- Geoffrey Of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth (in Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur or Sieffre o Fynwy) (c. 1100 - c. 1155) was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the development of British history and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. - Thomas Of Monmouth
Thomas of Monmouth was a monk who lived in a Benedictine monastery in Norwich during the 12th century. He was the author of "The Life and Miracles of William" of 1173, an anti-semitic polemic which accused the Jews of murdering a young boy whose body was found on Mousehold Heath, Norwich in 1144. Monmouth's writing William of Norwich helped flame anti-semitic sentiment in England, resulting in the eventual expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. - David Davies
David Thomas Charles Davies (born July 27, 1970) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Monmouth. - Henry Jackson
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 19 October 1747, Henry Jackson was the youngest son of Joseph and Susannah (Gray) Jackson. Before the War for Independence, he was an officer of the First Corps of Cadets in Boston, which was disbanded during the British occupation. After the evacuation, six former cadet officers organized a company of seventy-eight officers and men called the Boston Independent Company on 17 March 1776, with Henry Jackson as their commander. - John Williams
John Williams was a convict transported to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). He is best known as the man with whom Joseph Johns, later to become the bushranger Moondyne Joe, was arrested and tried for burglary. - Jennifer Beck
Jennifer Beck (born January 3, 1967) is a Republican who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where she represents the 12th legislative district serving portions of Monmouth and Mercer Counties. Beck took office on January 10, 2006. Beck is a former MWW lobbyist and Republican Party fundraiser who served for six years on the Red Bank Borough Council. She won a very close Assembly election on November 8, 2005. - Huw Edwards
Huw William Edmund Edwards (born April 12, 1953) is a Welsh Labour Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth. Edwards was first elected as Monmouth's MP at a by-election in May 1991, but lost the seat at the 1992 general election. He won it again in the 1997 and 2001 elections. Edwards lost the seat again in the 2005 election. - Jessica Morden
Jessica Elizabeth Morden (born May 29, 1968) is the Labour MP for Newport East. She was elected in the 2005 general election, replacing Alan Howarth. - Thomas Morgan
Sir Thomas Morgan (1604-1679) was a soldier during the English Civil War. The son of a minor Welsh landowner, Morgan gained military experience in the Netherlands and Germany during the 1630s. He returned to England on the outbreak of the First Civil War to serve as a captain of dragoons under the Fairfaxes in Yorkshire. - James Wood
James Wood (1747 - 1813) was an officer of the U.S. Continental Army and Governor of Virginia. Born in Winchester, Virginia, he was deputy surveyor of Frederick County, Virginia and represented the county in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1776. He was also commissioned by Lord Dunmore a Captain of Virginia troops in 1774 and negotiated the Treaty of Fort Pitt with the Shawnee Indians the following year. At the onset of the War for Independence, … - Michael J. Panter
Michael J. Panter (born October 10, 1969) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2004, where he represents the 12th legislative district. Panter serves in the Assembly on the Environment and Solid Waste Committee (as Vice Chair) and on the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee. In unofficial results from balloting on Election Day, November 8, 2005, in the 12th district, … - John Hampden
John Hampden, the second son of Richard Hampden, returned to England after residing for about two years in France, and joined himself to Lord William Russell and Algernon Sidney and the party opposed to the arbitrary government of Charles II. With Russell and Sidney he was arrested in 1683 for alleged complicity in the Rye House Plot, but more fortunate than his colleagues his life was spared, … - Nick Ramsay
Nick Ramsay (born 1975) is a Welsh Conservative Party member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Monmouth constituency. The former Assembly Member, David Davies (also a Conservative), stood down before the election in order to concentrate on his role as the Member of Parliament for Monmouth. - Mary de Bohun
Mary de Bohun (c. 1369 - June 4, 1394) was the first wife of King Henry IV of England and the mother of King Henry V, but was never queen. The daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, and Joan FitzAlan (1347-1419), the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, she was a great heiress, and her elder sister, Eleanor, became the wife of Thomas of Woodstock, first Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Edward III. - Charles Rolls
The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls (August 27, 1877 - July 12, 1910) was, together with Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was born in Berkeley Square, London but retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of The Hendre, Monmouth, Wales. He was a son of the 1st Baron Llangattock. Rolls was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and from his youth was interested in engines. - James Cox
