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Hace 2 días · James Radcliffe, 3rd and last earl of Derwentwater, was allied by consanguinity to the "Chevalier," his mother having been a natural daughter of Charles II. He was born in 1689 and thus was only 26 years of age. 3. A Journal of several occurrences from 2 November, 1715 in the Insurrection began in Scotland and concluded at Preston on ...
Hace 6 días · — Sir Francis Radcliffe, Bart. of Dalston, in Northumberland, descended from the Radcliffes of Castlerig, on Derwentwater lake, whose ancestor had married the heiress of Derwentwater, was in 1688 created Earl of Derwentwater, which title was forfeited by the attainder of James, third Earl of Derwentwater, beheaded in 1716, for ...
24 de may. de 2024 · The manor came later with Whenby into the hands of John Moryn, from whom it passed by descent to James Radclyffe Earl of Derwentwater, attainted and beheaded for high treason in 1716. The commissioners for forfeited estates sold Skewsby with Whenby to William Garforth in 1722.
Hace 5 días · James Ratcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater, who derived his title from this lake, which is comprehended in the parish of Crosthwaite. The Vicar's Isle contains 5! acres, beautifully laid out in pleasure grounds, inter. spersed with a variety of trees, and crowned with a neat house in the centre.
24 de may. de 2024 · Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively the last battle (August 22, 1485) in the English Wars of the Roses, in which Henry Tudor defeated Richard III.
3 de may. de 2024 · Radclyffe Hall is today best known as the author of the once-vilified 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness, which is now celebrated as a landmark work of lesbian fiction and credited with ushering in a wave of lesbian pulp fiction later in the twentieth century. Like Stephen Gordon, the protagonist of her most famous work, Hall led a difficult ...
24 de may. de 2024 · Blount was tall, dark, and of ‘comely proportion’, with beautiful hands and large black eyes, careful and elegant in his dress. Cheerful and amiable, modest and reticent, a ‘close concealer of secrets’, he smoked, and kept a good table. In his behaviour he was courtly and grave, mild in manner, and slow to anger.
