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  DUDLEY - LoveToKnow Article on DUDLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
DUDLEY, a municipal, county and parliamentary borough and market-town of Worcestershire, England, in a portion of that county enclaved in Staffordshire, 8 m.
Dudley lies on an elevated ridge, in the midst of the district of the midlands known as the Black Country, which is given up to ironworks and coal mines.
Dudley and its environs are connected by a tramway system, and water communication is afforded by the Dudley canal with Birmingham and with the river Severn.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DU/DUDLEY.htm   (1615 words)

  
 SIR ROBERT DUDLEY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ROBERT DUDLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Italy Dudley was known as Duca di Nortombria and Conte di Warwick.
Through a daughter who married the Marquis Paleotti, Dudley was the ancestor of the wife of the first duke of Shrewsbury (of the revolution of 1688), and of her brother who was executed at Tyburn for murder on the i7th of March 1718.
Dudley was the author of a pamphlet addressed to King James I., showing how the impertinences of parliament could be bridled by military force.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DU/DUDLEY_SIR_ROBERT.htm   (663 words)

  
 Earl of Dudley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of Dudley has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, both times for members of the Ward family.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Ednam, of Ednam in the County of Roxburgh (1860), in the Peerage of the UK and Baron Ward, of Birmingham in the County of Warwick (1644), in the Peerage of England.
John William Ward, 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward (1781-1833) (became Earl of Dudley in 1827)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Dudley   (278 words)

  
 John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (~1528 - October 18, 1554) was the heir of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
Wyatt's rebellion sealed the fate of Guilford Dudley, but three of his brothers, Ambrose, Robert and Henry, were released in October 1554 and John himself soon afterwards.
Jane Dudley, the mother of John, Guildford, Ambrose and Robert died before her son’s release and was laid to rest in her parish Church of Chelsea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dudley,_2nd_Earl_of_Warwick   (249 words)

  
 In Search of Shakespeare . Robert Dudley, The Earl of Leicester | PBS
Dudley himself was sentenced to death by Mary I at the start of her bloody reign, but was later freed to serve in the army against the French.
Elizabeth I on her accession to the throne made gossips' tongues wag with her swift promotion of Dudley, making him Master of the Horse, a Knight of the Garter and a Privy Councillor.
A curious mix of Puritan zeal (he pursued enemies among Catholic sympathizers relentlessly) and artistic patron (he established the Earl of Leicester's Men which featured James Burbage) he was less successful as a commander of armies in foreign campaigns.
www.pbs.org /shakespeare/players/player47.html   (211 words)

  
 Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
A younger son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, he was early brought into the society of Edward VI and Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth.
Knighted at an early age, Dudley married Amy Robsart in 1549 and received preferment from the crown.
On the accession of Elizabeth (1558), Dudley was made master of the horse and later a privy councillor.
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Sibe Dudley, daughter of Barzillai, is born in Cornwall.
Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of Gideon, is born in Cornwall.
Joseph Dudley, son of Gideon, is born in Cornwall.
www.angelfire.com /music/innovativeechos/DUDLEYTOWN/history.html   (429 words)

  
 WILLIAM WARD, EARL OF DUDLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (25 May 1867 - 29 June 1932), fourth Governor-General of Australia, was born in London and was educated at Eton.
Dudley arrived in Sydney in September 1908, and soon established a reputation for pomp, ceremony and extravagance which was unwelcome to many Australians, particularly the Labor Party and the radical press such as The Bulletin.
Dudley's insistence on maintaining two very expensive Government Houses, in Sydney and Melbourne, on travelling around the country in vice-regal pomp, and on chartering a steam-yacht to circumnavigate the continent, infuriated Fisher, a frugal Scottish socialist.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/WILLIAM+WARD,+EARL+OF+DUDLEY   (497 words)

  
 Parkes Hall Pool
By 1853 six of the seven public wells remaining in the town, tapped springs at a depth of thirty feet, this was surface supply and very uncertain in quality during the summer, the seventh well was a cistern fitted with a hand pump which was fed with water from the roof of a parish church.
The limits of the Dudley Waterworks Act were the Borough, the Castle, the parish of Sedgley and Tipton and the township of Bilston.
In Dudley 1,800 houses were supplied and in Bilston and Sedgley 1,200, the charges ranged from eight shillings and eight pence per house to three pounds per house per annum.
www.sedgleymanor.com /historical/parkes_hall_pool.html   (5026 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 283
Gerald Ernest Francis Ward was the son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe.
William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley was the son of William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley and Rachel Gurney.
George Reginald Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley was the son of William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley and Rachel Gurney.
www.thepeerage.com /p283.htm   (793 words)

