β 13 March 1853) was a Scottish Whig politician. Biography Macleod was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cromartyshire from 1818 to 1820, and for Sutherland from 14 September 1831 until 1837, when he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1837 general election, and ran for the constituency of Inverness Burghs which he represented from 1837 β 21 February 1840. Macleod was Lord Lieutenant of Cromarty from 1833 until he died. His father lived to be a ripe old age so Macleod did not become head of the family until he was in his late 50s. He died nine years later in March 1853 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert Bruce Aeneas (1818β88). Family On 10 July 1813 Macleod married Isabella, daughter of William Cunninghame, merchant, of Lainshaw. They had five children: their eldest son was Robert Bruce Aeneas (1818-1888), their younger son was Henry Dunning Macleod (1821-1902), who became a distinguished writer on political economy, and three daughters: Margaret, Elizabeth, and Anna Maria. Notes References Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977], British parliamentary election results 1832β1885 (2nd ed.), Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, p. 606, ISBN 0-900178-26-4",Q7356643,200,1 | |
| "John Fuller (20 February 1757 β 11 April 1834), better known as ""Mad Jack"" Fuller (although he himself preferred to be called ""Honest John"" Fuller ), was Squire of the hamlet of Brightling, in Sussex, and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1780 and 1812. He was a builder of follies, philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences, and slave owner and a supporter of slavery. He purchased and commissioned many paintings from J. M. W. Turner. He was sponsor and mentor to Michael Faraday. Early life Fuller was born on 20 February 1757 in North Stoneham, Hampshire. He was christened in the village of Waldron, near Heathfield in Sussex, in the south of England. His parents were the Reverend Henry Fuller (15 January 1713 β 23 July 1761) and his wife Frances, nΓ©e Fuller (1725 β 14 February 1778). He lost his father in 1761, when he was four. At the age of ten, in 1767, he began his education at Eton College, a famous public school in Berkshire. On 7 May 1777, Jack Fuller's uncle Rose Fuller, MP died, leaving Jack his Sussex estates and Jamaican plantations. Jack Fuller thus took possession of the Rose",Q333479,200,1 | |
| "Michael Williams (3 June 1785 β 15 June 1858) was a mining entrepreneur and politician, the MP for West Cornwall from 19 July 1853 until his death in June 1858. He was the second son of John Williams ""the Third"" (23 September 1753 β 17 April 1841), the Cornish industrialist, of the Williams family. He bought Caerhays Castle. On 5 March 1813, he married Elizabeth Eales (d. 1852). Business interests The Williams family bought the Morfa Copper Smelting Works in Swansea in 1831. Michael Williams was vested with the responsibility of the Welsh business and was appointed High Sheriff of Glamorgan for 1840. He was a Director of the Cornwall Railway and chaired its Ordinary Meeting on 3 March 1854, whose proceedings were reported in The Times , in two advertisements on 10 March. He was still the chair of the Company in June 1857, when a Special General Meeting was announced. He was also a partner in the Cornish Bank, which was largely owned by his family. Politics He was the only nomination as MP for West Cornwall, at a by-election, following the death of Edward Wynne-Pendarves, on 26 June 1853. Michael Williams and Richard Davey were returned unopposed",Q16066203,200,0 | |
| "Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1st Baronet , FRS (born James Emerson ; 7 April 1804 β 6 March 1869) was a Conservative Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for the Irish seats of Belfast and of Lisburn, and a resident Colonial Secretary in Ceylon. Opposed to the restoration of a parliament in Dublin, his defence of Ireland's union with Great Britain emphasised what he conceived as the liberal virtues of British imperial administration. In Ceylon, his policies in support the growing plantation and wage economy met with peasant resistance in the Matale Rebellion of 1848. In recognition of his encyclopedic surveys of the colony, in 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Early life He was born in North Street, Belfast, on 7 April 1804, third and only surviving son of William Emerson (d. 1821), of Ardmore, County Armagh, a wealthy tobacco merchant, and Sarah, youngest daughter of William Arbuthnot of Ardmore, County Armagh. He was educated at the Belfast Academy and at Trinity College. Volunteer in Greek War of Independence With his college friend, Robert James Tennent, he took up the cause of Greek independence. At the beginning of 1824 he travelled to Greece, and when",Q3161065,200,1 | |
| "George Osbaldeston (26 December 1786 β 1 August 1866), best known as Squire Osbaldeston , was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer. Early life He was born 26 December 1786 in Westminster, London, and named for his father, George Osbaldeston, a member of parliament for Scarborough. His father, born George Wickins, inherited the Hutton Buscel estates from his uncle Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldeston and adopted his name. Squire's mother, Jane, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Head of Langley Hall, Berkshire. Osbaldeston spent his childhood at Hutton Buscel, the family estate in Yorkshire. His father died in 1793; from age 6, George and his three sisters were brought up by their mother, who despite being a great political hostess, was wildly extravagant and squandered much of his inheritance. He spent most of his life trying to recover from this poverty, mainly by trying to win bets and sporting competitions. Education He was educated at Eton from 1802 until 1803, when he was expelled. Thereafter he studied at Brighton (1803β04), where his behaviour was little improved. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1805. The combination",Q5543052,200,0 | |
