edward portman
son of edward berkeley portman and lucy portman husband of emma portman father of william henry berkeley portman, 2nd viscount portman; hon. edwin berkeley portman; reverend hon. walter berkeley portman and hon. maurice berkeley portman brother of wyndham berkeley portman; harriet ella dugdale; marianne drummond; lucy wingfield - digby and rev. fitzhardinge berkeley portman
portman, edward berkeley, first viscount portman (1799–1888), politician, born at bryanston, dorset, on 9 july 1799, was the son of edward berkeley portman (d. 1823) of bryanston and orchard portman, somerset, and his first wife, lucy, elder daughter of the revd thomas whitby ...
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king edward' s devise, entirely autograph. (ms. petyt 47, f. 317. )
' mr. edward cross, brother of the deceased, said the deceased was 54 years of age. he saw
king edward' s minutes for his last will, as transcribed by secretary petre. (ms, petyt 47, f. 416. )
until that abrupt switch, portman had opposed same - sex marriage. but his son' s disclosure' allowed me to think of this from a new perspective,' portman said .
two years ago, his son will came out to portman and his wife, jane, during will’s freshman year at yale university, which eventually led portman to support same - sex marriage .
death. viscountess dies. london, wednesday. viscountess portman, widow of the fourth viscount portman, died in hospital from shock following a fire at her home in prince' s gate .
from 11 april 1946, her married name became portman. after her marriage, nancy maureen franklin was styled as
the first limitation of king edward' s settlement was, to the lady frances' s issue male born before the king' s death, and in default of such issue to the lady jane' s heirs male. this arrangement would have fully answered the duke of northumberland' s ambitious views, had king edward survived the birth of a son to the lady jane. in that case the infant would have succeeded to the crown immediately on king edward' s death, and northumberland would have been grandfather of the actual monarch .
just this past election year, portman was vetted by romney' s campaign team as a vice - presidential option .
portman previously endorsed same - sex marriage, explaining that he changed his views after his son revealed he was gay .
king edward proceeded further, to prepare minutes for his last will: these also were transcribed by secretary petre, and the transcript in his handwriting is preserved in the same repository with the foregoing .
privy councillors. sir john mason, sir ralph sadler, sir richard sackville chancellor of the court of augmentations, sir edward north, sir anthony sentleger, sir william paget, sir richard southwell .
portman said he discussed the issue with members of his church’s community and former republican vice president dick cheney, whose daughter is gay .
in an op - ed for the dispatch in friday' s paper, portman says the admission by will, a junior at yale, lead to the reversal. portman writes that his son helped him see that gay people don' t choose to be gay :
kirk and portman are both up for reelection next year, with kirk facing a potentially difficult reelection bid in a blue - leaning state .
judges. sir roger cholmeley chief justice of the king' s bench, sir edward mountague chief justice of the common pleas, henry bradshaw chief baron of the exchequer, sir john baker chancellor of the exchequer, sir humfrey browne justice of the common pleas, sir william portman justice of the king' s bench, sir robert bowes master of the rolls .
portman was the first republican senator to declare support for gay marriage, going public in2013 after announcing that his son, will, is gay .
t. cant. t. ely, canc. wynchester. northubrland. j. bedford. h. suffolk. w. northt. h. shrewesbury. f. huntyngdon. penbroke. e. clynton. t. darcy. g. cobham. r. ryche. t. cheyne. john gate. william petre. joan' cheek, w. cecill. edward mountagu. john bakere. edward gryffyn. john lucas. john gosnold .
27. ibid. 2 dec. ; fox strangways mss 242, portman to ilchester, 24 - 29 nov. , 3 dec. 1830 .
portman also said that he informed 2012 gop presidential nominee mitt romney that his son was gay when he was being interviewed as a possible running mate .
b. 9 july 1799, 1st s. of edward berkeley portman i * and 1st w. lucy, da. of rev. thomas whitby of portland place, mdx. and cresswell, staffs. educ. eton c. 1811; christ church, oxf. 1817. m. 16 june 1827, lady emma lascelles, da. of henry lascelles†, 2nd earl of harewood, 4s. (1 d. v. p .) 2da. (1 d. v. p .). suc. fa. 1823; cr. bar. portman 27 jan. 1837; visct. portman 28 mar. 1873. d. 19 nov. 1888 .
after the federal government deemed that schools must allow students to use bathrooms that matchtheir gender identity, portman said the executive branch should stay out of the issue .
wedding report. (jun 1908). bride of seventy - one, lord portman weds in 78th year. not often is a great - grandfather married. the honour belongs to viscount portman, who was married recently at st mary' s church, bryanston square, to mrs. livingstone learmonth, who is 71 .
we miss the names of the attorney - general edward gryffyn and john lucas master of the requests, which are among the signatures in p. 91, attached to the engagement made in the king' s presence. the former retained his place in the service of queen mary .
