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Hace 5 días · In the 18th century, the castle underwent an extensive rebuilding program under the 1st Duke of Northumberland, Hugh Percy. The medieval towers were heightened, new state apartments were added, and fashionable Gothic-style windows were installed.[^4] These renovations helped to cement Alnwick‘s status as a ducal palace.
Hace 1 día · Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland: c. 1714–1786 1756 Later Duke of Northumberland 575 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford: 1718–1794 1756 Later Marquess of Hertford 576 James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave: 1715–1763 1757 Lord Warden of the Stannaries 577 Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Bevern: 1721–1792 1759
Hace 3 días · Westminster was a parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of England to 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1800 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. It returned two members to 1885 and one thereafter. The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the ...
Hace 3 días · Peter Burrell, esq. married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Lewis, esq. of Hackney, by whom he had one son, Peter, and four daughters, of whom Elizabeth-Emelia married Richard Henry Alexander Bennett, esq. of Cambridgeshire; Susanna married lord Algernon Percy, second son of the late duke of Northumberland, now lord Lovaine; Frances Juliana married Hugh earl Percy, now duke of ...
Hace 4 días · In 1549 it was granted to John Dudley, (fn. 264) and reunited with the castle estate. Although leased in 1585 under the name of the Temple Farm by Ambrose Dudley to his tenant, Richard Brookes, for 21 years, (fn. 265) it was nevertheless leased by the Crown in 1590 for 15½ years to John Randall of Chalfont St. Giles.
Hace 5 días · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
Hace 2 días · Anne's one-time betrothed, Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, sat on the jury that unanimously found Anne guilty. When the verdict was announced, he collapsed and had to be carried from the courtroom.
