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Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".
Robert Corbet (died April 1676) was an English politician who supported Parliament in the English Civil War.He was a member of the Shropshire county committee, responsible for pursuing the war against the royalists and represented Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament.
Margaret Baxter or Margaret Charlton (1636 – 14 June 1681) was a noble born English religious nonconformist during the English Civil War. She became a follower and later wife and patron of the preacher Richard Baxter.
Residents of Ironbridge and tourists can benefit from using the app [PA Media] A new on-demand travel service is due to launch at Shropshire's Ironbridge Gorge world heritage site on Monday.
The Leighton family took their name from the village of Leighton in Shropshire, where they were settled in the 12th century. Richard de Leighton represented Shropshire in the House of Commons from 1312 to 1318 and many later members of the family served as Knights of the Shire for the county. The first and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of ...
Richard Baxter (28 March 1821 – 8 May 1904) was a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit who was born in England and emigrated to Upper Canada with his family about 1830. Baxter entered the newly established Jesuit novitiate in Montreal in 1845 as the order's first English-speaking novice in Canada.
A post office was established at Baxter in 1875, and remained in operation until 1967. [2] The community was named for Richard J. Baxter, who owned a sawmill there. [ 3 ]
Albrighton Hall near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is a house which is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England. [1] It was built in 1630 [2] for the Ireland family and remained in this family for the next five generations until 1804. It was then the home of several notable people until 1953. In the 1990s it was converted into a hotel.