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Hace 2 días · The priory of St. James the Great at Birkenhead stood on a wooded headland on the north-eastern shore of the Wirral peninsula near a river ferry across the Mersey to Liverpool; the existence of a ferry may have been the reason for the foundation of a monastery on such an isolated site and for its dedication. (fn. 1) According to John Leland the ...
Hace 2 días · FE Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), British Conservative politician and Lord Chancellor. Illustration from Our Times Illustrated, 22 February 1919. Creator: English Photographer (20th century) Artwork medium: black and white photograph: Credit: Look and Learn: Search stock images by keyword
Hace 5 días · A corn mill existed until the mid-19th century, its stables are now used as an information [F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead] the Easter Rising in late April 1916.
Hace 2 días · 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 2 días · Spring Gardens, the little thoroughfare which lies behind the southwest frontage to Charing Cross, derives its name from the Spring Garden, formed, probably, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth in the north-east corner of St. James's Park as an addition to the pleasure grounds of Whitehall Palace. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as one meaning ...
Hace 1 día · Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874—1957), Head of British Mission Belgian, Grand Quartier Général. Brigadier-General John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (1871—1942), Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade. Brigadier Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins [2] (1891—1969), Royal Army Medical Corps.
Hace 3 días · e. Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS [1] (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its ...
