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Hace 5 días · The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander, Robert FitzRoy. (During Beagle's first voyage, Captain Pringle Stokes had died by suicide. The expedition's leader appointed Beagle's 1st Lieutenant, W. G. Skyring, as her acting ...
9 de may. de 2024 · General Lord Charles FitzRoy (17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829) was a British Army officer and politician . Early life[edit] FitzRoy was born on 17 July 1764. He was the third, but second surviving, son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and, his first wife, Anne Liddell, a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. [1]
13 de may. de 2024 · The picture is believed to have been painted for the Prime Minister of Britain from 1768-1770, Augustus Fitzroy, 3 rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), who was part of the closely-connected nexus of ‘Whig’ statesmen that provided Stubbs with his most important patronage during this career-defining period.
Hace 2 días · Lord Chatham fell ill in 1767, and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, took over the government. Grafton did not formally become prime minister until 1768. That year, John Wilkes returned to England, stood as a candidate in the general election, and came top of the poll in the Middlesex constituency.
Hace 5 días · In 1710 he took the title of Duke of Cleveland and died in 1730. The title was revived, as noted above, in 1780, when Charles Fitzroy, son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, and great-grandson of Henry, Duke of Grafton (another son of Barbara Villiers), became Baron Southampton.
14 de may. de 2024 · Mares and Foals, dated to c.1769, is regarded as the “grandest statement” in a series of paintings executed in the 1760s and is believed to have been painted for Augustus Fitzroy, 3 rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), the British Prime Minister from 1768-70.
18 de may. de 2024 · An Act for settling a certain Yearly Sum upon the Right Honourable Ann Fitzroy, commonly called Countess of Euston, Wife of the Right Honourable Augustus Fitzroy Esquire, commonly called Earl of Euston, out of certain Yearly Pensions issuing out of the Hereditary Revenue of the Excise, and comprized in certain Letters Patent bearing ...
