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Hace 3 días · BRIAVELS. By 1207 the keepers or wardens ( custodes) of the Forest under the Crown also had the style of constable of St. Briavels castle, the castle having probably remained with the custody of the Forest since 1139. During the 13th and 14th centuries the constable-wardens held at farm the castle, St. Briavels manor, Newland manor, and most of ...
Hace 3 días · Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL ( / ˈbælfər, - fɔːr /, [1] 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued ...
Hace 2 días · Footnotes. n1.Nicholas, the last of the elder branch, (whose heiress married Francis,) had himself married the heiress of Percehay. n2.The Holwell branch became extinct in the early part of the last century, by the death of Roger Hele, Esq., who left two daughters; Juliana, married to the Duke of Leeds, by whom she had no issue, and afterwards to the Earl of Portmore, ancestor of the present ...
Hace 3 días · Conrad Russell, the fifth Earl Russell, historian of 16th- and 17th-century Britain, was the younger son of the mathematician, philosopher, political activist and Nobel prize winner Bertrand Russell. After a difficult childhood, overshadowed by his father’s celebrity and the very public breakup of his parents’ marriage, he went up to Merton College Oxford, in 1955, graduating with a First.
Hace 2 días · The Earl of Warwick reported from the Lords Committees to whom was referred the Petition of Constantine Phipps, late of the Parish of St. George, HanoverSquare, and now of the City of Dublin, Esquire; praying Liberty to proceed in a Suit commenced by him, in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, against Richard Earl of Anglesey and others, for an Accompt of the Rents and Profits of certain ...
Hace 3 días · (The Earl's Court Arms at No. 123 Earl's Court Road was advancing in value from £3,800 in 1868 to £9,000 in 1885 for a correspondingly shorter term. ) Nearby, in Earl's Court Gardens, the front curtilage of new houses was utilized for shops in 1876–7 (see page 224), and 1878–80 saw shops built out in front of Nos. 1
Hace 4 días · Despite its remoteness, Little Chelsea had some distinguished residents. By 1682 Sir James Smith had sold his 18-hearth mansion and land there to Charles Morgan (d. 1682), grocer, and by 1700 it was the residence of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of Shaftesbury, who remained there until c. 1706.
