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Hace 2 días · Wytham School was founded by deed poll, 24 November 1858, and endowed by Frances Elizabeth Anne, Dowager Countess Waldegrave, who by her will, proved at London 25 August 1879, gave £1,000 towards the salary of the schoolmistress.
Hace 4 días · The church, which dates from the 11th or 12th century, had been appropriated by 1181 to St. Paul's Cathedral, which owned the manor of Navestock. (fn. 1) A vicar is mentioned in a document of about 1222-9. (fn. 2) The rectory and the advowson of the vicarage descended together along with the manor until 1555, when Sir Edward Waldegrave sold the rectory and advowson to Sir Thomas Pope to form ...
Hace 3 días · 344. 1849 PARKINSON-FORTESCUE, Frances Elizabeth Anne, 7th Countess Waldegrave. Diary, 1849–79. Social round, visits, dinner parties, life at Strawberry Hill. Entries for the last few months of her life, in 1879, annotated by her widower. BL Add MSS 63,705–27
Hace 4 días · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political ...
Hace 2 días · Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Queen Mary, the late Queen Elizabeth II ’s grandmother. A formidable character who became the matriarch of the Royal Family, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26 May 1867 in the same room where Queen Victoria (who was a distant cousin) had been born 40 years prior.
Hace 5 días · The Empress on Netflix provides a look at the early life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Through six episodes, viewers see the rebellious and spirited young woman who would go on to have a life plagued with tragedy. The story behind The Empress is more complicated than the show can depict accurately, but it does provide many facts about ...
Hace 5 días · The Queen joined 500 mourners at a memorial service, 23 May, 2024, at Badminton, Gloucestershire, for her friend Capt Ian Farquhar, the renowned horseman and legendary hunting figure who died in March, died aged 78.
