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Hace 6 días · A list of some of those distinguished residents who did not occupy houses mentioned in the text is appended below. It should be noted, however, that it was impossible to examine the ratebooks for every year, and the dates of residence given below therefore do not necessarily indicate the full period of each occupancy.
27 de jun. de 2024 · The next occupant of the house is given by the ratebooks from 1757 to 1762 as the Earl of Halifax. George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, was born in 1716, and took the name of Dunk on his marriage with Anne Richards, who inherited the property of Sir Thomas Dunk.
30 de jun. de 2024 · Newton moved to London to take up the post of warden of the Royal Mint during the reign of King William III in 1696, a position that he had obtained through the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1 de jul. de 2024 · George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, the well-known favourite of James I and Charles I, was born in 1592. He was introduced to the King in 1614. His rise was rapid; he had attained the rank of marquess by 1619, and in the same year was made lord high admiral, a position for which he was singularly ill-fitted.
Hace 3 días · Halifax was founded below a drumlin that would later be named Citadel Hill. The outpost was named in honour of George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, who was the President of the Board of Trade.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
22 de jun. de 2024 · This tree then became a place of pilgrimage for many. However, the most widely accepted explanation for the name Halifax relates to George Montagu Dunk, the second Earl of Halifax. He played a significant role in the British Board of Trade and the colonization of Nova Scotia.
