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Hace 2 días · The family of Osborne, of which his grace Thomas. Osborne, duke of Leeds, is descended, was of this town; Richard Osborne, esq. of Ashford, being father of Sir Edward Osborne, cloth-worker, lord-mayor of London in the 25th year of queen Elizabeth, the duke's direct ancestor.
Hace 2 días · John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset: 1745–1799 1788 Not Installed 610 Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland: 1742–1817 1788 Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland 611 Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg: 1745–1804 1790 612 Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds: 1751–1799 1790 Not Installed 613 John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham: 1756 ...
Hace 5 días · The great revolution of 1688 is said to have owed its origin to the meeting of a few friends to liberty and the Protestant religion, held in the early part of that year on Whittington-moor, at which the Earl of Devonshire (afterwards Duke), the Earl of Danby (afterwards Duke of Leeds), Lord Delamere, and Mr. John Darcy (son and heir of the Earl of Holderness), are known to have attended.
Hace 2 días · DIE Jovis, 19 o Julii 1770. Comes Rochford. Ds. Mansfield. Comes Powis. The Lord Mansfield acquainted the House, That His Majesty had been pleased to grant a Commission under the Great Seal, for the further Prorogation of the Parliament. Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being in their Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne ...
Hace 5 días · In the late 11th or early 12th century, a castle loomed over the gentle bend in the River Nene. Rebuilt by Edmund, Duke of York, the fifth son of Edward III , it became the seat of the House of York.
Hace 4 días · Blenheim Palace, residence near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built (1705–24) by the English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and is regarded as the finest example of truly Baroque architecture in Great Britain.
Hace 2 días · Sarah Osborn was a servant in a blacksmith's household when she met and married Aaron Osborn, a Revolutionary war veteran, in 1780. When he re-enlisted as a commissary sergeant without informing her, Sarah agreed to accompany him. Sarah traveled with the Continental Army to the southern colonies working as a washerwoman and cook.
