Lord john sewell biography

British politician, life peer, and former academic.
SEWELL (Sewall), JONATHAN, lawyer, musician, office holder, politician, author, and judge; baptized 6 June 1766 in Cambridge, Mass., son of Jonathan Sewall.
He married Joane Hill in 1519, in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.

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John Sewel, Baron Sewel

British politician and academic (born 1946)

"Lord Sewel" redirects here. Not to be confused with Tony Sewell, Baron Sewell of Sanderstead.

John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel, CBE (; born 15 January 1946), is a British politician, life peer, and former academic. He served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen and a former parliamentary under-secretary of state.

He was made a Labour minister in the Scottish Office department of the Blair Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in 1997, where he assisted Donald Dewar in steering through the legislation that led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament. His name is given to the Sewel motion, parliamentary device passed by the Scottish Parliament, in which it agrees that the United Kingdom parliament may pass legislation on a devolved issue extending to Scotland, over which the Scottish Parliament has regular legislative authority. He left ministerial office in 1999 upon the

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SANBORN, JOHN SEWELL, teacher, politician, and judge; b. 1 Jan. 1819 at Gilmanton, N.H., ninth and youngest child of David Edwin Sanborn, farmer and teacher, and Hannah Hook; d. 17 July 1877, at Asbury Park, N.J.

In 1842 John Sewell Sanborn graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, where his brother, Edwin David, was professor of Latin language and literature. He later received the degrees of am (1845) and lld (1874) from Dartmouth, and of ma (ad eundem, 1854) and dcl (1873) from the University of Bishop’s College, Lennoxville. After 1842, Sanborn was for three years principal of the Sherbrooke Academy (now high school). He then read law in Sherbrooke with Edward Short and in Montreal with Andrew and George Robertson; he was admitted to the bar in 1847, and, returning to Sherbrooke, married in July Eleanor Hall Brooks, daughter of Samuel Brooks, Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly for the old Sherbrooke County. Throughout his political career he continued to practise law.

Brooks died in March 1849, and the parliamentary v

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John SEWELL [11586]

Born: 1525, Halstead ESS
Marriage (1): Margery GUYBLON [11587]
Died: 1590, Halstead ESS aged 65

General Notes:

This Sewell family history is largely derived from the research of R Woodbridge-Smith and the Woodside Family History 2010 L Woodbridge and Diana Kennedy the Sewell family expert on http://www.sole.org.uk/essexse2.htm
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ANCESTORS FOR ROSEMARY WOODBRIDGE-SMITH
John(1) (12 x great grandfather) was born about 1520 he was married to Margery Guyblon.
Margery's father was Thomas Guyblon (will written in 1522) Margery had two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret. In the will that Thomas wrote he left most of his property/land to Margaret who must have died because Margery inherited the lands/property instead. Thomas lived in Moche Henny in Essex. From the will we discover that his father was called John but he doesn't mention a wife. She must have died already because he is leaving her best gowns to his servants. Thomas is mentioned in Philip Morants book "The History and Antiquities of Essex" where a chantry was founded in the