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  Dysart - LoveToKnow 1911
DYSART, a royal and police burgh and seaport of Fifeshire, Scotland, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, 2 m.
To the west of the town is Dysart House, the residence of the earl of Rosslyn.
In 1559 it was the headquarters of the Lords of the Congregation, and in 1607 the scene of the meetings of the synod of Fife known as the Three Synods of Dysart.
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 Earl of Dysart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl of Dysart (pronounced "Die-z't") is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
In 1670 she resigned the peerage and received a new grant thereof by patent with precedency of her father, and with remainder to her heirs of the body, failing which to her heirs whatsoever.
John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache, was the son of Admiral of the Fleet John Richard Delap Halliday (who in 1821 assumed by Royal license the surname and arms of Tollemache in lieu of Halliday), eldest son of Lady Jane Halliday, youngest daughter and co-heir of the fourth Earl of Dysart.
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 Auch2000-the Earl of Dysart
Dysart is a parish containing a royal burgh (received in 1587) of Dysart, the post-towns of Pathhead and Galiatown, and the villages of Sinclairtown (home of the Malcolms) and Boreland, on the south east of Fifeshire.
The principal landowners are the Earl of Rossyln, the Earl of Rothes Oswald at Dunnikier, and Fergus of Strathmore.
Dysart House, the residence of the Earl of Rossyln, is situated above sea-level to the west of the burgh.
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 1861 Parochial Directory - Dysart
Dysart has an excellent wet dock with eighteen feet of water, and is sufficient to contain about twenty vessels of different burden The population of the Burgh.
West of Dysart are the lands of Ravenscraig, belonging to the Earl of Rosslyn.
Dysart House, the residence of the Earl of Rosslyn, is situated above the sea shore to the west of the Burgh.
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 Ham House, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ham House and the Dysart title then passed to her eldest son from her first marriage: Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart (1649-1727).
The 5th Earl partially re-landscaped the garden and was succeeded in 1799 by his brother, Wilbraham, who immediately made improvements inside and outside the house.
The 6th Earl was a generous patron of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
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 Historical perspective for Dysart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Under them Dysart was a burgh of barony, till early in the 16th century it was raised to a royal burgh by James V., who further exempted it from customs' vassalage to Inverkeithing.
Dysart House, a little W of the town, is a plain but commodious mansion, with beautiful gardens, commanding a splendid view across the Firth; and is the Scottish seat of Francis Robert St Clair Erskine, fourth Earl of Rosslyn since 1801 (b.
Dysart is in the presbytery of Kirkcaldy and synod of Fife; and the charge is collegiate; the first minister's stipend being £373 with manse and glebe worth £71, 10s., and the second's £317, 8s.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townhistory33.html   (1653 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Reverend John Longe and others
She was the daughter of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart and Lady Grace Carteret.
She married Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart, son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, on 19 April 1791.
She married Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart, son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, on 4 February 1773.
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 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Earl married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan and is said to have died in 1442.
The Earl’s second wife was apparently Fingole, daughter of William of Calder, Thane of Cawdor, widow of John Monro of Fowlis, who died in or before 1591, a divorce between her and the Earl was being prepared in 1497-98 and he married thirdly Catherine, named Countess of Sutherland in 1509-12.
John son of John and ninth Earl of Sutherland, at an early age was taken with his father in the presence of King James IV in 1493 and succeeded in 1508 as ward of the Crown, the Earldom being administered by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness.
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 Parishes: Petersham | British History Online
Ham House, the seat of the Earls of Dysart, was built by Sir Thomas Vavasour, Knight-Marshal to James I, traditionally for Henry Prince of Wales.
Lord Dysart's study is west of the diningroom, and to the north of it is a small staircase.
The rectorial tithe is held by the Earl of Dysart.
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 Earl of Dysart - TheBestLinks.com - 1914, 1859, 1840, 1889, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Earl of Dysart, 1914, 1859, 1840, 1889, 1975, 1878, 1794, 1821, 1935, 1770...
The title Earl of Dysart was created in 1643 in the Peerage of Scotland, along with the title Lord Huntingtower.
However, in 1670, his daughter Elizabeth received a re-grant of both titles, with the provision that, for the purposes of precedence or seniority, they would be treated as having been created in 1643.
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 Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places
He was the first Earl and Knight of the Shire in 1689 and Lord Lieutenant during the first year of the reign of Queen Anne.
1698), afterwards countess of Dysart and duchess of Lauderdale, the mistress of Oliver Cromwell.
In 1678 he became captain in the Guards, with which he served in Tangier, and in 1685 he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of fusiliers, but almost at once he gave up his commission because he disliked the proceedings of James II., and became colonel of an Anglo-Dutch regiment, usually stationed in Holland.
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 Ham and Petersham Rifle and Pistol Club - 1st August 1906 Surrey Comet
Amongst those present were Earl Dysart, Viscount Colville (who was a member of the range committee), Lord and Lady Sudeley, General Lord Methuen, General Mackinnon, General Lance, General Sir Robert Biddulph, General C Luard, General Sir Harry Prendergast, Col Frodsham, Capt C Sergison, Mr.
Earl Roberts had endeared himself to every man in the country, not only for his great and brilliant achievements in the past, but because at present he was deeply devoting himself to a work of great magnitude with a wonderful ability and an untiring energy.
Then the gallant Earl stopped in some confusion, but a sympathetic ripple of laughter from the ladies showed him his silence was as well understood as any expression could be.
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 Helmingham Hall Gardens
Elizabeth was a somewhat notorious lady, who on the death of her father became Countess of Dysart in her own right; whilst she and her husband were involved with the Sealed Knot, she maintained at the same time a close friendship with Cromwell.
On the death of Elizabeth, Ham House was inherited by Lionel Tollemache, her son, who thus became the 3rd Earl of Dysart.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century on the death of Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart, who had no male heir, his sister Louisa inherited the title together with Ham House and Buckminster, near Grantham.
www.helmingham.com /hallhistory.asp   (976 words)

