Page Text: Reformation to Referendum
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ABBOT, Charles (1757-1829)
Abbot was considered by contemporaries to be an upstart: he believed himself to be descended from Sir Maurice Abbot, MP for London, a brother of Archbishop Abbot. His father, an ‘uncommonly learned’ clergyman, who kept a school at Abingdon, died when he was three, and his mother, by her...
BENNET, Sir Henry (1618-85)
Bennet was educated for the Church, though at Oxford he appears to have occupied himself chiefly in the study of Latin poetry and the composition of English verse. In 1643 he entered the service of the secretary of state, George Digby (later 2nd Earl of Bristol). Although a civilian, he took part...
BOOTH, Sir George (1622-84)
Booth was descended from a younger branch of a Lancashire family, settled at Dunham Massey since 1433. His great-grandfather represented Cheshire in 1572. His father died before the Civil War, but his grandfather was a parliamentary supporter, and he himself was in arms for the same cause, and sat...