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  Earl of Southampton - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, an English title borne by the families of Fitzwilliam and Wriothesley.
His successor was his son, Henry (1545-1581), the 2nd earl, one of the Roman Catholic nobles who conspired for the release of Mary Queen of Scots.
After the death of Lady Gainsborough the London property of the earl passed to her sister Rachel, wife of William, Lord Russell, the patriot, and later to the dukes of Bedford.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earl_Of_Southampton   (807 words)

  
 Earl St Aldwyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl St Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The Baronetcy, of Beverston in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of England in 1619 for William Hicks, who represented Marlow and Tewkesbury in the House of Commons.
He was the son of Sir Michael Hicks, secretary to Lord Burghley, and the nephew of Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden, from whom the Earls of Gainsbrorough descends.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_St_Aldwyn   (320 words)

  
 Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter IV - Earldom and Earls of Erroll - Section IX
Earl James, as Lord High Constable of Scotland, was present and officiated at the coronation of George III., on the 22nd of September, 1761.
The Earl’s third son, Samuel, was born on the 9th of January, 1807.
Earl William died on the 26th of January, 1819, and was succeeded by his eldest-surviving son, William George, eighteenth Earl of Erroll.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/earldoms/chapter4s9.htm   (1175 words)

  
 Gainsborough Town Council
Gainsborough's history predates Roman times, but it was probably the Anglian 'Gainas' tribe who in the 6th century first settled on the site of what is now the present day town.
Gainsborough's position on the banks of the river Trent made it very much a frontier town,and when Sweyne (Forkbeard) King of Denmark brought his vessels up the Trent in 1013 and landed his forces in the town, the whole of Northumbria, together with Lindsey, submitted to his rule.
Gainsborough achieved the status of a port in 1841, and seven years later a Danish Vice-Consul had taken up residence in the town.
www.gainsboroughtowncouncil.co.uk /history.htm   (600 words)

  
 Chapter XXVII Titled and Untitled Aristocracy
The Earl of Dunmore and male descendants are thus capable of contingently succeeding to the dukedom of Athole.
On the death of the Earl of Derby, in 1735, without issue, while the estates and honours of Derby went to his male heir Sir Edward Stanley, the title of Lord Strange, and the lordship of Mann and the Isles came to the Duke of Athole, as heir of line and at law.
Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Zetland, is eldest son of the Hon.
www.electricscotland.com /history/stirlingshire/chap27.htm   (5656 words)

  
 HEREDITARY BARONIES IN THE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
13 Barony of Soberton of Soberton 17 February 1806(The Barony belongs to the Viscountcy of Anson and is held by the Earl of Lichfield).
95 Barony of Noel of Titchfield 16 August 1841(The Barony belongs to and is held by the Earl of Gainsborough).
101 Barony of Elgin of Elgin 3 November 1849(The Barony is held by the Scottish Earl of Elgin and Kincardine).
www.hulthenhem.se /peer/baronuk.htm   (6735 words)

  
 Thomas Gainsborough .- Olga's Gallery
Thomas Gainsborough is an English landscape and portrait painter, one of the great English masters.
In 1748 Gainsborough presented The Charterhouse (1748) to the Foundling Hospital, it was a way for the artist to show one of his works, because at that time there were no other possibilities for young artists.
In 1746 Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of Duke of Beaufort.
www.abcgallery.com /G/gainsborough/gainsborough.html   (277 words)

  
 Living Descendants of the Earls of Desmond
For reasons that are unclear, James, 14th Earl, had his marriage to Joan annulled on grounds of "consanguinity." Garrett was knighted at Waterford on 30 November 1558.
He frequently visited his cousin, the Earl of Thomond, in England after the peace of Utrecht, [1713] and was presented by him to King George I., who made him an offer that the estates of his family and his dignity should be restored if he would become a member of the Established Church of England.
He, nevertheless, refused; and, on the death of Henry, eighth Earl of Thomond, his landed property went to the next in legal succession, who were Protestants.
members.aol.com /desmondearls/living_desc_garrett15.htm   (2077 words)

