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Hace 1 día · On the night of 30th/31st May 1533, the second day of the celebrations for Queen Anne Boleyn's coronation, eighteen men were created Knights of the Bath at the Tower of London. The list of men dubbed that night included Sir Francis Weston, who would, of course, be executed in May 1536 accused of sleeping with the queen and plotting with her. Find out who else was dubbed and what was involved ...
Hace 3 días · A younger branch of the Prideauxes of Thuborough settled at Padstow in the reign of Henry VIII., and were the immediate ancestors of the Rev. Charles Prideaux Brune, now of Place, who, in 1797, obtained the King's sign-manual for taking the additional name of Brune, pursuant to the will of his great-uncle Charles Brune, Esq., of Plumber in Dorsetshire, the last heir-male of an ancient baronial ...
Hace 1 día · L’histoire du Prix du Jockey Club a commencé il y a près de 200 ans. Un groupe de sportsmen, emmenés par Lord Henry Seymour, célèbre dandy anglais passionné de sports équestres, revenant à cheval au château de Chantilly, découvre sur cette plaine la souplesse du terrain idéale pour leur projet d’installation d’un hippodrome.
Hace 4 días · Baronets. Musgrave of Edenhall, 1611. — The Musgraves are descended from the ancient baronial family of Musgrave in Westmorland. Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469 or 1470, married the elder daughter and coheir of Stapleton of Edenhall. His descendant, Sir Richard, who had been made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James, was ...
Hace 4 días · t. e. John Henry Newman CO (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.
Hace 2 días · Henry VIII (born June 28, 1491, Greenwich, near London, England—died January 28, 1547, London) was the king of England (1509–47) who presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation. His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future queen Mary I ), Anne Boleyn (the mother of ...
Hace 2 días · Brigadier-General Gilbert Henry Wedgwood [3] (1876—1963), York and Lancaster Regiment GOC. Brigadier-General Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet KCB CMG TD [3] (1874—1956) General Sir George Alexander Weir KCB CMG DSO DL [3] (1876—1951), 84th Brigade, 55th Infantry Division, British Troops in Egypt.
