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Hace 20 horas · Napoleonic Wars. Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC [1] (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War ...
Hace 4 días · Henry Addington's government turned again to volunteers, and the Cinque Ports once more responded enthusiastically -- this time with the personal involvement of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, former prime minister William Pitt the Younger. Cinque Ports Crest.
Hace 4 días · Anthony Addington (1713–90), a doctor to William Pitt the elder, was born and buried in Fringford. His son Henry, the first Lord Sidmouth and Prime Minister in 1801–4, kept up his family's long connexion with the village. Their descendant the 6th Lord Sidmouth still owned Hall farm in 1955.
Hace 1 día · There was still no thought of going to war; Prime Minister Henry Addington publicly affirmed that Britain was in a state of peace. [61] In early March 1803, the Addington ministry received word that Cape Colony had been reoccupied by the British army, in accordance with the orders which had subsequently been countermanded.
Hace 2 días · Among the many well-known residents may be mentioned Sir Roger Newdigate, the antiquary and founder of the Newdigate prize for English verse, Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Lord Frederick Campbell, Patrick Delaney, D.D., the friend of Sheridan and Swift, George Canning, the 1st Earl of Malmesbury, diarist, and Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth.
Hace 3 días · Table of Notable Inhabitants on the Burlington Estate BOYLE STREET. 1. Lord Sidney Beauclerk, son of the Duke of St. Albans and father of Topham Beauclerk, 1735–6; John Shirley, esquire, 1737; Robert Shirley, esquire, 1738–42; Miss Manners, 1743–1748; Lady Ann Connelly (? daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth, third Baron Raby), 1754; Lady Drake, 1755–70; Miss Sophia Drake, 1770–83 ...
Hace 1 día · 1945: Un bombardeo británico destruye la base de Peenemünde, donde los nazis fabricaban los famosos misiles V-2. 1948: En Corea del Sur, Syngman Rhee es nombrado presidente de la Asamblea ...
