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Hace 3 días · Second Parliament of George I (1722-27): List of knights, commissioners, citizens & burgesses in Parliament. The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: Volume 8, 1733-1734. Originally published by Chandler, London, 1742. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Hace 22 horas · In the UK Parliament, William Vesey-FitzGerald, Lord Charles Beresford and Arthur Henderson were exceptional in achieving it on no fewer than four occasions each: Vesey-FitzGerald over a span of 18 years through three by-elections and one general election, Beresford over a span of 25 years after voluntarily resigning or retiring from the House at stages of his naval career, Henderson ...
Hace 5 días · In 1552, the manor of Doveridge and Doveridge-holt, were granted to Sir William Cavendish, then Treasurer of the Chamber. Henry Cavendish, Esq., his eldest son, settled this estate, in 1611, on Henry, his natural son.
Hace 3 días · Britain’s Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament. The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive.
Hace 1 día · As he journeyed north for his (belated) coronation in Scotland, Charles was entertained by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle at Welbeck abbey on May 21, 1633, with a masque composed by Jonson. Once again, Jonson recalls the 1575 Kenilworth entertainments as he picks up on its presentation of Leicester’s military identity and his role as a powerful regional magnate.
Hace 4 días · Bassett of Blore married the heiress of Dethick, and the heiress of Bassett of Blore, William Cavendish, afterwards Earl and Duke of Newcastle. A younger branch of this family, descended from William Meynell, of Yeavely, brother of Ralph above-mentioned, settled at Willington, about the year 1500.
Hace 2 días · Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall.
