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15 de may. de 2024 · Sir William Fermor was created a baronet in 1641 and died in 1661, to be succeeded by his eldest surviving son, also named William, who appears to have restored the family's fortunes by a series of well-judged marriages.
Hace 1 día · Richard Fermor died in 1684, and was succeeded by five generations of Fermors, who continued the staunch Roman Catholic tradition of the family. William Fermor, the last of the direct male line, died in 1828, having sold Somerton in 1815 to the Earl of Jersey for £90,000.
15 de may. de 2024 · Some of the landowners petitioned Parliament for an inclosure bill, but William Fermor, by far the largest landowner, successfully opposed it on the grounds, it is said, that it was proposed to commute the tithes beyond their value.
Hace 1 día · Just east of the Oder in Brandenburg-Neumark, at the Battle of Zorndorf (now Sarbinowo, Poland), a Prussian army of 35,000 men under Frederick on 25 August 1758, fought a Russian army of 43,000 commanded by Count William Fermor.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Fermor, once described as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene”, cooked up the idea with fellow officer W. Stanley Moss while in Cairo. “To my amazement,...
18 de may. de 2024 · Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, KG (20 February 1632 – 26 July 1712) was an English Tory politician and peer. [1] . During the reign of Charles II of England, he was the leading figure in the English government for roughly five years in the mid-1670s. Osborne fell out of favour due to corruption and other scandals.
Hace 1 día · Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation .
