• Sir Thomas Danby (1610 – 5 August 1660) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642. He supported the...
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  • Thomas Danby may refer to: Sir Thomas Danby (c. 1530–1590), son of Christopher Danby and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1575–1576 Sir Thomas Danby (died 1660)...
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  • Thomas Danby (1631–1667) of Farnley and Thorpe Perrow was the first Mayor of Leeds (1661–62). He was born in 1631, the son of Sir Thomas Danby (1610–1660)...
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  • Danby [Sir Thomas Danby], for themselves and seven score men, women, and children, to go to New Albion." Edmund Plowden granted to Sir Thomas Danby a...
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  • had last been held by his maternal uncle Thomas, was called out of abeyance in his favour, on 16 June 1660. From 1661 to 1663, he served as Governor...
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    Ireland. When he died in 1660 the Hall passed to his son Thomas Danby (1631–1667) who was the first Mayor of Leeds. His children died young so the property...
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    in 1660, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all...
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    (only Lauderdale lingered on in Scotland), Charles II turned to Thomas Osborne (Earl of Danby) as his chief minister. The House of Commons, which had played...
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    Dorset and ordered to leave London. Charles II now turned to Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby. Danby proceeded to freeze out peers who had collaborated during...
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    Francis Danby ARA (16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable...
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  • Thomas King (died 1688) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1679. King married into...
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  • took part in Danby's seizure of the city of York for William and was expected to join Danby's Tories in the Convention Parliament. Conyers died of quinsy...
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    Guards troop. From Osborne, now Lord Danby and Lord High Treasurer, he continued to receive patronage; in July 1676, Danby appointed him a searcher of customs...
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    William Russell, Lord Russell (category English MPs 1660)
    king for the removal from royal councils and impeachment of the Earl of Danby. On 15 February 1677, in the debate on the 15 months' prorogation (an extremely...
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  • online via pp. 457–458) Scrope of Danby family papers archive. Burke's Landed Gentry (1965 edition), s.v. "Scrope of Danby". This is the most recent entry...
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    Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes: 12 George I (1725–1726) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1765). "Anno duodecimo Georgii I". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 15:...
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  • Charles II, reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him (Knowles 1999, p. 203) In 1660, the leadership of the Commonwealth recalled Charles II and the chief minister...
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  • the Earl of Danby, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey in 1621 with a reversion on the governorship in the event of Danby's death. He also...
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    Elizabeth Danvers (died 1601, sister of Sir Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby). They had an only son who was one of the seven who in their lifetimes came...
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    Lord Nugent, 1823 Bust of Lord Denman, 1828 Bust of the artist Francis Danby, 1828 Bust of Daniel O'Connell, 1830 Bust of William Mulready, 1832 Bust...
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    2019. About £2.8 billion in 2019. About £3.1 million in 2019. Pickering, Danby, ed. (1794). "CAP. XIII An act to prevent acts of parliament from taking...
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    Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven PC (20 October 1660 – 26 July 1723), styled 17th Baron Willoughby de Eresby between 1666 and 1701, and...
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    marriage ceremony on 3 September 1660 in London. The couple's first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further...
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    Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (category English MPs 1660)
    1682 for Charles II. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Valentia in 1660, and he was created Earl of Anglesey in 1661. Annesley was born in Dublin...
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  • figure of Hygeia to John Dealtry in York Minster (1773) Monument to William Danby at Masham, Yorkshire (1773) Monument to Godfrey Heathcote at Chesterfield...
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    present Tonge to Thomas Osborne, Lord Danby, Lord High Treasurer, then the most influential of the King's ministers. Tonge then lied to Danby, saying that...
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    royal family in exile before returning to England at the Restoration in 1660. He gained political influence over the following decade and became one of...
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    French Protestant divine, Jean Claude. In 1676 he was instructed by Lord Danby to conduct an ecclesiastical census of the population, which became known...
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    he helped to prepare reasons for invalidating the pardon given to Lord Danby. He did not speak in the exclusion debate, but two months later he snubbed...
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    served in the force led by Lord Danby that secured York and Hull for William III. After a gap of nearly thirty years, Thomas was re-elected MP for Northallerton...
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