| "Thomas Edward Taylor (17 March 1811 β 3 February 1883), was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1868 and between 1874 and 1880 under Benjamin Disraeli. Background and education Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800). His mother was Marianne St Leger, daughter of the Honourable Richard St Leger. One of his two brothers, General Sir Richard Taylor (1819β1904) enjoyed a distinguished career in the British Army. He was educated at Eton. Military career Taylor was commissioned into the 6th Dragoon Guards in 1829. He was promoted lieutenant in 1831 and captain in 1838, but retired from the army in 1846. Political career In 1841 Taylor was elected Member of Parliament for County Dublin, a seat he would hold for the rest of his life. He was an opposition whip from 1855 to 1858, and then served as a Lord of the Treasury (government whip) from 1858 to 1859 in the second administration of the Earl of Derby. When the Conservatives returned to power in 1866, Derby appointed Taylor Parliamentary",Q7789279,200,0 | |
| "General Frederick St John (20 December 1765 β 19 November 1844) was an officer of the British Army and a politician. He rose to the rank of general during his career and saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He also sat briefly for the constituency of Oxford. Family and early life Frederick St John was born the second son of Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and Lady Diana Beauclerk. St John enlisted in the Army as an ensign in the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1779, at the age of 14. He served in the Indies and the Channel Islands until 1783. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1780, and then became a captain in the 95th Regiment of Foot in 1781. This was followed by a promotion to be major in the 104th Regiment of Foot in 1783. In parallel to his military career, he socialised in exclusive gentlemen's clubs: he joined Brooks's on 17 May 1783, and the Whig Club on 6 March 1787. He continued to rise through the ranks, becoming a lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Regiment of Foot in 1791, a colonel in 1795, and being promoted",Q16230500,200,0 | |
| "Francis Monckton (7 March 1844 β 30 September 1926) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1871 to 1885. Monckton was the eldest son of Gen. Henry Monckton of Stretton Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Ann Smythe. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He inherited the estates of Stretton and Somerford Hall from his uncle, George Monckton. He joined the Staffordshire Yeomanry as a cornet, was appointed lieutenant in the Wolverhampton Troop on 5 February 1866, and promoted to captain on 21 February 1880. He was also a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Staffordshire. At a by-election in 1871 he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Staffordshire on the death of the previous incumbent, holding the seat until 1885. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire for 1895β96. Monckton married Evelyn Mary Heber-Percy, daughter of Algernon Charles Heber-Percy and Emily Heber, on 16 July 1889. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Francis Monckton",Q5481938,171,0 | |
| "Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (23 May 1736 β 3 January 1810) was a British civil servant and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1768 to 1807. Life Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, Somerset, and his first wife Helen, daughter of Robert Clerk, a Scottish physician. His grandfather was the geologist John Strachey and his great-grandfather John Strachey was a friend of John Locke. He was appointed private secretary to Lord Clive in India in 1762, a position he held until 1768, when he was returned to Parliament for Pontefract. He sat for this constituency until 1774, and later represented Bishop's Castle from 1774 to 1778 and from 1780 to 1802, Saltash from 1774 to 1780 and East Grinstead from 1802 to 1807. Strachey was Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance from 1778 to 1780 and Principal Storekeeper of the Ordnance from October 1780 to May 1782 and after a hiatus again in 1783β84. He served under the Marquess of Rockingham as Joint Secretary to the Treasury in 1782 and under the Earl of Shelburne as Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1782 to",Q7527216,200,1 | |
| "General Richard Vyse or Vise FRSE (11 July 1746 β 30 May 1825) was a British general, and briefly a Member of Parliament for Beverley. Life The family's earlier history in Staffordshire is outlined by the editor of Erdeswicke. Vyse was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire the younger son of William Vyse (1710β1770), canon residentiary and treasurer of Lichfield and his wife Catherine Smalbroke, and younger brother of William Vyse (1741β1816), canon residentiary and chancellor of Lichfield. He married twice: first, in 1771, he married Anna Susannah Spearman, who died without issue a year later and was buried at St Chad's, Stowe. In 1780, he married Anne, the only surviving daughter and heiress of Field-marshal Sir George Howard and his wife Lucy Wentworth, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, and became the father of Major-General Howard Vyse, anthropologist and Egyptologist, and his sister Georgiana Anne Vyse. Vyse was appointed cornet in the 5th Dragoons on 13 February 1763. He attained the brevet rank of colonel on 7 January 1781, received the command of the 1st Dragoon Guards on 28 May 1784, and during the revolutionary war served in Flanders in command of a brigade under the Duke of York. He distinguished",Q7329686,200,1 | |
