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Hace 4 días · She married David Collyear, Earl of Portmore, and the house continued to be the seat of the Earls of Portmore until the title became extinct in 1835. The house was shortly afterwards pulled down, but the grounds are still known as Portmore
Hace 3 días · March 3–May 30, 1710. March 3. 1. Affidavit of Captain James Abercrombie, of the Right Hon. the Earl of Portmore's Regiment, giving the particulars of an assault, for which he and his bail were estreated in the Exchequer, having forfeited their recognizances. Being unacquainted with the laws of this kingdom, thought that proceeding had always ...
Hace 1 día · Footnotes. n1.Nicholas, the last of the elder branch, (whose heiress married Francis,) had himself married the heiress of Percehay. n2.The Holwell branch became extinct in the early part of the last century, by the death of Roger Hele, Esq., who left two daughters; Juliana, married to the Duke of Leeds, by whom she had no issue, and afterwards to the Earl of Portmore, ancestor of the present ...
Hace 2 días · See for example John Adamson, The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I (London, 2007); Paul Hammer, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597 (Cambridge, 1999); Richard McCoy, ‘Old English nonour in an evil time: aristocratic principle in the 1620s’ in The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political ...
Hace 5 días · It is curious that it should have taken imperial proconsul Lord Cromer (1841–1917, Evelyn Baring until 1892) nearly a century to find a scholarly biographer worthy of his centrality to British, imperial and Egyptian history in the Victorian-Edwardian age. The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer (London: Hodder & Stoughton ...
Hace 5 días · Charles II (born May 29, 1630, London—died February 6, 1685, London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1660–85), who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. The years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period.
Hace 3 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