  
 James Earl ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - The 7th Earl of Northampton n.d.
Jacobus Houbraken, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, 1741
George Vertue, Portrait of Francis, Earl of Bedford, 1737
wwar.com /masters/e/earl-james.html   (1663 words)

  
 The Noel's of Campden and Whitwell
Sir Baptist Hicks died on the 18th of Oct 1629 at St Lawrence, Old Jewry, London without any sons he was permitted to pass his honors and titles to the husband of his eldest daughter whose family name was Noel and thus her descendants bear the name Noel and they became the Earls of Gainsborough.
Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough.
Christopher's wife was Lady Sophia Noel the youngest daughter of Baptist Noel the 4th Earl of Gainsborough.
www.mcn.org /2/noel/Campden.htm   (699 words)

  
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The Earl of Ailesbury, one of the most devoted servants of the royal family, declared that, though a Protestant, and by no means rich, he would himself contribute a thousand pounds towards this design, rather than that his master should violate the rights of property, and break faith with the Established Church.
The Earl of Gainsborough was rejected, not only from the lieutenancy of Hampshire, but also from the government of Portsmouth and the rangership of the New Forest, two places for which he had, only a few months before, given five thousand pounds.
He succeeded the Earl of Oxford as Colonel of the Blues, and the Earl of Gainsborough as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Ranger of the New Forest, and Governor of Portsmouth.
yarchive.net /macaulay/history/chapter_VIII.html   (21235 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - nil and others
She married Edward Peter Bertram Savile Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool, son of Captain Peter George William Savile Foljambe and Elizabeth Joan Flint, on 29 January 1970.
She was the daughter of Sir Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough and Mary Stourton.
Gerard Edward Joseph Noel, son of Sir Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough and Mary Stourton, in 1985.
www.thepeerage.com /p4642.htm   (532 words)

  
 Kensington - London
He married for his fourth wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Lindsey, and the Earl himself died at Campden House.
The title went to Viscount Campden's eldest son Edward, who was created Earl of Gainsborough, and in default of male issue it afterwards reverted to his younger brother.
Holland was a younger son of the Earl of Warwick, and after his execution for having taken arms in the cause of Charles L, this title descended, through lack of heirs in the elder branch, to his son, as well as that of Earl of Holland.
www.oldandsold.com /articles05/london-kensington-7.shtml   (1265 words)

  
 Gainsborough
The Earl of Kingston was holding the town for the King but was surprised by a night attack by Lord Willoughby of Parham.
While the Earl was being taken along the river as a prisoner he was killed by a cannon shot from his own Royalist troops who did not realise that their leader was aboard.
The capture of Gainsborough threatened the communications with Newark and the South, so Newcastle immediately sent Sir Charles Cavendish to capture it back.
www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk /ecivil/gainsborough.htm   (270 words)

  
 Exton Community Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Vicar at that time, (the Honourable and Reverend Leland Noel, brother of the Earl of Gainsborough), set restoration under way, first with the architect RC Carpenter then in 1851 with JL Pearson.
The head of the family is the Earl of Gainsborough.
This monument, to Baptist Noel, fourth Earl of Gainsborough, died 1751, is by Nollekins.
www.rutnet.co.uk /exton/church/churchhistory.htm   (828 words)

  
 The Noels of Newfoundland - History
Sir Baptist's second marriage was to Anne, widow of Edward Bourchier, Earl of Bath, and daughter of Sir Robert Lord of Liscombe, Bucks.
She died in Holland and is buried in the Collegiate Church of Utrecht.
Elizabeth Noel married George, Lord Audley in England and Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland.
www.davidnoel.com /noel/index.php?id=history&sec=10-1   (2218 words)

