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Hace 5 días · Tavistock Street, which took its name from the Russells' marquessate, was not made so narrow as originally intended, its width being 35 feet. At its eastern end it opened into Charles Street, and on its north side was a narrow passage 12 feet in breadth, called Tavistock Court, which led into the Piazza (see fig. 32 on page 208).
Hace 4 días · In 1762 Garrick and Lacy decided to make some substantial alterations to the playhouse and applied to the fourth Duke of Bedford's son, the Marquess of Tavistock, who then possessed a life interest in the property, for a renewal of the lease.
Hace 3 días · In 1695–6 William Duke of Bedford, Lady Rachel Russell, the widow of his son William, and Elizabeth Howland, the mother-in-law of Wriothesley Marquess of Tavistock, who was the son of Lady Rachel and of William Lord Russell, stated in a petition that they had made a dry dock at Rotherhithe, and asked for powers to construct also a ...
Hace 3 días · John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
Hace 3 días · The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932) displays the frequent defects of official biography.
Hace 2 días · The parliamentary borough of Peterborough was abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1918, and the name was transferred to a division of the new parliamentary county of Northampton with the Soke of Peterborough. [5] The Peterborough division became a county constituency in 1950.
Hace 3 días · Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall.
