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Hace 3 días · Grandfather of Sir William Cowper, 1st Baronet and ancestor of the Earls Cowper and of the poet William Cowper. Stow says that he was 'put by his term of Mayoralty upon some private displeasure of his brethren.'
Hace 3 días · According to Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, George Selwyn, "that insatiable amateur of executions," told the story of King Charles's execution from information which he professed to have obtained from the Duchess of Portsmouth, who, he said, "always asserted, on the authority of Charles the Second, that the king, his father, was not beheaded ...
Hace 2 días · Baronage of Scotland. Ayton Castle, Scottish Borders, caput of the barony of Ayton. Built in 1851 in the Scottish Baronial style by William Mitchell-Innes, then baron of Ayton, to the design of James Gillespie Graham. In Scotland, the Baronage is the class of barons and baronesses who are the heads of their respective baronies.
Hace 2 días · George, the seventh in descent from Sir Nicholas, was created a Baronet in 1611. Sir Thomas, the second baronet, (grandson of Sir Nicholas) married a coheiress of Morewood; his grandson, Sir Thomas, the fourth baronet, a coheiress of Sir William Bowyer, Bart, of Staffordshire.
Hace 3 días · Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
Hace 3 días · 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.
Hace 3 días · A hypothesis in Young’s book is that by the death of the fourth baronet Sir William Gage, the Catholic community in western Suffolk, principally in Bury St. Edmunds, was able to survive and thrive despite the penal laws against Catholic worshippers.