| "Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale , (24 February 1837 β 17 August 1916) was a British diplomat, collector, and writer who wrote as A.B. Mitford . His most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed ""Berty"", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. Early years Mitford was the son of Henry Reveley Mitford (1804β1883), of Exbury House, Hampshire, and the great-grandson of the historian William Mitford. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics. While his paternal ancestors were landed gentry, whose holdings included Mitford Castle in Northumberland, his mother Lady (Georgiana) Jemima Ashburnham was the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham and Lady Charlotte Percy, a scion of the Dukes of Northumberland. His parents separated in 1840 and he and his father, an erstwhile AttachΓ© at Florence, lived in Germany and France. Like his cousin Swinburne, he was named Algernon after his great-grandfather Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, but he went by his middle name Bertram. Career Diplomacy Entering the Foreign Office in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy at Saint Petersburg. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Shanghai, he went to",Q3780721,200,0 | |
| "Sir John Pope Hennessy (Chinese: θ»ε°Όθ©© ; 8 August 1834 β 7 October 1891), was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator who served as the eighth Governor of Hong Kong and the fifteenth Governor of Mauritius. Early life John Pope Hennessy was born in County Cork in 1834, the son of John Hennessy of Ballyhennessy and his wife Elizabeth Casey. He was one of eight children. The family were middle class with his father working as a hide merchant. He suffered from bronchitis as a child and was therefore initially privately tutored. In 1850 he entered Queen's College, Cork, initially studying in the science division of the faculty of arts. During his first year he was awarded a scholarship as he was one of the top three students, and this allowed him to transfer to medicine. He proved to be a gifted student scoring honours in five out of six subjects in his finals, came first in surgery and second in medicine. In May 1855 he went to London to further his studies at Charing Cross Hospital. He then entered public service. Public service He started his Public Service career as the Supplemental Clerk at the Privy Council,",Q2607815,200,1 | |
| "Henry Davis Pochin (25 May 1824 β 28 August 1895) was a British industrial chemist. He invented a process that enabled white soap to be made and a means of using china clay to create better quality paper. He owned several china clay pits in Cornwall, and a mine at Tredegar in South Wales, and was briefly a Liberal Member of Parliament. His wife was Agnes Pochin who was a leading suffragist. Life Pochin was born on 25 May 1824 in Wigston. He was the son of a yeoman farmer of Leicestershire who served an apprenticeship to James Woolley (1811β1858), a manufacturing chemist in Manchester. In 1852 he married Agnes Heap (the sister of Woolley's wife) at the Unitarian Church in Manchester. In time Pochin became James Woolley's partner. Woolley died in 1858 and Pochin kept a manuscript diary of the illness, treatment and death of his partner. On Woolley's death Pochin became the sole proprietor. Pochin is noted for two important inventions. Firstly, he developed a process for the clarification of rosin, a brown substance used to make soap, by passing steam through it so that after distillation it came out white, thus enabling the production of white soap.",Q5720219,200,0 | |
| "Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer-Stanhope (21 December 1827 β 17 November 1911) was a British Conservative politician and Volunteer officer. Background He was the eldest son of John Spencer-Stanhope and grandson of Walter Spencer-Stanhope (see Spencer-Stanhope family). His mother was Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina, daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. John Roddam Spencer Stanhope was his younger brother. Military career Spencer-Stanhope was a captain in the part-time 2nd West Riding Yeomanry and raised the 36th (Rotherham) Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps during the invasion scare of 1859β60. When the Rifle Volunteers in Rotherham and Doncaster were brought together into an administrative battalion he was appointed lieutenant-colonel in command; this later became the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Stanhope was promoted to colonel on 1 July 1881, was awarded a CB for his Volunteer work in 1887, and received the Volunteer Decoration (VD) in 1892. He finally retired from the command in 1895 and became Honorary Colonel of the battalion. He was knighted (KCB) in 1904. Political career Spencer-Stanhope was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for the southern division of the West Riding of Yorkshire in an 1872 by-election, a seat he held",Q7966175,200,0 | |
| "Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet (4 January 1829 β 26 November 1898) was a British Conservative Party politician. Career He was the son of Sir Glynne Welby, 3rd Baronet, educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1847, graduating B.A. in 1846. Welby was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham at the 1857 general election, and held the seat until he resigned on 14 April 1868 (by taking the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds) in order to contest a by-election for South Lincolnshire. He was elected unopposed South Lincolnshire on 29 April, and held the seat until he resigned again on 20 February 1884, this time by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. In 1889 he was appointed the first chairman of Kesteven County Council, a position he held until his death in 1898. Personal life In 1863, William married Victoria Stuart-Wortley, by whom he had three children. He died on 26 November 1898. See also Welby baronets References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir William Welby-Gregory",Q7529817,180,0 | |
