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  Clarendon County History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Clarendon County, named for Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, one of the Lord Properietors of Carolina, was identified since 1732.
In the spring of 2000, "The Richardson Waltz" became the official South Carolina waltz.
It was handed down from one family member to another in the family of General Richard Richardson for more than 200 years in Clarendon County.
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  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (February 18, 1609–December 9, 1674) was an English historian and statesman.
In 1663, the Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietors given title to a huge tract of land in North America which became the Province of Carolina.
Clarendon's sons, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, and Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, were major political figures in their own right.
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 George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2nd and 3rd earls were sons of the 1st, and, neither of them having sons, the title passed, on the death of the 3rd Earl (John Charles) in 1838, to their younger brother's son.
Lord Clarendon's first care was to obtain the admission of Piedmont-Sardinia to the council chamber as a belligerent power, and to raise the barrier which still excluded Prussia as a neutral one.
Clarendon's niece Edith Villiers was the wife of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, a Governor-General and Viceroy of India.
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 EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF CLARENDON - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF CLARENDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
GEORGE, duke of Clarence (1449-1478), younger son of Richard, duke of York, by his wife Cicely, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st earl of Westmorland, was born iii Dublin on the 21st of October 1449.
Having been mentioned as a possible husband for Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold, afterwards duke of Burgundy, Clarence came under the influence of Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, and in July 1469 was married at Calais to the earls elder daughter Isabella.
Two of the dukes children survived their father: Margaret, countess of Salisbury (1473-1541), and Edward, earl of Warwick (1475-1499), who passed the greater part of his life in prison and was beheaded in November,49g.
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 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1663 the Earl of Clarendon was one eight Lords Proprietors given title to a tract of land in North America which became the Province of Carolina.
Clarendon's sons Henry Hyde 2nd Earl of and Lawrence Hyde Earl of Rochester were major political figures in their right.
Clarendon's two cousins Richard Rigby Secretary Jamaica and his son Richard Rigby Secretary Ireland and Paymaster of the Army were successful politicians in the succeeding generations.
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 George William Frederick Villiers 4th Earl Of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The earldom of the lord chancellor Clarendon became extinct in the Hyde line by the death of the 4th earl, his last male descendant.
Thomas Villiers (1709-1786), second son of the 2nd earl of Jersey, who served with distinction as English minister in Germany, and in 1776 the earldom of Clarendon was revived in his favour.
In 1820, as the eldest son of an earl's brother with royal descent, he was enabled to take his M.A. degree under the statutes of the university then in force.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (July 22, 1621– January 21, 1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.
Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, was born in 1577, at Roxwell in Essex, England, eldest son and heir of Sir Hierome Weston, High Sheriff of Essex, and Mary Cave.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (July 22, 1621–January 21, 1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.
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 2ND EARL OF CLARENDON - LoveToKnow Article on 2ND EARL OF CLARENDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The diplomatic conduct of such an alliance for three years between two great nations jealous of their military honor and fighting for no separate political advantage, tried by excessive hardships and at moments on the verge of defeat, was certainly one of the most arduous duties ever performed by a minister.
Lord Clarendon's first care was to obtain the admission of Italy to the council chamber as a belligerent power, and to raise the barrier which still excluded Prussia as a neutral one.
It is due entirely to the firmness of Lord Clarendon that the principle of the neutralization of the Black Sea was preserved, that the Russian attempt to trick the alHes out of the cession in Bessarabia was defeated, and that the results of the war were for a time secured.
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 Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The title Earl of Clarendon was created in 1776 for the politician and diplomat Thomas Villiers, second son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
Previously, in 1661, the title was created for Edward Hyde, but it became extinct at the death of the fourth Earl, there being no male heirs remaining.
It was again bestowed upon Thomas Villiers, the husband of the last Earl's granddaughter, in 1776.
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 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As Lord Chancellor, Clarendon was the author of the " ClarendonCode ", designed to preserve the supremacy of the Church ofEngland.
In 1663, the Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietors given title to a hugetract of land in North America which became the Province of Carolina.
Clarendon's sons, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, and Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, were major political figures in their own right.Clarendon's two cousins, Richard Rigby, Secretary of Jamaica and his son, Richard Rigby, Secretary of Ireland and Paymaster ofthe Army, were also successful politicians in the succeeding generations.
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 Clarendon AR: Where We've Been: History
Clarendon, known as Mouth of Cache[1] until 1837, is the present seat of justice for Monroe County, and was supposedly named for the Earl of Clarendon, England.
Clarendon was a cultural center as well, with a plush opera house by 1893 and frequent visits by showboats.
Numerous floods of the White River darken Clarendon's past, but the most destructive was in 1927 when the water ravaged the countryside and flowed over the levee at Clarendon, causing it to break, allowing water to submerge the town.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF [Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of], 1609-74, English statesman and historian.
Clarendon hoped to achieve a lenient religious settlement that would conciliate the Puritans, but his wishes were overborne by the militantly Anglican Cavalier Parliament, which passed the unjustly named Clarendon Code.
He was blamed by the public for the sale (1662) of Dunkirk to the French and for the second Dutch War (which he opposed), and he was unpopular with the licentious Restoration court.
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 4TH EARL OF CLARENDON - LoveToKnow Article on 4TH EARL OF CLARENDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Villiers received the grand cross of the Bath in 1838 in acknowledgment of his services, and succeeded, on the death of his uncle, to the title of earl of Clarendon; in the following year, having left Madrid, he married Katharine, eldest daughter of James Walter, first earl of Verulam.
Twice in his career the governor-generalship of India was offered him, and once the governor-generalship of Canada;these he refused from reluctance to withdraw from the politics of Europe.
