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Há 1 dia · William FitzHardinge Berkeley (1786-1857) was the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Berkeley and Mary Cole. As such he was eventually styled Viscount Dursley, the title given to heirs to the Berkeley earldom, but he was denied the right to the earldom due to his illegitimacy. In 1810, he became Colonel of the Royal South Gloucestershire Militia.
Há 2 dias · At the accession of Mary in 1553 it was discovered by an inquisition that as William Lord Berkeley, who died in 1491–2, had settled the reversion of the manor on Henry VII and his heirs male, with remainder to heirs of William, the manor now rightly belonged to that heir, viz. Henry Lord Berkeley, grandson of William's brother ...
Há 2 dias · The property descended in the Berkeley family of Beverstone (Glos.) to William Berkeley who in 1483 was attainted and fled overseas. In the following year his lands in Bemerton and Quidhampton were granted to Roger Hertlington, but in 1485 Berkeley's attainder was reversed.
Há 23 horas · Nigel Kingscote. Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1880. Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote GCVO KCB JP [1] (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist. He was generally known as Sir Nigel Kingscote.
Há 2 dias · The first Earl of Berkeley obtained the title of Viscount Dursley and Earl of Berkeley as a reward for his loyalty to Charles II. When the English prisoners were to be released from Algiers he offered to advance the money for their redemption.
Há 5 dias · Parting from notions of danger as threat, her archival study shows that danger was productive, especially of masculinity and the superiority of the elite. This innovative argument is first supported by a rigorous historiography of the concept of danger in the eighteenth century, explored in chapter 1.
Há 1 dia · 1. Anderson. With English and Scottish roots, Anderson is a classic Victorian patronymic surname. It means ‘son of Anders,’ where Anders is a medieval version of the name Andrew, meaning ‘manly.’. On another note, Anderson is popular in Scotland to date because St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. 2.