“i told mitt romney everything, ” portman told cnn. “that process is — intrusive would be one way to put it. but no, yeah, i told him everything. ”
portman has a 100 percent rating from national right to life and was an original co - sponsor ofthe ban on so - called partial - birth abortion when he was in the house .
their conversation turned on some recent defeat of the whigs, when, mr. portman attempting to explain it, mr. dawson laughingly said, ‘oh, you are a mere bundle of sticks and will always be beaten’. this taunt rather excited mr. portman, while at the same time he felt its truth, and he reported mr. dawson’s words to his friends .
sen. rob portman (r - ohio), once a staunch opponent of gay marriage, says that he now supports same - sex nuptials after his son told him he was gay .
“i’m announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples’ opportunity to marry, ” portman said, according to cnn .
portman has an a rating from the nra. he sided this year with a majority of republicans in atest vote opposing a bill that would ban those on the no - fly list from buying guns .
that he' s backing same - sex marriage—a reversal from his previous political history which includes votes against same - sex marriage and gay adoption. portman says the reason for his change of heart is his own
. it' s not known if portman discussed the issue of same - sex marriage with romney or, if he had been picked, if he would have backed those initiatives despite having a gay son .
editor' s note: this is the last in a series of three stories about the issues in the u. s. senate race between republican sen. rob portman and democratic former gov. ted strickland .
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the main difference of king edward' s devise from king henry' s settlement consisted in the total exclusion of his two sisters. [ 2 ] in the exclusion of the descendants of his aunt margaret queen of scots, on whom the crown ultimately devolved after the lapse of half a century, he merely followed the precedent of his father' s will .
portman agrees that the immigration system is broken but says he can support a plan only if itincludes sufficient border controls and enforcement of immigration laws in workplaces. he opposed a2013 immigration proposal, saying that the bill did not include those elements .
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sen. rob portman had a change of heart about whether same - sex couples should beallowed to marry. former ohio gov. ted strickland shifted more slowly on that issue but made a farmore dramatic change in his support for gun control .
portman says the reversal stems from his 21 - year - old gay son coming out to him two years ago, as he now becomes the first republican senator on that side of the controversial issue as it heads for landmark arguements in the supreme court .
32. portman’s name is not in the surviving partial division lists, but during the dorset by - election, he, like ponsonby, was attacked for having voted against giving the franchise to farmers (dorset co. chron. 6 oct. 1831) .
nominally, the two candidates for the u. s. senate fit into their ideological boxes: portman, therepublican, is more conservative, and strickland, the democrat, more liberal. but on social issues, enough nuances exist to puncture the usual stereotypes :
portman opposes using taxpayer money to pay for abortions and is a co - sponsor of a bill thatwould ban taxpayer funding from going to abortions. he also has voted to block taxpayer dollarsgoing to the united nations while any member nation forces citizens to undergo abortions .
viscount portman, who is m. f. h. of the portman hunt, was born in london in the reign of george iv. educated at eton and oxford, he entered parliament, and sat as a whig for 33 years in the house of commons. he is now one of the most popular sportsmen and landlords in the country, and probably one of the oldest masters of foxhounds. the newsletter: an australian paper for australian people (sydney, nsw: 1900 - 1918) 1 aug 1908, p7 urltoken
portman adds that he' s voicing his support for gay marriage now because the supreme court will be hearing arguments soon on california' s prop. 8, a state ban on same - sex marriage, as well as the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act. according to
“i have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn’t deny them the opportunity to get married, ” portman wrote friday in an op - ed in the columbus dispatch .
