The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester

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Excerpt from The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester: Including the City of Webster, and the Boroughs of Bewdley, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Pershore, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1213 1897, With Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the MembersAmong the Worcestershire Members have been many eminent men. Passing over the many who attained the honour of Knighthood, by distinguished service to their Sovereign, in the numerous wars with France or Scotland, and those who in later times were admitted among the order of Baronets, several of its Members have attained the dignity of the Peerage, by creation or succession, such as the Duke of Manchester, the Earls Beauchamp, Bellomont, Coventry, Iddesleigh, Sefton, and Spencer, the Viscounts Cobham, Conway, Dudley and Ward, Hereford, Sherbrooke, and Windsor, and the Barons Annaly, Calthorpe, Campbell, Foley, Hampton, Herbert of Chirbury, Hindlip, Kennedy, Lyttelton, Masham, Northwick, Sandys, Somers, Truro, and Westcote.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.