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Hace 1 día · Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford (1761-1817), was a British politician and peer. He was born on April 7, 1761, the eldest son of Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, and his wife, Anne Speke. North was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered politics in 1784 when he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Banbury.
Hace 4 días · Date accessed: 15 April, 2024. It is curious that it should have taken imperial proconsul Lord Cromer (1841–1917, Evelyn Baring until 1892) nearly a century to find a scholarly biographer worthy of his centrality to British, imperial and Egyptian history in the Victorian-Edwardian age. The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer ...
Hace 1 día · Trinity and Oriel. MP 1880–1907, Ambassador to the United States 1907–13. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Balliol and All Souls. Viceroy of India 1899–1905, Foreign Secretary 1919–24. John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. Governor General of Canada 1893–98.
Hace 1 día · army, regiments and companies in: Beauclerk's regiment of foot, 160, 163; Brigadier General Barrett's regiment of foot, 40; Captain Criche company of foot, 109; Colonel Anthony Lowther's regiment of marines, 180: Colonel Bruges' company, 358; Colonel Douglas's regiment of marines, 131; Colonel Durours' regiment, 335; Colonel Tonyn's regiment of foot, 402; Earl of Orkney's regiment of foot, 28 ...
Hace 3 días · On the 1st November Messrs AB Savory and Sons, well known London Silversmiths received a letter from Mr Dyson of Mablethorpe requesting items of Silver Plate to be sent immediately for his daughters marriage. The letter contained the sinister halves of a twenty and a ten pound note, the dexter halves would be forwarded upon receipt of the goods.
Hace 4 días · Mysore Wars. Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (born June 20, 1760, Dangan, County Meath, Ireland—died September 26, 1842, London, England) was a British statesman and government official. Wellesley, as governor of Madras (now Chennai) and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797–1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India ...
Hace 1 día · Balliol College, Oxford. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who ...