| "Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton (3 December 1813 β 15 December 1894), known as Lord Charles Clinton , was a British Conservative politician. Background Clinton was a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, and Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Miller-Mundy. Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle was his elder brother and Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton his younger brother. Political career Clinton sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich between 1852 and 1857. Family Clinton married Elizabeth, daughter of William Grant, in 1848. They had several children. He died in December 1894, aged 81. His wife survived him by five years and died in November 1899. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Charles Clinton",Q6679041,124,0 | |
| "Thomas John Wynn, 2nd Baron Newborough (3 April 1802 β 15 November 1832) was a British peer. Background Newborough was the elder son of Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough of Glynllifon, and Maria Stella Petronilla, daughter of Lorenzo Chiappini. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. Political career Newborough succeeded his father in the barony in 1807. However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Carnarvonshire in 1826, a seat he held until 1830. Personal life Lord Newborough died in November 1832, aged 30. He was unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd Baron Newborough. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Wynn",Q16198833,136,0 | |
| "Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, 1st Baronet (2 February 1837 β 21 April 1914) was a British lawyer and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his advocacy of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which asserts that Francis Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's plays. He published a number of books on the subject and promoted public debates with the academic community. At his death he donated the large ""Edwin Durning-Lawrence archive"" to London University. Life He was born Edwin Lawrence, the seventh son and last child of William Lawrence and Jane Clarke. His father, who built up his fortune in construction, held political posts in London. His brothers Sir William Lawrence and Sir James Lawrence were Lord Mayors of London and also members of parliament. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, the suffragette and pacifist MP. Edwin studied law at London University and was admitted to Middle Temple in 1867 as a barrister. Later in his career he became a Justice of the Peace (as his father had been) in Berkshire. In 1895 he was elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Unionist Party, becoming a member of parliament for Truro from 1895 to 1906. He was also",Q5346368,200,0 | |
| "Maxwell Charles Close (25 June 1827 - 25 January 1903) was an Irish Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1885. Close was the eldest son of Colonel Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher and his wife Anna Elizabeth Brownlow, sister of Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a J. P. and a Deputy Lieutenant for County Armagh and was High Sheriff of Armagh in 1854. At the 1857 general election Close was elected Member of Parliament for Armagh and held the seat until 1864. He was re-elected in 1874 and held the seat until 1885. Close died at the age of 75. Close married Catherine Deborah Agnes Close, daughter of Henry S. Close of Newtown Park, Dublin in 1852. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Maxwell Close",Q6796085,148,0 | |
| "Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife , (10 November 1849 β 29 January 1912) styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as the Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Early life Fife was born Alexander Duff in Edinburgh, the son of James Duff and his wife, Lady Agnes Hay. His father was a grandson of the 3rd Earl Fife and heir presumptive to the 4th Earl Fife. His mother was the second daughter of the 18th Earl of Erroll and his wife, Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV. When his father succeeded as 5th Earl Fife in 1857, Duff acquired the courtesy title of ""Viscount Macduff"". He attended Eton from 1863 to 1866. Political and diplomatic career In 1872, while known as Viscount Macduff, Fife became Lord-Lieutenant of Elginshire in Scotland and continued in the position for thirty years. From 1874 to 1879, he also served as Member of Parliament for Elginshire and Nairnshire, standing as a Liberal. On 7 August 1879, he succeeded his father as 6th Earl Fife",Q332552,200,0 | |
| "Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow (15 March 1754 β 22 February 1827) was an English nobleman and courtier who succeeded to his title in 1814. Originally the Honourable Tom Onslow, he was styled Viscount Cranley from 1801 to 1814. He died in 1827 at his seat, Clandon Park in Surrey. Family Onslow was born at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey, the eldest son of the then George Onslow, later the 1st Earl. and Henrietta Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet and his second wife Margaret Pelham. On 30 December 1776, he married Arabella Mainwaring-Ellerker (d. 11 April 1782), by whom he had four children: Arthur George Onslow, 3rd Earl of Onslow (1777β1870) Thomas Cranley Onslow (1778β1861) Capt. & Lt-Col. Mainwaring Edward Onslow, Scots Fusilier Guards (2 October 1779 β 1861) Lady Elizabeth Harriet Onslow (d. 18 July 1824) He subsequently married, on 13 February 1783, Charlotte Duncombe (d. 25 April 1819), nΓ©e Hale, widow of Thomas Duncombe (d. 1779). They had one daughter: Lady Georgiana Charlotte Onslow (d. 15 May 1829) Career Parliament Onslow entered the British House of Commons for Rye in 1775. In 1784, he left Rye and replaced his father's first cousin, Colonel Onslow,",Q7792888,200,0 | |
