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Há 3 dias · On 31 October, he transferred to the 18th Light Dragoons and it was during this period that he grew increasingly attracted to Kitty Pakenham, the daughter of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford. She was described as being full of 'gaiety and charm'.
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Há 2 dias · John Simms. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War ...
- 1882–1922
- British Army
Há 1 dia · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
Há 4 dias · Curwen of Workington, 1626.—This ancient family were descended from Ivo de Talbois, who married Elgiva, daughter of Ethelred, King of England, their immediate descent being from Orme, second son of Ketel, grandson of the said Ivo. Sir Patric Curwen (fn. n2), the lineal descendant of Orme, was created a baronet in 1626.
Há 5 dias · Philip Sidney, 2 nd welcomed British Heritage Travel for a chat. Penshurst Place is a medieval manor house set in ancient parkland in the rural Weald of Kent, England. The manor house dates back to 1341 when it was built for Sir John de Pulteney. We began with a tour, including the magnificent original Baron’s Hall built by a London merchant ...
Há 4 dias · In 1663 he presented Anthony Burgess to the benefice of St. Bartholomew's on the resignation of Randolph Harrison. It was for this second Earl of Holland that the collection of charters and deeds was made in 1663. He died in 1675. He was succeeded by his eldest son Edward, who thus became the third Earl of Holland and sixth Earl of Warwick.
Há 2 dias · Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, (KG), (PC) (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the
