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	Ellesmere Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ellesmere Island, in the Arctic Ocean, is the world's 10th largest island, and Canada's third largest island, with an area of 196,235 km
		Ellesmere Island (French: Île Ellesmere) is part of the Arctic Islands of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
		Large portions (80,000 km²) of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, along with substantial ice cover in Northern Ellesmere Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ellesmere_Island (372 words)

	ELLESMERE - LoveToKnow Article on ELLESMERE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The manor of Ellesmere (Ellesmeles) belonged before the Conquest to Earl Edwin of Mercia, and was granted by William the Conqueror to Roger, earl of Shrewsbury, whose son, Robert de Belesme, forfeited it in 1ff 2 for treason against Henry I. In 1177 Henry II.
		Ellesmere owed itg early importance to its position on the Welsh borders and to its castle, which -was in ruins, however, in 1349.
		The town was governed by a bailiff appointed by a jury at one of the court leets of the lord of the manor, until a local board was formed in 1859.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EL/ELLESMERE.htm (792 words)

	Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (January 1, 1800 - February 18, 1857), born in London, was the second son of the 1st Duke of Sutherland.
		He afterwards sat for Sutherland and for South Lancashire, which he represented when he was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley in 1846.
		Lord Ellesmere served as president of the Royal Geographical Society and as president of the Royal Asiatic Society, and he was a trustee of the National Gallery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Egerton,_1st_Earl_of_Ellesmere (428 words)

	Ellesmere Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Large portions (80,000 km²) of Ellesmere Island are covered with (A slowly moving mass of ice) glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, along with substantial ice cover in Northern Ellesmere Island.
		Along the northwest coast of Ellesmere Island are some (Click link for more info and facts about ice shelves) ice shelves, including the Ward Hunt ice shelf which experienced major breakup during summer 2002.
		There are three settlements on Ellesmere Island: (Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action) Alert, (A town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean) Eureka, and (Click link for more info and facts about Grise Fiord) Grise Fiord.
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	Ellesmere Island - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was named in 1852 by Sir Edward A. Inglefield's expedition after Francis Egerton (1800-1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
		km) of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, along with substantial ice cover in Northern Ellesmere Island.
		Pre-Mississippian geology of northern Axel Heiberg and northwestern Ellesmere Islands, Arctic archipelago, (Geological Survey of Canada.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ellesmere_island.htm (457 words)

	6.Duke of SutherlandEgerton, John Sutherland
		Earl of Ellesmere, who was the second son of the 1.
		Thus the Ellesmeres were immensely rich in their own right from the canals and also from property and coalmining.
		Earl of Ellesmere and his wife, Lady Violet Lambton, eldest daughter of the 4.
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	Terry Morley Golf Shop and School of Golf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ellesmere is a very friendly Club; it is a friendliness that is unobtrusive, with a natural sense of kith and kin at the heart of golf that is to be found only at those clubs where the sense of competition is kind rather than cut throat.
		The recently completed new Clubhouse is a credit to the members of Ellesmere and it is the third in the Club’s history.
		Ellesmere Golf Club provides some of the most interesting holes in the area on a Golf Course that is carefully manicured and presented.
	www.terrymorleygolfshop.co.uk (231 words)

	Old Historic Families of Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire 3
		Sir Thomas was responsible for the raising and funding of the Royal Lancashire Volunteer Regiment and died in 1814.
		Worsley Court House, a grade 2 listed building, was built in by the 1st Earl of Ellesmere to house the manorial court of Worsley - the so-called Court Leet - it last sat in 1888.
		The 1st Earl also had built the Packet House and endowed the local church which still carries his coat of arms as does the M60 Motorway bridge nearby.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/old-families3.html (713 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ellesmere Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ross Ice Shelf An ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface, typically in Antarctica or Greenland.
		Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are: Alert, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 82°28 N Eureka, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 79°59´ N Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway 78°12 N Qaanaaq(Thule), Greenland, Denmark 77º30 N Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 76º25 N Barrow, Alaska, United...
		The Department of the Environment, also referred to as Environment Canada, is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for coordinating environmental policies and programs as well as preserving and enhancing the natural environment and conservation of wildlife.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ellesmere-Island (996 words)

	Boothstown - Farms and Folds
		The Earl had found it necessary to sell the estates in order to meet death duties on succeeding his father, the 3rd Earl, in 1914.
		Malkin's Wood Farm was established by the 1st Earl of Ellesmere as one of the model farms of the Worsley estate, and for most of the 19th century the farm of some 250 acres was worked by the Hamilton family.
		In 1868 Richard Nicholls, son of Jonathan, was churchwarden at Ellenbrook chapel, in which capacity he was present at the official welcome to the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere when he inherited Worsley.
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		He was the son of the 4th Earl of Ellesmere, to whose titles he succeeded in 1944;he subsequently inherited the Dukedom of Sutherland, Marquessate, and lesser titles from his third cousin once removed (whose niece inherited the Earldom of Sutherland).
		His family were patrilineally Gowers, tracing clearly to Sir Nicholas Gower, a 14th century MP, and possibly centuries before that...the branch who were created Earls of Ellesmere changed their name to Egerton under the terms of the will of Scroop Egerton, the famously rich Duke of Bridgwater.
		His mother was a daughter of an Earl of Durham, and lived to be 100.
	www.derbydeadpool.co.uk /deadpool2000/obits/sutherland.html (549 words)