4. dorset co. chron. 22 nov. 1888; t. w. mayberry, orchard and the portmans, 5, 38, 40; m. portman, bryanston, picture of a fam. 129 - 32; sir m. nathan, annals of west coker, 419 .
another remarkable feature of the devise is this, that, as originally drawn, it contemplated only a male successor. it will be remembered that england had as yet obeyed no reigning queen; and that the empress maud and margaret countess of richmond had been instances of heiresses living whilst their sons sat on the throne. henry viii. had indeed bequeathed the crown in contingent remainder to his daughters; but, after them, the next remainder created by his will was to
to the heirs of the body of the lady frances
his niece, not the the lady frances herself. thus the duchess of suffolk had been already passed over by henry viii, as she was now again by king edward. following the like scheme throughout, all the other female heirs were passed over in favor of their male issue not yet born. now, it was an extraordinary circumstance in the state of the blood royal at this period, that, whilst the living descendants of henry the seventh were (exclusive of the scottish line, [ 3 ]) seven in number of the female sex, there was not one male except king edward himself. (see the table prefixed to these remarks .) it was this fact that conferred genealogical importance, in the political speculation of the time, on the earl of devonshire, as a male descendant of king edward iv and on cardinal pole, as the male descendant and representative of george duke of clarence .
t. cant'. t. ely, canc. winchester. northumb' land. jo. bedford. h. suffolk. w. north' ton. arundell, oxynforde. h. westmerland. f. shrewesbury. john warwyk. w. worcester. f. huntington. penbroke. e. clinton. t. darcy. nic. london. henry aburge. g. cobham. willam grey. g. talbott. t. fitzwauters. william windesor. j. bray. thomas wentworthe. john st. john. r. riche. william willoughby. francys russelle. j. fytzwarin. g. fitzgerald. h. strange. thomas gray. chenye. will' m bu... richard cotton. john gate. william petre. w. cecill. john cheek. roger cholmeley. edward mountague. henry bradschawe. john bakere. homfre browne. henry portman. robert bowes. jo. masone. r. sadler. ric. sakevyle. edward northe. a. sentleger. william paget. tho. wrothe. henry sydney. morris barkley. n. throgmorton. ryc. blount. henri gage. ric. southwelle. john williams. henri norres. antoni browne. james dyer. john gosnold. will. fitzwilliam. will' m croke. henry nevill. george barnes, mayre. john gresham. andrew judde. ric. dobbys. w. damselle. augustin hinde. john lambarde. thomas offley. willm garrard. lawrance wether. edward rogeres. adrian poinings. p [ er ] me william huett. r. bret. p [ er ] me william chester. antony broune. john raynford. ro. sowthwell. by me thomas lodge. thomas bowere. emanuel lucar. john wither. wm. bury. richarde mallorye. henry fisher. xp' ofore dawntesey ric. chamberlyn. henry broune. richarde hilles. william knight. william gyfford. ric. broke. w. bury .
portman said he was concerned that the democratic bills being considered didn' t adequatelyprotect the rights of those mistakenly put on such lists. he also supported a republican proposalthat would delay, but not ban, suspected terrorists from buying guns. that measure would direct theattorney general to take a suspected terrorist into custody if he or she attempted to buy agun .
38. fox strangways mss 332, murray to ilchester [ 7 oct. ], latter to portman, 18 oct. , reply, 19 oct. ; bristol univ. lib. pinney mss, domestic box r, bdle. 5, lady smith to frances pinney [ 19 oct. ]; dorset co. chron. 27 oct. 1831 .
“the overriding message of love and compassion that i take from the bible, and certainly the golden rule, and the fact that i believe we are all created by our maker, that has all influenced me in terms of my change on this issue, ” portman told reporters during an interview in his office on thursday, according to the plain dealer .
at the conclusion of the ceremony, most of the guests went on to a luncheon which was given at montague - square, the residence of the hon. charles and mrs. hanbury lennox. later, lord portman and his bride departed for bryanston, the bride travelling in a costume of nankin blue tussore silk, and a large feathered hat to match .
