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Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717 – 1770) was an English country landowner of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 ...
Brand was the eldest son of soldier and courtier Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, and of his wife Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, and was born 30 March 1900 at the home of his maternal grandfather, Montagu House in London. [1]
Brand supported children of poor parents, and put them to trades. Jabez Earle, minister of the presbyterian congregation in Hanover Street, London, was one of his protégés. Brand said he ‘would not sell his estate because it was entailed, but he would squeeze it as long as he lived.’ Brand died 1 December 1691, and was buried in Bunhill ...
Thomas Brand may refer to: Thomas Brand (minister) (1635–1691), English nonconformist; Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717–1770), British Member of Parliament for Gatton, New Shoreham, Okehampton and Tavistock; Thomas Brand Hollis (1719–1804), British radical and dissenter; Thomas Brand (junior) (1749–1794), British Member of Parliament for ...
Brand was born on 17 September 1749, the eldest son of Thomas Brand of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and his wife Lady Caroline Pierrepont daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. He was educated at Westminster School in 1764 and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 19 January 1765. [1]
Froggy is a brand name radio format used for a variety of radio stations in the United States, most of which broadcast a country music format, with a few playing adult contemporary. (There was, however, an oldies -themed "Froggy" in Erie, Pennsylvania : the former WFGO ; that station has since changed format and calls in 2007.
Thomas Brand was born the only son of Timothy Brand, a mercer of Ingatestone, Essex, and his wife Sarah Michell of Rickling. He was educated at Brentwood School and Felsted School. He attended the University of Glasgow. There he was a friend of Richard Baron: both were nonconformists influenced by Francis Hutcheson.
Nowadays, the term "oldies" is most commonly applied ironically enough to the era this song was made, rather than what it was singing about (the "oldies" era is generally understood as the rock and roll era and British Invasion era of about 1954–1966, music later than that is often called "classic [genre]" or "old school").