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Hace 4 días · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
Hace 3 días · Lichfield was incorporated by a charter of Edward VI granted in 1548. It was to be governed by two bailiffs, chosen annually on St. James's day (25 July), and 24 burgesses or brethren. Later the same year Bishop Sampson granted the manor of Lichfield to the corporation for a fee farm rent of £50.
Hace 3 días · Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [ OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the ...
Hace 5 días · SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, afterwards 1st Earl of Pembroke, K.G. — 1550–1570. 7 May 4 Edw. VI. (1550) the King granted the Lordship of Cardiff to Sir William Herbert, to whom, by this and a previous grant of 10 July 1547, nearly all his manors in Glamorgan (though not the Lordship of Glamorgan itself), were granted by this King.
Hace 3 días · The Hon. Augustus Anson, son of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857 for his bravery while serving with the British forces during which conflict? Answer: Indian Mutiny The conflict in question is known by a variety of names, including the Indian Mutiny, the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and India's First War of Independence.
Hace 4 días · 1st Earl of Leicester: Mary Dudley d. 1586 m. Henry Sidney: Lord Guildford Dudley c. 1535 –1554: Lady Jane Grey 1537–1554 Disputed Queen of England: Thomas Sackville 1536–1608 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Baron Buckhurst: Earldom of Hertford (3rd creation) forfeit, 1552: Earldom of Leicester (3rd creation) extinct, 1588: Earl of Leicester (4th ...
Hace 3 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.
