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Hace 4 días · In early October 1808, following the scandal in Britain over the Convention of Cintra and the recall of the generals Dalrymple, Burrard, and Wellesley, Sir John Moore took command of the 30,000-man British force in Portugal.
Hace 4 días · Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist.
Hace 5 días · WALLBROOK.—Sir John Moore, elected in 1671; served the office of sheriff in 1672, and that of lord mayor in 1682. Sir Gilbert Heathcote, elected in 1702; served the office of sheriff in 1704, that of lord-mayor in 1711; and was removed to the ward of Bridge without.
Hace 4 días · St. Thomas More. On June 22, the Catholic Church honors the life and martyrdom of St. Thomas More, the lawyer, author and statesman who lost his life opposing King Henry VIII's plan to subordinate ...
Hace 1 día · 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United ...
Hace 5 días · In the list of its ministers occur no names of note, unless it be worth while to record that of the Rev. Dr. Symons, who read the funeral service over Sir John Moore at Corunna. In the registers of the chapel is recorded only one burial, under date 1667.
Hace 3 días · In 1694 Sir John Moore, alderman, built a writingschool. The good work went on, for, in 1724, Samuel Travers gave the hospital an estate for the maintenance of forty or fifty sons of lieutenants, to be educated for the navy.
