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Hace 4 días · Devonshire Gardens and Cavendish Road had been named but not yet built up by 1894, when there were some houses in Grove Park Road and Grove Park Gardens. A few empty plots remained in 1914, when expansion was limited beyond the railway line and to the south by the duke's Chiswick Park estate and by the sports grounds of St. Thomas's hospital, the Chiswick Park clubs, and the Polytechnic.
Hace 4 días · They are now the property of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The manor of Wyndley belonged in the reign of Henry VII. to the Knivetons. John Bradshaw, Esq., who died in 1523, was seised of a moiety of this manor, and of the manor of Champeyne, inherited by his family from the Fouchers, who had married the heiress of Champeyne, The Fouchers had a park here in 1330.
Hace 2 días · Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale only lived in America as a child, spending the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India.He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George (later Madras), and eventually rose to the Presidency of the settlement.
Hace 3 días · Beautiful and vivacious, the Duchess of Devonshire seemed to have it all as a teen bride who quickly became the toast of the town. However, Georgiana‘s glittering life was far from picture perfect. Her cold and aloof husband, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, preferred the company of his dogs and mistress.
Hace 5 días · King Edward VI., in the year 1552, granted it to Sir William Cavendish , ancestor of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who is the present proprietor. In the parish church are memorials for Edward Home, captain in the navy 1764; " Madam Mawer, wife of the Reverend Kaye Mawer, son of John Mawer, of the ancient and illustrious house of Mawer," 1776; and of the family of Bradley, of Butterley-park ...
Hace 1 día · Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, heiress of the Earl of Oxford, brought the manor, or as it is called in some records, the barony of Bolsover, to William Duke of Portland, grandfather of the present noble owner, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland. The barony of Bolsover and Woodthorpe was valued, in 1641, at 846l. 8s. 11d, per annum.
Hace 3 días · Footnotes. 1.This brook or bourn runs on the south side of Hampstead, and passes near Bellsize to Barrowhill-farm; thence through Marybone-park to Marybone-lane; it crosses Oxford-road near Stratford-place, and Piccadilly under a bridge near Hay-hill, supposed by some to take its name from this Aye-brook; which passing through the park near Buckingham-house, and through Tothill-fields, falls ...