portman was popular as a reformer and was certain of being returned, while calcraft, with whom he declined to join, stood against the anti - reformer bankes. on all six days of the poll he was ahead of the other two candidates, to each of whom he gave £3, 000 towards their costs. according to grey, this curious gesture was designed ‘to show his impartiality, being himself a reformer and supporter of government’. he was elected with calcraft, which he hailed as indicative of the triumph of reform, and at a celebration dinner in blandford, 23 may 1831, he promised the electors that ‘give me but the opportunity of meeting you, and you may depend upon it, you will never find me wanting’. 29 however, bankes recorded in his journal that portman had desired that the poll should not be closed early on the day the contest ended
engagement. noel christian, eldest surviving son of the late mr: a. j. livingstone - learmonth and of viscountess portman, and winifred margaret (wynne), eldest daughter of mr. james h. ismay, iwerne, minster - house, blanford, dorset, and of the late lady margaret ismay, and granddaughter of the late marquess of hertford. the australasian (melbourne, vic. : 1864 - 1946) 15 mar 1913, p38 urltoken
i have stated in the note at page 4, that besides the letters patent of the 21st of june 1553, which were designed to place the lady jane next in succession to the crown, there are two other documents extant, exhibiting the earlier stages of this daring effort of northumberland' s policy. having subsequently, by favour of the hon. society of the inner temple, examined the original documents seen by bishop burnet and strype, i take this opportunity to give a more exact account of them. the
devise for the succession ,
in king edward' s own handwriting, will especially claim further consideration than has hitherto been bestowed upon it, on account of some very remarkable peculiarities, both of its original construction and its subsequent modification .
in conformity with the enactment of his 35th year, king henry the eighth made a will, and by that will the crown was to devolve, 1. on his son edward and the heirs of his body; 2. on his own heirs by queen katharine (parr) or any other future wife; 3. on his daughter mary; 4. on his daughter elizabeth; 5. on the heirs of the body of his niece the lady frances; 6. on those of her sister the lady eleanor; 7. to the next rightful heirs. in the event of either the lady mary or the lady elizabeth marrying without the consent of the privy council, they were respectively to be passed over as if they were dead without lawful issue .
from the transcript of ralph starkey in the ms. harl. 35, f. 364, which is preceded by this title :
a true coppi of the counterfet wille supposed to be the laste wille and testament of kinge edwarde the sixt, forged and published under the great seale of englande by the confederacie of the dukes of suffolke and northumberlande, on the behalfe of the lady jane, eldest daughter to the said duke of suffolke, and testefied with the handes of 101 of the cheife of the nobilliti and princepall men of note of this kingdome; dated the 21 day of june an [ n ] o. 1553 ;
and followed by this memorandum :
this is a true coppie of edward the sixte his will, taken out of the originall under the greate seale, which sir robart cotton delyvered to the kinges majestie the xijth of apprill 1611, at roystorne, to be canseled .
as a result, with the other county members lawley and wynne pendarves, he was instrumental in setting up the meeting in early march 1830 at which lord althorp was chosen as leader of the whig opposition in the commons. 21 thereafter during the session portman regularly made interventions and divided (or paired) with them for lower taxes and expenditure. he made a long speech urging inquiry into the state of the poor, 9 mar. , and advocated assisted emigration, 23 mar. he objected to allowing the sale of beer for on - consumption, 3 may, and the following day, in what lord howick * called ‘a most absurd speech’, moved (and was a teller for) an unsuccessful wrecking amendment against the second reading of the beer bill. 22 he conceded that his earlier assumptions about the number of government placemen were exaggerated, 14 may, but nevertheless divided with opposition for information on privy councillors’ emoluments that day. he left london in late may 1830 because of his wife’s illness. 23
in september 1825, during speculation over a possible dissolution, he issued an address indicating his intention to stand again for the county at the next general election. he declined to attend a meeting of dorset landowners in blandford, 9 jan. 1826, but expressed approval of their plans to form an agricultural association to promote protection. 10 he was elected to brooks’s, 15 feb. , sponsored by lord fitzwilliam and john calcraft, member for wareham. he voted against receiving the report on the salary of the president of the board of trade, 10 apr. , and spoke in defence of british ship owners, 27 apr. 11 with sir thomas lethbridge, the somerset county member, he was a teller for the minority for a select committee on distress in the manufacturing districts, 2 may. he approved ministers’ resolution to admit bonded corn, 4 may, but opposed the introduction of corn from abroad, 5 may, and abandoned his attempt to strengthen government proposals by fixing minimum and maximum prices, 12 may. as bankes had replaced pitt earlier that year, he was returned unopposed with him for dorset at the general election in june, when he reiterated his desire to be independent. 12 portman, who the previous year had published a pamphlet of rules, regulations and tables for the constitution of a friendly society, was heavily involved in the establishment of one in dorset in late 1826. 13
unlike his father, portman, who was assiduous in presenting county petitions and serving on select committees, sided almost unwaveringly with the whig opposition to the liverpool administration. 7 he voted for the first time, 24 apr. 1823, in favour of russell’s motion for parliamentary reform, an occasion which he afterwards alluded to with satisfaction. 8 according to a later recollection, he was present for the debates on spain at the end of that month. 9 he voted with ministers against the production of papers on catholic office - holders, 19 feb. , but against them on reform of the representation of edinburgh, 26 feb. 1824, and on several other occasions that session. he made his first known speech against the silk bill, 5 mar. he offered a suggestion on the county courts bill, 26 mar. , and voted to permit defence by counsel in felony cases, 6 apr. he paired for inquiries into the state of ireland, 11 may, and the trial of the methodist missionary john smith in demerara, 11 june 1824, when he defended the county magistrates over the imprisonment of richard carlile in dorchester gaol. he was granted one month’s sick leave, 10 feb. 1825. he gave his ‘hearty concurrence’ to the catholic relief bill, 21 apr. , which he said was ‘called for by imperious necessity’ to ensure peace in ireland; he voted for it that day, as he did again on 10 may 1825 .
