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unusual facts about English general election, 1689



Alan Teulon

Alan Edward Teulon ARICS MBE was born in Enfield, one of the eighth generation descended from Antoine Teulon, a Huguenot refugee from the south of France who came to England and settled in Greenwich in 1689.

Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein

He went into Dutch, then French war service, but resigned from French service when Louis XIV mobilized against Germany and destroyed Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Castle in 1689.

Alessandro Farnese

Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma (1635–1689), governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

Alexander Shields

On 3 March 1689, with Thomas Lining and William Boyd, he took part in a solemn renewing of the covenants by a concourse of people at Borland Hill, parish of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.

Andrew Agnew

Sir Andrew Agnew, 3rd Baronet (died 1702), Scottish MP for Wigtownshire 1685, 1689–1702

Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

On 15 June 1651, at Copenhagen, she married her first cousin Ernest Günther (14 October 1609 – 18 January 1689), son of Duke Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and his wife Countess Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Benedetto Gennari II

Gennari had to leave England when King James was dethroned; he followed James's court to Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1689.

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

Captain Bellamy

Pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy (1689–1717), notorious pirate from the 18th century, known as "Black Sam"

Catherine Killigrew

Catherine Killigrew (1618–1689) was the daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse.

Charles Radclyffe

The Radclyffe family were ardent followers of the House of Stuart, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1689–1716), being raised at the court of the Stuarts in France as companion to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender.

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester

He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Radnorshire (1682–1689), Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire (1683–1687), Wiltshire (1683–1688) and Gloucestershire (1685–1687).

Chippenham, Cambridgeshire

Chippenham Park was created by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, MP for Cambridgeshire and First Lord of the Admiralty, who owned the estate from 1689 until his death in 1727.

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Christian of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (17 July 1689 in Wanfried – 21 October 1755 in Eschwege) was a son of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (1649-1711) and his second wife Alexandrine Juliane of Leiningen-Dagsburg (d. 1703).

Coplestone Bampfylde

Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689–1787), his grandson, British MP for Exeter and Devon 1713–1727

Cruwys Morchard

This, however, was struck by lightning in 1689, and the consequent major fire, which melted the bells, necessitated the rebuilding of the top stage of the tower in brick.

Denis Granville

They were recovered by him when he had been brought back to Carlisle, and after a short stay at Durham he succeeded in escaping to Edinburgh and landing at Honfleur (19 March 1689).

Dhanaji Jadhav

During 1689 – 1690, Santaji and Dhanaji were directed to prevent the Mughal army in Maharashtra to enter into Karnataka after Rajaram’s flight to Gingee.

Étienne Le Camus

Pope Innocent XI, having made him cardinal instead of Harlay, presented by the king, he was not allowed till 1689 to go to Rome to receive the insignia of his dignity.

General Desfarges

In the later part of 1689, Desfarges captured the island of Phuket in an attempt to restore French control.

George August, Count of Nassau-Idstein

Christine Louise (born: 31 March 1691 in Idstein; died: 13 April 1723 in Aurich), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on 23 September 1709 Prince George Albert of East Frisia (born: 8 May 1689; died: 21 October 1734), son of Prince Christian Eberhard of East Frisia and Eberhardine Sophie of Oettingen-Oettingen

Giovanni Battista Vitali

Artificii musicali ne quali si contengono canoni in diverse maniere contrapunti dopii, inventionj curiose, capritii e sonate, Opus 13 (1689) is one of the most comprehensive studies of counterpoint before Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge and Musicalisches Opfer.

Hender

Hender Molesworth, 1st Baronet (died 1689), British diplomat and Governor of Jamaica

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck

Anatome corporis humani: plurimis novis inventis intructa, 1672, republished 1679; published in Leiden, Lyon and Genève: English translation The Anatomy of Human Bodies by William Salmon appeared in 1689, reprinted in 1694; French translation L' anatomie du corps humain published in 1695 in Lyon

Ivan Tsykler

In 1689 after revolt of Peter I against Sophia he notified Peter about Sophia's conspiracy; for this he was elevated to the rank of the Duma nobleman and was sent as voivode to Verkhoturie.

Jan Wyck

Other scenes he painted include the Siege of Derry (1689), and the horse and battle portion of Godfrey Kneller's famous portrait of the Duke of Schomberg, who had been killed at the Battle of the Boyne.