	BRIDGEWATER - LoveToKnow Article on BRIDGEWATER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scroop, 1st duke of Bridgewater (1681f 745), was the son of the 3rd earl of Bridgewater, and was created a duke in 1720; he was the greatgrandson of John Egerton, 1st earl of Bridgewater (d.
		Francis Egerton succeeded to the dukedom at the age of twelve on the death of his brother, the 2nd duke.
		Though the last of the peers died in 1857, one of the commoners survived till the i9th of October 1883, and consequently the trust did not expire till the I9th of October 1903, when the whole property passed under the undivided control of the earl of Ellesmere.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRIDGEWATER.htm (603 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 997
		Francis Egerton, son of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere and Harriet Catherine Greville, on 26 September 1865.
		She married Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, son of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland and Elizabeth Gordon, Countess of Sutherland, on 18 June 1822.
		She married, firstly, Arthur Frederick Egerton, son of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere and Harriet Catherine Greville, on 2 June 1858.
	www.thepeerage.com /p997.htm (717 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 998
		She married George Granville Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere, son of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere and Harriet Catherine Greville, on 29 April 1846.
		She married Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, son of George Granville Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Mary Louisa Campbell, on 9 December 1868.
		She married John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere, son of Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Katherine Louisa Phipps, on 28 October 1905.
	www.thepeerage.com /p998.htm (911 words)

	Ellesmere Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Terrain: Ellesmere Island is the largest island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands located off the northwest coast of Greenland.
		It was named after the Earl of Ellesmere in 1852 by Sir Edward A. Inglefield's Expedition to navigate the coast.
		The southern part of Ellesmere Island saw a series of expeditions to Makinson Inlet in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1987 and 1990 led by Cochran, and climbing Inglefield Mountains and Thorndike Peaks.
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	Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d earl of
		Northampton, Henry Howard, earl of - Northampton, Henry Howard, earl of, 1540–1614, English courtier; son of the poet, Henry...
		Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron - Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?–1617, jurist and statesman.
		Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3d earl of - Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3d earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman and patron of...
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	The Huntington Library - Chaucer Exhibit
		The beautiful, leather-bound volume was penned by scribes less than a decade after the poet's death, and is beautifully illuminated with miniature paintings of Chaucer and 22 fellow travelers who accompanied him on a fictional springtime pilgrimage to Thomas Becket's tomb in Canterbury Cathedral.
		The "Kelmscott Chaucer" remains a celebrated landmark in the art of the book, and-with the Ellesmere manuscript and Caxton's first edition-completes the triad of great Huntington treasures on which the current exhibit is founded.
		The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by Herbert Schultz.
	www.huntington.org /Chaucer.htm (1023 words)

	Expedition News in the Mountain Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Kobalenko and Moskal depart from Ellesmere's Eureka weather station in early April, it will be the first circumnavigation attempt of Axel Heiberg since Sgt. Henry Stallworthy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police set out looking for German geologist Dr. Hans Krueger who disappeared in 1930.
		Ellesmere Island, three-fourths the size of Great Britain and roughly the same shape, was first seen in 1616 by William Baffin and was named in 1852 by Sir Edward Inglefield after Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere - who has no other connection to the island.
		Together, Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg are considered the two most ruggedly beautiful lands in the High Arctic, with mountains up to 8,583 feet.
	classic.mountainzone.com /news/expedition/02-99.html (995 words)

	Ellesmere Chaucer
		The Ellesmere Chaucer is not only the most beautiful manuscript of Chaucer's best known work, the Cantebury Tales, but the most famous literary manuscript in English.
		But the best known decorative feature of the Ellesmere manuscript is a set of twenty-three equestrian portraits of the storytellers (including Chaucer) who tell their tales during a sixty-mile pilgrimage from London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in Cantebury Cathedral.
		The chief purpose of the Ellesmere pilgrim portraits is to facilitate reading by making explicit and visible the manuscript's arrangement that classifies the tales according to the speakers.
	www.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/library/sc/chaucer/text_page.htm (700 words)

