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Hace 1 día · Ralph Lane was appointed governor of the colony, and Philip Amadas would serve as admiral, although the fleet commander Sir Richard Grenville led the overall mission. Civilian attendants included Joachim Gans , metallurgist, Thomas Harriot , a scientist, and John White, an artist.
Hace 3 días · It's in the frontispiece of a 1595 biography of English Naval hero, Sir Richard Grenville. And Tennyson wrote a poem about this naval hero called The Revenge, which was the name of the ship that he was the captain of, which attacked a much larger Spanish fleet back in the 16th century.
Hace 2 días · The Privy Council, chaired by the sovereign, chooses the sheriffs of all other English counties, other than those in the Duchy of Lancaster. This right came from the Earldom of Cornwall. In the time of earls Richard and Edmund, the steward or seneschal of Cornwall was often also the sheriff. [2]
Hace 1 día · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Hace 5 días · In 1786 a substantial part of the hill, including the tower, which until that date had been part of the share of the manor belonging to the Strodes and their immediate successors, was bought by Richard Hoare and was conveyed in 1801 by his son Sir Richard Colt Hoare to Lt. Gen. Richard Grenville (d. 1823).
Hace 5 días · Germany’s surrender in May 1945 may have brought the National Socialists’ genocidal war to an end, but by this stage 230,000 of Hamburg’s Jews had emigrated and 165,000 had been brutally murdered. Unlike other recent histories of German Jewry, Grenville sees little value in continuing his narrative beyond 1945.
Hace 5 días · RICHARD of Cirencester says that this county took its name from the Carnabii; it is more probable on the contrary, that those people took their name from that of the country they inhabited: the truth seems to be that the country was called by its antient inhabitants, Kernou, or as the Welch write it, Kerniw, or the Horn, from its ...
