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  Duke of Rutland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the peerage of England, derived from Rutland, a traditional county.
The Earl of Rutland was elevated to the status of Duke in 1703 and the titles were merged.
The subsidiary titles of the Duke are: Marquess of Granby (created 1703), Earl of Rutland (1525), Baron Manners, of Haddon in the County of Derby (1679), and Baron Roos of Belvoir, of Belvoir in the County of Leicester (1896).
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 EARLS AND DUKES OF RUTLAND - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF RUTLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The 1st earl of Rutland was Edward Plantagenet (1373-1415), son of Edmund, duke of York, and grandson of King Edward III.
His grandson John, the 3rd duke (I6~6I779), was the father of John Manners, marquess of Granby (q.v.), a distinguished soldier, whose son Charles, 4th duke of Rutland (1754-1787), succeeded his grandfather.
His eldest son, John Henry, 5th duke (1778-1857), was the duke in Disraelis Coningsby; the latters two sons, the marquess of Granby and Lord John Manners, figuring in the same novel as the marquis of Beaumanoir and Lord Henry Sidney respectively.
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 JOHN JAMES ROBERT MANNERS, 7TH DUKE OF RUTLAND - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN JAMES ROBERT MANNERS, 7TH DUKE OF RUTLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
, 7TH DUKE OF (1818-1906), English statesman, was born at Belvoir Castle on the 13th of December I818, being the younger son of the 5th duke of Rutland by Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Byrons guardian, the 5th earl of Carlisle.
RUTLAND, a midland county of England, bounded N. and E. by Lincolnshire, N. and W. by Leicestershire, and S.E. by Northamptonshire.
Rutland was originally included in the diocese of Lincoln, and in 1291 formed a rural deanery within the archdeaconry of Northampton; but on the erectidn of Peterborough to an episcopal see by Henry-VIII.
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 White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire - pages 647-657
Duke of Devonshire is patron, and the Rev. Wm.
William Pole Thornhill, Esq., M.P., the Duke of Rutland, J. Bradley, T. Robinson, and J. and G. Gregory, Esqs., are the principal owners, the former of whom is lord of the manor.
It is the property of the Duke of Rutland, by whom it is occupied as a shooting box.
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 MSS - Portland (London) Collection, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Rutland Exchange, University of Nottingham
The Manor and advowson of Whitwell in Derbyshire was given by the Duke of Rutland to the Duke of Portland in exchange for the Manor of Barlow in Derbyshire and several advowsons in the South of England.
Assignment from (1) and remise and release by the Duke of Rutland, by the direction of (4) and (5), with the privity of (3) and on the nomination of (6), to (8), of the Manor or Lordship of Whitwell, the advowson of the Parish Church of Whitwell, and hereditaments in Creswell, Killamarsh and Whitwell.
Valuation to be settled by the referees Mr William Chrishop of Mansfield (for the Duke of Rutland) and Mr John Parkinson of Rufford (for the Duke of Portland), with Mr William Bailey of Halam as umpire in case of disagreement.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/port_londonple_rutland.html   (8971 words)

  
 Redmile Archive - Trade Directories
The Duke of Rutland is lord of the Manor, which was anciently called Redmild and has been held by the owners of the castle since the time of the Conquest.
The living is a rectory valued at £480, in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland, and the incumbency of the Rev. John Healey, B. The church (St Peter) is a neat building, in the early English style of architecture, with a square tower containing three bells, surmounted by a spire.
The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and principle landowner.
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 Rutland Town, Vermont, New England, USA
Rutland in Worcester County, Massachusetts, the home town of the first named grantee, John Murray (sometimes Murrey), is always given as the source for the Vermont town's name.
John Manners (1696-79), the third Duke of Rutland, in Horace Walpole's words was "a gentleman of great worth and goodness" and "an ornament to the peerage of England." He was descended from one of the great families of the Glorious Revolution, and held many positions of importance throughout his long life.
The third Duke of Rutland had the honor of bearing the Queen's scepter at the coronations of both George II and George III, the latter event having occurred the year before Wentworth granted Rutland.
www.virtualvermont.com /towns/rutlandtown.html   (644 words)