  
 DYSART - Online Information article about DYSART
Holland, which was closer in Fifeshire than in other counties, Dysart became known as Little Holland.
MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c.
SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e.
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 A Group of Scottish Women
Lord Dysart was of comparatively humble birth, being the son of a Fifeshire minister.
The Earl of Lauderdale had always pretended to despise wealth, but the rapacity of his countess, to whose passion or caprice he was entirely subservient, seems to have been sadly infectious.
Lionel, her eldest son, who sat for many years in the English House of Commons, and finally became Earl of Dysart, was as grasping and covetous as the duchess.
www.electricscotland.com /history/women/scottish_women_chapter4.htm   (5647 words)

  
 The Barony of Duddingston
The nephew of the 8th Earl succeeded him and was in 1790 raised to the rank of a Marquess.
His grandson, the 2nd Marquess, was in 1868 raised to the rank of a Duke, and then the Barony of Duddingston continued father to son until the present generation where it is shared by the 5th Duke of Abercorn’s brother and sister, Lord Anthony Hamilton and Lady Moyra Campbell.
The Duddingston House in which she lived was replaced with a much larger mansion by the 8th Earl of Abercorn, but it is still possible to imagine the home she loved.
www.baronage.co.uk /2003c/Duddingston.html   (954 words)

  
 THE MAULES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He purchased from the Earl of Mar the lordship of Brechin and Navar in 1639, and in 1642 he bought from the Earl of Dysart the Abbacy of Arbroath.
Craw of East Reston, the Earl of Winton, and the Earl of Panmure; and Mr.
At a public meeting held to discuss the measure, the Earl of Strathmore said that he believed the cheapest method of draining the loch would be to throw a few hogsheads of good whisky into the water and set the 'drunken writers of Forfar' to drink it up.
www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/scotland/esnews/es1002b.asp   (5936 words)

  
 EARL DYSART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Название Earl Dysart было создано в 1643 в Peerage Шотландии, вместе с лордом Юунтингтошер названия.
Первое Earl, william Murray, котор умерли без мыжского вопроса, поэтому названий стало потухшим.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktoru.com /wiki/ru/ea/Earl%20Dysart.htm   (85 words)

