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Hace 5 días · The same goes for Harrison’s assertion that ‘provincial England’ was rather more in sympathy with Mary Whitehouse than with Hugh Carleton Greene’s BBC (p. 518): the North has a long anti-establishment tradition, and Mancunians surely rejoiced in TW3’s iconoclasm as much as any metropolitan sophisticate, let alone the inhabitants of Surbiton.
Hace 2 días · Sir B. Hicks and T. Lawley were made Baronets after ceasing to be Aldermen in 1620 and 1641 respectively, and Sirs H. Windham and W. Cooper were already Baronets when elected Aldermen. The first Lord Mayor in whose case the custom of knighthood, which had been now established for 120 years, was broken, was the Republican, Isaac Penington, who ...
Hace 3 días · Middlesex House of Detention site. 43. The New Prison (1816–18). The turnkeys' passage, looking south towards the main gates, c. 1840 The two-and-a-half-acre site described here has a long history of institutional use, famously as the site of the Middlesex House of Detention, the scene of the 'Clerkenwell Explosion' set off by Irish nationalists in 1867.
Hace 6 días · Robert Carleton, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1707. Arms: — Erm. on a bend Sable, three pheons, Argent. Crest: — An arm embowed, proper, holding an arrow. Dacre of Lanercost descended from Sir Thomas Dacre, grantee of the abbey-estate, an illegitimate son of Lord Dacre — extinct by the death of James Dacre, Esq., in 1716.
Hace 2 días · The King's Birthday Honours 1951 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published on 1 June 1951 for the British Empire, [1 ...
Hace 6 días · Hugh Carleton Greene (1910–1987) "Journalist and Director-General of the BBC lived here 1956–1967" 25 Addison Avenue Holland Park London W11 4QS 2018 () 49260 : Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) "Entertainer and Writer lived here in flat No.8 1957–1979" 34 Elm Park Gardens Chelsea SW10 9NZ 2003 () 1100 : François Guizot (1787–1874)
Hace 1 día · Early life (1732–1752) Further information: Washington family and British America Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball ...
