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Hace 5 días · Caroline Lamb’s mother, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, also had numerous lovers including the playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Lord Granville Leveson-Gower. Ponsonby had two children with Leveson-Gower and manged to conceal her pregnancies from her husband.
Hace 5 días · Getty Images. Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian noblewoman, was allegedly a serial killer and torturer who bathed in the blood of 650 young women. Now an assistant professor at Cambridge University,...
Hace 5 días · The actor's great-nephew was, a few months afterwards—August 22nd, 1796—killed while endeavouring to effect an entrance into the house from the back garden. The great-nephew, whose name was Yates, claimed a right to the house, as did also a Miss Jones, and both lived in the house for some months after Yates' death.
Hace 3 días · Inhabitants of St. Cuhtbert's versus Mr. Thorne, their Minister. The Petition of the Inhabitants of St. Cutberts , in Bedford Town, was read; "complaining against Mr. Thorne, their Minister, who hath wilfully neglected the Cure of the Souls of the said Parish, and hath taken to his own Use the Profits of the said Benefice; desiring that an ...
Hace 5 días · Un’altra miniatura riguarda William Ponsonby, secondo conte di Bessborough, politico britannico di origine irlandese. “Era a Venezia nel maggio 1737, circostanza che permetterebbe di considerare il ritratto in questione una delle ultime miniature eseguite da Rosalba”, spiega il curatore.
Hace 5 días · Sir Christopher's son Sir Christopher was of age by 1630. (fn. 28) He and his mother Alice in 1633 sold their manors, named as Long Stanton, Cheyneys, Walwyns, and Colvilles, to his uncle Thomas Hatton (fn. 29) (cr. Bt. 1641, d. 1658). The estate descended with the Hatton baronetcy to his son Thomas (d. 1682) and Thomas's son Christopher, who ...
Hace 3 días · The third Welland Canal (Maps believed to be copyright 1970 by Allan Pritchard) There were now 26 cut stone locks, each 82.3 m (270 feet) long and 13.7 m (45 feet) wide. Originally, the limiting depth was to have been 3.7 m (12 feet) but it was increased to 4.3 m (14 feet) during construction. These new works were partially opened in 1881 but ...
