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Há 5 dias · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
Há 5 dias · Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon “The Marquess of Ripon and Grinling Gibbons.” King Harald V of Norway, King Charles III, The Duchess of Gloucester, Birgitte Eva Van Deurs (née Henriksen) Admiral the Lord Boyce. Lady Victoria Leatham (elected as the first female Master of the Company in 2012)
Há 5 dias · Designed in the late 18th century by Palladian architect Henry Flitcroft, who also devised Alfred’s Tower at Stourhead and Fort Belverdere at Windsor, and commissioned by the Thomas Watson Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, it forms one in a series of decorative buildings erected to mark the end of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion as a result of the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden ...
Há 2 dias · George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey: 1827–1909 1869 Later Marquess of Ripon Viceroy of India 761 Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster: 1825–1899 1870 Later Duke of Westminster 762 Peter II, Emperor of Brazil: 1825–1891 1871 First non-European member 763 Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland: 1795–1873 1872
Há 2 dias · Wilfrid [a] ( c. 633 – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.
Há 5 dias · It is curious that it should have taken imperial proconsul Lord Cromer (1841–1917, Evelyn Baring until 1892) nearly a century to find a scholarly biographer worthy of his centrality to British, imperial and Egyptian history in the Victorian-Edwardian age. The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer (London: Hodder & Stoughton ...
Há 3 dias · Acreage (since 1932): 2,430 (199 acres transferred to Bedworth under Warwickshire Review Order, 1932). Population: 1911, 377; 1921, 448; 1931, 304. The parish of Astley is situated between the parishes of Arley and Bedworth. Its southern boundary is formed by the Bedworth-Fillongley road; it then runs north-west along Breach Brook, afterwards ...