he seconded the formal reappointment of manners sutton as speaker, 14 nov. 1826. he spoke in defence of agricultural protection, 1, 12 mar. , when he observed that ‘the landed interest, by conceding that 60 s. should be the minimum price, had conceded as much as they could concede’; but he distanced himself from the fears of other agriculturists over the corn bill, 2 apr. 1827. he voted for catholic relief, 6 mar. he brought up, but dissented from, an anti - catholic petition from blandford, 13 mar. , when he asked ministers if they had any plans to ameliorate the condition of the poor in ireland. he divided for tierney’s amendment to postpone the committee of supply, 30 mar. , and for inquiry into the irish miscellaneous estimates, 5 apr. on 2 may he expressed the hope that canning’s difficulties in forming his administration would not lead to the public being inflamed over religious issues. he presented and endorsed the dorset landowners’ petition against the importation of foreign wool, 28 may, when he failed to obtain a select committee on this, but stated his general approval of administration. 14 in june 1827 he made a surprising match with a daughter of the moderate tory lord harewood. her sister - in - law lady caroline lascelles, who described portman as ‘very good - looking, and particularly gentlemanlike and pleasing’, noted that ‘they will not be very rich in the first instance, but in four or five years he will be in receipt of his whole fortune, which will then go on increasing. it is a very brilliant marriage altogether’. 15
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grounds of non - consummation of the marriage. shortly afterwards, sarah eloped with john
margetts and went through a form of marriage with margetts on 24 october 1809. from
gardner, then known as john margetts, who was born in july 1811 .
and heir presumptive at the time). in the words of contemporary newspaper reports
of the name of john margetts……. [ their son ] john margetts assumed the title of the earl
townshend, commonly called the earl of leicester .
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mentioned are not children of the most honourable george ferrars, marquis townshend .
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the act received royal assent on 12 july 1843, after which
john assumed his mother' s maiden name, being known thereafter as john dunn gardner .
' on sunday morning mr. john kynaston cross, late member of parliament for bolton and under -
where he had committed suicide. it is understood that mr. cross went to bed in his usual
health on saturday night. on sunday morning he was found suspended from the wardrobe in
kicked the stool over. he was cut down, but was found to have been dead some time. he
' yesterday afternoon mr. edge, county coroner, held an inquest respecting the death of mr .
sunday morning at a quarter - past 9, and then cutting a piece out of the door to turn the lock .
he found the deceased hanging from the end of the wardrobe by a twisted double fish line .
deceased must have been dead some hours. the bed had not been slept in .
he last saw his father alive on saturday night in the library. it was not unusual for mr. cross
continent. he was then particularly cheerful. attacks of depression were a common symptom
of diabetes, but they were only temporary. there was nothing in the character of the disease
itself to lead to suicide. when on the continent mr. cross was one of the most genial of men .
' the coroner summed up, observing that mr. cross no doubt committed the act while suffering
from nervous depression. the jury found a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane.'
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ingram was elected to the house of commons for boston in 1856. on 8 september 1860, he
to milwaukee when the lady elgin collided with the schooner augusta. although the lady
way to the lady elgin as is dictated by the usual rule of sailing .
was about 25 miles from chicago and 10 miles from land. the collision took place at the
midships gangway and on the larboard [ port or left ] side of the steamer. the two vessels
blowing freshly, drifted from the steamer very soon. when the collision occurred there
were music and dancing going forward in the principal cabin. immediately after the crash
of collision both ceased, and the steamer sank half an hour later. passing through the cabin
i saw the ladies pale, motionless and silent. there was no cry, no shriek on board, no
sound of any kind but that of escaping steam and surging waves. whether the ladies were
i could not say. a boat was lowered for the purpose of examining the leak, which soon made
someone had taken possession of one of them, and the boat was consequently useless. we
from it by the fury of the waves, and washed ashore at the village of winetka. there were
only two other boats on the steamer. one of these took 13 persons from her, all of whom
alive, the other four being drowned on the beach when the boat drifted there. the rush of
had ceased working in consequence. the wind was blowing so hard and in such a direction
most of them will probably be washed ashore in the vicinity of winetka.'
