Edward Bolton King

Edward Bolton King (15 July 1800 – 23 March 1878) was a British Whig politician from Umberslade in Warwickshire.

He was the son of Edward King, Vice Chancellor of the County of Lancaster, and nephew of Capt James King (qv) and of Rt. Revd. Walker King, Bishop of Rochester (qv). He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1830, and at the 1831 general election he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick. He was re-elected in 1832 and 1835, but was defeated at the 1837 general election.

After his defeat he became prominent in the Warwickshire Association for the Protection of Agriculture and stood (unsuccessfully) against the Peelite candidate at the 1847 General Election. In the 1857 general election, he was returned unopposed as one of the two MPs for South Warwickshire. The nomination process took place at the Shire Hall in Warwick, where King was nominated by Sir Francis Shuckburgh, who described King as "no Radical but a Whig Conservative". In his acceptance speech, King stated that he had pledged himself to be independent of all political parties, but would support Lord Palmerston (the Prime Minister), who he believed deserved credit for the satisfactory conclusion of the Crimean War. He served only two years as MP for South Warwickshire, and did not contest the 1859 general election. He was latterly Chairman of the South Warwickshire Liberal Association.

Edward Bolton

Sir Edward Bolton ( 1592-1659 ) was an English-born judge who served for many years as Solicitor General for Ireland before succeeding his father Sir Richard Bolton as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

He was the only surviving son of Richard Bolton and his first wife Frances Walter; he was born in England, probably at the family home at Fenton, Staffordshire. He was baptised on 5th October 1592 in St Mary's Church, Stafford. His father moved to Ireland when Edward was twelve. He graduated from the University of Dublin, then attended Clement's Inn and Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1616. When still only thirty on 5th December 1623 he was made Solicitor General for Ireland and held that office for seventeen years. He was knighted in Dublin in 1636 by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland. When his father became Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1639, Edward was appointed Chief Baron in his place, and frequently went as a judge on the Northwestern Circuit. The troubles of the English Civil War led to his father's impeachment and his own removal from office; he spent the years 1642-44 in England. However he made his peace with Oliver Cromwell: he acted as a judge of the High Court of Justice in 1652-3. He died in 1659 and was buried in St. Bride's Church, Dublin.

Bolton

Coordinates: 53°34′41″N 2°25′44″W / 53.578°N 2.429°W / 53.578; -2.429

Bolton (ⁱ/ˈbɒltən/ or locally [ˈbɜʏtn̩]) is a town in Greater Manchester in North West England. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish weavers settled in the area in the 14th century, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. The urbanisation and development of the town largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. Bolton was a 19th-century boomtown, and at its zenith in 1929 its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the First World War, and by the 1980s cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton.

Close to the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Manchester. It is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages that together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town of Bolton has a population of 139,403, whilst the wider metropolitan borough has a population of 262,400. Historically part of Lancashire, Bolton originated as a small settlement in the moorland known as Bolton le Moors. In the English Civil War, the town was a Parliamentarian outpost in a staunchly Royalist region, and as a result was stormed by 3,000 Royalist troops led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1644. In what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600 residents were killed and 700 were taken prisoner.

Bolton (surname)

Bolton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bolton, Connecticut

Bolton is a small rural town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. It is primarily residential, with an economy made up primarily of small businesses. The high school typically has between fifty and one hundred students per class. The population is 4,986 as of the 2010 census. Bolton was incorporated in October 1720 and is governed by town meeting.

History

Originally part of the town of Hartford, the area was referred to as Hartford Mountains or Hanover, until incorporation in October 1720. The northern half of Bolton was set aside in 1808 to form the town of Vernon. Quarries played a significant role in the area’s developing economy and Bolton Notch became the location of the small community of Quarryville. Prior to the railroad, granite was taken by oxcart to the Connecticut River where it was the shipped to major cities on the East Coast.

On November 11, 1723, Jonathan Edwards was installed as the pastor of Bolton.

It is widely speculated that in 1781, George Washington stayed at a home in Bolton. Later that year, the French army is confirmed to have passed through the town. On Rose's Farm, Rochambeau most likely stayed the night with his troops. Archaeological evidence proves that they were in Rose's field; and possibly also across the street (because of the current modern houses there this was