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Hace 5 días · The priory of St. James the Great at Birkenhead stood on a wooded headland on the north-eastern shore of the Wirral peninsula near a river ferry across the Mersey to Liverpool; the existence of a ferry may have been the reason for the foundation of a monastery on such an isolated site and for its dedication. (fn. 1) According to John Leland the ...
Hace 3 días · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
Hace 2 días · Groom of the Stole 1660–1837. The groom of the stole was the effective head of the royal bedchamber, with the right to attend the Sovereign at all times and to regulate access to the bedchamber and closet even when absent. The office, which was invariably coupled with that of first gentleman or first lady of the bedchamber from 1660, was in ...
Hace 1 día · General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (1724—1772), Colonel of the 3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons; General George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (1799—1891) Lieutenant-General Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1702—1754) Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson (1859—1927), GOC Corps
Hace 4 días · Sir John Birkenhead or Berkenhead ( c .1617 – 4 December 1679) was a British political writer and journalist, imprisoned several times during the Commonwealth for his obtrusive royalism . Birkenhead was the supposed son of Randall Birkenhead ( c .1580 – 1636) and Margaret Middleton (d. 1669). The parish register of Witton-cum-Twambrooks ...
Hace 3 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
Hace 5 días · Located?) Chilliwack RCMP is asking for the public’s help in locating an 86-year-old man who was last seen earlier this week. According to a news release from Corporal Teresa Parsons, media relations officer for the Chilliwack RCMP, police say 86-year-old Frederick “Earl” Scott was reported missing on Wednesday, May 29.
