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Hace 3 días · The first house on this site was built in or shortly before 1665. On 1 April of that year this house, and that which adjoined it to the west, were assigned by the Earl of St. Albans's trustees (who then held the Crown lease) to Sir Thomas Clarges. They were then described as 'Two Faire bricke messuages' and together they had a frontage to Pall ...
Hace 3 días · Pall Mall is described by Strype, in his edition of Stow, as "a fine long street," adorned with gardens on the south side, many with raised mounds and fine views of the royal gardens and St. James's Park beyond; nevertheless, three centuries ago, the whole of the space between St. James's Palace and Charing Cross was only a tract of fields.
Hace 5 días · Charles Beauclear, Earl of Burford, Knt. of the Bath, became Duke of St. Albans. In his Place Lord Vere Beauclear, third Brother of Duke of St. Albans, Commander of his Majesty's Ship the Lyme.
Hace 4 días · The city of St. Alban now comprises the whole of the parish of St. Alban, and extends into the parishes of St. Peter, St. Michael, St. Stephen, and Sandridge. The bounds of the borough were first recorded in 1327, (fn. 1) although as early as 1142 its limits appear to have been defined by a ditch, (fn. 2) afterwards called Tonmans Dike, which ...
Hace 1 día · It was afterwards occupied by Richard Earl of Ranelagh, paymaster of the forces in the reign of Charles II, and then successively by Charles Duke of St. Albans, a natural son of Charles II, the Duke of Cumberland and the Duke of York, uncle and brother respectively of George III, and then by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
Hace 2 días · Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban [a] PC ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the ...
Hace 3 días · Elizabeth Howe, in The First English Actresses, says she was "the most famous Restoration actress of all time, possessed of an extraordinary comic talent."[1] By Charles, Nell had two sons, Charles Beauclerk (1670-1726) and James Beauclerk (1671-1680). Charles was the first Earl of Burford, later Duke of St. Albans.
