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Hace 4 días · Mentioned in Despatches. Order of the White Eagle [1] Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
Hace 4 días · Bratfortune, Bradfortune (xi cent.); Braferton, Brafferton (xiii cent.). The parish of Brafferton, including the townships of Helperby and Thornton Bridge, covers 5,015 acres of land on either side of the River Swale and some 16 miles north of York. The land lies low, being but 50 ft. above ordnance datum by the Swale, but rises towards the ...
Hace 1 día · Oswald Mosley. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
Hace 5 días · The abbot and convent of Beyham were possessed of lands in this parish, in the dennes of Swetlynden and Rodelynden, in the reign of Edward III. of the gift of John de Chivene, and John de Kaynesham, vicar of Cranbrooke; and in the 2d year of Edward III. the abbot, &c. had free-warren for his lands in this and other parishes in Kent and Suffex.
Hace 5 días · By the gift of Philip Henry Loyd, Bishop of St. Albans, the College has a striking contemporary portrait of Lady Downing, widow of the 4th and last baronet, whose opposition to the founder's will delayed the realization of its intentions: and there are portraits also of the founder and Lady Downing (Miss Forester), and, deposited on loan by Harvard College, of Sir George Downing, 1st baronet ...
Hace 2 días · The Acquisition of the Estate. For three hundred years the Grosvenor family has owned large estates in what are now some of the most valuable parts of Westminster. These estates were acquired in 1677 through the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor with Mary Davies, the infant daughter and heiress of a scrivener in the City of London.
Hace 4 días · e. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice (1822–1827, 1828–1830). He is regarded as the ...
