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5 de feb. de 2024 · The eldest son of Henry Fermor of Tusmore, Oxfordshire, William Fermor (1737–1806) went on the Grand Tour in 1757–1758. Like other English visitors to Rome, he had his portrait painted by both Mengs and Pompeo Batoni: the latter portrait (1758) is now in the Kress Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His elegant costume is not ...
Fermor’s activities at the time of the Revolution are uncertain, but following the king’s overthrow he was once more drawn into the political arena by his marriage to Carmarthen’s daughter, widow of the son of his old political rival Ibrackan.18 To coincide with this new alliance Fermor was raised to the peerage.
William Fermor was an Imperial Russian Army officer best known for leading his country’s army at the Battle of Zorndorf during the Seven Years’ War. His name is sometimes styled Wilhelm von Fermor or Villim Villimovich Fermor. He was born in 1702, of British and Lutheran Baltic German descent. He joined the Russian army in 1720 and distinguished himself at the Battle of Danzig during the ...
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War , [2] and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). [3]
30 de ago. de 2023 · Patrick Leigh Fermor helped the Greek resistance and even kidnapped a Nazi general on Crete. Credit: Arthur Conry / CC-BY-SA-3 / Wikimedia Commons. The famous British writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor always followed the call of his heart, which often led to his beloved Greece. He was a tireless traveler, a polyglot who was fluent in ...
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Fermor has received more than 50,346 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia . William Fermor is the 11,246th most popular politician (down from 10,685th in 2019) , the 1,217th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,124th in 2019) and the 329th most popular Russian Politician .
25 de ene. de 2023 · William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster . Birth: circa 1648. Parents: Sir William Fermor, 1st Bt. and Mary Perry. Wife3: Lady Sophia Osborne, daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds and Lady Bridget Bertie, on 5 March 1691/92.
