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John Felton. by Richard Sawyer, published by Walter Benjamin Tiffin. engraving, published 15 May 1830. NPG D20448. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card. Use this image.
1 de jun. de 2006 · This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. It focuses attention on his family's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's military service in Spain, Ireland, and France. Wounded in the disastrous withdrawal from the Ile de Ré, he returned to London to convalesce, and there he slipped into the ...
Other articles where John Felton is discussed: George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham: …was stabbed to death by John Felton, a naval lieutenant who had served in his campaigns and who misguidedly believed that he was acting in defense of principles asserted in the House of Commons. The populace of London rejoiced at the news.
John Felton (c. 1595 – 29 November 1628) was a lieutenant in the English army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in the Greyhound Pub of Portsmouth on 23 August 1628. Felton had been wounded in the Duke's disastrously managed military expedition of 1627 against the French at La Rochelle and he held a personal grudge against his victim who, he believed, had corruptly ...
18 de ene. de 2024 · Amazon.com logistics executive John Felton is taking over as chief financial officer of the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, according to people familiar with the matter.
John Felton era un teniente del ejército inglés que asesinó a George Villiers, 1r Duque de Buckingham, de una puñalada en el Pub Greyhound, en Portsmouth, el 23 de agosto de 1628.
The poems celebrate Felton as Buckingham’s perfect antithesis: as a patriot hero, the nation’s martyr, the epitome of martial manliness and self-sacrifice, the heir of the divinely inspired Israelite assassins and of the republican patriots of ancient Rome, the man whose bravery had liberated king and nation from Buckingham’s perverted rule.