  
 Inside UVA
Dudley, a 1967 graduate of the U.Va. School of Law, has been a full-time faculty member since 1989 and served as associate general counsel of the University for five years.
Dudley has worked closely with the Honor Committee for the past six years, at a time when demands on the student members were high and trust of faculty and administrators was low.
Dudley has contributed his legal expertise and many extra hours in other important service to the University community, Lampkin noted in her recommendation for the award.
www.virginia.edu /insideuva/2002/19/dudley.html   (390 words)

  
 Elizabethan government
Robert Dudley (1532-88) was a younger son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
She made him Earl of Leicester, and apparently seriously considered marrying him after the (suspicious) death of his wife in 1560.
Dudley and Walsingham saw the Roman Catholic threat as paramount and regarded the puritans as the queen's staunchest allies against the Pope; Christopher Hatton believed that puritans threatened royal control of the Church as much as Catholics
faculty.history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-15.htm   (1844 words)

  
 Britannia Biographies: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Robert Dudley, the favourite and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was the fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guildford.
That Elizabeth loved Dudley and continued to love him, in spite of frequent quarrels, is a theory quite tenable; but the opposite theory, that she loved no-one at all, and merely employed Lord Robert as a stalking-horse against other suitors, is also tenable.
Lady Amy Dudley died suddenly in 1560 at Cumnor Place, in North Berkshire, in circumstances that were at least suspicious, and part of the suspicion involved not only Lord Robert but the Queen as well.
www.britannia.com /bios/lords/leicesterrd.html   (725 words)

  
 Robert Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Dudley was arrested for his part in the rebellion, but after being tried for treason he was pardoned by Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain.
Dudley fought with Philip in France but when Elizabeth became queen he returned to England.
Earl of Leicester, died from a malarial infection in 1588.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDdudleyR.htm   (334 words)

  
 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Robert was born in 1532, the son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford.
It was believed he had ambitions to marry the queen, who continued to show him high favor and created him Earl of Leicester in 1564.
There are some poems (one notable "Leicester's Ghost"--a rehash of a libellous article in poem form), and other articles that through great disrespect on Robert's life, and some that extol him as a paragon of virtue.
www.legendofdudleytown.com /bob.html   (634 words)

  
 Hello Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Despite some improvements Dudley was a dirty and insanitary place in the early 19th century (like all towns).
Furthermore in 1865 the goverment of the town was reformed and it was made a borough and given a corporation.
A statue of the Earl was erected in Dudley in 1888.
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 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Although contemporaries believed that Robert Dudley was born on the same day, in the same year, as the Queen, it is more likely that he was at least a year older.
He was the son of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, Duke of Northumberland, and Protector of England during the reign of Edward VI.
John Dudley, the eldest son, died shortly afterwards, but Henry and Robert joined the forces of Philip II and went to fight in France, where Henry was killed in battle.
www.elizabethi.org /us/queensmen/robertdudley.htm   (1927 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 282
William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley was the son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe.
Reginald Ward was the son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe.
Cyril Augustus Ward was the son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe.
www.thepeerage.com /p282.htm   (684 words)

  
 Home Page for Earl C. Dudley
Beginning in 1982, Earl Dudley taught trial advocacy seminars at the Law School while he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum Owen and Webster.
Dudley's career, before he came to Virginia, was in private practice, except for two years when he was general counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary in the U.S. House of Representatives.
He serves on the Virginia State Bar Committee on Professionalism and was a member of the boards of directors of the Stuart Stiller Memorial Foundation, the Disability Rights Center, and the Center for the Study of Psychiatry.
www.law.virginia.edu /lawweb/faculty.nsf/d27223a3bb2289da852566cc007e23c6/3e2ad241d8d1e035852566f600523216?OpenDocument   (221 words)

  
 Sala de Guillermo, 2do earl de Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Como conservador, Dudley no habría podido esperar prefermenta del gobierno liberal que vino a la oficina en 1905, pero rey Edward VII presionó a primer ministro, sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman-Bannerman ofrecer a Dudley el poste de Gobernador-General Australia, y Campbell-Bannerman convenida, de puesto que no había al parecer candidato liberal conveniente disponible.
Dudley llegó en Sydney en septiembre de 1908, y pronto estableció una reputación para la pompa, la ceremonia y el extravagance que era incómodo a muchos australianos, particularmente al partido laborista y a la prensa radical tal como el boletín.
Tan cuando Dudley hizo un discurso en el soporte de la campaña de Dreadnought, él se perdía en la política del partido, conduciendo a una relación tensa con el pescador.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/sa/Sala%20de%20Guillermo,%202do%20earl%20de%20Dudley.htm   (622 words)

