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Hace 5 días · His son the sixth Thomas was surveyor-general of the Board of Works to George III. He died in 1778 and was succeeded by his second son Edward, who made a settlement in 1827–8 (fn. 36) and died unmarried in 1830, when the property passed to his nephew William son of George Worsley, rector of Stonegrave. William was created a baronet in 1838 ...
Hace 3 días · Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously served twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
Hace 4 días · King Edward VI., in the year 1552, granted it to Sir William Cavendish , ancestor of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who is the present proprietor. In the parish church are memorials for Edward Home, captain in the navy 1764; " Madam Mawer, wife of the Reverend Kaye Mawer, son of John Mawer, of the ancient and illustrious house of Mawer," 1776; and of the family of Bradley, of Butterley-park ...
Hace 5 días · In the 18th century, Young highlights the impact that Delariviere Gage née D’Ewes had on the running of the Hengrave estate after her 14-year-old son Sir Thomas Gage inherited his grandfather’s estate in 1727, while later in the period Elizabeth Rookwood, the wife of John Gage, a younger son of second baronet Sir William Gage, patronised a new Jesuit mission for the Catholic community (p ...
Hace 2 días · Lord Kelvin. It is believed the "PNP" in his signature stands for "Professor of Natural Philosophy". Kelvin also wrote under the pseudonym "P. Q. R." William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) [7] was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. [8]
Hace 5 días · The parish of Radley included in 1831 the 'liberty' of Thrupp and Wick and part of the township of Kennington, and covered altogether 3,550 acres. Kennington was made into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1866. (fn. 1) In May 1900 the extra-parochial district called Bagley Wood was added to Radley. (fn. 2) Radley Church From The South-East.
Hace 4 días · Siege of Namur. William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from ...
