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Hace 5 días · Lord Clarendon, when Lord Chancellor under Charles II., having built his magnificent house soon after the sale of Dunkirk to Louis XIV., about the year 1664, found that he had incurred in the eyes of the people the full blame of the transaction, and that his mansion was called by the public not Clarendon but Dunkirk House, on the supposition that it had been built with French money.
Hace 4 días · In mid November they were at Gorhambury entertaining the Earl and Countess of Clarendon and 'a large circle of nobility and gentry around'. In December Viscount Grimston went to visit the Marquess of Abercorn at Baron's Court in Ireland, and on his way back to Gorhambury shortly before Christmas he stayed for a few days with his sister the Countess of Craven.
Hace 5 días · Owing to the distance of Hurst from Scotland the countess sold the property about 1742 to Robert Palmer of Hurst, ancestor of the Palmer family of Sonning. (fn. 18) The representatives of the late Mr. Golding-Palmer of Holme Park sold the house and land to Mr. Philip Hubert Martineau, the present owner, and the name of the house has been changed to Hurst Court.
Hace 1 día · It was granted in 1666 to Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Chancellor, for a rent of 10s., the grounds amounting to 10 acres, and in 1667 it was used as the Fleet Prison, the old Fleet Prison having been burned in the Fire of London.
Hace 5 días · All four women and their mother, the dowager countess of Provence, were present at the meeting at Paris in 1254 between Henry III and Louis IX (pp. 136-138). Yet Howell finds it only ‘incidentally interesting that the family structure which underlay the 1254 meeting depended on a group of five women’ (p. 138).
Hace 4 días · Josephine’s official title is Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat. The title of Countess of Monpezat is a title of nobility given to all direct descendants of ...
Hace 6 días · Japanese Princess Kako arrived in Greece. The official visit is made to mark the 125th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries Japan and Greece. On May 25, Princess Kako departed from Haneda Airport to Greece. On May 26, Princess Kako visited the Acropolis in Athens, where she took a walking tour of the Erechtheion and the ...