| "Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild , (8 February 1868 β 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. Early life Walter Rothschild was born in London as the eldest son and heir of Emma Louise von Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, an immensely wealthy financier of the international Rothschild financial dynasty and the first Jewish peer in England. The eldest of three children, Walter was deemed to have delicate health and was educated at home. As a young man, he travelled in Europe, attending the University of Bonn for a year before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1889, leaving Cambridge after two years, he was required to go into the family banking business to study finance. At the age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum and, as a child, he collected insects, butterflies and other animals. Among his pets at",Q316669,200,1 | |
| "John Hales Calcraft (23 September 1796 β 13 March 1880) was a British Whig, Conservative and Tory politician. Family Born at Rempstone Hall in Purbeck, Dorset, Calcraft was the son of John Calcraft and Elizabeth nΓ©e Hales (daughter of Sir Thomas Hales, and the brother of Granby Calcraft. He married Lady Caroline Katherine Montagu, daughter of William Montagu and Lady Susan Gordon, in 1828, and they had three sons and four daughters, including: John Hales Montagu (1831β1868); Susan Charlotte (1833β1892); William Montagu (1834β1901); Henry George (1836β1896); and Georgiana Emily (died 1915). Upon his marriage, his father granted him an allowance of Β£1,000 a year and allowed him to reside at Rempstone. Political career Elected to gentleman's club Brooks's in 1817, Calcraft was brought into Parliament for the first time at his father's borough of Wareham. Sitting as a Tory alongside his father (who was a Whig), he was described by Sir James Mackintosh as a ""very sensible young man"" and held the seat until 1826, although he often divided with the Whigs. However, his early parliamentary career was somewhat inactive with illness affecting his ability to vote on several occasions. Despite this, he voted against William Wilberforce's compromise motion on",Q24254779,200,0 | |
| "Sir Henry Kimber, 1st Baronet (13 July 1834 β 18 December 1923) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1913. Kimber was the son of Joseph Kimber of Canonbury. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1858 and was the founder of the legal firm of Kimber and Ellis. He was a Commissioner of Supreme Courts of all the Australian colonies and some of the states of the U.S.A. His business interests included being a director of the South Indian Railway and chairman of Natal Land and Colonization Co. He was a progressive Conservative and chairman of the Political Committee of City Carlton Club. At the 1885 general election, Kimber was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for Wandsworth. He held the seat until his resignation in June 1913, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. Kimber had a son Lt. Charles Dixon Kimber who fought with the 48th Co. Imperial Yeomanry in The Anglo Boer War. He died near Coligny 17 July 1901, aged. 30 In 1904 he was created a Baronet, of Lansdowne Lodge in Wandsworth in the County of London. Kimber lived at Lansdowne Lodge, West Hill,",Q5724327,200,0 | |
| "John Frere (10 August 1740 β 12 July 1807) was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797. Life Frere was born in Roydon Hall, Norfolk, the son of Sheppard Frere and Susanna Hatley. Ellenor Fenn was his sister. In 1766, Frere received his MA from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Second Wrangler and was elected to a fellowship. He subsequently held several political offices and was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1776β77. He was elected a member of parliament for Norwich from 1799 to 1802. Antiquary An interest in the past, instigated by observing worked stone tools in a clay mining pit, led him to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society and to conduct excavations at a site just south of Hoxne, 8 km east, and across the River Waveney, from his home in Roydon, near Diss. Frere wrote a letter to the Society of Antiquaries about flint tools and large bones of extinct animals found at a depth of approximately twelve feet (four meters) in a hole dug",Q3271261,200,1 | |
| "Sir Alfred Arnold (1835-1908) was an English Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1895 to 1900. Birth and education Born at Cheltenham on 18 November 1835, he was the youngest son of Rev. Frederick Arnold, Master of the Crypt School, Gloucester, and later Rector of Brimington, Derbyshire, and his wife Jane, a daughter of Rev. Solomon Piggott (author of a number of curious works including Suicide and its Antidotes , 1824). Educated at Chesterfield Grammar School, he proceeded to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. However, he did not graduate and, at the age of nineteen, married a woman some years his senior. Business career He joined the banking house of W. A. Britton & Company (later Britton and Koontz Bank) at Natchez, Mississippi, but fled the city during the American Civil War, ""running the blockade with his wife and son through the Northern and Southern Armies"". From 1863 he lived in suburban London before removing to Yorkshire to manage the business of James Royston, Son & Company of Shroggs Mill, Halifax. This firm, established in 1787, had recently come under the control of his uncle Dr G. W. Royston Piggott, FRS. Its business was the manufacture",Q4722245,200,1 | |
| Joseph Myles McDonnell (died 1872) was an Irish Repeal Association politician. McDonnell was elected Repeal Association MP for Mayo at a by-election in 1846βcaused by the resignation of Mark Blakeβbut was defeated at the general election the next year. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Joseph McDonnell,Q26291943,51,0 | |
