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George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham KB (Nov 1599 – 16 April 1677) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1676 and was then created a peer and member of the House of Lords. ==Life== Sondes was born at Lees Court, in the parish of Sheldwich, near Faversham in Kent, the son of Sir Richard Sondes (1571–1645) of Throwley and his wife Susan Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton House. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he entered in 1615, and where his tutor was John Preston; but he does not appear to have proceeded to a degree. Sondes was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I on 2 February 1626. In 1626 he was elected Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers. He was re-elected MP for Higham Ferrers in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.〔( History of Parliament Online - Sondes, Sir George )〕 He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1636. He was made a deputy lieutenant of Kent in 1642. On the outbreak of the First English Civil War he was named a deputy lieutenant for Kent, and was on the royalist committee for the county in 1643. As a result, he suffered greatly in his estate, and was imprisoned from 1645, first in Upnor Castle and then in the Tower of London. He was released from the Tower in May 1650, but not finally discharged until 25 June following, after compounding for his estate by a payment of £3,350. On his release, he began rebuilding Lees Court from the plans of Inigo Jones. While both were youths, one of Sondes' sons killed another in 1655. George and Freeman, the youngest murdered his elder brother whilst asleep in his bed. The surviving brother was taken to Maidstone to be tried before the Assizes. He was convicted and was executed for the crime at Pennendenheath a fortnight after the crime. The body was then laid to rest in the church of Bersted.〔 Sondes's was blamed for moral remissness. He had failed (it was said) to continue the endowment of Throwley free school as purposed by his father, had improperly executed the will of his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Freeman, and had generally mismanaged his sons' education. Sir George answered the charges in a ‘Plaine Narrative to the World, of all Passages upon the Death of his Two Sonnes’ (London, 1655). At the English Restoration in 1660, Sondes was again made deputy lieutenant of Kent. In 1661, he was elected MP for Ashburton in the Cavalier Parliament.〔 He sat for that constituency until 1676, when he was created Earl of Feversham, Viscount Sondes, and Baron of Throwley. Feversham died at Lees Court, without male issue, at the age of about 77. Thomas Southouse dedicated his ''Monasticon Favershamiense'' to Sondes in 1671. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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