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Hace 1 día · WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—THE CHAPELS AND ROYAL TOMBS. "A feeling sad came o'er me as I trod the sacred ground. Where Tudors and Plantagenets were lying all around; I stepp'd with noiseless foot, as though the sound of mortal tread. Might burst the bands of the dreamless sleep that wraps the mighty dead!" Ingoldsby Legends.
Hace 1 día · Pam. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at ...
Hace 5 días · The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont (d. 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (1608-1679), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Hace 4 días · SPEECHES and DEBATES In the Fifth Session of the First Parliament of King George I. Anno 6. Geo. 1. 1719. The King went to the House of Peers on the 23d of November, with the usual State, when the Lord Chancellor, by his Majesty's Command, read the following Speech to both Houses: King's Speech at opening the Fifth. Session.
Hace 2 días · Signature. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was ...
Hace 2 días · Debate on the Number of Land Forces for the Year 1728. Mr Walpole's Motion for keeping up 12,000 Hessian Forces for the Year 1728. ; Debate thereon. The Motion agreed to. An Address for an Account of 250,000 l. charg'd for Secret Service. The Committee of Supply resolve to raise 1,750,000 l. on the Coal-Duty.
Hace 5 días · Wood of Braconashe, in Norfolk, who died 1686, without issue, and Valentine Pell, Esq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Lane of Walsingham, and on his death, sans issue, gave this lordship by will, to Robert Walpole, Esq. father of Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter, and Earl of Orford, whose grandson, the present Earl of Orford, is lord of it.
