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Há 5 dias · Public Domain. The Bram Stoker Society heard how Dublin-born Stoker's mother's tales of the 1832 cholera epidemic, which killed 1,500, affected her horror-writing son. A remarkable account of how ...
Há 4 dias · Historian Dr. Marion McGarry, who has researched the links between Sligo and Dracula, has told of how Bram Stoker’s mother was haunted by what she saw aft er her family escaped cholera, and there is a strong belief that the stories she told echo through her son’s famous novel. The first victim of the cholera epidemic in Sligo died on August 11.
Há 4 dias · Sir William Humphreys, mayor in 1715 (George I.), was father of the City, and alderman of Cheap for twenty-six years. Of his Lady Mayoress an old story is told relative to the custom of the sovereign kissing the Lady Mayoress upon visiting Guildhall.
Há 5 dias · Sir William was father of sir Henry Sydney, K.G. and grandfather of the illustrious sir Philip. The ceremonial of his funeral occurs in I. 13. in Coll. Arm. f. 272. His epitaph at Penshurst is printed in Thorpe's Registrum Roffense, p. 918: it describes him as "knight and banneret, sometyme chamberlen and after steward to the most ...
Há 5 dias · La novela de Stoker es una intrincada combinación de hechos históricos y mitología. El personaje central, el Conde Drácula, encuentra sus raíces en Vlad Tepes, también conocido como Vlad el...
Há 5 dias · The "heaven-born minister," William Pitt, lived in Downing Street; and here, as he tells us in Wraxall's "Memoirs," the first Marquis Cholmondeley waited on Pitt as head of the establishment of the Prince of Wales.
Há 2 dias · In 1602, Ralph Brooke, the York Herald, accused Sir William Dethick, the Garter King of Arms, of elevating 23 unworthy persons to the gentry. One of these was Shakespeare's father, who had applied for arms 34 years earlier but had to wait for the success of his son before they were granted in 1596. [103]
