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Hace 4 días · His grandson, Thomas Pitt, Esq., was, in 1784, created Lord Camelford, Baron of Boconnoc; the title became extinct by the death of his only son, the second Lord Camelford, in 1804. Boconnoc is now the occasional residence of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, who married Anne, his only sister and heir.
Hace 2 días · The right to choose high sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall. [1] The Privy Council, chaired by the sovereign, chooses the sheriffs of all other English counties, other than those in the Duchy of Lancaster. This right came from the Earldom of Cornwall. In the time of earls Richard and Edmund, the steward or seneschal of ...
Hace 2 días · Sir Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), a trustee of the British Museum from 1830, assembled a library of 20,240 volumes, which he left to the museum in his will. The books arrived in January 1847 in twenty-one horse-drawn vans.
Hace 4 días · Occupants of note included Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, later Marquis of Londonderry, 1795–1804, and the Hon. Thomas Grenville, statesman and book-collector, 1806–38. About 1839 Lord Francis Egerton purchased No. 2 Cleveland Square for £9300.
Hace 3 días · A portrait of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591) heroic captain of the Revenge. The Grenville family were for many centuries lords of the manor of Bideford and played a major role in the town's development. The monument with an effigy of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) exists in St Mary's Church.
Hace 4 días · At Pilton is a large handsome monument of stone for Sir John Chichester, who died in 1569. In the chancel at South Pool is the monument of Thomas Briant, rector; an altar-tomb under an obtuse arch, with the figure of an ecclesiastic under a Gothic canopy.
Hace 1 día · Prince Regent, later King George IV by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1818. Source: Tate, London The opposition did not hesitate to criticize Spencer Perceval’s new government, condemning them for the Walcheren Expedition in the Netherlands, which led to many British troops dying of diseases like malaria.
