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Há 4 dias · There also was Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) who, by favouring the humanists, earned himself the nickname Good Duke Humphrey. George, the fourth son of George V (1865-1936) got the title of Duke of Kent. William Cavendish was the 1st Duke of Devonshire( 1640-1707). He was an opponent of James II.
Há 4 dias · Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, heiress of the Earl of Oxford, brought the manor, or as it is called in some records, the barony of Bolsover, to William Duke of Portland, grandfather of the present noble owner, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland. The barony of Bolsover and Woodthorpe was valued, in 1641, at 846l. 8s. 11d, per annum.
Há 6 dias · Alma mater. Christ Church, Oxford. 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 ...
Há 4 dias · This regiment defected to James’s son-in-law, William of Orange, when he landed in the West Country to seize the throne in the ' Glorious Revolution ' of 1688. The following year, it was sent to fight against James’s forces in Ireland. View this object. Cap badge, The Devonshire Regiment, c1917. View this object.
Há 2 dias · Father. William the Conqueror. Mother. Matilda of Flanders. Henry I ( c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose ...
Há 2 dias · William Cavendish, 4th duke of Devonshire Whig 1756–57 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle (2nd time) Whig 1757–62 John Stuart, 3rd earl of ...
Há 1 dia · William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who had fought in the war, freed his slave Prince Whipple because of his revolutionary ideals. In the postwar decades, other slaveholders also freed their slaves; from 1790 to 1810, the percentage of free blacks in the Upper South increased to 8.3 percent from less than one percent of the black population. [103]
