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The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography , in which the history of an institution is told through the individual biographies of its members.
John Blackburne (5 August 1754 – 11 April 1833) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Lancashire.. He was born the eldest son of Thomas Blackburne of Hale Hall, Liverpool and educated at Harrow School and Queen's College, Oxford.
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William Chamberlayne (1760-1829), of Coley Park at Reading in Berkshire and Weston Grove at Southampton in Hampshire, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Christchurch 31 May 1800 - 1802 and for Southampton 7 March 1818 - 10 December 1829.
Edmund Webb (c. 1639 – 13 December 1705) was the member of Parliament for Cricklade for several parliaments from 1679 to 1698, and the member for Ludgershall in 1701 and 1702. [ 1 ] His son John, later John Richmond Webb (1667–1724), who rose to the rank of General in the army, was also returned as an MP and was the builder of Biddesden ...
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1540 – c. 1611) [1] was an English Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.His diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons are an important source for historians of parliamentary history during the period when he was a member, and Sir John Neale draws heavily upon them in his ground-breaking two-volume study of Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments (1953 ...
George Shum (?1751- 28 February 1805), of 29 Bedford Square, Middlesex and Berry Hill, near Dorking, Surrey, was an English politician.. He was in business with his father in the business of Shum & Son, sugar refiners and also a partner in Gyfford's brewery.
In 1707, he changed his surname to Grey by an act of Parliament, Neville's Name Act 1706 (6 Ann. c. 2 Pr.) [1] to inherit the estates of his uncle Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Werke, in Northumberland. [2] Grey entered Parliament for Wendover at a by-election on 21 November 1709, through the influence of his friend Richard Hampden.