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3 de mai. de 2024 · ONE MIGHT HEAR A PIN DROP. The earliest occurrences that I have found of the phrase one might hear a pin drop and variants are as follows, in chronological order: 1-: From a letter, dated St. Petersburg, 30th July 1739, published in Letters from a lady, who resided some years in Russia, to her friend in England.
Há 6 dias · After which, it passed through the like succession of ownership as Boughton manor before described, down to Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield, who in 1750 sold it, with the rest of the Wotton estates in this part of the county, to Galfridus Mann, esq. whose only son Sir Horace Mann, bart. is the present possessor of it.
19 de mai. de 2024 · The inscriptions were possibly set up by Philip Dormer Stanhope, the future politician and wit (d. 1773), who presumably moved to Bretby immediately after his father succeeded as earl in 1714.
Philip James Stanhope was a younger son of the fifth Earl of Stanhope. In 1877 he had married Countess Tolstoy, the widow of a relative of Count Leo Tolstoy. Stanhope was created Baron Weardale in 1905.
Há 4 dias · Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was the patron of the Plan, to Johnson's displeasure. Seven years after first meeting Johnson to go over the work, Chesterfield wrote two anonymous essays in The World recommending the Dictionary . [86]
Há 4 dias · Lady Elizabeth Dormer married Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. Charles Dormer, Viscount Ascott, born 25 June 1652, died before 1673. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, England, on 22 April 1664.
1 de mai. de 2024 · Charles Henry Kirkhoven, Lord Wotton, died in 1683 with no children, at which time Belsize Manor passed to his half-brother, Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634 - 1714), Lady Katherine's son by her first husband, who obtained a new lease in 1683.
