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Sir George Downing, 1° Baronetto (Dublino, 1623 – Cambridgeshire, 1684), è stato un militare e diplomatico inglese di origine irlandese. Figlio di Emmanuel Downing, avvocato , e Lucy Winthorp, sorella del Governatore del Massachusetts John Winthorp.
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George Downing was born c. 1623 in Dublin, Ireland, eldest son of Emmanuel Downing, and his second wife, Lucy Winthrop, younger sister of John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. [a] His father was a barrister of the Inner Temple in London, and a Puritan who undertook missionary work, first in Ireland, and later in New England. In 1654,...
In 1636, he was in school in Maidstone, Kent. His family joined Winthrop in America in 1638, settling in Salem, Massachusetts. Downing attended Harvard Collegeand ranked second out of nine students in the first graduating class of 1642. He was hired by Harvard as the college's first tutor. During his later life, he was frequently insulted because o...
Between 1647 and 1651, Downing pursued a military career, having abandoned preaching, and took part in the battles of Dunbar in 1650 and Worcester in 1651. In this period, he was a strong upholder of the republican cause and supported the execution of Charles I. He was appointed scoutmaster-general of Cromwell's forces in Scotland in November 1649,...
Downing showed himself to have been an able diplomat for the Protectorate, and kept his post during the period of political turmoil that followed the fall of Richard Cromwell in May 1659. As a Stuart Restoration became increasingly likely, he used this position to reconcile with Charles II. He did so first by leaking the contents of John Thurloe's ...
His wife Frances died on 10 July 1683, followed by Downing himself a year later, with probate granted on 19 July 1684. He was buried in the family vault built in All Saints' Church, Croydon, Cambridgeshire, leaving a substantial fortune, which critics claimed he had amassed partly through his exceptional meanness about money. This characteristic wa...
Burke, John (1914). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 382. Retrieved 13 June 2017.Downing, Roger; Rommelse, Gijs (2011). A Fearful Gentleman: Sir George Downing in The Hague, 1658-1672. Verloren. ISBN 978-9087042516.Jordan, Don; Walsh, Michael (2012). The King's Revenge; Charles II and the greatest manhunt in British history. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1408703274.Maitland, Frederic William (1908). The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures. Cambridge University Press. pp. 309–310. ISBN 9781584771487. Retrieved 29 August 2015.- 6, including Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet
28 feb 2024 · Sir George Downing (born 1623, Dublin, Ire.—died July 1684, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was an English diplomat and financial administrator who helped precipitate two wars with the Dutch and who instituted major reforms in public finance.
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Militare e uomo politico inglese (n. Dublino 1623 - m. nel Cambridgeshire 1684). Combatté sotto Cromwell e fu membro dei suoi parlamenti (1654-59). Residente inglese all'Aia (1657) col compito di promuovere l'unione delle potenze protestanti, seppe mostrarsi abile diplomatico.
11 giu 2018 · World Encyclopedia. Sir George Downing [1], 1623–84, English diplomat. A nephew of Gov. John Winthrop of Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard. He returned (1646) to England, joined the parliamentarians, and was appointed (1649) scoutmaster general (chief of intelligence) of the army in Scotland.
DOWNING, Sir George. Enciclopedia Italiana (1932) DOWNING, Sir George . Philip Chesney Yorke Militare e diplomatico inglese, nato forse nel 1624, morto nel 1684.
