Robert Devereux,3rd Earl of Essex,KB,PC was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642,he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army,also known as the Roundheads. However,he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles I. He was eventually overshadowed by the ascendancy of Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax,and resigned his commission in 1646.
Herbert Eser Gray was a Canadian lawyer who became a prominent federal politician. He was a Liberal member of parliament for the Windsor area over the course of four decades,from 1962 to 2002,making Gray one of the longest-serving members in Canadian history. He was a cabinet minister under three prime ministers and was the seventh deputy prime minister from 1997 to 2002. Gray was Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister,and he is one of the few Canadians granted the honorific The Right Honourable who was not so entitled by virtue of a position held.
Abitibi—Témiscamingue is a federal electoral district in Quebec,Canada,that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The area was also represented by the electoral district of Témiscamingue from 1968 until 2004.
Sir Harbottle Grimston,2nd Baronet was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1685 and was Speaker in 1660. During the English Civil War he remained a Parliamentarian but was sympathetic to the Royalists.
James Colebrooke Patterson,PC was a Canadian politician. He served as a federal cabinet minister from 1892 to 1895 and as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1895 to 1900.
Brien McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission,through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.
Major General Sir James Howden MacBrien was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff,the head of the Canadian Militia from 1920 until 1927.
Thomas Egerton,1st Viscount Brackley,,known as Lord Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616,was an English nobleman,judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.
David E. Van Kesteren is a Canadian politician. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada,he was the member of the House of Commons for the riding of Chatham-Kent—Leamington from the 2006 election until 2019.
William McGregor was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented Essex in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1874 to 1878 and from 1891 to 1900.
Essex District High School is a public secondary school in Essex,in the centre of Essex County,Ontario. The school was founded in 1885 and is the oldest operating publicly funded high school in the province. The school has a student population of 940 and 78 faculty members. EDHS feeder schools are Essex Public School,Colchester North Public School and Gosfield North Public Schools.
Sir Charles Du Cane was a British Conservative Party politician and colonial administrator who was a Member of Parliament between 1852 and 1854 and Governor of Tasmania from 1868 to 1874.
Sir James Tylney-Long,7th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 32 years from 1762 to 1794.
John Doreward was a Serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.
John Wesley Brien was a Canadian politician and physician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1917 election as a Member of the Unionist Party to represent the riding of Essex South. Prior to his federal political career,he had just served a year in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a medical officer before being forced to return home due to injury. He also served as a captain in the British Canadian Recruiting Mission in Chicago,Illinois,United States of America.
Clonmines was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. It was a rotten borough associated with the deserted Norman borough of Clonmines,in southwest County Wexford.
Don Brien is a Canadian sprint canoer,who competed in the mid to late 1980s. He won a bronze medal with partner Colin Shaw in the K-2 1000 m at the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships at Mechelen.
Sir James Bailey,was a British businessman and Conservative politician who served from 1895 to 1906 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walworth in South London. He was also a successful hotel developer,most notably for establishing the Bailey's Hotel in Kensington,and the founder of a London gentlemen's club,the Constitutional Club. Baileys Irish Cream is named for the hotel that bears his name.
By-elections to the 37th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2000 federal election and the 2004 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 37th Canadian Parliament,with little change from by-elections.
James V. Maloney is a Canadian lawyer and politician,who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 election. He represents the electoral district of Etobicoke—Lakeshore as a member of the Liberal Party.
