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9 de mai. de 2024 · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of Lansdowne (born May 13, 1737, Dublin—died May 7, 1805, London) was a British statesman and prime minister (July 1782 to April 1783) during the reign of George III. The son of John Fitzmaurice, who took the additional name of Petty on succeeding to the Irish estates of his uncle and who was ...
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21 de mai. de 2024 · Sir William Petty was an English political economist and statistician whose main contribution to political economy, Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662), examined the role of the state in the economy and touched on the labour theory of value.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Bowood House and its park passed in turn to William's sons John, marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1809), and Henry, marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1863), who in 1818 adopted the surname Petty-Fitzmaurice and in 1845 owned the whole liberty.
21 de mai. de 2024 · The first official resident at the premises was Lord Henry Petty, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (Marquess of Lansdowne), son of William, the 1st Marquess, was born in 1780. After making the Grand Tour he entered Parliament in 1803 as member for Calne, and attached himself to Fox.
Há 3 dias · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Landsdowne – who sympathised with Unitarianism – built a laboratory for the famous dissenter at Bowood House. Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus. Priestley assembled his oxygen paper and several others into a second volume of Experiments and Observations on Air ...
18 de mai. de 2024 · Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers.
Há 4 dias · In 1856 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sold 539 a. of the manor to the tenant Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, the owner of Bowood House, and about then the rest of the manor, c. 150 a., was bought by George Walker Heneage, the tenant of that land and the lord of Compton Bassett manor.
