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Hace 3 días · Great Marlborough Street. The eastern part of Millfield, which John Steele had leased in 1704 to Joseph Collens, comprised five acres between Tyburn Road on the north, the wall of Pesthouse Close on the south, the Pollett estate on the east and the western part of Millfield (later the Argyll estate) on the west (fig. 2).
Hace 4 días · Consuelo had two sons with the Duke of Marlborough: John Albert William Spencer-Churchill (1897-1972), who became the 10th Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956). To this day, her descendants continue to play significant roles in British aristocracy as well as in the management and preservation of Blenheim Palace.
Hace 3 días · Her hair was not without a tinge of red, and her face, though pleasing, had it not been illumined by her mind, might have been considered an ordinary countenance. Descended, in the fourth degree, lineally from Sarah Jennings, the wife of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, she resembled the portraits of that celebrated woman.
Hace 5 días · Woodstock remained a royal deer park until granted to John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, in 1705. In the 13th century the park was usually administered with Woodstock manor, whose keepers or bailiffs accounted directly in the Exchequer. In the 1240s they were allowed £6 13s. 4d. for keeping the park.
Hace 1 día · Queen Anne gave Blenheim Palace to John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, in the 18th century, and in the next century, the 7th Duke of Marlborough and his wife welcomed their son, Winston Churchill, into the world. On a tour of the castle, you can visit an exhibit about Sir Winston Churchill detailing his life at the palace and legacy.
Hace 3 días · These avenues the parish owes to John, Duke of Montagu, known as Duke John the Planter, from the miles of such avenues he planted in this and adjoining parishes. Buried beneath the road at the east end of the bridge over the Ise, is a medieval arch (? 14th century) which originally crossed the stream, the old course of which can still be seen in the field to the south of the road.
Hace 4 días · A Treasury warrant for a grant to be made to John Churchill, Baron Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough (d. 1722), was evidently frustrated by the previous creation of a trust in favour of Hucker's son Robert, himself a Monmouth supporter.
