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Hace 4 días · William Liath de Burgh. Sir William Liath de Burgh ( English: / dˈbɜːr /; d’-BER; died 1324) was an Irish noble and Justiciar of Ireland (1308–09). He was an ancestor of the Mac William Uachtar and Mac William Íochtar who were later earls of Clanricarde and Mayo respectively.
Hace 1 día · But little is known of the family, which retained possession until the time of Edward IV, when the manor was purchased by Sir Thomas Stanley, and descended with Lathom for more than a century. In 1600 William Earl of Derby sold it to Edward Rigby of Burgh in Duxbury, in whose family it remained for some time.
Hace 5 días · Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607) was an English courtier and poet. Life The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol College, Oxford or at Broadgates Hall (later Pembroke College, Oxford), and left after taking a degree.
Hace 1 día · His eldest son, Edward, is thought to have been killed in a Royalist attack on Bolton in 1643, and Edward's son Alexander was a cornet under Sir Thomas Tyldesley in 1651. His son, another Alexander, acquired a considerable fortune by marriage and trade, and was high sheriff in 1690–1. He was made a knight in 1696.
Hace 1 día · Edward I mobilised another army for the Scottish campaign in 1307, which Prince Edward was due to join that summer, but the elderly king had been increasingly unwell and died on 7 July at Burgh by Sands. Edward travelled from London immediately after the news reached him, and on 20 July he was proclaimed king.
Hace 6 días · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably ...
Hace 3 días · Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration . Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo ...