  
 The Last Empress
Surprisingly, owing to the Lyon heir having married into English families for six successive generations, of her 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents the 49 we have identified include only one Scot, the 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
To illustrate the diversity of the ancestry of the last Empress of India, the Queen whose husband reigned over the largest empire known to world history, we list here her 49 known great-great-great-great-grandparents.
Elizabeth Noel, daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough ~ d.
www.baronage.co.uk /2002/qeebl-01.html   (357 words)

  
 Sir Robert Lovett of Liscombe
According to the Visitations of Bucks, she married "Edmund Earle of Bath." The Lovett Memorials state that a portrait of Ann is in the dining room at Liscombe Park.
According to White's Devonshire Directory of 1850, the BOURCHIER family (Earls of Bath) were Lords of the Manor of Tawstock, Devonshire, thus Anne's marriage may have been the Lovett family's initial connection to Tawstock.
The Index to Stewart's Handbook states that William BOURCHIER, Earl of Bath, was Lord of the Manor at Combmartin in 1593, and also refers to the BOURCHIER family (Earls of Bath) as Lords of Barnstaple.
www.combs-families.org /combs/assoc/lovett/robert.htm   (3098 words)

  
 The DiCamillo Companion - Database:  History, Gardens, Movies
The Marlborough ice pails, a pair of solid 22-karat gold ice pails, were made for the 1st Duke of Marlborough and sold by the 8th Earl Spencer to the British Museum in 1981.
Salvator Rosa’s "The Witches’ Sabbath", purchased by 1st Earl Spencer in 1761, was purchased by the National Gallery in 1984 for £350,000.
Diana, Princess of Wales, is buried on the grounds in the island of the Round Oval.
www.dicamillocompanion.com /houses_hgpm.asp?ID=45   (694 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Henry Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough and others
He was the son of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough.
Sir Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough+ b.
     Sir Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Barham, of Barham Court and Teston, Kent [U.K., 1805] on 12 April 1823.
thepeerage.com /p10945.htm   (3718 words)

  
 History of Chipping Campden
Earl Harold held this Manor before the Conquest, but Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, obtained it of King William the Conqueror, and from his Family it passed thro' divers Hands, viz.
First to Nicholas de Albeniaco, or Albany, then to the Somery's, and as length to the Clares, who were Earls of Glocester and Hereford, and from them to the Crown, from which it was granted byQueen Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Smith, whose Posterity sold it to Sir Baptist Hicks, who was created Baronet 4 Jac.
The Church is a Vicarage worth £150 per Annum, in the Patronage of the Earl of Gainsborough, whose Grandfather, Edward Lord Noel, annexed to it the Impropriation of Winfrith in Dorsetshire, worth £100 per Annum, purchased by Sir Baptist Hicks.
www.rootsweb.com /~engcots/AChipp.html   (2218 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 56
Noel, Charles George, Earl of Gainsborough 2nd, b.
Noel, Charles Noel, Earl of Gainsborough 1st, b.
Noel, Charles William Frances, Earl of Gainsborough 3rd, b.
www.hull.ac.uk /php/cssbct/genealogy/royal/gedx56.html   (368 words)

  
 Chapter 19, History of Bandon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The castle of Dunmanway was built by Catherine, daughter of the Earl of Desmond, lady of Hy-Carbery, "a charitable and truly hospitable woman," who died in 1506.
The castle, which, as we have said, was built by the daughter of Thomas, Earl of Desmond (son of James), stood at the western end of the town, and was approached by a broad path-now called the Castle-road.
Arthur, Earl of Anglesea, who, as has been previously stated, obtained a grant a grant of most of this country, had several of his lands erected into the manor of Bantry, and more of them into the manor of Altham; as appears by a private signet, dated Whitehall, February 6th, 1679, and duly enrolled.
www.paulturner.ca /Ireland/Cork/HOB/HOB-19.htm   (7757 words)

