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Hace 1 día · On 2 February 1687 Corelli or Alessandro Scarlatti directed a tremendous orchestra performing a Pasquini cantata in praise for James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Mary I to welcome Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine as the new ambassador to the Vatican, accompanied by the painter John Michael Wright, who knew Rome and spoke Italian.
Hace 3 días · After 1764 a quarry on the earl's land at Emscote was used exclusively, the stone being carried down the river on a boat built for the purpose, to be landed at a wharf by the castle mill. The Vineyard quarry was filled in in 1766. The cost of the earl's works as a whole for the eight accounting years 1764-71 amounted to about £9,250.
17 de may. de 2024 · The manor house, Wivenhoe Hall, built just north-west of the church c. 1530, had a tower gateway used as a sea mark in the 16th century. The house was described as decayed in 1594, and as having 15 hearths in 1662. In 1844 it was altered and rebuilt, the two-storeyed north wing, with walls of brick and plastered timber- framing and tiled roofs ...
Hace 1 día · Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe: 1858–1945 1908 Later Marquess of Crewe 835 William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton: 1851–1913 1908 836 John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham: 1855–1928 1909 Lord Lieutenant of Durham 837 William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne: 1859–1942 1909 High Commissioner for Southern Africa 838
Hace 3 días · Thereafter, an interesting picture emerges of Roger III from Morris's narrative, thanks in particular both to the author's painstaking reconstruction of events from 1228 (the year of the attainment of Roger III's majority) onwards, and to the very 'memorable images' (p. 184) of the earl presented to us by poets and by the chroniclers of a warlike and quick-tempered man, a 'vir bellicosus', who ...
Hace 4 días · Annotation. Painted by Francesco Renaldi in 1786, The Palmer Family depicts Major William Palmer (seated in the center) surrounded by his two bibis, children, and female servants. Bibis are common-law wives of British men in India. Seated to Palmer's left is Bibi Faiz Bakhsh. She is holding one of Palmer's children, a sleeping baby boy named ...
Hace 5 días · DUKES AND EARLS OF KENT. ALCHER, EALCHER, or AUCHER, was the first EARL OF KENT that I have seen any mention of, who had also the title of DUKE, from his being at the same time intrusted with the military power of the county. He is eminent in history for his bravery shewn in a battle with the Danes, in the year 853. These pirates, having landed with a considerable- force that year in the isle ...