	Ellesmere Port - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ellesmere Port
		Oil port and industrial town in Cheshire, northwest England, on the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, 11 km/7 mi north of Chester; population (1991) 64,500.
		Formerly the biggest transhipment canal port in northwest England, it now contains the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum (opened 1976) which traces the history of canals, with many old narrow boats and a flsmith's forge.
		The Shropshire Union Canal, developed to transport iron-ore from the Furness peninsula to the West Midlands, and china clay to the Potteries, reached Ellesmere Port in 1795.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ellesmere+Port (217 words)

	Lancashire Worthies - the Great Duke of Bridgewater
		Father and son had married mother and daughter : the Earl of Bridgewater's wife was the Lady Frances Stanley, daughter of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere's third wife, the Countess Dowager of Derby (widow of Ferdinando fifth Earl), as already mentioned.
		Thus it happened that after the Chancellor's death there was a very special intimacy between his widow and the family of the Earl of Bridgewater; she was not only the Earl's step-mother, but the mother of his wife, and the grandmother of his children.
		In 1631, the Earl of Bridgewater was appointed Lord President of the Council of Wales, an office of almost viceregal dignity; but he did not arrive at Ludlow, the seat of his government, until late in 1633.
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	Ellesmere Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Receiving runoff from a 745-square-mile (1,930-square-kilometre) basin through several streams, principal of which is the Selwyn (entering through a delta from the north), Lake Ellesmere is brackish and is...
		The islands, the largest of which are Ellesmere, Melville, Devon, and Axel Heiberg, have a total land area of more than 150,000 square miles (390,000 square km).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032435?tocId=9032435 (757 words)

	Victorian London - Buildings, Monuments and Museums - Bridgewater House
		BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S, fronts the Green Park, and was built 1847-50, from the designs of Charles Barry, R.A., for Francis, Earl of Ellesmere, great nephew, and principal heir of Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater.
		This is independent of 150 original drawings by the three Caraci, and 80 by Giulio Romano, bought in 1836 by the Earl of Ellesmere, form the Lawrence Collection.
		Cleveland Row, by the Green Park, is one of the pleasantest situations in all London for a town house, and here, at the western end, is Bridgewater House, the Earl of Ellesmere's mansion.
	www.victorianlondon.org /buildings/bridgewaterhouse.htm (337 words)

	Clausewitz in English: Chapter 3
		On 24 September 1842, the duke of Wellington addressed a memorandum to Francis Egerton, earl of Ellesmere, concerning Clausewitz's study of the Waterloo campaign of 1815.
		Although chiefly remembered as a literary figure and as a patron of the arts, the politically prominent Ellesmere (1800-57) held a (probably honorary) commission as a captain in the Staffordshire yeomanry and served as secretary at war for a brief period in 1830.
		Ellesmere wrote, edited, and translated several works on military history and on contemporary military events.
	www.clausewitz.com /CWZHOME/Bassford/Chapter3.htm (6241 words)

	Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, 1st earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, 1st earl of on Encyclopedia.com
		His family name was Leveson-Gower, but he changed it on inheriting (1833) the estates of his great uncle, Francis Egerton, 3d duke of Bridgewater.
		A portrait by Rubens of his son Frans: a drawing by Rubens of the eldest son from his second marriage has recently been lent to the National Gallery of Scotland by the Duke of Sutherland.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EllesmrF1.asp (298 words)

	Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A distinguished early career at law brought him appointment (1581) as solicitor general, and he became a favorite and adviser of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1592 he was appointed attorney general and in 1596 lord keeper of the great seal.
		A friend of Robert Devereux, 2d earl of Essex, he tried to curb the earl's impetuosity, was lenient to him at the time of his first trial (1600), but abandoned him after his rebellion (1601) and was a witness against him in the trial that resulted in his execution.
		A staunch supporter of royal prerogative, he championed the courts of chancery and high commission against those of common law and helped to secure the dismissal (1616) of Sir Edward Coke.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EllesmrT1.asp (417 words)

	Legion Magazine : Weather Station Eureka
		About the same size as Britain, Ellesmere is the third largest island in Canada and the most northerly in the Arctic Archipelago.
		The island is deeply incised by fiords and its northern coast is extended by ice shelves that are fused to the shore.
		The island was named after Francis Egerton, the first earl of Ellesmere, during the Inglefield expedition in 1852.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/celebratingcanada/00-03.asp (2597 words)

	ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leveson-Gower’s younger son, Francis Egerton, created Earl of Ellesmere in 1846, inherited the library, and it remained in the family until its sale to Henry Huntington by John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton (1872-1944), 4th Earl of Ellesmere.
		On occasion the letter-number pressmark appears to have been inscribed by the second Earl of Bridgewater, as is the case of the present EL 34 A 8 and 34 B 7.
		The fourth pressmark consists of a number, a letter and a number; it was assigned probably during the nineteenth century when the collection received considerable attention in arrangement, disposal of duplicates and rebinding from its successive librarians, the Rev. Henry John Todd, J. Payne Collier (whose efforts were not entirely benevolent), and Strachan Holme.
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