Sir Robert Cotton (2 May 1644 – 17 September 1717) was an English politician. He sat as a Member of Parliament from 1679 to 1701 and briefly in 1702....
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creator of the Cotton Library Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Combermere (c. 1635–1712), MP for Cheshire Robert Cotton (MP, born 1644) (1644–1717), English...
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the Ordinance when was appointed MP for Huntingdonshire, a seat formerly held by his father who died in September 1644. Montagu played no part in the Second...
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William Scawen (banker) (redirect from William Scawen (MP))
William Scawen (c. 1644 – 18 October 1722) was a British MP and Governor of the Bank of England. Scawen was born in 1644. His father was Robert Scawen of Horton...
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(police officer) (born 1938), British police officer, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1991–1995 John Smith (banneret) (1616–1644), Englishman...
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the Church of Ireland as Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1644 to 1664. Born in Scotland, he was named after his father, William Bailie, a native...
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after 1659) 30 August – William Lloyd, bishop (born 1627) 17 September – Robert Cotton, politician (born 1644) 26 October – Catherine Sedley, Countess of...
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on the Sequestration Committee for the County and City of Lichfield. In 1644 he was on the Commission in the Ordinance for Assessment of East and West...
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List of authors by name: M (section Mp–My)
1895–1938, Japan, f) Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉, 1644–1694, Japan, p) Don Mattera (1934–2022, S Africa, d/p/f) John Matteson (born 1961, US, nf) Dalene Matthee (1938–2005...
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became an MP aged 19 in 1768, and Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, became an MP aged 18 in 1806. Before the general election of 2015, the youngest MP since...
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John Wildman of Norfolk received a BA in 1641 and an MA from Cambridge in 1644. Wildman may have had legal training as he later described himself as an...
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Ickenham. Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet (1639–1637), politician and (from 1644) stepson of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, was educated in Hayes by...
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family retained possession of Speccot until after Sir John Speccot (c.1561-1644), MP, of Thornbury, who had a dispute with the Rector of Merton concerning...
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Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (1943–), biochemist Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet (1739–1809), MP for Cheshire 1780–1796 Sir Randolph Crewe (also Crew)...
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Independency Examined, Unmasked, and Refuted, 1644. Brief Animadversions on Mr John Goodwin's Theomachia, 1644. Truth triumphing over Falsehood, 1645. Just...
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between this and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. Robert 'Parsley' Peel (1723–1795) a Lancashire cotton mill owner was the first member of the Peel family...
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Isles. Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. It was also at the centre of the country's hatting...
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the White, born in Shrewsbury Joe Hart, born in Shrewsbury, Celtic and England goalkeeper John Mytton, 'Mad Jack' Mytton, Regency rake, MP, gambler and...
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Roundheads captured Liverpool in 1643, a second siege took place in June 1644 led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine who arrived in Liverpool with 10,000 men...
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received compensation when slavery was abolished in Grenada. William Penn (1644–1718), founder of Pennsylvania, he owned many slaves. Richard Pennant, 1st...
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Penn (1644–1694), first wife of William Penn Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1726), second wife of William Penn William Penn (1644–1718), English-born founder...
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commanded Parliamentarian armies during the First English Civil War. Elected MP for Andover to the Long Parliament in 1640, Waller relinquished his military...
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splitting the atom Gerry Adams (born 1948), reputed republican paramilitary (PIRA) leader, president of Sinn Féin; MP Belfast West. rtd. Derek Bell (1935–2002)...
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priest, polemical author (b. 1617) October 27 – Sir Robert Markham, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1644) October 30 – Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch...
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on Cheshire dialects. Robert Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington (1907–1997), Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1970–1974, was MP for Nantwich. Michael...
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second most populous urban district in the United Kingdom. More than 50 cotton mills had been built in Chadderton by 1914. Although Chadderton's industries...
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Parliament Online (accessed 1 October 2022). Keepthinking – Qi CMS. "Sir Allen Cotton, Lord Mayor of London (1624)". Art UK. Retrieved 27 April 2016. J.B. Burke...
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Dictionary on Perseus Project. κακοήθης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project "Epistula XI". Epistularum...
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Todd Bash (born 1965), US avant-garde playwright, poet and writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poet Michael Basinski (born 1950), US...
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Parliamentary forces briefly imposed themselves on northern Worcestershire. In June 1644, General William Waller's force of around 10,000 men pursued the King's army...
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