| 词条 | Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth |
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OriginsBoscawen was the eldest son of Edward Boscawen (1628–1685), MP and merchant, by his wife Jael Godolphin, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin (d.1667). The Boscawens are an ancient Cornish family. His grandfather Hugh Boscawen (fl.1620) of Tregothnan was thirteenth in descent from a certain Henry de Boscawen.[4] He derived a huge income from his copper mines at Chacewater and Gwennap where he was the principal landowner.[5] The Chacewater mine, now known as Wheal Busy, was located in what was known at the time as "the richest square mile on Earth". During its life it produced over 100,000 tons of copper ore, and 27,000 tons of arsenic.[6] His uncles Hugh Boscawen (1625–1701) and Charles Boscawen (1627–1689) were also MPs in Cornwall. Early lifeHe matriculated as fellow-commoner at King's College, Cambridge in 1697.[7] In 1701 he inherited Tregothnan from his uncle, Hugh Boscawen (1625–1701). [8] CareerBoscawen had absolute control of the parliamentary representation of the boroughs of Tregony and Truro, and he exercised considerable influence on the elections for Penryn. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tregony from 1702 to 1705, for the county of Cornwall from 1705 to 1710, for Truro from 1710 to 1713, and for Penryn from 1713 until June 1720. In 1720 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Boscawen and Viscount Falmouth, having been for some time discontented at the delay in his advancement to that position. Both before and after the accession of George I he spent large sums of money in support of Whig principles, and was rewarded on his party's triumph by many valuable offices. Boscawen was a groom of the bedchamber to Prince George of Denmark, steward of the duchy of Cornwall and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in 1708, Comptroller of the Household from 1714 to 1720, and joint vice-treasurer of Ireland from 1717 until a few months before his death. Marriage & progenyBoscawen married on 23 April 1700 in Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, Charlotte Godfrey elder daughter and coheir of Colonel Charles Godfrey, master of the jewel office and his wife Arabella Churchill. Charlotte died on 22 March 1754, and was also buried at Penkivel. She had wanted to become a lady of the bedchamber to the wife of King George II, and tried to bribe Lady Sundon (Charlotte Clayton Sundon) into obtaining the post for her.[8] Their progeny included:
Death & burialBoscawen died suddenly at Trefusis, in Cornwall, aged 54, and was buried at St Michael Penkivel. See also
References1. ^Debrett's Peerage, 1968 {{s-start}}{{s-par|en}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Tregony | with=Joseph Sawle | before=Francis Robartes | before2=Hugh Fortescue | after=John Trevanion | after2=Sir Philip Meadowes | years=1702–1705}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Truro | with=Henry Vincent | before=Henry Vincent | before2=Sir Philip Meadowes | after=Henry Vincent | after2=Peregrine Bertie | years=1705}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Cornwall | with=Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt | before=James Buller | before2=Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt | after=Parliament of Great Britain | years=1705–1707}}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Cornwall | with=Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt 1707–1708 | with2=James Buller 1708–1710 | before=Parliament of England | after=George Granville | after2=John Trevanion | years=1707–1710}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Truro | with=Henry Vincent | before=Henry Vincent | before2=Robert Furnese | after=Thomas Hare | after2=William Collier | years=1710–1713}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Penryn | with=Alexander Pendarves 1713–1714 | with2=Samuel Trefusis 1714–1720 | before=Samuel Trefusis | before2=Alexander Pendarves | after=Samuel Trefusis | after2=Viscount Rialton | years=1713–1720}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before=Viscount Rialton | title=Lord Warden of the Stannaries | years=1708–1734 | after=Richard Edgcumbe}}{{succession box | before=Sir John Stonhouse, Bt | title=Comptroller of the Household | years=1714–1720 | after=Paul Methuen}}{{s-reg|gb}}{{s-new | creation}}{{s-ttl | title=Viscount Falmouth | years=1720–1734}}{{s-aft | after=Hugh Boscawen}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Falmouth, Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount}}2. ^{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=G. M.|title=BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names|date=1971|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=18}} 3. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Boscawen, Hugh|last=Courtney|first=William Prideaux|volume=5}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Foster|first1=Joseph|title=Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1882|date=1882|location=London|volume=1|page=273}} 5. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Kain|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Ravenhill|editor2-first=William|title=Historical atlas of South-West England|date=1999|publisher=University of Exeter Press|isbn=9780859894340|page=293}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/whealbusy.php |title=Wheal Busy (Chacewater Mine) |publisher=Cornwall in Focus |accessdate=2009-08-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128113150/http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/whealbusy.php |archivedate=28 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }} 7. ^{{acad|id=BSCN697H|name=Boscawen, Hugh}} 8. ^1 {{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Sedgwick |editor-first=Romney|editorlink=Romney Sedgwick|authorlink=Eveline Cruickshanks |last=Cruickshanks|first=Eveline|encyclopedia=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/boscawen-hugh-1680-1734|year=1970 |title=Boscawen, Hugh (c.1680-1734)|isbn=9780118800983|publisher=HMSO|location=London}} 20 : 1680s births|1734 deaths|British MPs 1707–08|British MPs 1708–10|British MPs 1710–13|British MPs 1713–15|British MPs 1715–22|Politicians from Cornwall|Deputy Lieutenants of Cornwall|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall|Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain|Members of the Privy Council of Ireland|Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall|Whig (British political party) MPs|Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain|Ambassadors of Great Britain to Poland|Boscawen family|English MPs 1702–1705|English MPs 1705–1707|Alumni of King's College, Cambridge |
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