| "Joseph Ruston (1835 β 11 June 1897) was an English engineer and manufacturer and Liberal Party politician, though he split from the party over Home Rule and retired. Ruston was the son of Robert Ruston a farmer of Chatteris, Isle of Ely and his wife Margaret Seward. He was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield and became an apprentice at the Sheffield cutlery firm of George Wostenholme. On completing his apprenticeship in 1856 with a good commercial training and having a modest inheritance from his father's estate he went into business with Burton and Proctor of Lincoln. He thus became head of the firm of Ruston, Proctor and Company, agricultural implement makers and engineers. The company grew in size until it employed some 2000 people and in his lifetime produced 20,800 engines, 19,700 boilers, 10,900 threshing machines, and 1350 corn mills. Ruston was a J.P. and was elected Mayor of Lincoln for 1869β70. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln in a by-election in June 1884. He was re-elected at the 1885 general election but did not stand again in 1886 because he disapproved of Gladstone's proposals for Home Rule. His decorations included the Cross of",Q6286720,200,0 | |
| "Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 β 3 June 1898) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions). Early life Samuel Plimsoll was born in Bristol and soon moved to Whiteley Wood Hall, Sheffield, also spending part of his childhood in Penrith, Cumberland. Leaving school at an early age, he became a clerk at Rawson's Brewery, and rose to be manager. In 1853, he attempted to become a coal merchant in London. He failed and was reduced to destitution. He himself told how for a time he lived in a common lodging for seven shillings and two pence a week. Through this experience, he learnt to sympathise with the struggles of the poor, and when his good fortune returned, he resolved to devote his time to improving their condition. His efforts were directed especially against what were known as ""coffin ships"": unseaworthy and overloaded vessels, often heavily insured, in which unscrupulous owners risked the lives of their crews. Political career In 1867, Plimsoll was elected as the Liberal Member of",Q333611,200,0 | |
| "Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (2 October 1769 β 15 February 1859), styled Lord Hervey between 1796 and 1803 and known as The Earl of Bristol between 1803 and 1826, was a British peer. Biography Early life Frederick William Hervey was born on 2 October 1769, the son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet. He was the younger son but, as his elder brother John Hervey died during their father's lifetime, he succeeded to the title on the father's death in 1803. He also had three sisters, Lady Mary Erne, Countess Erne, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and Louisa Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool. Adult life Hervey was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1786,. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805. Hervey served as an Ensign in the 1st Foot Guards from 1788 to 1793, and in 1798 was captain in a volunteer infantry regiment at Bury St Edmunds and Major-commandant of the Ickworth yeomanry which were both raised during the French Revolutionary War. Hervey was a member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds 1796β1803. In 1806",Q5498016,200,1 | |
| "Sir Henry Barkly (24 February 1815 β 20 October 1898) was a British politician, colonial governor and patron of the sciences. Early life and education Born on 24 February 1815 at Highbury, Middlesex (now London), he was the eldest son of Susannah Louisa (born ffrith) and Γneas Barkly, a Scottish born West India merchant. He was educated at Bruce Castle School in Tottenham, where the school's particular curriculum endowed him with a lifetime interest in science and statistics. Upon completing his schooling and studies in commerce, Barkly worked for his father. The Barkly family had several connections with the West Indies: Barkly's mother, Susannah Louisa, whose maiden name was ffrith, was the daughter of a Jamaica planter; his father's company was concerned with trade in the West Indies; and the family owned an estate in British Guiana. According to the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database Barkly's father was compensated Β£132,000 from the Imperial Parliament for the emancipation of some 4,440 slaves in 1834. Barkly inherited his father's estate in 1836 at the age of 20. He was awarded two of the compensation claims following his father's death. He remained involved in the partnership until 1843. Political career Barkly was elected",Q1800489,200,1 | |
| "John Candlish (bapt. 28 April 1816 β 17 March 1874) was a British glass bottle manufacturer and Liberal Party politician. Early life Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of farmer John Candlish and Mary, nΓ©e Robson. After Mary died in 1820, Candlish senior moved the family to Sunderland where the latter found work at Ayres Quay bottleworks, managed by his brother, Robert. Candlish was educated at local Dissenter schools and then at an academy in North Shields before returning to Sunderland, aged eleven, to work in the bottleworks. Aged fourteen, his uncle secured him an apprenticeship as a draper and he began to study the French language and joined a debating society. Early career In 1836, Candlish became a partner in a drapery business, and later that year purchased the newspaper, Sunderland Beacon , but it failed within six months. Other short-lived ventures followed into coal exporting and shipbuilding at Southwick in 1844. In 1851, he returned to publishing by founding Sunderland News and was a secretary at the Sunderland Gas Company. Bottle works A turning point came to Candlish's career in 1855 when he acquired the lease of Seaham Bottle Works at Seaham harbour with his",Q6225035,200,0 | |
| "William Garfit (9 November 1840 β 29 October 1920) was an English banker and Conservative Party politician from the town of Boston in Lincolnshire. He held several local offices in Lincolnshire, and sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1906. Early life He was the eldest son of William Garfit from Boston and his wife Jane, the daughter of J. Hassard Short of Horncastle. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1862. Career Garfit became a banker, rising to the post of director of the Capital and Counties Bank by 1895, vice-chairman in 1899 and chairman by 1916. He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1891, was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1892, and was also a Justice of the Peace (J.P) in Lincolnshire. He served as a captain in the 2nd Lincoln Rifle Volunteers from 1874 to 1881. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Boston at the 1895 general election, defeating the sitting Liberal Party MP Sir William James Ingram, Bt. He was re-elected in 1900, but was defeated at the 1906 general election by the",Q11802276,200,0 | |
