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Hace 2 días · There was still no thought of going to war; Prime Minister Henry Addington publicly affirmed that Britain was in a state of peace. [61] In early March 1803, the Addington ministry received word that Cape Colony had been reoccupied by the British army, in accordance with the orders which had subsequently been countermanded.
Hace 5 días · Anthony Addington (1713–90), a doctor to William Pitt the elder, was born and buried in Fringford. His son Henry, the first Lord Sidmouth and Prime Minister in 1801–4, kept up his family's long connexion with the village. Their descendant the 6th Lord Sidmouth still owned Hall farm in 1955.
Hace 1 día · Napoleonic Wars. Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC [1] (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War ...
Hace 3 días · Spring Gardens, the little thoroughfare which lies behind the southwest frontage to Charing Cross, derives its name from the Spring Garden, formed, probably, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth in the north-east corner of St. James's Park as an addition to the pleasure grounds of Whitehall Palace. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as one meaning ...
Hace 4 días · Highbury New Park was one of two estates laid out in the 1850s, being developed from 1851 by Henry Rydon on former land of Francis Maseres, which had passed to Robert and William Fellowes. (fn. 23) Three houses fronting Highbury Grove south of Aberdeen Park were leased in 1851 and Park Road (later Highbury New Park), Grosvenor Road (later ...
Hace 5 días · Henry II (born 1133, Le Mans, Maine [now in France]—died July 6, 1189, near Tours) was the duke of Normandy (from 1150), count of Anjou (from 1151), duke of Aquitaine (from 1152), and king of England (from 1154), who greatly expanded his Anglo-French domains and strengthened the royal administration in England.
Hace 5 días · Henry VI (born December 6, 1421, Windsor, Berkshire, England—died May 21/22, 1471, London) was the king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471. He was a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of the Roses.