' sir william edge, liberal m. p. for bosworth, just failed to reach the mining town of ibstock ,
in leicestershire, on saturday before a number of pigeons which he had raced from london .
before the birds. the birds, which numbered 130, were released about noon. as soon as
the last one had left sir william edge jumped into a taxicab and drove to st. pancras. he
had 20 minutes in which to catch his train. owing to a mishap on the line between kettering
and bedford, the train arrived at leicester 26 minutes late. he drove by car to ibstock ,
reed died on 5 october 1896 as a result of a carriage accident. the' manchester guardian' of
' on saturday, mr. h. b. reed, the conservative member for east bradford, was driving a pony
carriage near the village of st. lawrence, in the isle of wight, when the pony swerved, and
the carriage was thrown into a bank. it upset, and mr. reed was thrown out, sustaining a cut
letter to his uncle, sir e. reed, written on sunday, he never mentioned it. later in the day ,
however, he had a relapse, and became unconscious. he never rallied, and died shortly after
nine o' clock yesterday morning. a colleague of mr. reed' s in the house of commons states
that the hon. member met with a similar accident about three months ago. returning home in
suddenly stopped, and mr. reed was thrown forward on to the pavement, where he lay
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as he hoped to avoid a public dinner, and the annoyance of sitting down surrounded by many of those who supported him, of whom he seemed much ashamed; and he expressed himself afterwards as being tired of the representation of the county, and solicitous to find some proper occasion of withdrawing from it, so that he might live more in the country, and perform those duties in which he might be more permanently useful. he may perhaps speculate upon a peerage, but i should otherwise rather consider him as fond of the business of the house of commons in which he frequently takes a share .
1. add. 51342, fox strangways to lady ilchester, 30 jan. 1823 .
5. western flying post, 17, 24 feb. , 3 mar. 1823; grosvenor mss 9 / 10 / 94; 11 / 40 .
8. for example, dorset co. chron. 12 may 1831; russell later corresp. ii. 52 .
13. western flying post, 8, 15 july, 23, 30 dec. 1826 .
21. grey mss, howick jnl. 3 mar. 1830; le marchant, 243; a. mitchell, whigs in opposition, 226 .
25. add. 36466, f. 167; dorset ro, fox strangways mss d / fsi 332, phelips to ilchester, 4 july 1830 .
29. ibid. 28 apr. , 5, 12, 19, 26 may; derby mss 920 der (14) 117 / 5, grey to smith stanley, 11 may 1831; m. brock, great reform act, 200 .
30. dorset ro, bankes mss d / bkl, bankes jnl. 174 .
36. this corresp. is in ibid. se / nc / 5. see dorset .
37. the times, 5 oct. 1831; dorset pollbook (sept. - oct. 1831), 2 .
39. lady holland to son, 124; nls mss 24762, f. 49 .
40. fox strangways mss 332, parry okeden to ilchester, 28 dec. 1831, 14 jan. 1832 .
44. nlw, ormathwaite mss fg / 1 / 6, p. 48; add. 51601, lady cowper to lady holland, tues. [ mar. ]; dorset co. chron. 29 mar. , 5, 12 apr. ; western flying post, 2 apr. 1832 .
45. dorset co. chron. 5 july; brougham mss, horne to brougham [ 25 aug. ]; the times, 4 oct. , 11 - 13 dec. 1832 .
46. j. v. beckett, aristocracy in england (1988), 292 .
47. dorset co. chron. 22, 29 nov. ; the times, 20 nov. 1888, 25 feb. 1889; dnb; oxford dnb .
