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Hace 5 días · Barrow and Furness, formerly known as Barrow-in-Furness, is a constituency in Cumbria which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Simon Fell of the Conservative Party since 2019.
Hace 1 día · A number of the Lake Poets have referred to locations in present day Barrow: for example, William Wordsworth's 1805 autobiographical poem The Prelude describes his visits to Furness Abbey. The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote a series of sonnets called "Barrow-on-Furness" (sic).
Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 4 días · Probably it became attached to this lordship after the partition of Furness Fells about 1160, William de Lancaster choosing the western moiety, which would include Broughton and Dunnerdale. It must therefore have been this William de Lancaster who gave or confirmed Broughton to one Ailward de Broughton to hold of him by knight's service.
Hace 4 días · The northern half is known as Furness Fells or High Furness, the southern half as Low or Plain Furness (fn. 1); the division between them is roughly a line from Broughton to the south end of Coniston Water and thence by the Crake to the sea.
During the reign of William III it became the practice for new appointments to be communicated by the groom of the stole to the lord chamberlain, who thereupon swore them, saving the right of the groom of the stole to admit them into waiting.
24 de may. de 2024 · Ireland's oldest resident said her three great loves led to her long life. Phyllis Furness turned 109 on May 23. Phyllis Furness, who entered the world on May 23, 1915, was born in England and now lives in Connemara, Co Galway.