| "William Charles Fortescue, 2nd Viscount Clermont (12 October 1764 β 24 June 1829), was an Irish politician. Origins Fortescue was the son of James Fortescue by his wife Mary Henrietta Hunter, a daughter of Thomas Orby Hunter, of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. His uncle was William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont, 1st Viscount Clermont. Career He served in the British Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 1796 he was returned to the Irish House of Commons for County Louth (succeeding his brother Thomas James Fortescue), a seat he held until 1800, when the Irish Parliament was abolished on the formation of the Union. He was instead returned to the British Parliament for County Louth, where he remained until 1806. Succeeds uncle In 1806 he succeeded his uncle Lord Clermont as 2nd Viscount Clermont according to a special remainder in the letters patent. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the English House of Lords although he was forced to resign his seat in Parliament as Irish peers were barred from representing Irish constituencies in the House of Commons. Death Lord Clermont died at Ravensdale Park, County Louth, in June 1829, aged 64.",Q8009234,200,0 | |
| "William Henry Stanton (6 October 1790 β 24 March 1870) was a British Liberal Party politician. Parliamentary career At the 1841 general election, Stanton was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the parliamentary borough of Stroud in Gloucestershire. He was returned to the House of Commons again in 1847, but did not seek re-election at the 1852 general election. His son, Alfred John Stanton, was also MP for Stroud, from 1874 to 1880. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by William Henry Stanton",Q8012169,90,0 | |
| "General Edward Henry Clive , DL, JP (23 September 1837 β 1 March 1916) was a British soldier and Liberal politician, the son of George Clive and Ann Sybella Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet. Military career Educated at Harrow, Clive was commissioned as an ensign in the Rifle Brigade on 18 August 1854 and then transferred to the Grenadier Guards as ensign and lieutenant on 8 December that year. He served in the Eastern campaign from 1855 to 1856, after the fall of Sevastopol; this was his only war service. He was appointed an Instructor of Musketry in his regiment on 30 April 1857 and purchased his promotion to lieutenant and captain on 17 July. He was promoted to captain and lieutenant-colonel, again by purchase, on 8 March 1864, and on completion of the qualifying period of service was granted brevet rank as colonel on 4 March 1876. He became major in the Grenadier Guards on 11 October 1879 and lieutenant-colonel on 7 August 1880, and commanded the regiment from 1880 until he was placed on half-pay, 27 July 1885, and granted local rank as a brigadier-general while commanding the Brigade of Guards in Cyprus. Clive was",Q5342327,200,0 | |
| "Mark Singleton (1762 β 17 July 1840) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as an MP for the borough of Eye from 1796 to 1799, in the Irish House of Commons in 1800 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Carysfort in County Wicklow, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as an MP for Eye from 1807 to 1820. Singleton was the third son of Dublin lawyer Sydenham Singleton (formerly Fowke) and his wife Elizabeth Whyte, only daughter of the Dublin attorney Mark Whyte. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn. In 1785 and eloped with Lady Mary Cornwallis, daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, but her father soon endorsed the marriage. Despite qualifying as a barrister, Singleton turned to the British Army, becoming an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1782. He later served as a major in the Suffolk volunteer cavalry, and a cornet in the Middlesex yeomanry. Singleton owed his career to the patronage of his father-in-law. After a period as a socialite, Cornwallis's influence secured Singleton's parliamentary seats and his appointment in 1795",Q26258113,200,0 | |
| "Caledon George Du PrΓ© (28 March 1803 β 7 October 1886) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1839 to 1874. Du PrΓ© was the son of James Du PrΓ© of Wilton Park Estate, Beaconsfield, and his wife Madelina Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 4th Baronet. His father was MP for Gatton, Aylesbury and Chichester. Du PrΓ© was an officer in the 1st Life Guards and became a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire. In February 1839, Du PrΓ© was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire. He held the seat until the 1874 general election, when he did not stand for re-election. Du PrΓ© died at the age of 83. Du PrΓ© married his cousin Louisa Cornwallis Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Caledon Du PrΓ©",Q5019339,151,0 | |
| "James Martin (1738β1810) was a British banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 31 years from 1776 to 1807. Martin was the third son of John Martin MP banker, of Overbury and Lombard Street and his wife Catherine Jackson, daughter of Joseph Jackson of Sneyd Park, Gloucestershire. He was born on 4 June 1738 and was educated by Rev. Matthew Bloxam, vicar of Overbury and Rev. James Graham, of Hackney. On leaving school he entered the family banking house. He married Penelope Skipp, daughter of Joseph Skipp of Upper Hall, Ledbury, Herefordshire on 17 February 1774. Martin was elected Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury in a by-election on 8 April 1776 following the death of his brother Joseph. He ""acquired a reputation for his scrupulously independent attitude"". Martin was returned unopposed for Tewkesbury in the 1780 general election. He acquired the nickname Starling Martin after condemning Fox's India bill on 1 December 1783 by saying he ""wished there were a starling to perch on the Speaker's chair and repeat incessantly 'disgraceful, shameless Coalition'"". By 1790, Martin was head of the family bank in London. He was returned unopposed in 1790 but there was a contest in",Q19325010,200,0 | |
