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Hace 5 días · The pearls were originally paid for in cash and gems, with Marie Antoinette giving them to her good friend, Lady Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, wife of the British ambassador Lord George ...
Hace 3 días · In the chancel is a marble wall monument commemorating Richard Fitzpatrick, Baron Gowran (d. 1727), his wife Ann Robinson (d. 1744), their son John, Earl of Upper Ossory (d. 1758) and his wife Evelyn Leveson-Gower (d. 1763); also John, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory (d. 1818) and his wife Ann Liddell (d. 1804); they are all buried 'in this ...
Hace 2 días · There were 22 recorded inhabitants in 1086. (fn. 1) By the early 14th century growth had been considerable. There were c. 145 free tenants c. 1337 as well as neifs and the landless. Donnington had 33 per cent of the free tenants, Lilleshall 27 per cent, Honnington 22 per cent, and Muxton 18 per cent. (fn. 2) Population collapsed at the Black ...
Hace 5 días · Barkham is a small parish 1,388 acres in area, of which 417 acres are arable, 559 permanent grass and 333 woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The Barkham Brook, a tributary of the Loddon, flows through the village, and there is a small lake in the parish called Longmoor, constructed by the late Mr. John Walter, where formerly the Longmoor bog existed.
Hace 4 días · At the general election later that year the Gower-Anson candidates, Thomas Anson and Granville Leveson-Gower, triumphed, principally because of their grip on the burgage and freehold vote. Accounts kept for the 1747–54 elections by the Whig agent, Thomas Cobb, showed that 72 votes had been acquired since 1747 at a cost of £7,894 9 s . 4 d . spent on buying property.
Hace 6 días · Westminster was a parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of England to 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1800 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. It returned two members to 1885 and one thereafter. The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the ...
In 1772, King Louis XV commissioned a diamond necklace from Parisian jewelers Charles Auguste Boehmer and Paul Bassenge. Estimated to cost 2 million livres, the necklace was intended to be a gift to his mistress, Madame du Barry.