  
 DudleyMall - Pictures of Old Dudley - Earl of Dudley
The earliest of David Clare's three postcards of the first Earl of Dudley's statue at the top of Castle Hill is this one, posted on 10th October 1905.
The answer may be that one of his official dress "uniforms" was something along the lines shown.
Castle Hill was widened to make room for the Earl of Dudley’s statue, which prompted the 1886 demolition of houses that stood on the castle side of St. Edmunds Church in Castle Street.
www.dudleymall.co.uk /loclhist/olddudley/olddud3.htm   (624 words)

  
 In Search of Shakespeare . Arden insults Leicester | PBS
Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, visit Kenilworth.
Edward Arden, head of a respected and influential Catholic family in Warwickshire, dangerously and publicly shows his contempt for the Queen's favorite, Robert Dudley, by refusing to wear his livery, as is a customary show of respect.
Arden has open contempt for Dudley – a Puritan when it suits him, who also supports poets and players – and calls him an upstart and an adulterer.
www.pbs.org /shakespeare/events/event63.html   (114 words)

  
 The Sidney Homepage - Biography of the Countess of Pembroke
The fortunes of the Sidneys and the Dudleys were closely tied to the favour of the monarch.
Under Queen Mary the Dudley brothers were imprisoned and their properties were confiscated, but after Elizabeth came to the throne she gave particular favour to them.
Mary Sidney Herbert was the niece of Henry Hastings and Katherine Dudley Hastings, Earl and Countess of Huntingdon; of Ambrose Dudley and Anne Russell Dudley, Earl and Countess of Warwick; and of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth's favourite.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /sidney/pembroke_biography.htm   (1632 words)

  
 AI Europa - Elizabeth's Extended Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After Dudley's death in 1588, Lettice's son, Robert Devereux fast became a favorite of the Queen and would often be the source of court gossip for his mother.
With Dudley’s death, Lettice was left with a mountain of debt that the Queen would not excuse.
The rest of her life was at a much slower pace then when Dudley had been alive and she enjoyed the company of her children and grandchildren more often.
www.antiquatedideas.com /cgi-antiquatedideas/europa/topic.cgi?forum=45&topic=7   (626 words)

  
 Robert Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532-1588) was one of the most powerful figures in Elizabeth's court and was almost surely the person she would have married if she could have.
Dudley was the son of John Dudley, Duke of Nothumberland, who had dominated the council of Edward VI and had engineered the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne in place of Mary I. Elizabeth had known Dudley when she was a princess.
He was the uncle of Sir Philip Sidney and the stepfather of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
www.newberry.org /elizabeth/exhibit/bios/robertdudley.html   (165 words)

  
 Assistant Vice President for University Relations: Louise M. Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Before moving to Charlottesville in 1989, Dudley worked for fifteen years at Heldref Publications, a nonprofit publisher of educational journals and magazines, including Change and Environment magazines, in Washington, D.C. She was named assistant director for editorial production in 1984, having served earlier as managing editor and editorial coordinator.
Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1940, Dudley graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in 1961 with a major in American studies.
She is married to Earl C. Dudley Jr., a professor on the U.Va. law faculty.
www.virginia.edu /universityrelations/dudley.html   (274 words)

  
 Marriage and succession : The Queen's Court : Elizabeth : National Maritime Museum : Past exhibitions : What's on   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Dudley (1532–88) was one of Elizabeth's favourites, a long-term suitor and believed by many to have been her one true love.
Elizabeth's fondness for Dudley and his proximity to her as Master of the Horse and Privy Councillor made him influential and envied for his access to the Queen.
Cecil's and Dudley's close relationships with Elizabeth, and their differing opinions on military and religious matters, meant that they were often at loggerheads.
www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.6088/viewPage/2   (201 words)

  
 Chapter Dryden of Germany <i>to</i> Duessa of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook
Dudley, a young artist; a disguise assumed by Harry Bertram.—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).
Dudley (Captain), a poor English officer, of strict honour, good family, and many accomplishments.
Nie Kirk sold it for £12,000; and the earl of Dudley gave Messrs.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1114/14657/2.html   (555 words)

  
 DudleyMall - Round Oak Ironworks
One such book that only got into their collection in the last year or so is Dudley: illustrated by photographs, author anonymous, but published by W.H. Laxton in 1868.
A branch of the Great Western Railway (the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway until not long before) enters the building itself, but most of the visible railway is the Pensnett Railway, one of the enterprises of the Earl of Dudley, along with the ironworks and local coal mines.
The cart has indecipherable lettering on it but probably belonged to the Earl of Dudley to appear in the photograph at all.
www.dudleymall.co.uk /loclhist/roundoak/roundoak.htm   (620 words)

  
 Northumberland, John Dudley, duke of
The son of Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII, John was restored to his inheritance in 1512 after his father's attainder and execution (1510).
Mary I, 1516–58, queen of England: Reign - Reign During the spread of Protestantism in the reign of her half brother, Edward VI, Mary was...
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