  
 Duke of Rutland articles on Encyclopedia.com
York, Edward, duke of YORK, EDWARD, DUKE OF [York, Edward, duke of] 1373?-1415, English nobleman; elder son of Edmund of Langley, duke of York.
In 1390, Edward was made earl of Rutland, and in 1394 he was created earl of Cork while with his cousin Richard II in Ireland.
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st duke of BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE OF [Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st duke of], 1592-1628, English courtier and royal favorite.
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 Rutland Family Crest
Today's generation of the Rutland family bears a name that was brought to England by the migration wave that was started by the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The Rutland family lived in a number of locations bearing the name Rutland in the counties of Derbyshire, Cornwall, Surrey, and Cumberland, as well as the county of Rutland itself.
Rutland is a classic example of an English polygenetic surname, which is a surname that was developed in a number of different locations and adopted by various families independently.
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 THE GRAND DUKE
Rutland Barrington was at his best as Ludwig.The part of the English actress, Julia Jellicoe, was most excellently interpreted by Madame Ilka von palmay.
Rutland Barrington, upon whom the most arduous duty devolved, to the representatives of the eccentric chamberlains and Monte Carlo nobles, Mr.
Rutland Barrington, and with the exception of his "Pooh, Bah," it is the best part and the best thing he has done in Savoy opera.
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 British Isles Genealogy - A Biographical Peerage Of The Empire Of Great Britain
John, ninth earl, was created duke of Rutland by queen Anne, 1703, and died 1711, aged 72.
John, his grandson, third duke, died 1779 ; and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles, (son of the well known marquis of Granby, who died 1770) which fourth duke died lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1787, aet.
Archibald, now sixth duke, is uncle to the late duke, born 1740, married Harriet, Pilser to the late earl of Galloway, by whom he has two sons and three daughters.
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 About RMS
The Rutland District was named in the early 1800s for the Duke of Rutland, a friend of General Oglethorpe.
Rutland Middle School opened in the fall of 2003 with a student population of approximately 995 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.
The Rutland Complex sits on 151 acres of rolling farmland near Interstate 75 at the Hartley Bridge Road exit.
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 RUTLAND, EARLS AND DUK... - Online Information article about RUTLAND, EARLS AND DUK...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, father of King Edward IV.
Charles, 4th duke of Rutland (1754-1787), succeeded his grandfather.
RUTLAND, JOHN JAMES ROBERT MANNERS, 7TH DUKE OF (18...
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/RUTLAND_EARLS_AND_DUKES_OF.html   (1278 words)

