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Hace 4 días · In 1777 Luttrell sold Studley House and Norley farm, and Elizabeth Hungerford surrendered her life interest, to William Petty, earl of Shelburne. (fn. 300) The house and the farm descended to Lord Shelburne's son John, marquess of Lansdowne, who sold them to Henrietta Hungerford in 1807.
Hace 5 días · The colonial policy of Charles Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury and 1st earl of Liverpool, as president of the Committee for Trade, 1784–1800. C.B. Fergusson. Oxford D.Phil. 1952. Impeachment of Warren Hastings. P.J. Marshall. Oxford D.Phil. 1962. The Colonial Office and the plantation colonies, 1801–34: a study of imperial government in evolution.
Hace 5 días · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman.
Hace 4 días · After the battle of Blore Heath (Staffs.) in 1459, two of the Yorkist leaders, the earl of Salisbury's sons Thomas and John Neville, were imprisoned in Chester castle. (fn. 46) Despite such links between Chester and the house of Lancaster, in 1460 Richard, duke of York, granted the city's mayor, John Southworth, an annual pension of £10 for ...
Hace 4 días · Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough (born May 29, 1660, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Oct. 18, 1744, London) was the wife of the renowned general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her close friendship with Queen Anne bolstered her husband’s career and served to aid the Whig cause.
Hace 4 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 2 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.
