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Hace 3 días · It was granted in 1666 to Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Chancellor, for a rent of 10s., the grounds amounting to 10 acres, and in 1667 it was used as the Fleet Prison, the old Fleet Prison having been burned in the Fire of London.
Hace 5 días · The second is Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, who declared in a poem that Aphra was born on “the banks of the Stoure the desolate Wye”. A marginal note refutes any notion of genteel status: Behn was “Daughter to a Barber, who lived formerly at Wye … in Kent”. After Behn’s death her friend John Dryden also implied a lowly birth.
Hace 1 día · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
Hace 2 días · 1080832. Ham House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The original house was completed in 1610 by Thomas Vavasour, an Elizabethan courtier and Knight Marshal to James I. It was then leased, and later bought, by William Murray, a ...
Hace 4 días · Since the death of the late General Bathurst of Clarendon-park, Wilts, it has been purchased by Sir Henry Crewe, Bart., who is the present proprietor. In the parochial chapel at Twyford, are some monuments of the Harpur family (fn. n15) ; that of Samuel Bristow, Esq., 1767; and some mutilated tombs of ala baster, one of which has the effigy of a man in armour, with the date of 1532.
Hace 1 día · Upon the death of the late Earl of Newburgh without issue, that Scottish title being inheritable through heirs female, Francis Eyre, Esq. of Hassophall, assumed it, as being the son of Lady Mary, the younger daughter and coheiress of Charlotte, Countess of Newburgh, by Charles RadclifFe, a younger son of Francis, Earl of Derwentwater; Prince Justiniani, son of the elder daughter, being ...
Hace 5 días · From Wednesday 5th June to Thursday 6th June 2024, Their Majesties The King and Queen, joined by other Members of the Royal Family, will mark the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. The King and Queen, accompanied by The Prince of Wales, will attend the UK’s national commemorative event in ...
