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Roger Gale, the antiquary (1672–1744), represented the town in the Parliaments of 1705, 1707, 1708 and 1710, and Henry Lascelles, afterwards second Earl of Harewood, was returned as member in 1818. A fair here was granted in 1200 to Bishop Hugh Pudsey for the feast and morrow of St. Lawrence.
Hace 5 días · York, Richard of Gloucester, and Henry VII. There was much that was new in the political situation in the north after 1471. Warwick, whom the citizens had so often courted with gifts, was dead; the Percies had been restored; and Edward IV began deliberately to make his brother Richard 'the greatest landowner as well as the most important official north of the Trent'.
Hace 2 días · After the battle of Blore Heath (Staffs.) in 1459, two of the Yorkist leaders, the earl of Salisbury's sons Thomas and John Neville, were imprisoned in Chester castle. (fn. 46) Despite such links between Chester and the house of Lancaster, in 1460 Richard, duke of York, granted the city's mayor, John Southworth, an annual pension of £10 for ...
Hace 5 días · George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984). Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo (1977–1990).
Hace 3 días · Footnotes. n1.Nicholas, the last of the elder branch, (whose heiress married Francis,) had himself married the heiress of Percehay. n2.The Holwell branch became extinct in the early part of the last century, by the death of Roger Hele, Esq., who left two daughters; Juliana, married to the Duke of Leeds, by whom she had no issue, and afterwards to the Earl of Portmore, ancestor of the present ...
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 4 días · 5th Earl of Leicester, 5th Viscount Coke: Anthony Louis Lovel Coke 1909–1994 6th Earl of Leicester, 6th Viscount Coke: Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset 1900–1984 10th Duke of Beaufort, 12th Marquess of Worcester, 16th Earl of Worcester, 18th Baron Herbert, 10th Baron Botetourt: Henry Robert Somers FitzRoy de Vere Somerset 1898–1965
