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Hace 2 días · The new rector was a younger son of Sir Edward Stanley of Bickerstaffe, who became Earl of Derby in 1735; educated at Sidney-Sussex Coll. Camb. of which he became a fellow; M.A. 1717. He held many benefices—Liverpool, 1726 to 1740; Winwick, 1740 to 1742, and 1764 to 1781; Bury, 1743 to 1778; Halsall, 1750 to 1757.
Hace 5 días · In the time of Henry VII Sir Edward Stanley had some difficulty in securing the tolls of the July fair, a number of the neighbouring gentry, with their men, coming armed and creating a great riot, so that had not the curate of Bolton interfered, standing between the combatants with the Blessed Sacrament upon him, Sir Edward's ...
Hace 2 días · The earl of Derby in March, 1562, leased the Cross Hall and the windmill there, also the Edgeacres, Greetby Wood, &c. to Sir George Stanley, from whom it came to his son, the complainant's husband. The latter enjoyed possession for some fourteen years, until his death, intestate, in September, 1591.
Hace 4 días · The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom . Pat McFadden has been chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 5 July 2024.
Hace 4 días · The Stanley family, Earls of Derby, had a long history of horse-racing, and James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, who gained the Lordship of Mann in 1627, instituted horse-racing on the Langness Peninsula on the Isle of Man, donating a cup for what became known as the "Manx Derby".
Hace 2 días · On the 29 June, 1586, another Sir Edward Stanley, uncle of the former, wrote a letter from his nephew’s house at Win-wick, asking his brother, the Earl of Derby, to use his good offices with the Archbishop of Canterbury, to appoint his friend John Kine one of the proctors of the Court of Arches.
Hace 2 días · Popham married Anne Dudley, daughter and heiress of John Dudley (1569–1645), [5] second son of Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, by his second wife Jane Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby.
