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Hace 4 días · He had been succeeded before 1605–6 by John Dickens, who conveyed the manor in that year to Thomas Lyttelton. From that date it has descended with the manor of Hagley (q.v.), and now belongs to Viscount Cobham. At the end of the 18th century a court was still occasionally held for the Crown at the Bell Inn.
Hace 4 días · A Mr. John Bridges built a new house here, and sold it to the eminent soldier Sir John Ligonier in 1750. (fn. 7) Sir John was created, in 1757, Viscount Ligonier in the peerage of Ireland, in 1763 Baron Ligonier of Ripley in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1766 Earl Ligonier.
Hace 2 días · John was a tax collector and a Justice of the Peace in Sussex and Surrey. In 1383 John was granted a licence to crenellate the Castle by Richard II. In 1392 he was appointed a deputy to Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, as constable in the Court of Chivalry and accompanied Richard II to Ireland as an Esquire of the Household. John died ...
Hace 3 días · Journal of the House of Lords Volume 26, 1741-1746.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Hace 1 día · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from ...
Hace 1 día · Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban [a] PC ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the ...
Hace 3 días · The 9th Battalion can trace it’s history back to 1860 with the formation of the No 1 Company comprising 50 volunteer riflemen to serve as infantry within the Queensland Defence Force. During the 1860s and into the 1870s, the company grew in in numbers and eventually in 1879 four companies of infantry were amalgamated in Brisbane as The First ...
