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17 de may. de 2024 · Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland (father) Lady Dorothy Devereux (mother) Alma mater. St John's College, Cambridge. Occupation. Aristocrat. politician. Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, KG, JP (29 September 1602 – 13 October 1668), was an English aristocrat, and supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the First ...
17 de may. de 2024 · Parliament. Years of service. 1642–1645. Rank. Major-General. Battles/wars. First English Civil War. Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, KG, KB, FRS (1602 – 5 May 1671) was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell 's superior. [1]
2 de may. de 2024 · On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected; for Buckingham first equalled, and soon surpassed him, in the ...
Hace 3 días · From 1766 to 1781 he was joint Postmaster-General. He died in the latter year. The rate book for 1763 shows "S r Francis Dashwood" succeeded at No. 10, Downing Street, at Midsummer by the "Hon ble. George Grenwell." This was George Grenville, born in 1712, the second son of Richard Grenville of Wotton Hall, Bucks.
Hace 6 días · However, Charles's insistence on giving command of the English force to his unpopular royal favourite George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, undermined that support. Unfortunately for Charles and Buckingham, the relief expedition proved a fiasco (1627), [20] and Parliament, already hostile to Buckingham for his monopoly on royal patronage , opened impeachment proceedings against him. [21]
12 de may. de 2024 · Hardwick Hall, an Elizabethan country house of the Duke in Derbyshire. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC, FRS (25 January 1640 – 18 August 1707) was an English Army officer, Whig politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 until 1684 when he inherited his father's peerage as Earl of Devonshire and took his ...
