members of the pre-1707 english parliament
William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth
1654 births | 1732 deaths | earls in the peerage of england | members of the pre-1707 english parliament | protestant converts to catholicismWilliam Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth (1654 – 25 December 1732), was a British peer and politician.
Born Lord Paston in 1654, he was the son of Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth and his wife, Rebecca née Clayton. In 1671, he married the widowed Charlotte Howard née FitzRoy (1650-1684), the illegitimate daughter of Charles II and Elizabeth Killigrew and they had four surviving children:
Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath
1661 births | 1701 deaths | diplomatic peers | earls in the peerage of england | members of the pre-1707 english parliament | nobility who committed suicideCharles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath ( bapt. 31 August 1661 – 4 September 1701) was an English soldier, politician, diplomat, courtier and peer.
Born with the courtesy title of Lord Lansdown (after the territorial designation of his father's viscountcy of Granville) in 1661, he was the eldest son of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath and his wife, Jane. On 22 May 1678, he married Lady Martha Osborne, the fourth daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds. They had no children.
Luke Robinson (1610-1669)
1610 births | 1669 deaths | members of the pre-1707 english parliamentLuke Robinson
Luke Robinson (6 September 1610-1669), of Riseborough, was an English Member of Parliament and of the Council of State during the Commonwealth period.
Thomas Coningsby
1625 deaths | british diarists | date of birth unknown | members of the pre-1707 english parliamentSir Thomas Coningsby, (d. 1625), was an English solider and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military action in France in 1591.
Birth
Thomas Coningsby was the son and heir of Humphrey Coningsby, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Inglefield, judge of the common pleas. His father was gentleman-treasurer to Queen Elizabeth.Richard Pepys
1589 births | 1659 deaths | members of the pre-1707 english parliamentRichard Pepys (2 July 1589-2 January 1659) was an English M.P. and Chief Justice of Ireland. He was a cousin of the father of Samuel Pepys the diarist.
Pepys was the son of John Pepys and his wife Elizabeth Bendish and was born at Bunstead Essex. He was a practising Serjeant-at-Law and was elected as Member of Parliament for Sudbury in 1640. He was appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Chief Justice of Ireland on 25 September 1655.
Slingsby Bethel
1617 births | 1697 deaths | members of the pre-1707 english parliamentSlingsby Bethel (1617 - 1697), republican, was the third son of Sir Walter Bethel of Alne, North Yorkshire, who married Mary, the second daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, near Knaresborough, and was baptised at Alne 27 Feb. 1617.
Being a younger son, he was placed in business, and went to Hamburg in 1637, staying there until December 1649. He was strongly opposed to the cause of the cavaliers, but did not approve of the conduct of the Protector, nor did he, as member for Knaresborough in the parliament of 1659, support Richard Cromwell's adherents in their efforts to procure his succession as protector with unlimited powers of action. In the new council of state appointed to hold office from 1 Jan. 1660, he was the last of the ten non-parliamentary members. When the estates of his uncle, Sir Henry Slingsby, the unfortunate cavalier who suffered for his devotion to the royal cause, were sequestered, they were bought in for his family by Mr. Stapylton and Slingsby Bethel; the letters which passed between them on this matter are printed in the Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby (1836), pp. 344-54, 411.
