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Hace 5 días · Notable Illegitimate Children of British Monarchs. One of King Charles II’s illegitimate children, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth in Garter robes; Credit – Wikipedia. Many illegitimate children of British monarchs have the surname FitzRoy or Fitzroy, a surname derived from the Anglo-Norman with Fitz, meaning “son of”, and Roy ...
Hace 2 días · According to Mr. Cunningham, it commemorates the name of Charles Fitzroy, the second Duke of Grafton (whose father, the first duke, was a natural son of King Charles II., by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland), to whom the lease of the Manor of Tottenham Court descended in right of his mother, Lady Isabella Bennet, the daughter and heiress of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, one of the ...
Leaving Trinity Church, we now make our way eastward along the Euston Road, as far as the junction of the Tottenham Court and the Hampstead Roads. The Euston Road—formerly called the New Road—was at the time of its formation, about the middle of the last century, the boundaryline for limiting the "ruinous rage for building" on the north ...
Hace 5 días · James was a playwright, and two of his comedies, All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple and The English Monsieur starred Nell Gwynn, a mistress of King Charles II. James Howard died in July 1669, aged about 29. Charlotte and James had one daughter: Stuarta Werburge Howard (1668 – 1706), unmarried, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary II
Hace 3 días · Euston Square, which we now enter on the north side from the front of the station, between the Victoria and Euston Hotels, dates from about the year 1813. It is named after the Fitzroys, Dukes of Grafton, Earls of Euston, and Lords Southampton, who are the ground landlords, and it occupies a considerable portion of what was formerly ...
Hace 3 días · John Thornton, who served the fifth Earl and first Duke of Bedford as a domestic chaplain, was a non-Conformist, and a frequent correspondent. (1) Although the last senior appointment of a layman in the Church of England was that of Sir Adam Newton as dean of Durham on 16 September 1605 (he resigned 25 April 1620) laymen continued to serve in households as lay chaplains.
Hace 2 días · English Civil War. The Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645; Parliamentarian victory marked the decisive turning point in the English Civil War. The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651.
