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Hace 2 días · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole.
23 de may. de 2024 · Henry de la Poer, Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford (1772–1826), politician who marries Lady Susanna Hussey Carpenter, only daughter of George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, by his second wife Hon. Sarah Hussey Delaval, a younger daughter of John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, in 1805.
Hace 4 días · First to be explored is how the earldom of Norfolk came into being – how the fortunes of the Bigod family were made. By 1107, Morris shows, the Bigods had become 'barons of the first rank' (p. 1) and by 1166 were the fifth richest family in England.
Hace 6 días · Suspicions that Charles I had some hand in his father’s death were seized upon by parliamentarian polemicists at the outbreak of the first English Civil War, playing an important role in discrediting the King during the Vote of No Addresses in 1648, and during Charles’ subsequent trial and execution.
14 de may. de 2024 · Overview 1169-1494. In 1066 the Normans, a term used to describe people from the region of Normandy and the surrounding areas of northern France, conquered England under the leadership of William, Duke of Normandy (widely known as ‘William the Conqueror’).
Hace 5 días · The fashionable locality now known as May Fair, in the days of George I. and George II., however, enjoyed, on other grounds than that of the annual fair, a celebrity almost unique, and rivalled only by the Fleet Prison, of which we have already spoken.
Hace 3 días · Price: £35.00. It is curious that it should have taken imperial proconsul Lord Cromer (1841–1917, Evelyn Baring until 1892) nearly a century to find a scholarly biographer worthy of his centrality to British, imperial and Egyptian history in the Victorian-Edwardian age.
