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Hace 3 días · 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 mighté and famous prynce Kynge Edward the VIth, in the tyme of ...
Hace 2 días · Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer. He first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). He also starred in the sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984) alongside Laurie ...
Hace 5 días · It appears that there was a chantry in Dronfield church, amply endowed by Ralph Barker and others, in the year 1392. (fn. n24) The Chantry-roll of 1547, mentions the donative of Dronfield, founded by William Aston, 35 Hen. VI. There are meeting-houses at Dronfield for the Quakers, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists.
Hace 4 días · — Henry, a natural son of Sir Henry Cavendish (elder brother of the first Earl of Devonshire), became possessed of the Doveridge estate by his father's gift, and was immediate ancestor of Henry Cavendish, Esq., who was created a Baronet in 1755, and was grandfather of Richard, Lord Waterpark, whose mother was, during her widowhood, created a Baroness in her own right, in the year 1792.
Hace 3 días · Afterwards, to wit, on 20 April, 33 Henry VIII [1541] she was delivered of a daughter, who was then named Joan. On 8 August in the same year, the said Joan, daughter and next heir of the said Rowland, died at Blakmore, in the county of Essex. The said Dorothea still survives, and is now the wife of John Smyth, esq.
Hace 2 días · JOHN, FARLEIGH WALLOP, is a cruciform building of flint and stone with a west tower. It was entirely rebuilt in the middle of the eighteenth century, in a very dull Gothic style, and the west tower dates from 1873. The east window of the chancel, and those in the north transept, are of three lights with arched heads and tracery, all the rest ...
Hace 5 días · Baronets. Musgrave of Edenhall, 1611. — The Musgraves are descended from the ancient baronial family of Musgrave in Westmorland. Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469 or 1470, married the elder daughter and coheir of Stapleton of Edenhall. His descendant, Sir Richard, who had been made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James, was ...