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he later wrote: “two years ago, my son will, then a college freshman, told my wife, jane, and me that he is gay. he said he’d known for some time, and that his sexual orientation wasn’t something he chose; it was simply a part of who he is. jane and i were proud of him for his honesty and courage. we were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he’d always been. the only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love. ”
he also said: “it allowed me to think of this issue from a new perspective, and that’s of a dad who loves his son a lot and wants him to have the same opportunities that his brother and sister would have — to have a relationship like jane and i have had for over 26 years. ”
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21 - year - old gay son, who came out to him two years ago, and he becomes the first republican senator on that side of the controversial issue as it heads for landmark arguments in the supreme court .
says his son will revealed his sexual orientation to his parents in february 2011. that was about
class walk out of his commencement speech in protest of his anti - gay record. that record includes a 2004 vote for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and in 1999, support for a bill that would bar gay and lesbian couples from adopting .
two years ago, my son will, then a college freshman, told my wife, jane, and me that he is gay. he said he’d known for some time, and that his sexual orientation wasn’t something he chose; it was simply a part of who he is. jane and i were proud of him for his honesty and courage. we were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he’d always been. the only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love .
he is now the only republican currently in the senate to support marriage equality, but he' s not the only one in congress. florida rep. ileana ros - lehtinen, who has a transgender son, in 2011 be
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i. t he w ill of k ing e dward the s ixth, and his d evise for the s uccession to the c rown .
by way of introduction it may be remarked, that several acts of parliament [ 1 ] passed in the reign of henry viii. had encouraged the theory that the succession was in the sovereign' s power of appointment. by the 28th hen. viii. it was limited to the issue that might arise from his marriage with queen jane (seymour), and in default thereof it was enacted
that your highness shall have full and plenar power and authority to give, dispose, appoint, assign, declare, and limit by your letters patent under your great seal, or else by your last will made in writing, and signed with your most gracious hand, at your only pleasure, from time to time hereafter, the imperial crown of this realm .
by the 35th henry viii. the ladies mary and elizabeth, though both then illegitimate by former acts of parliament, were placed next in succession in default of issue of their brother or further issue of the king, but both their titles were to be
with such conditions as by his highness shall be limited by his letters patent, under his great seal, or by his majesty' s last will in writing, signed with his gracious hand ;
and on the failure of all the three children and their issue the succession of the crown in reversion or remainder was to be limited by the king' s appointment as before, according to the terms of the act 28 hen. viii. already recited .
these, then, formed the precedents on which the duke of northumberland assumed that the succession might again be modified by the act of the reigning monarch, expressed by letters patent and by a last will, - - to be confirmed by act of parliament, as the opportunity for such ratification might arrive .
but the rapid decline of the king' s health did not allow time for the project to arrive at maturity. it became necessary to name some existing person as an immediate successor, and to terminate an arrangement, which, designating only a future and unborn heir, might have the effect of placing the crown in abeyance. under these circumstances, the obvious course would have been to prefer the lady frances, she being the first in order of the heirs female already nominated. this did not suit northumberland' s purpose. it would have had the effect of transferring his own power into the hands of the duke of suffolk, the lady' s husband. besides, the duchess of suffolk was still a young woman (she was seventeen months younger [ 4 ] than queen mary ,) and might live long. she might even yet have a son, if not by her present by a future husband, and thus totally exclude northumberland' s posterity .
the next alternative was to appoint the lady jane to be the positive heir to the throne. this was actually done, by altering the words
in the king' s autograph
devise
a pen is drawn through the letter s, which still remains on the paper, and the words
and her
are written above the line. the duke of northumberland' s immediate object, namely the succession of the lady jane, was thus attained; and, for consistency' s sake, her sisters the ladies katharine and mary were placed in the like condition of personal inheritance, in the letters patent, though this does not appear in the devise; whilst the lady margaret was inconsistently passed over, as in the devise when first written, and (like the lady frances) was named only as conveying a contingent remainder to her male issue .
it is obvious that the duke of northumberland undertook a task which had many difficult stages before it could result in success. in the first place he had to reconcile the king to his views, next the council, thirdly the lawyers, fourthly the parliament, fifthly, and above all, the nation. in the first of these endeavours he had, so far as we know, little or no resistance: the king, probably chiefly influenced by religious arguments, not only assented to his minister' s suggestions, but exercised his personal authority to coerce the council and the lawyers. how the project was carried with these parties we are informed, by the apology of archbishop cranmer, [ 5 ] and by the respective narratives of secretary cecill and chief justice montagu. [ 6 ] with a parliament, as parliaments were then, there can be little doubt of its success had it come to the trial. with the nation, when the struggle arrived, the duke' s failure was entire, for no minister was ever more unpopular, or more universally hated, than this
tyrant
as he was called, [ 7 ] the merciless
bear of warwick .
