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Hace 2 días · The first public dinner held here was on June 2, 1858, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., when a testimonial of the value of more than £2,500 was presented to Sir F. P. Smith, in recognition of services in the introduction of the screw-propeller into our steam fleet.
Hace 2 días · Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, was the eldest child of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester. When about eighteen, Edmund Waller began to pay court to her, and his verses, addressed to her under the name of "Sacharissa," have contributed in no slight measure to her renown.
Hace 4 días · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and ...
Hace 5 días · Earl of Kingstone, is sick. Earl of Newcastle, hath sent his Proxy. Earl of Sunderland, is sick. Earl Rivers, hath sent his Proxy. Earl of Marleborough, will send his Proxy. Earl of Banbury, is sick. Earl of Northampton, in the King's Service. Earl of Bridgewater, is sick. Earl of Exceter, is sick. Earl of Suff is sick. Earl of Nottingham, is sick.
Hace 3 días · Having defeated their Tory opponents, the Whig leaders began to quarrel among themselves. In 1717 Walpole and Townshend left office and went into open opposition. Stanhope stayed on, with Charles Spencer, earl of Sunderland, now serving as secretary of state.
Hace 2 días · When the King's Secretary of State, the Earl of Sunderland, began replacing office-holders at court with "Papist" favourites, James began to lose the confidence of many of his Anglican supporters. Sunderland's purge of office-holders even extended to the King's brothers-in-law (the Hydes) and their supporters. [101]
Hace 2 días · The earl's son Spencer was killed, fighting for King Charles, in 1642. The house afterwards became a temporary prison for "malignants," like Gresham College and Lambeth Palace. In 1672 the great hall of the now neglected house was turned into a Presbyterian chapel.