  
 Lady Blanche Murphy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the early 1870's a young Brittish musician, of humble roots, become employed as an organist in the Chapel of the estate of Charles Noel, the second Earl of Gainsborough, of Exton Hall, Rutlandshire, England.
The young man's name was Thomas Murphy and his employment at the Noel estate would begin an adventure in the power of love that would last a lifetime and continue to this day through the burnishing of the legend over the years.
Knowing that their romance would be unacceptable to the Earl and society in general, the two swore an oath to one another and Lady Blanche gave up all of the trappings of English royalty and stole away in the dead of the night with her love.
www.heartofnh.com /LegendsLore/LadyBlanche.html   (717 words)

  
 I12398: Wriothesley Noel Earl Of Gainsborough ( - )
Wriothesley Noel Earl Of Gainsborough and Unknown spouse had the following children
Descendants of Wriothesley Noel Earl Of Gainsborough and ???
2 Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck = George Harry Grey Earl Of Stamford
web.ukonline.co.uk /nigel.battysmith/Database/D0003/I12398.html   (87 words)

  
 Bibliography
"Ralph Earl as an Itinerant Artist: Pattern of Patronage." In Itinerancy in New England and New York.
Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic.
Rowland Lyon, "Ralph Earl: Troubled Painter in a Turbulent Time." The Antiques Journal 18: 12 (December 1963): 8–12, 27.
www.worcesterart.org /Collection/Early_American/bibliography/content.html   (7282 words)

  
 Noel, Wriothesley Baptist
A member of a prominent old English family, Noel was born Walthamstowe, Essex, England on 15 August 1827 the eldest son of Hon.
Baptist Noel and Baroness Barham whose father Lord Barham was created Earl of Gainsborough in 1841.
Two years later he was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court (1854) and moved to Melbourne and shortly after was appointed Crown Prosecutor of General Sessions (1855-59) in the north-eastern district.
www.brightoncemetery.com /HistoricInterments/150Names/noelw.htm   (252 words)

  
 Barnsdale Lodge Hotel - The Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Originally a 17th Century Farmhouse on the Exton Estate, home to the Noel family (Earl of Gainsborough) for generations at the head of a Horse Chestnut tree-lined avenue, Barnsdale Lodge hotel is now a superb 44 bedroom hotel and restaurant.
Situated in its own graceful and tranquil gardens on the glorious north shore of Rutland Water, the hotel is built in local mellow Rutland stone, quarried from the adjacent estate of the Earl of Gainsborough.
With its gentle undulating fields and spectacular views of the lake, it is one of England's hidden treasures.
www.barnsdalelodge.co.uk /thehotel.htm   (190 words)

  
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That the original edition of the "Project" is dated 1709 is nothing to the point, since it is well-known that the booksellers often antedated their publications, as publishers do now, when the issue occurred towards the end of a year.
Moreover, the letter of the Earl of Berkeley to Swift, which Scott misdates 1706-1707, but which should be 1708, makes special reference to this very tract, showing that it was certainly published in 1708.
To avoid so usual a reproach, I declare this to be no dedication, but properly an introduction to a proposal for the advancement of religion and morals, by tracing, however imperfectly, some few lineaments in the character of a Lady, who hath spent all her life in the practice and promotion of both.
www.swiftsociety.com /docs/prose3.txt   (13653 words)

  
 Lovett Family Memorials
By this alliance several of the LOVETT manors came to the SHIRLEYS, viz, Astwell in the county of Northampton, South Newington in the county of Oxford, Dorsington in the county of Gloucester, and St. Botulph's Bridge in the county of Huntingdon.
ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret, died in 1571.
In front are the arms of Shirley, quartering Waldershef, Braose, Milo Earl of Hereford, Basset of Brailesford, Brailesford Twyford, Staunton, Eccleshall, Meignell, De la Ward, and Verdon; impaling Lovett, quartering Dauncey, Drayton, and Prayers.
www.combs-families.org /combs/assoc/lovett/memorials.htm   (9378 words)

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