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Hace 4 días · Founder: Halifax. George Montagu Dunk, 2nd earl of Halifax (born Oct. 5/6, 1716—died June 8, 1771) was an English statesman, after whom the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is named. He was the son of George Montagu, 1st earl of Montagu, to whose title he succeeded in 1739. He assumed the name of his wealthy wife, Anne Dunk, whom he married in 1741.
Hace 3 días · Anne, however, insisted on carrying out the duties of Lord High Admiral herself, without appointing a member of the government to take George's place. Undeterred, the Junto demanded the appointment of the Earl of Orford, another member of the Junto and one of the prince's leading critics, as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Hace 5 días · After his death his successor, who upon the extinction of the elder branch of the Hydes became Earl of Clarendon, joined with his son Lord Cornbury, and sold the grant and remainder for the sum of 5,000l. to George I. who granted it to Robert, the second Earl of Orford, then Lord Walpole.
Hace 3 días · Henry St. John, later General, son of second Viscount St. John), 1771–3; Lord Richard Cavendish, younger son of fourth Duke of Devonshire, grandson of third Earl of Burlington, 1773–81; Lord George Cavendish, later first Earl of Burlington (second creation), brother of above, 1784–1818; Hon. John Simpson of Babworth Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1819–40; Zadock Aaron Jessel, diamond merchant ...
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Hace 4 días · SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, afterwards 1st Earl of Pembroke, K.G. — 1550–1570. 7 May 4 Edw. VI. (1550) the King granted the Lordship of Cardiff to Sir William Herbert, to whom, by this and a previous grant of 10 July 1547, nearly all his manors in Glamorgan (though not the Lordship of Glamorgan itself), were granted by this King.
Hace 4 días · An Act of 1667-8 after Edward's death authorized the sale of his remaining Chiswick property, although Edward Russell, presumably his second son who was born at Chiswick and became earl of Orford, remained a ratepayer in 1686-7.
