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Hace 1 día · His maternal grandparents were William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison and Mary Bayning. In 1642, the English Civil War broke out between King Charles I and the Parliamentarian and Puritan forces. When the situation deteriorated in the spring of 1646, the future King Charles II, then Prince of Wales, was sent out of England.
Hace 3 días · Grants from the revenues of Sheriff Hutton made in 1668 and 1671 to Viscount Grandison and Edward Villiers were to take effect after the death of Kirke. Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
Hace 4 días · Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb, 1779-1848): William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the early and mid-19th century. He held the office in 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841.
Hace 2 días · Oliver St. John, who was the second son of Nicholas St. John (lord of the manor, d. 1589), became Lord Deputy, and later Lord High Treasurer, of Ireland and in 1623 was created Viscount Grandison. But although born at Lydiard, he had, so far as is known, no connexion with it in adult life.
Hace 3 días · Between 1658 and 1732 there were several fines levied concerning various sixth parts of the property, but in the latter year James Fitzgerald Villiers, great-grandson of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison, appears to have obtained possession of the whole estate.
Hace 1 día · Following his victory at Talavera, Wellesley was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 26 August 1809 as Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, in the County of Somerset, with the subsidiary title of Baron Douro of Wellesley.
Hace 5 días · William Astor, 4th Viscount of Astor, is a member of the House of Lords and the stepfather of Samantha Cameron, the former British first lady married to David Cameron.
