 | Arthur Collins - Nobility - 1756 - 872 pages
...His eldeft fon, Sir Robert Coke, Bart, fucceeded to the title and eftate, and ferved in Par~ liament as one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Derby, in I James II. He married Sarah, daughter and coheir to Barker, Efq; of Abrightlee in Shropshire,... | |
 | Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber, Richard Johnson - Baronetage - 1771 - 614 pages
...Charles I. who appointed him High Sheriff of the county of Eflex, on the commencement of the Civil War. He ferved in Parliament as one of the Knights of the Shire for Eflcx, in the firft Parliament after the Reftoration. He died about the year 1663, having married three... | |
 | 1801 - 618 pages
...him a multitude of friends, and finally enabled him to triumph, in consequence of being returned to Parliament as one of the knights of the shire for the county of Middlesex*, It * " 1 found you," says he, in a fctter addressed to Mr. Wilkes in 1771, after that gentleman... | |
 | William Betham - Baronetage - 1801 - 580 pages
...in Cheshire, Esq IV. Sir FRANCIS MOLINEUX of Teversal, Bart, succeeded his father in 1691: he served as one of the knights of the shire for the county of Nottingham, in the reign of Queen Anne; and having married Diana, daughter of John How of Langar Castle,... | |
 | Biography - 1804 - 646 pages
...him a multitude of friends, and finally enabled him to triumph, in consequence of being returned to Parliament as one of the knights of' the shire for the county of Middlesex.* It • " I found you, (says he, in a letter addressed to Mr. Wilkes in 1771, after that... | |
 | History - 1803 - 598 pages
...Wilkes complains against Mr. Frewen, deputy-clerk of tho crown, for refusing him the proper certificate as one of the knights of the shire for the county of Middlesex, and against Mr. Stracey, one of the clerks of the office where the members are usually sworn,... | |
 | Europe - 1828 - 872 pages
...late sitting members, and to propose to the freeholders to elect his excellent friend Henry Brougham, as one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Westmoreland — a measure, which was calculated to secure their independence for ever. Mr Crackenthorpe... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...WILLIAM thus became FIFTH LORD CRAVEN. His Lordship was returned, at the general election in 1747, one of the Knights of the shire for the county of Warwick, to the tenth parliament of Great Britain; and continued to represent that county in every ensuing parliament,... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 598 pages
...he was a commoner, served in six several parliaments in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, as one of the Knights of the shire for the county of Nottingham, and was member for the borough of Newark : and Queen Anne, in consideration of his great... | |
 | Arthur Collins - Great Britain - 1812 - 556 pages
...Charlotte, was married tit the Honourable Edward Digby, Esq. (second son to William^ Lord Digby), who was one of the knights of the shire for the county of Warwick in four parliaments, and she died his widow in 1778.. STEPHEN, FIRST EARL OF ILCHESTER, the eldest... | |
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MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of the shire for the county of... 
