Oglethorpe (surname)
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- Owen OglethorpeOwen OglethorpeOwen Oglethorpe: Bishop of Carlisle was an English academic and bishop.-Childhood and Education:He was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, in approximately 1505-10 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected a fellow in 1526 and received his MA in 1529 and his DD in 1536...
(died 1559), bishop of Carlisle who crowned Elizabeth I of England - Theophilus OglethorpeTheophilus OglethorpeSir Theophilus Oglethorpe was an English soldier and MP.The son of Sutton Oglethorpe, he came of an old Yorkshire family from Bramham and he had loyally supported King Charles I against the Cromwellian forces, and in consequence suffered severely at the hands of the Puritans with his home and...
(1650-1702), a member of the British Parliament - Lewis OglethorpeLewis OglethorpeLewis Oglethorpe was an English Member of Parliament and soldier.Oglethorpe entered parliament in 1702 as member for Haslemere, for which his father Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe had previously been MP and which was later represented by his brothers Theophilus, junior and James.He was wounded at the...
(1681-1704), a member of the British Parliament - Theophilus Oglethorpe, Jr. (1684-1737), a member of the British Parliament
- James OglethorpeJames OglethorpeJames Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia...
(1696-1785), founder of the British colony of Georgia