Upon the formation of the coalition ministry between the Whigs and the Peelites, in 1853, under Lord Aberdeen, Lord Clarendon became foreign minister.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709)
Clarendon, while he sought to allay the panic which spread among the Dublin protestants, complained bitterly of the position in which he was placed.
Clarendon sent many protests to both King and Queen during his rival's absence; but as his brother's influence visibly sank, he began to doubt whether his complaints were ever permitted to reach the King.
The Earl was, at the time, sorely troubled by a marriage project of his eldest son, from the difficulty of raising the sums required for a settlement on the encumbered family estates.
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 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
His marriages had gained for him influential friends, and in December 1634 he was made keeper of the writs and rolls of the common pleas; while his able conduct of the petition of the London merchants against Portland earned Laud 's approval.
Clarendon Mayor Leonard "Tex" Selvidge stepped down Tuesday night after serving the city for 14 of the last 30 years.
Clarendon Aldermen took up the issue of trash service for rural residents during their regular meeting May 9.
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Clarendon's _History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England_ is made up of two works composed with different purposes and at a distance of twenty years.
On Clarendon's death in 1674 the manuscripts passed to his two sons, Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, and Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester; and under the supervision of the latter a transcript of the _History_ was made for the printers.
Baron Weston 1628, and Earl of Portland 1633._ _Born 1577.
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 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, also known by the courtesy title of Lord Cornbury (November 28, 1661 - March 31, 1723) was Governor of New York and New Jersey and perhaps best known for the claims of him cross-dressing while in office.
Lord Cornbury died at Chelsea, in obscurity and debt, and was buried April 5, 1723 in Westminster Abbey.
By his daughter Theodosia, who married John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley, he is ancestor of many alive today, including actor Cary Elwes.
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 Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford
It only became known as the Clarendon Building after it was adapted by the University for use as a registry in 1832.
The Clarendon Building was then taken over by the Bodleian Library, and it now houses their admissions department and the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire.
In 1896 it housed the Registrar of the University, the Secretaries of the Curators of the Chest, of the Boards of the Faculties and Studies, of the Oxford Appointments Committee, of the Association for the Education of Women, and of the Local Examinations Delegacy, and the controller of the Lodging Houses Delegacy.
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 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF [Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of], 1609-74, English statesman and historian.
Charles II CHARLES II [Charles II] 1630-85, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-85), eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria.
The term is often used to refer to the entire period from 1660 to the fall of James II in
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 Clarendon Code. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
These laws, named after Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, chief minister of Charles II at the time of their passage, decreased the following of numerous dissenting sects, especially the Presbyterians.
Clarendon himself opposed their enactment, but after their passage he worked for their enforcement.
As a political device to weaken the Whigs, the Clarendon Code was largely superseded by the Test Act of 1673, although some of the statutes, in modified form, remained in force for some time.
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 Alibris: Clarendon
Since its publication at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Earl of Clarendon's history of the English Civil War has remained one of the most important sources for our understanding of the events that changed the course of British history.
Clarendon held the offices of Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of...
Since its publication at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Earl of Clarendon's history of the English Civil War has remained one of the most important sources for our understanding of the events which changed the course of British history.
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 Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The title Earl of Clarendon was created in 1776 for Thomas Villiers.
Previously, in 1661, the title was created for Edward Hyde, but it became extinct atthe death of the fourth Earl, there being no male heirs remaining.
The title is used as a courtesy title for the eldest son of the Earl.
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 CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE... - Online Information article about CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE...
Viscount Cornbury and earl of Clarendon, receiving a grant from the king of £20,000 and at different times of various small estates and Irish rents.
Clarendon appears to have reluctantly acquiesced in these civil measures rather than to have originated them, and to have endeavoured to mitigate their injustice and severity.
Indemnity, but only ten out of the twenty-six condemned were executed, and Clarendon, with the king's support, prevented the passing of a bill in 1661 for the execution of thirteen more.
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 South Carolina State Library Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Clarendon County was named for Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1608/9-1674), one the the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
In the 1950s Clarendon County schools were sued over the issue of racial segregation.
Clarendon County can claim five South Carolina governors, all related: James Burchell Richardson (1770-1836), Richard Irvine Manning(1789-1836), John Peter Richardson (1801-1864), John Laurence Manning(1816-1889), and John Peter Richardson (1831-1899).
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 press releases for the media press, radio, tv & web - The Grove Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Clarendon family left The Grove in the 1920s, when it was used as a gardening school, a health centre, a riding school, and a girl’s boarding school.
The title, Earl of Clarendon, was first borne in 1661 by Edward Hyde.
Under the 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 –; 1875), the family’s increasing political stature and influence - and The Grove’s convenient proximity to London – meant that the family entertained more and more lavishly.
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 The Twickenham Museum : Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Following the restoration of the monarchy he was created Baron Hyde of Hindon, Viscount Cornbury and then Earl of Clarendon and Chancellor of Oxford University.
Clarendon stayed, at first, at Worcester House in The Strand and it was from there that his daughter Anne was secretly married to James, Duke of York, Charles's younger brother.
It was a family arrangement because Clarendon both paid the Hearth Tax in 1664 and 1666 and owned the pews in St Mary's Church, which came with the property.
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 George Glazer Gallery - The Rt. Honorable Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of ...
Honorable Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford Anno Dom.
Clarendon became one of Charles II's chief advisors during his exile, and became lord chancellor and earl of Clarendon after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
He was consistent and moderate in his views, which countered the prevailing politics of the time and made him enough enemies that he was eventually ousted from power and fled to France to live the rest of his life in exile.
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