  
 Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places
Lionel, third Earl of Dysart, was succeeded in 1727 by his grandson, Lionel, son of Lionel, Lord Huntingtower, who died in 1712.
Catherine Cromwell married Sir Lionel, Lord Tollemache of Helmingham, Suffolk, Godson to Queen Elizabeth and ancestor by Catherine to the Earls of Dysart.
In 1648 he married Elizabeth Murray, the daughter of William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, (cadet branch of the house of Tullibardine - letters patent III Charles II) and Catherine Bruce, daughter of Col. Norman Bruce.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Of Wisdome. Three Books. : CHARRON, (Pierre).; LENNARD (Samson, translator)
This triple portrait, which hangs in the great hall of her ancestral home, Appleby Castle in Westmoreland, was painted in 1647 by Jan van Belcamp and shows her in childhood, aldulthood and late middle-age surrounded by those books which were of most importance to her at each stage of her life.
Earl of Dysart on his mother's death in 1698.
The Tollemache family library at Helmingham Hall, built up by six generations from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, was dispersed at auction in a celebrated series of sales between 1961 and 1969, this being Sotheby, 17/2/1969, lot 32, £110 to Hollings.
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 Dysart Clue Ahead Dysart Income   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"Dysart parish, on the Firth of Forth, is 4 miles in length from north - south and 2 miles in breadth.
Dysart Woods Dysart Woods, a 50-acre tract of old-growth oak forest located in Belmont, County, is the original forest of southeastern Ohio.
Dysart was recognized for having the 4th largest verdict in the State of Missouri in the amount of...
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 Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy » The Murray Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John, the first Murray earl, was a faint—hearted royalist who succumbed to Covenanting pressures in 1640.
Dysart’s daughter and successor Countess Elizabeth, the reputed mistress of Oliver Cromwell, won deserved notoriety for the political influence she exercised over John Maitland, duke of Lauderdale.
John, the second earl, created marquess of Atholl in 1676, mobilised the clans to crush the Argyll rebellion against James VII in 1685.
www.lineages.co.uk /2005/10/26/the-murray-family   (721 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Twickenham Ferry
Indeed, the ferry was sometimes known as the Dysart Ferry.
In fact both the Ferry and the Folly were closed in the following year when the Earl of Dysart took the matter to the Court of Common Pleas and obtained judgment on 5 March together with a bond for £100 against default.
One known as the Buccleugh Ferry downstream towards Richmond Bridge in 1894 and in 1909 the Hammerton Ferry was started, which led to a further lawsuit pursued by the Earl of Dysart which, on this occasion he lost.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=172   (540 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Ferries & Ferrymen
Twickenham Ferry, also known as the Dysart Ferry, was licensed to Henry Horne from 1788.
In 1743 the Earl of Dysart started an action against a nearby ferry run by Margaret Langley and Samuel Keen.
He won in 1746 but in 1915 Lord Dysart failed in his action against Walter Hammerton who had started a ferry in 1908.
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 Travels in Scotland : Castles and Towers: Huntingtower Castle
The earl was beheaded in 1585 for his trouble.
In 1600, a later Earl of Gowrie and his brother were murdered in Gowrie House.
The castle, renamed Huntingtower, remained a royal property until Charles I gave it to William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart.
www.phouka.com /travel/castles/huntingtower/huntingtower.html   (403 words)

  
 Uktravel.com - Castle Guide
Huntingtower remained a royal property until Charles I gave it to William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart.
A daughter of the Earl of Gowrie was supposed to have jumped the distance between the towers (9'9', over a 60' drop!) when she was about to be discovered in the apartments of her lover.
She leaped back to her own tower and was in her own bed by the time her mother appeared to check on her.
www.uktravel.com /castlecontent.asp?timeID=Huntingtower&offset=60   (485 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Twickenham
Ham House was built in the early seventeenth century house by the Earl of Dysart, a Royalist and former whipping boy of Charles I. It was a hotbed of Royalist politics during most of the seventeenth century.
His heiress Elizabeth Murray married Sir Lionel Tollemache of Suffolk in 1648 and the two were leading lights in the Society of the Sealed Knot.
After the Restoration Charles II made Elizabeth the title of Countess of Dysart in her own right and in 1672 she married for the second time to the former Scottish covenanter turned Royalist, John Maitland who in 1673 was made Duke of Lauderdale and later became a member of the CABAL government.
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 National Trust | Ham House | History
Ham House was built in 1610 for Sir Thomas Vavasour, Knight Marshal to James I. On Sir Thomas's death in 1620, the house passed briefly to the Earl of Holdernesse, before becoming the home of William Murray in 1626.
Murray had been the 'whipping boy' for the future Charles I. He took punishment on behalf of the young prince, and formed a close bond with him, growing up to share his taste in art and architecture.
Renowned as a political schemer, she is said to have belonged to the Sealed Knot, the secret organisation supporting the exiled King.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hamhouse/w-hamhouse-history.htm   (596 words)

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