Bishopp

Last updated

Bishopp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Related Research Articles

Robert Brudenell was a British army officer and Member of Parliament.

The Bishopp Baronetcy, of Parham in the County of Sussex, was a baronetcy in the Baronetage of England. From around 1780 the name was sometimes also spelled Bisshopp. It was created 24 July 1620 for Sir Thomas Bishopp who had previously represented Gatton in Parliament. He was by then almost 70 years old and who had earlier been created a knight by King James I on 7 May 1603 at Theobalds, shortly after James's accession to the throne. Thomas Bishopp was the son of Thomas Bishopp and Elizabeth Belknap, heir and daughter of Sir Edward Belknap, who was active in the service of the English crown, both on the battlefield and as a court official.

<i>Anythynge You Want To</i> 1982 studio album by The Firesign Theatre

Anythynge You Want To is an uncut 2001 CD re-release in of the 1982 edited form comedy LP album Shakespeare's Lost Comedie by the Firesign Theatre. It takes the form of a radio play, under the conceit of being a lost work of Shakespeare, using language, plot structure, and characters which parody Shakespeare's original works. It was originally recorded in 1980 as a program for National Public Radio's Earplay.

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche, styled The Honourable Robert Curzon between 1829 and 1870, was an English traveller, diplomat and author, active in the Near East. He was responsible for acquiring several important and late Biblical manuscripts from Eastern Orthodox monasteries.

Bramber was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons in 1295, and again from 1472 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Sir Edward Belknap was active in the service of the English crown, both on the battlefield and as a court official, during the 15th and 16th century.

Juniper Hall

Juniper Hall FSC Field Centre, leased from the National Trust, is an 18th-century country house on the east slopes of Mickleham in the deep Mole Gap of the North Downs in Surrey, England. It is 500m from the foot of Box Hill and centred 40 kilometres (25 mi) from London. The varying contours of the slopes provide habitats and environments for study including unimproved chalk grassland, coppiced woodlands, heathland and freshwater. Opened as a field centre in 1947, Juniper Hall was one of the original four opened by the Field Studies Council.

Sir Robert Fagge, 3rd Baronet, of Wiston, near Steyning, Sussex, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710.

Henry Goring was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1673 and 1685.

John Alford was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1626 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.

Thomas Bishop may refer to:

Cecil Bisshopp

Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp was a British army officer and onetime Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who came to Canada in 1812 and died in the War of 1812.

Thomas Bishopp may refer to:

Edward Bishopp may refer to:

Cecil Bishopp may refer to:

Sir Cecil Bishopp, 4th Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1662. He was the brother of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 3rd Baronet (1627–1652).

Sir Edward Bishopp, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626 and in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet (1550–1626), also spelt Bishop and Bisshopp, was an English politician.

Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet, later Bisshopp, was a British politician. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Bishopp, of Parham, co. Sussex on 25 October 1725. He was Member of Parliament for Penryn between 1727 and 1734, having been returned unopposed on the interest of the Boscawen family into which he had married. He also represented Boroughbridge between 1755 and 1768. He married Hon. Anne Boscawen, daughter of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth and Charlotte Godfrey, in 1726. In addition to Parham Park, Sussex he was also the owner of a house at 11 Berkeley Square, London which Horace Walpole purchased from Bisshopp's heirs in 1779 and in which Walpole lived until he died there in 1797. Sir Cecil died on 15 June 1778 at the age of 77.

Sir Robert Fagg, 4th Baronet

Sir Robert Fagg, 4th Baronet (1704–1740), of Wiston, near Steyning, Sussex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1740.