Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 3 días · This is a list of all mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the City of London Corporation, and first citizens of the City of London, from medieval times ). Until 1354, the title held was Mayor of London.
Hace 3 días · This is a list of Conservative Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom representing the Conservative Party from 1834 onwards. Members of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd or the European Parliament are not listed. The provided period of a member's tenure as a ...
Hace 4 días · King James VI announced his intention of creating 100 baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2,000 merks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1,000 merks to Sir William Alexander, to whom the province had been granted by charter in 1621.
Hace 3 días · THE degree of baronet was instituted in 1611, in the 9th year of king James I. as a means of raising money for the security of a plantation in the province of Ulster, in the kingdom of Ireland.
Hace 2 días · His immediate descendant, Sir William Dalston, a great royalist, was created a baronet in 1640. The title became extinct in 1765, by the death of Sir George Dalston, the fourth baronet, who resided in Yorkshire; Sir George left an only daughter, married to a French gentleman of the name of Dillon.
Hace 3 días · — Sir John Call, who was a very eminent military engineer, and held several lucrative offices under the presidency of Madras, was created a baronet in 1791; he married a coheiress of William Bathie, M. D., and was succeeded by his son Sir William Pratt Call, the present baronet.
Hace 2 días · William Bull wrote to ask Newton: “How is Mr Johnson’s Botany Bay scheme likely to end?” Bull had seen “a copy of his feelings upon the occasion” and was “filled with a thousand thanks” that he had not been called overseas himself.
