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Hace 5 días · Beautiful and vivacious, the Duchess of Devonshire seemed to have it all as a teen bride who quickly became the toast of the town. However, Georgiana‘s glittering life was far from picture perfect. Her cold and aloof husband, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, preferred the company of his dogs and mistress.
Hace 3 días · It was conveyed by Lord Kerry in 1762 to Matthew Hutton, by Matthew's brother James in 1765 to John Perceval, earl of Egmont (d. 1770), and by Egmont's trustee Sir Brownlow Cust, bt., in 1773 to Catherine, dowager duchess of Devonshire (d. 1777).
Hace 4 días · After the extinction of this family, Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was, in 1603, created Earl of Devonshire. The title became extinct by his death in 1606. In 1618, William Cavendish was created Earl of Devonshire, and the title has continued ever since in this noble family, who in 1694 were elevated to the dukedom.
Hace 3 días · The city of Exeter is situated in the hundred of Wonford and in the deanery of Christianity or Exeter, on the great western road to Plymouth, Falmouth, and the Land's End, 173 miles from London. (fn. n1) The ancient British name of this city, as well as of the town of Usk in Monmouthshire, was Caerwisc; by the Romans they were both called Isca ...
Hace 5 días · In her stunning book, The Art of Domestic Life, Kate Retford shows that from the 1740s to 1790s the genre of family portraiture was transformed. In the early-eighteenth century, the family was self-aware and aware of the viewer; it was formally posed against a dominating background, and often included members of the wider family. By the later ...
Hace 5 días · ‘Blinding charm’, according to ‘Debo’, the late dowager Duchess of Devonshire. Betjeman’s Collected Poems sold in huge numbers for a poetry book; he was the most popular poet of his generation and Larkin said that he was virtually Poet Laureate before he was given that honour.
Hace 3 días · Wife of Edward IV, daughter of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford F60 Elizabeth of York: 1466 – 1503 1477 Daughter of Edward IV, later wife of Henry VII F61 Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk: 1444 – c. 1503 1477 Sister of King Edward IV 218 Ferdinand II, King of Aragon and Castile: 1452–1516 1480 219 Hercules d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara ...