| "Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Barne (3 June 1759 β 19 June 1837) was a British military officer and a Member of Parliament for Dunwich between 1812 and 1830. Early life and family Born on 3 June 1759, Barne was the fourth son of Miles Barne of Sotterley, Suffolk, and his second wife, Mary Thornhill, a daughter of George Thornhill of Diddington, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Westminster School in the years 1772β73, before admission to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1774; he matriculated in 1777. Military career After matriculating from Cambridge, Barne began his military career as a Cornet in the 7th Dragoons in 1778. His family connections furthered his promotion through the armed forces: Captain, 1783, Major, 1794, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1799. Additionally, he was Commandant of the 7th Dragoons under the Duke of York in the Dutch Campaign of 1793-4 and in the Helder expedition of 1799. He retired from active service in 1804, before taking up a commission in the Yeomanry Volunteers in 1805. Member of Parliament After his elder brother, Snowdon Barne, took up a Commission on the Custom Board in 1812, the seat he had held in the constituency of Dunwich fell vacant. The Barne family had held",Q17308776,200,0 | |
| "William Hagarty O'Leary (1836 - 15 February 1880) was an Irish medical doctor and politician. Biography O'Leary was born in Dublin as William Hagarty Leary; he later adopted the O'Leary form of the name. He and his wife had nine children. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1871. He was elected Member of Parliament for Drogheda in 1874 and sat for the seat as a Home Ruler until his death in 1880. A contemporary remarked of him that ""Mr. O'Leary spoke very eloquently, though somewhat floridly. In stature he was very short."" He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. References External links Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by William Hagarty O'Leary",Q21068904,115,1 | |
| "Edward Ayshford Sanford (23 May 1794 β 1 December 1871) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the only son of William Ayshford Sanford of Nynehead and Lynton, Devon and educated at Eton College (1808β13) and Brasenose College, Oxford. He lived at Nynehead Court, Wellington, Somerset. Sanford was elected Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1830, sitting until 1832, and then represented Somerset West from 1832 to 1841. He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset, serving as High Sheriff of Somerset for 1848β49. In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in 1871, leaving his estates to his eldest son, William Ayshford Sanford. He had married twice: firstly Henrietta, the daughter of Sir William Langham, 8th Baronet, of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, with whom he had 5 sons (2 of whom predeceased him) and 2 daughters and secondly Lady Caroline Anna Stanhope, the daughter of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington. His son William was Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1852β55). References ""SANFORD, Edward Ayshford (1794-1871), of Nynehead Court, Wellington, Som. and 41 Grosvenor Street, Mdx"". History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 23 September 2014 .",Q18161607,196,1 | |
| "Sir George Duckett, 2nd Baronet (17 July 1777 β 15 June 1856) was a British landowner and politician. Biography He was born George Jackson , the only surviving son of George Jackson, who adopted the surname of Duckett on 3 February 1797. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the West Essex militia in 1797, and was promoted to captain in 1798, major in 1804 and lieutenant-colonel in 1805. In 1807 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lymington, replacing his brother-in-law Sir Harry Burrard Neale. In 1812 he was returned for Plympton Erle, but he retired later the same year. On 15 December 1822 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. His inheritance included the tolls on the Stort Navigation, but he invested poorly, as a partner in the bank of Duckett, Morland and Co., and in the unsuccessful Hertford Union Canal. He sold the family estate of Hartham House in 1825 and was declared bankrupt in 1832. On his death he was succeeded in the title by his only son George Floyd Duckett. References",Q21155942,175,0 | |
| "John Derby Allcroft (19 July 1822 β 29 July 1893) was an English philanthropic entrepreneur, evangelical Anglican and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1880. Early life Allcroft was born on 19 July 1822, the only son of Jeremiah Macklin Allcroft, merchant of Worcester and his wife Hannah Derby, daughter of Thomas Derby and niece of William Derby. His father was in partnership with glovemakers J W Dent & Co in a very successful business. Career Allcroft began work in his father's glove business which became Dent, Allcroft & Company. Under Allcroft, annual production quadrupled to over 12,000,000 pairs in 1884 and became the premier glove producer in the world. In 1867 he was able to buy the Stokesay Castle estate in Shropshire. In 1865, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society but contributed no papers. He was a Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London, Lord of the Manors of Onibury and Stokesay and patron of five livings. He was considered an eminent philanthropist, and was Treasurer and a Governor of Christ's Hospital. In 1874 he purchased a smaller estate, Stone House, Worcestershire. Allcroft was also Justice of the",Q6229231,200,1 |