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Hace 5 días · Plans are in hand for Tenby to mark the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings with a special beacon lighting ceremony on Castle Hill. Instead of lighting beacons to mark his coronation last year His Majesty, The King requested that they be lit on June 6 to mark the anniversary of Operation Overlord.
Hace 3 días · A person nearly drowned after a fire ripped through a yacht off the coast of Tenby, the RNLI has said. Tenby's all-weather lifeboat launched just after 7pm on Saturday 25 May following a report...
Hace 4 días · Sir George, the second baronet of Esk, resided at Netherby, the present family seat: his son, Sir Richard, was in 1680, created Viscount Preston of the kingdom of Scotland; after the revolution, being apprehended in a boat on the river Thames, as he was about to leave the kingdom for the purpose of joining the abdicated monarch, he ...
Hace 4 días · The principal officer of the great wardrobe was the master. He was appointed by the Crown by letters patent under the great seal. The grants in 1660 and 1671 in favour of Sir Edward Montagu and Ralph Montagu were for life. Despite this, the latter was displaced on the accession of James II in 1685 by Viscount Preston who was ...
Hace 3 días · Gwilym Lloyd George (Jesus), British Home Secretary (1954–1957) and younger son of David Lloyd George; Selwyn Lloyd (Magdalene), British Foreign Secretary (1955–1960), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1960–1962), and Speaker of the House of Commons (1971–1976)
Hace 3 días · On 5 May 1922, Balfour was created Earl of Balfour and Viscount Traprain, of Whittingehame, in the county of Haddington. In October 1922 he, with most of the Conservative leadership, resigned with Lloyd George's government following the Carlton Club meeting, a Conservative back-bench revolt against continuance of the coalition.
Hace 2 días · Son of Sir Thomas Rowe (Lord Mayor 1568–9) and grandson of Sir John Gresham (Lord Mayor 1547–8), ancestor of the Marquesses of Downshire through the marriage of his great-great-granddaughter to the 1st Viscount Hillsborough.
