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  SUFFOLK, 1ST EARL OF - LoveToKnow Article on SUFFOLK, 1ST EARL OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He held an important place in the government of Ireland under Edward I. and died in 1298; his son Robert (1279-1316) was created Baron Ufford by a writ of summons to parliament in 1309, and increased his possessions by marriage with Cicely, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines.
Created Baron Howard de Walden in 1597 and earl of Suffolk in July 1603, he was lord chamberlain of the royal household from 1603 to 1614 and Iprd high treasurer from 1614 to 1618, when he was deprived of his office on a charge of misappropriating money.
He was one of the twelve peers who signed the petition on grievances, which he presented to Charles I. at York in 1640, and after the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649 he sat in the House of Commons as member for Carlisle, being also a member of the council of state.
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 THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1st BARON MONTEAGLE - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1st BARON MONTEAGLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
, 1st BARON (7901866), English statesman, son of S. Rice and Catherine Spring, came of a Limerick family, whose ancestor was Sir Stephen Rice (1637-1715), chief baron of the Irish exchequer and a leading Jacobite.
He was disappointed in not obtaining the speakership, but in 1839 was created Baron Monteagle of Brandon (a title intended earlier for his ancestor Sir Stephen Rice), and made controller of the exchequer.
He differed from the government as regards the exchequer control over the treasury, and the abolition of the old exchequer (qv.) was already determined upon when he died on the 7th of February 1866.
73.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTEAGLE_THOMAS_SPRING_RICE_1st_BARON.htm   (243 words)

  
 SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF - LoveToKnow Article on SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF - LoveToKnow Article on SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF of France.
1675), was created baron Howard of Escrick in 1628.
See: SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF at LoveToKnow.
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