About: William Spurstow (merchant)

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: William Spurstow (merchant) Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatPoliticiansFromLondon, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FWilliam_Spurstow_%28merchant%29&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

William Spurstow (died 1644) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Spurstow was the son of a Shropshire shearman and became a freeman of Shrewsbury in 1597. He moved to London where he became a leading merchant. In 1606 he was largely responsible for a Bill in parliament which relieved Welsh cloth from the need to have a seal of content. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and a director of the East India Company. In 1626 he was imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan. He was a member of the congregation of St Stephen Coleman Street, and the Massachusetts Bay Company two strongly puritan organisations which were opposed to Crown and Church between 16

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	person yago:WikicatPeopleFromShrewsbury yago:WikicatRoundheads yago:Businessperson109882716 yago:Capitalist109609232 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Leader109623038 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Merchant110309896 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Politician110450303 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Roundhead110540656 yago:Whole100003553 yago:Wikicat17th-centuryEnglishPeople yago:Wikicat17th-centuryMerchants yago:WikicatEnglishMerchants yago:WikicatPoliticiansFromLondon
rdfs:label	William Spurstow (merchant) (en)
rdfs:comment	William Spurstow (died 1644) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Spurstow was the son of a Shropshire shearman and became a freeman of Shrewsbury in 1597. He moved to London where he became a leading merchant. In 1606 he was largely responsible for a Bill in parliament which relieved Welsh cloth from the need to have a seal of content. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and a director of the East India Company. In 1626 he was imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan. He was a member of the congregation of St Stephen Coleman Street, and the Massachusetts Bay Company two strongly puritan organisations which were opposed to Crown and Church between 16 (en)
dcterms:subject	Year of birth missing Merchants from London Politicians from Shrewsbury 1644 deaths Businesspeople from Shrewsbury 17th-century merchants English MPs 1640–1648 Roundheads
Wikipage page ID	31850361 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1112617217 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Year of birth missing Member of Parliament Merchants from London English Civil War Long Parliament Shrewsbury Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency) Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford House of Commons of England Massachusetts Bay Company Politicians from Shrewsbury 1644 deaths East India Company Businesspeople from Shrewsbury 17th-century merchants English MPs 1640–1648 Roundheads Thomas Owen (died 1661) Roundheads Worshipful Company of Mercers St Stephen Coleman Street
sameAs	William Spurstow (merchant) William Spurstow (merchant) William Spurstow (merchant) William Spurstow (merchant)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Reflist dbt:S-end dbt:S-start dbt:Succession_box dbt:Use_British_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:S-par
with	Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
after	Thomas Hunt (en)
before	Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford Thomas Owen (died 1661)
title	Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury (en)
years	1640 (xsd:integer)
has abstract	William Spurstow (died 1644) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Spurstow was the son of a Shropshire shearman and became a freeman of Shrewsbury in 1597. He moved to London where he became a leading merchant. In 1606 he was largely responsible for a Bill in parliament which relieved Welsh cloth from the need to have a seal of content. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and a director of the East India Company. In 1626 he was imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan. He was a member of the congregation of St Stephen Coleman Street, and the Massachusetts Bay Company two strongly puritan organisations which were opposed to Crown and Church between 1629 and 1640. In November 1640, Spurstow was elected Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury in the Long Parliament. He served on the Committees for Scandalous Ministers, and the Committee for Plundered Ministers’. He sat until his death in 1644. Spurstow died a wealthy man with his cash alone amounting to over £5,000. He left charitable donations which included £300 to Shrewsbury to set poor up in work. (en)
afer	William Massam (en)
gold:hypernym	Merchant
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:William_Spurstow_(merchant)?oldid=1112617217&ns=0
page length (characters) of wiki page	2709 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:William_Spurstow_(merchant)
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	William Spurstowe 17th century in Wales Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency) List of MPs elected to the English parliament in November 1640 Thomas Owen (died 1661)
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:William_Spurstow_(merchant)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 60 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software