James Cox was a member of the United States House of Representatives (from New Jersey) in the 11th Congress. He was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on 16 October 1753, the son of Judge Joseph and Mary (Mount) Cox. He was an officer in the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and was elected Brigadier General of the Monmouth Brigade after the war. - John Chandler
John Chandler (February 1, 1762-September 25, 1841) was an American politician and soldier of Maine. The political career of Chandler, a Democratic-Republican, was interspersed with his involvement in the state militia during both the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Chandler was born in Epping, New Hampshire, the brother of Thomas Chandler. His father was a captain in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, and had died in 1776. - Alice Lisle
Alice Lisle (c. 1614 - 2 September 1685), commonly known as Dame Alicia Lisle, was a landed lady of the English county of Hampshire, executed for harbouring fugitives from the Battle of Sedgemoor. - William Hull
William Hull (June 24, 1753-November 29, 1825) was an American soldier and politician. He was born in Derby, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1772, studied law in Litchfield, Connecticut and passed the bar in 1775. At the outbreak of fighting in the American Revolution, Hull joined a local militia and was quickly promoted to captain, then to major, and to lieutenant colonel. He was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Stillwater, Saratoga, Fort Stanwix, … - Maximilian von Spee
Maximilian Graf von Spee (22 June 1861 - 8 December 1914) was a German admiral, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, who joined the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) in 1878. In 1887-88 he commanded the Cameroon ports, in a German colony in Africa. Before World War I he held a number of senior positions relating to weapons development, before being appointed Chief of Staff of the North Sea Command in 1908, rising to Rear Admiral on 27 January 1910. - John Gale
Rev John Gale was a Methodist Minister and founder of the Queanbeyan Age newspaper in 1860. He was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England in 1829. Educated at Monmouth Grammar School he was apprenticed to the printing trade in 1846. He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1854 as an ordained Minister in the Methodist Church but left shortly after in 1857. - John Trenchard
Sir John Trenchard (30 March 1640 - 27 April 1695), English politician belonging to an old Dorset family. His father was Thomas Trenchard of Wolverton (1615-1671), and his grandfather was Sir Thomas Trenchard of Wolverton (1582-1657). His grandfather was knighted by James I in 1613. Born at Lytchett Matravers, near Poole, and educated at New College, Oxford, John Trenchard entered parliament as member for Taunton in 1679. - Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Wilhelm Reichsfreiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (1716 - 1800) was a Hessian general during the American Revolutionary War. In the army of Hesse-Kassel, Knyphausen was a lieutenant general. With 42 years of military experience, he traveled to North America in 1776 and led Hessian troops in the Battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Brandywine, Germantown, Springfield, and Monmouth. In 1779 and 1780, he commanded British-held New York City. - Sir Henry Webb
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry ("Harry") Webb (28 July 1866, Hereford - 29 October 1940, Caerleon) was a British Liberal Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Forest of Dean (1911-1918) and Cardiff East (1923-1924), and as Junior Lord of the Treasury (1912-1915). Educated at Lausanne and Paris, he trained as a mining engineer and became a director of several South Wales collieries. He was a High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and a JP in three counties. - Percy Kirke
Percy Kirke (c. 1646 - 1691), English soldier, was the son of George Kirke, a court official to Charles I and Charles II. In 1666 Kirke obtained his first commission in the Lord Admiral's regiment, and subsequently served in the Blues. He was with Monmouth at Maastricht (1673), and was present during two campaigns with Turenne on the Rhine. - John Stradling Thomas
Sir John Stradling Thomas (10 June 1925 - 29 March 1991) was a Welsh Conservative Party politician. Thomas was educated at Rugby School and London University. He served as a councillor on Carmarthen Borough Council 1961-64. He was a farmer, company director and broadcaster. Thomas contested Aberavon in 1964 and Cardiganshire in 1966. He was Member of Parliament for Monmouth from 1970 until he died in office in 1991. - Gareth David-Lloyd
Gareth David-Lloyd (born March 28 1981) is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ianto Jones in the British science fiction television programme "Torchwood". David-Lloyd was born in Bettws, Newport. His first acting role was as a robot in a junior school play. As a teenager, Gareth joined the Gwent Young People's Theatre in Abergavenny, where he was a contemporary of the actor Matthew Woodyatt and the singer Nia Lynn. - Nicholas Fish