Jean Racine

When at last he returned to the theatre, it was at the request of Madame de Maintenon, morganatic second wife of King Louis XIV, with the moral fables, Esther (1689) and Athalie (1691), both of which were based on Old Testament stories and intended for performance by the pupils of the school of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in Saint-Cyr (a commune neighboring Versailles, and now known as "Saint-Cyr l'École").

Johann Heinrich Acker

In 1673 he became adjunct and pastor in Hausen near Gotha, and in 1689 he became superintendent and court chaplain in Blankenhain.

Johannes Roosevelt

Johannes Roosevelt (bap. February 27, 1689 – 1750), known as John Roosevelt, was a New York City businessman and alderman and the progenitor of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts, including Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Juan Henríquez de Villalobos

Juan Henríquez de Villalobos (1630 - † Madrid, 1689); Spanish soldier and administrator who, after participation in various European wars, was designated as governor of Chile by Mariana of Austria.

Kiprijan Račanin

Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.

Mary Butler

Lady Mary Butler (1689–1713), second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde

Maximilian Emanuel of Württemberg-Winnental

Maximilian Emanuel of Württemberg-Winnental (Stuttgart, February 27, 1689 – Dubno, September 25, 1709), son of Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental and Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was a volunteer in the army of Charles XII of Sweden and a devoted friend to the king.

Minuscule 113

It was a part of the collection of Robert Harley (1661–1724), and his son Edward Harley (1689–1741).

Minuscule 181

The manuscript was given by Christina of Sweden to Cardinal Dezio Azzolino, and bought from him by Alexander VIII (1689-1691) — like codices 154, 155, 156.

Peter Gooden

His conference with Stillingfleet gave rise to the publication of several controversial pamphlets, and ‘The Summ of a Conference on Feb. 21, 1686, between Dr. Clagett and Father Gooden, about the point of Transubstantiation,’ was published in 1689–90 by William Wake.

Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

Philip Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (born: 27 October 1620 in Beck; died: 10 March 1689 in Schneeberg) was the founder and first duke of the line Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg.

He lived until his death on 10 March 1689 with his old friend Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Schneeberg.

Ralph Thoresby

In 1689 he established a mill for the preparation of rapeseed oil at Sheepscar; in which, as well as in his other mercantile concerns, he had little, or rather no, success.

Recollects

In Newfoundland, Recollect friars established a friary in 1689 at the island's capital, Plaisance (now Placentia), which was staffed until 1701 by friars from Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Richard Eliot

General Granville Elliott (1713 - 1759) spent much time and effort trying to prove that Richard Eliot had married Catherine Killigrew (1618 - 1689), and had a child George Elliott born around 1636.

Richard Newport

Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford (1644–1723), English peer and MP for Shropshire 1670–1685 and 1689–1698

Saint-François Xavier des Missions étrangères

The seminary's oratory or chapel was built between 1683 and 1689, with interior decoration by Jacques Stella, Nicolas Poussin and Simon Vouet, and it was this chapel that operated secretly as a parish church for the area during the Revolutionary era when the area's actual parish church of Saint-Sulpice was shut down.

Samuel Haliday

He was son of the Rev. Samuel Haliday (or Hollyday) (1637–1724), who was ordained presbyterian minister of Convoy, County Donegal, in 1664; then moved to Omagh in 1677; left for Scotland in 1689, where he was successively minister of Dunscore, Drysdale, and New North Church, Edinburgh; and returning to Ireland in 1692, became minister of Ardstraw, where he continued till his death.

Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet

His uncle Metcalfe Robinson had been created a baronet in 1660, but died without issue in 1689, so that the baronetcy became extinct; on 13 February 1690, William was made a baronet to revive the title.

Thomas Coxeter

Born at Lechlade in Gloucestershire on 20 September 1689, he was educated at Coxwell, Berkshire, and at Magdalen School in Oxford.

Wiesloch

Wiesloch was attacked on January 28, 1689 by French troops under Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, during the Nine Years' War, and was almost completely burnt down and destroyed.

William Sherard

He studied botany from 1686 to 1688 in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and was a friend and pupil of Paul Hermann in Leyden from 1688 to 1689 who also studied with Tournefort at this time.


see also

English general election, 1689

The English general election, 1689 elected the Convention Parliament, which was summoned in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution.