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  Colonel Sibthorp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp ( February 14, 1783 – December 14, 1855), popularly known as "Colonel Sibthorp", was a widely caricatured British Tory politician in the early 19th century.
Sibthorp was born into a Lincoln gentry family, and joined the army while in his teens.
Sibthorp died at his home in London, and was succeeded as MP by his son, Gervaise.
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 Colonel Of The Regiment See Also   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the US military, a colonel in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps is equivalent to a captain in the Navy ; the insignia for all four positions is a silver eagle (hence the slang term "bird colonel" to distinguish a full colonel from a lieutenant or "light" colonel).
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 JOHN SIBTHORP - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN SIBTHORP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(1758-1796), English botanist, was born at Oxford on the 28th of October 1758, and was the youngest son of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp (1713-1797), who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at Oxford.
Another member of the family, RALPH WALDO SIBTHORP (1792-1879), a grandson of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp, was a well-known English divine.
The eldest son of Colonel Sibthorp, GERvAISE TOTTENHAM WALDO SmTHORP (1815-1861), was also M.P. for Lincoln.
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 Colonel Insignia Military Army Rank Kentucky Officer Regiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 North Mymms - Parish and People - Chapter 22 - The Sibthorp Story
The Gentleman’s Magazine for January 1856 remarks: "Colonel Sibthorp ever retained a strong affection for his original profession - shown in the ardour and profuse liberality with which he endeavoured to advance to perfection the militia regiment of his county after his appointment as colonel." He was a deputy-lieutenant of the county and a magistrate.
Sibthorp with his usual kindness at once entered into the plan of endeavouring to erect a room adequate to the purpose," and seven years later "the gravel which has been given by Mr.
It would seem that the Sibthorps had an affection for North Mymms, for on the memorial tablet that his grandson erected in Canwick church the colonel is stated to have been of "Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire, and of Potterells, Hertfordshire" and as having been born in North Mymms.
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 wiki/Colonel Sibthorp Definition / wiki/Colonel Sibthorp Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sibthorp was born into a Lincoln gentry The gentry refers to a social class of landowners.
He stoutly opposed Catholic Emancipation Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity and the Test Acts.
Sibthorp died at his home in London London —; containing the City of London —; is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major "world city".
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 The Route   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Later the Hall was bought by the Reverend Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp and became the Rectory for his 50 year incumbency.
The Village Hall was the former Infant School, rebuilt in 1850 by the Reverend Sibthorp whose coat of arms is above the door.
Enter the Church through the gates presented by the Rev. Sibthorp and ahead is the Norman Tower, dating from about 1190, with one of the finest 8 bell rings in the county.
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 Churchmouse: The Ellisons.
Richard III was High Sheriff of the county in 1793, but never achieved his ambition to represent the county in parliament, although he was M.P. for the City from 1796 to 1812, and was invited to stand again in 1814, but by that time he had been returned for Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
In 1822, he was again invited to stand in the by-election caused by the death of his nephew, Coningsby Sibthorp, from the results of an accident caused by the removal of the linchpin from the wheel of his carriage, but he was too depressed by his nephew's death.
He was also Colonel of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment ' He was Appointed Ensign on the Body Guard of Yeoman of the Guard, made a Companion of the Victorian Order, and in 1907, as the oldest Yeoman, was knighted.
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 Fossdyke & Witham Navigations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, there was a lot of inevitable friction between the owners of sailing boats and the steam operated boats but (equally as inevitable) it was the steam boats which survived.
Coincidentally, Sibthorp was already one of the proprietors of the Witham Navigation.
The engineer accepted Sibthorp's invitation to make a survey of the canal and when he arrived he was very thorough.
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 SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796) - Online Information article about SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796)
SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796), English botanist, was born at Oxford on the 28th of October 1758, and was the youngest son of Dr Humphrey
(17921879), a grandson of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp, was a well-known English divine.
He was educated at Oxford and took Anglican orders in 1815.
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 Washingborough Hall Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1817 Sir William Amcotts Ingilby presented Revd Humphrey Sibthorpe as the new resident of the House.
The colonel Sibthorpe was the talk of the town with his bearded face, an unusual thing in 1826 when all gentlemen were clean-shaven.
As a matter of interest all those years ago col. Sibthorp's detestation of railways was genuine and he registered a vow that nothing on earth should induce him to set foot in one.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp''' ( February 14, 1783 – December 14, 1855), popularly known as "Colonel Sibthorp", was a widely caricatured United Kingdom British Tory politician in the early 19th century.
He sat as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln, England Lincoln from 1826 to 1855 (with one brief break).
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Colonel Sibthorp.
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 Colonel Sibthorp Definition / Colonel Sibthorp Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
[click for more], 1855), popularly known as "Colonel Sibthorp", was a widely caricatured British Tory politician in the early 19th century.
He sat as a Member of Parliament A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house.
Colonel Sibthorp is the representative of Lincoln We shall decline to visit that loyal and ancient city.
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 C O C H R A N Earl of DUNDONALD
Hugh, anceftor of the Cochranes of Fernguflee, alfo a great loyalist, who firft fervid in the wars abroad under the great general Guftavus Adolphus, was afterwards a colonel in king Charles I, his army, and was particularly excepted from pardon by the parlament, anno 1648.
Sir Bryce Cochrane, who was likewife a colonel in the royal army, from the beginning of the civil war, till he loft his life in the king’s fervice, anno 1650.
John, fourth earl of Dundonald, who was elected one of the fixteen peers for the British parliament, called to meet in November 1713, and was made colonel of the fourth troop of horfe guards, by her majefty qeeen Anne.
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I was the Colonel once; then I became the Count by way of loan; and then I came here--as he said by mistake." "Why, my dear fellow, I'm delighted to speak to you.
We are requested to contradict, by authority, the report that Colonel Sibthorp was the Guy Fawkes seen in Parliament-street.
COLONEL SIBTHORP, for sky-rockets being constructed after his _own plan_; warranted to flare up at starting, and to come down--_a stick_.
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 Transportation, 1718-1868: 150 years of exile - Lincolnshire County Council
Transportation was an expensive alternative to executing convicts, and for this reason some people, including the Lincoln MP Colonel Sibthorp, opposed it.
See "Attachments" section for General Election poster, 1832, which attacks the Colonel on behalf of "the Friends of Humanity" and suggests poverty to be a cause of crime.
The first convicts to Australia had to deal with many hardships - a long and difficult journey, disease, the cruelty of the ship's crew and masters in Australia, and a strange new country with little Western settlement.
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He decided, that as the child was a divided property, for the sake of peace and quietness, the heir of Applebite should be vaccinated in one arm and inoculated in the other.
We thought there existed a greater genius than ourselves and that some one had discovered that Sibthorp could be converted into anything but a Member for Lincoln, and buffoon-in-waiting to the House of Commons.
Colonel Sibthorp begs to inform the Editor of Punch that the loss of the wooden gun named "Policy," which was destroyed by the late fire at the Tower, is not irreparable.
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 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, Esq. 1760-1800 - Chapter II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At whist with Sibthorpe, Boughton, and Jenkins till near 11.
24th.--To Colonel Clarke at Stanestreet, and breakfasted; dined and supped at Mr.
Malthus had left the Rookery, and was living at Albury, in the house afterwards Colonel Clive's.
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 Salmon and Sea-trout Fishing in Suldalslågen, Norway - Flyfishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Archer did also by out the occupational fisheries in the fjord and this allowed the fish to enter the river in numbers.
One friend of Archer, colonel James Hunter, build a "Salmon Castle" - Hiimsmoen at Sand, and another friend, Lord Sibthorp, buildt Lindum - today a holiday resort and conference center.
The Salmon breed found here is unique and all real fishermen are doing their best to keep it this way by returning the big ones to the river as unharmed as possible.
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 The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - Chapter 7
Ibid.—Colonel Baillie of Leys intended to contest the county of Inverness as an anti-reformer, but finding the majority of the freeholders in favour of the measure, he withdrew.
Clause sixty and last was announced amid loud cheering, Colonel Sibthorp alone standing up to reiterate his opposition to the measure." The Coronation took place on the 8th.
An original petition to the House of Lords, of the burgesses, heritors, and trades of Inverness, for a reform in the burgh, with their signatures annexed; no date, but about forty years old—from Mr D. Mactavish, solicitor, Inverness.
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Sibthorp, the gifted Sib, ever happy at expedients, ingeniously recommends a _trial_ of the _chops_.
Colonel Sibthorp will move for a return of his wits.
The match at cricket, between the Chelsea and Greenwich Pensioners, was decided in favour of the latter.
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 North Mymms - Parish and People - Chapter 26 - The Story of the Local Railway
True, Baron Greville, of North Mymms Place, was not an active opponent and Gervaise Sibthorp, who owned Potterells, the other estate most likely to be "disfigured," was not living in the parish, but as he had the support of the vestry Mr.
This eccentric colonel was an implacable opponent of railways.
He was a cartoonist’s delight and an early copy of Punch shows him as Don Quixote mounted on Rosinante, flourishing a broken lance and charging at a railway engine.
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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (L)
Sir Henry Atwell Lake (1808-1881), Colonel of the Royal Engineers.
Susan Rosemary Dacre Law (née Clerk) (1905-), Wife of Colonel Francis Law; daughter of Sir George James Robert Clerk, 9th Bt.
Mary Lees, Wife of Captain Bernard Lees; only daughter of Colonel P. Radcliffe.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 7771
Sir Hugh John Francis Sibthorp Cholmeley, 5th Bt.
He was Colonel of the 98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
He was Honorary Colonel of the Surrey Yeomanry in 1951.
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 Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I--1841-1857
At first they were wide as well as high, but the "all round collar" of which Punch has a picture in 1854 approximates to the lofty cincture worn by the present Lord Spencer when a member of the House of Commons.
uncommon; but the caricature of Colonel Sibthorp, one of Punch's favourite butts, shows that the square shape was still used.
White waistcoats were noted as the emblem of the blameless life of the "Young England" party.
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 Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, Vol. I, Free Trade, Speech 4: Library of Economics ...
Member for Sussex (Colonel Wyndham) laughs, and truly it would be laughable enough were he to come to me to inquire into the profits of my business; but, then, he should remember that I do not ask for a law to enhance the profits of my business.
He, on the contrary, is the strenuous supporter of a law, which, in its effect—whatever may be its intention—benefits his own class and no other class whatever.
Now I have a return of the property of the city corporation; it is nearly all agricultural property, and I find that that rental has increased 50 per cent.
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