Nicholas Fish (1758-1833) was an American Revolutionary soldier, born in New York City. He attended Princeton but left before graduating to pursue the study of law at King's College (now Columbia University) through the office of John Morin Scott in New York. There he became actively interested in the organization of the Sons of Liberty. In 1776 he was appointed by Scott aide-de-camp on his staff. Scott had been commissioned brigadier general. - James Peale
James Peale was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale. Peale was born in Chestertown, Maryland, the second child, after Charles, of Charles Peale (1709–1750) and Margaret Triggs (1709–1791). His father died when he was an infant, and the family moved to Annapolis. In 1762 he began to serve apprenticeships there, first in a saddlery and later in a cabinetmaking shop. - Joseph Montgomery
Joseph Montgomery (1733-1794) was an American Presbyterian minister and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Joseph was born near Harrisburg "(now Paxtang, Pennsylvania)" on October 3, 1733. The area at that time was part of Lancaster County. His parents, John and Martha (Finley) Montgomery, had immigrated from Northern Ireland. One known sibling is "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery (Mrs. - Joan Lestor
Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles (13 November, 1931 - 27 March, 1998) was a Labour politician. Lestor was educated at Blaenavon Secondary School, Monmouth; William Morris High School, Walthamstow and London University. She became a nursery school teacher and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but resigned from the latter as a result of the Turner Controversy. - Alexander Scammel
Alexander Scammel sometimes Scammell (1747-1781) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was killed in action. Scammel was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, and, as a young man, graduated from Harvard College in 1769. After graduation, he worked as a teacher, surveyor and, in 1773, as a lawyer with John Sullivan in New Hampshire and was with him during the raid on Fort William and Mary December 14, 1774. - Leslie Pym
Leslie Ruthven Pym was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in South Wales at a by-election in 1939. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until death five days after his re-election at the 1945 general election. In the war-time coalition government, he was a government whip. Pym is a descendant of the 17th century Parliamentarian John Pym. - Francis Rawdon-Hastings 1st Marquess of Hastings
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, (9 December 1754 - 28 November 1826) was a British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823. Hastings was born in County Down, the son of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira and Elizabeth Rawdon, 13th Baroness Hastings. He joined the British army in 1771 and served in the American Revolutionary War. There he served at the battles of Bunker Hill, Brooklyn, White Plains, … - John Arthur Herbert
John Arthur Herbert (1895 - 11 December 1943) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a colonial governor. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in South Wales at a by-election in 1934. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his resignation on 1 July 1939, when he was appointed as Governor of Bengal. He served as Governor until his death in 1943, aged 48. - Charles Bathurst
Charles Bathurst, PC (1754 - 13 August 1831), known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century. Bathurst was the son of Charles Bragge, of Cleve Hill in Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Bathurst, the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst. In 1804 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Bathurst in lieu of Bragge. - Leolin Forestier-Walker
Sir (Charles) Leolin Forestier-Walker KBE (6 May 1866 - 13 May 1934) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in South Wales and held the seat until his death in 1934, aged 68. At the consequent by-election, the Monmouth seat was held by the Conservatives. - Charles Alfred Howell Green
Charles Alfred Howell Green (1864 - 1944) was the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Monmouth (1921-1928) and subsequently Bishop of Bangor (1928-1944) during which time he also served as Archbishop of Wales (1934-1944). Cultured but with a reputation for authoritarianism, a representative of the High Church tradition, Green wrote a definitive guide to the constitution of the Church in Wales. - Shelley Beattie
Shelley Beattie (born August 24, 1968 in California, USA) is a former professional female bodybuilder and actress. Beattie gradually lost her hearing following an aspirin overdose at age three. She was raised in California until age 11, when she moved to Oregon. She was a standout heptathlete and cross country runner in high school. She attended Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, earning a degree in psychology and special education. - Albert Spicer
Sir Albert Spicer, 1st Baronet PC (16 March 1847 - 20 December 1934) was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician. He was born in Brixton, London, the son of James Spicer D.L. of Alton, Hampshire (04 May 1807- 23 January 1888), a wealthy paper merchant and a well-known congregationalist, and Louisa Edwards (5 October 1813- 19 January 1892), daughter of Evan Edwards and Mary Ann Johnson. He was the sixth child in a family of twelve, …
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