  
 JOHN MANNERS, MARQUESS OF GRANBY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN MANNERS, MARQUESS OF GRANBY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GRANBY, JOHN MANNERS, MARQUESS OF British soldier, was the eldest son of the third duke of Rutland.
Four years later he receiveda commission as colonel of a regiment raised by the Rutland interest in and about Leicester to assist in quelling the Highland revolt of 1745.
Meanwhile he had married the daughter of the duke of Somerset, and in 1754 had begun his parliamentary connection with Cambridgeshire, for which county he sat until his death.
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 National Trust | Longshaw Estate | History
It was not an unqualified success, however, and in 1855 the land was sold to the Duke of Rutland to add to his growing estate.
Longshaw Lodge was built as a shooting box by the then Duke of Rutland for use when he was visiting his shooting estate.
A competition between the Duke's head shepherd and head gamekeeper are reputed to be the origin of the Longshaw Sheep Dog Trials, the first official one of which was held in 1898.
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 Town of West Rutland, VT -- Town Highlights -- Town History
The current towns of Rutland, West Rutland, Proctor and the City of Rutland were all included in the charter.
The history of West Rutland was closely tied to the marble industry at the early party of the century.
The division of Rutland caused some perplexing problems, among them the division of the school fund, ascertaining of the Grand List, the future of the poor farm, the distribution of public money and the public debt, and the value of the old town hall.
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 5 The Massey Mare
The John Manners, (9th) Earl of Rutland, and later (first) Duke of Rutland, had a seat at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, and a well-established stud at Grantham, in nearby Lincolnshire.
The Earls of Rutland had been racing horses at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century, and their running horses were referred to as the "famous Belvoir strain." In addition, the Earls of Rutland had long-established estates in Derbyshire, most acquired through marriage, several of them near Chatsworth, the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire.
Brown Betty was bred and raced by the Duke of Rutland, and was probably retained in his stud.
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 Haddon Hall - High Peak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Haddon thus survived the modish architectural foibles of succeeding ages until, like some sleeping beauty, it was given the kiss of life by the 9th Duke of Rutland during the 1920s.
The Manners family inherited Haddon after John Manners, brother of the 2nd Earl of Rutland, married Dorothy one of the co-heiresses of Sir George Vernon 'King of the Peak', the last Vernon of Haddon Hall.
Thus the present Duke of Rutland holds the property in direct descent from that date.
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 The Duke of Rutland's Chess
The above was invented by: John Third Duke of Rutland.
I thought it possible that the Duke witnessed a game of Shogi at some point and therefore saw a Dragon King and added it as a Concubine to his game.
Thank´s, but looks like to me that the Duke, by simple analisys, would come to the existence of the Archbishop, the Centaur and the Amazon, just by adding the Knight move to the Bishop, King and Queen, as he did to get the Chancellor (Concubine).
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 1846
The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor, anciently called Herdebi, but part of the land belongs to Thos.
The latter was given by the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, in commemoration of their marriage, which was solemnised here May 29th, 1839.
The rectory, valued in K. at £20, and in 1831, at £497, is in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland, and the incumbency of the Rev. Wm.
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 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
I am a seafaring-man. On the 8th of January, in the evening, I went into the Duke of Rutland public-house, in Old Gravel-lane; I was alone, and called for a pint of beer.
When we came out of the Duke of Rutland, I was going home to my supper, when Wilson called me back, and told me that Ward had such a quantity of money, he did not mention how much he had.
On the 10th of January last, Bryant sent for me down to the Duke of Rutland, saying, he was sorry for the men who were taken into custody; there were two young men taken on suspicion, though not concerned.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1600
He was the son of John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland and Janetta Hughan.
She married Colonel Lord Robert William Orlando Manners, son of John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland and Janetta Hughan, on 15 November 1902.
She was the daughter of Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay.
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 [No title]
Her issue, George, the second Duke of Buckingham, dying without an heir, the title of Lord Ros of Hamlake again reverted to the Rutland family.
He died in 1710-11, and was succeeded by his son John;[4] whose eldest son became the third Duke of Rutland, and was the last of the family who resided at Haddon, Derbyshire.
On the castle are mounted seven small pieces of cannon, which were presented to the Duke of Rutland by George the Third; from these pieces 21 rounds were fired Nov. 5, 1808, in commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 861
She married George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of Roxburghe, son of Henry John Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe and Mary Goelet, on 5 January 1954.
She married John Henry Montaqu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland, son of Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, on 27 January 1916.
She married Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, son of John Henry Montaqu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland and Kathleen Tennant, on 27 April 1946.
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 Hinckley & District Pool League - Archives - Summer 2004 Div 2 Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barwell Cons 'A' Castle Inn 'B' Duke of Rutland 'A' Prince of Wales 'B' The Union
Duke of Rutland 'A' Castle Inn 'A' The Flintlock 'B' Cross Keys
Duke of Rutland 'A' Castle Inn 'B' The Union
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 The Andrews Pages : Rowsley (Great Rowsley), Derbyshire : Kelly's Directory, 1891
The water supply is derived from a small reservoir at Peak Tor, the property of the Duke of Rutland.
The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland, rent-charge £100, gross yearly value £186, with residence, erected in 1857, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Edward Chinery Parmenter M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge.
The Duke of Rutland G.C.B. is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
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 Touring Southwest Lincolnshire Country Houses on Britannia: Belvoir Castle
The Ros family were the owners at the time, then through marriage it passed to Sir Thomas Manners, the 1st Earl of Rutland, who started to rebuild the castle around 1523 although it was not completed until 1555.
The architect, John Webb, directed the next rebuild, this time for John, 8th Earl of Rutland, between 1654 and 1668, which included the laying out of the grounds.
John, 9th Earl of Rutland was created Marquis of Granby and Duke of Rutland in 1703.
www.britannia.com /tours/lincs/swlinc15.html   (512 words)

  
 NG London/Recent Loans/ Nicolas Poussin, 'Confirmation', 'Eucharist', 'Extreme Unction', 'Ordination', 'Marriage', ...
On loan from the Duke of Rutland's Trustees, Belvoir Castle, Grantham.
Five important paintings by Nicolas Poussin have been loaned to the National Gallery by the Trustees of The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Grantham.
At the time Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was advising the duke and who arranged for the paintings to be installed in their current frames, declared 'Rome…is now much poorer, as England is richer than it was, by this acquisition.' The paintings were hung in Belvoir Castle in Lincolnshire.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk /collection/news/loans/poussin.htm   (557 words)

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