Related Research Articles
Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the "Painted Hall" at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, the paintings on the inside of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, and works at Chatsworth House and Wimpole Hall.
George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1761.
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons, later in that of Great Britain, and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was formed by an Act of Parliament of 1570 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832, the combined borough continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled; the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two Members, and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885, becoming part of the new South Dorset constituency.
Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet of Gidea Hall in Essex, was a British financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1734. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1726. He served as a Director of the East India Company 1710-14 and again 1717-21 and was appointed a sub-governor of the South Sea Company in 1721.
Denis Bond (1676–1747), of Creech Grange, Dorset, was English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1732, when he was expelled for financial misconduct.
Henry Thynne was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1708.
John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham, of New Hall, Boreham, Essex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1737 and 1762.
George Dodington, of Horsington, Somerset, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1730 and 1754.
Maurice Ashley, of Bedford Row, Westminster, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1713.
William Chaffin Grove was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1781.
John Tucker was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1735 and 1778.
Gabriel Steward was an East India Company official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1778 and 1790.
Richard Plumer was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1750.
Henry Holt Henley of Leigh, Somerset, and Colway, Lyme Regis, Dorset, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1748.
Thomas Herbert (c.1695–1739) was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1726 to 1739.
Thomas Pearse, of Tower Hill, London and Witchampton, Dorset, was a British businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1741.
William Betts of Epsom, Surrey was a British merchant, financier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1730
John Burridge (c.1681–1753) of London and Lyme Regis, Dorset was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728.
Townsend Andrews of Coulston, Wiltshire, was a British official and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1737.
Warren Lisle was an English customs officer, active against smugglers. He was mayor of Lyme Regis in 1751, 1754 and 1763, and, near the end of his life, Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
References
- 1 2 3 "TUCKER, Edward (d.1739), of Weymouth, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 January 2019.