besides, such was the people' s sense of justice, and so entirely was their opinion of hereditary right involved in that sentiment, that even the most devoted protestants were, from their conscientious loyalty, among the most faithful supporters of the lady mary .
to return to the mode of procedure in framing the legal settlement, as evidenced by the existing documents. the first step must have been some dictation to the youthful monarch, either in a written or oral form. the next step was the king' s drawing out, entirely with his own hand ,
my devise for the succession
( the document which follows). the third step, - - after the alterations we have already considered and others had been made, - - was to make a fair transcript: this was done by secretary petre, and the king added his signature to each of the six paragraphs. this authenticated copy was then delivered
to certain judges and other learned men ,
that they might prepare the settlement accordingly. at the same time an engagement was entered into, by which the council pledged themselves, by their signatures, [ 8 ] to support the said limitation of the crown, and to punish any person attempting to vary or swerve from it (see this document hereafter). lastly, the letters patent were duly drawn, and executed on the 21st of june, [ 9 ] in the form hereafter printed, pp. 91 - 100 .
in the conviction that more accurate copies of these very important documents than it was customary to edit in the days of burnet or strype, will be acceptable to historical inquirers, i have transcribed them with great care. the first is the king' s
devise ,
in which the reader will please to observe that all words printed in italic type are those which in the original have the pen drawn through them, and that the parentheses denote the words inserted above the lines .
l. for lakke of issu (masle) of my body (to the issu (masle) cumming of thissu femal, as i haue after declared). to the l frau [ n ] ceses heires masles, for lakke of (if she have any) such issu (befor my death) to the l' jane s (and her) heires masles, to the l katerins heires masles, to the l maries heires masles, to the heires masles of the daughters wich she [ 10 ] shal haue hereafter. then to the l margets heires masles. for lakke of such issu, to th' eires masles of the l janes daughters. to th' eires masles of the l katerins daughters, and so forth til yow come to the l margets (daughters) heires masles .
2. if after my death theire masle be entred into 18 yere old, then he to have the hole rule and gouernau [ n ] ce therof .
3. but if he be under 18, then his mother to be gouuernres til he entre 18 yere old, but to doe nothing w [ i ] t [ h ] out th' auise (and agreme [ n ] t) of 6 parcel of a counsel to be pointed by my last will to the nombre of 20 .
4. if the mother die befor th' eire entre into 18 the realme to be gouuerned by the cou [ n ] sel prouided that after he be 14 yere al great matters of importaunce be opened to him .
5. if i died w [ i ] t [ h ] out issu, and ther were none heire masle, then the l fraunces to be (gouuernres) rege [ n ] t. for lakke of her, the her eldest daughters, [ 11 ] and for lakke of them the l marget to be gouuernres after as is aforsaid, til sume heire masle be borne, and then the mother of that child to be gouuernres .
6. and if during the rule of the gouuernres ther die 4 of the counsel, then shal she by her letters cal an asse [ n ] ble of the counsel wtin on month folowing and chose 4 more, wherin she shal haue thre uoices. but after her death the 16 shal chose emong themselfes til th' eire come to (18 erased) 14 yeare olde, and then he by ther aduice shal chose the [ n ]. [ 12 ]
edward berkeley portman ( 31 january 1771 – 19 january 1823 , rome ) was an 18th-century housing developer and politician . he was the son of henry portman , and ultimately a descendant of the tudor landowner sir william portman . edward continued his father 's work developing the family lands in london into the portman estate . he also sat as member of parliament for boroughbridge between 1802 and 1806 and for dorset between 1806 and 1823 . 
edward berkeley portman (31 january 1771 – 19 january 1823, rome) was an 18th-century housing developer and politician. he was the son of henry portman, and ultimately a descendant of the tudor landowner sir william portman. edward continued his father's work developing the family lands in london into the portman estate. he also sat as member of parliament for boroughbridge between 1802 and 1806 and for dorset between 1806 and 1823.
edward berkeley portman (31 january 1771 – 19 january 1823, rome) was an 18th-century housing developer and politician. he was the son of henry portman, and ultimately a descendant of the tudor landowner sir william portman. edward continued his father's work developing the family lands in london into the portman estate. he also sat as member of parliament for boroughbridge between 1802 and 1806 and for dorset between 1806 and 1823.