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  The Earl of Sandwich Motel - Cape Cod Lodging on Historic Route 6A
The Earl surrounds you with lush grounds, flower beds, and a tranquil pond...
Whether enjoying your morning coffee, a snack or picnic lunch by the pond, this is the atmosphere at the Earl, where peace and relaxation are mirrored in the quality of your accommodations.
The Earl of Sandwich brings together the natural beauty and serenity of our choice surroundings with accommodations that weave nature and hospitality at their best.
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  Earl of Plymouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earldom of Plymouth has been created thrice, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The daughter of the 6th Earl married the Hon.
Robert Henry Clive, a son of the 1st Earl of Powis, and the final Plymouth creation came in 1905 when their grandson Robert Windsor-Clive was created Earl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Plymouth   (250 words)

  
 GENUKI: Plymouth 1850
The ground on which the most populous parts of Plymouth and Stonehouse are built, falls towards the centre, making a sort of hollow, extending from east to west; from which the suburbs rise to a considerable elevation on the north, and to the high ground called the Hoe, overlooking the Sound on the south.
Plymouth is supposed to have had about 10,000 inhabitants in the reign of Edward III., for we find that in 1773, (soon after a great pestilence,) it contained 4837 persons of 14 years of age or upwards, then rated to the poll tax, from which only clergymen and mendicants were exempt.
The CITADEL at Plymouth is a large fortification on the south side of the town, occupying that bold headland which extends from the western side of Sutton Pool into the Sound, at the confluence of the Catwater.
genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk /DEV/Plymouth/Plymouth1850.html   (17463 words)

  
 Guardian | The young elite 21-30
Newport's father, the Earl of Bradford, is a Tory and has the right to appoint priests to several Church of England parishes around the family seat.
The Earl and his heir live in a house on the estate, which is owned by a charitable trust and runs to about 3,000 acres.
Unusually for a hereditary peer, the earl has made a notable success of a new business, Porters restaurant in London, and the family is important historically, having played a major role in the creation of Britain's canal system.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3973147-103644,00.html   (871 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Bill Earl
It was said that letters addressed to "Earl of Plymouth, England" would invariably find their way to the funeral director in Devon.
The name once caused some embarrassment, in the 1980s, when the 3rd Earl of Plymouth received at his London flat a package thus addressed; it contained the kitbag of a serviceman who had recently died in the Far East.
William Arthur Earl, one of five children, was born in Plymouth on May 4 1920.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/23/db2303.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/10/23/ixportal.html   (573 words)

  
 Cardiff Estates
Earl of Pembroke (1557), along with the towns and castles of the Norman Lordship of Glamorgan.
Although the title Earl of Plymouth had died with the last male of the family, a later descendant in the Windsor-Clive family was created Earl of Plymouth so that the Plymouth association with Cardiff continued for many years.
Eventually the Earl of Plymouth gave St.Fagans Castle and its surrounding estate to the County and it has, for many years now been used as the Welsh Folk Museum (now called the National Museum of Wales - Museum of Rural Life).
www.angelfire.com /ga/BobSanders/ESTATES.html   (1649 words)

  
 George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877-1955) was a British Conservative politician who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1931 to 1937.
This biography of a British peer or noble is a stub.
Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Villiers,_6th_Earl_of_Clarendon   (105 words)

  
 Activities
Schongalla said that the Baker River cleanup project was chosen this year, in part, at the instigation of local businessman Earl Flanders of Pemi-Baker River Adventures, a Plymouth based kayak, canoe and tube rental company that often runs river trips on local rivers including the Baker.
Flanders said that the students had been able to cleanup the portion of the old junkyard that had actually fallen into the river itself, but that much more remained along the banks and the shoreline, threatening to wash into the river in the future.
The Town of Plymouth is currently attempting to identify sources of grant funding to assist with what will likely be a major cleanup operation at the site.
www.pbriveradventures.com /home/id3.html   (1164 words)

  
 Plymouth, William Earl (Earl's of Plymouth)
William Earl was born in Plymouth on May 4th 1920, one of five children.
'Bill' Earl used to hire hearses out to undertakers, who were often builders normally, but he decided it would be much better to operate them himself.
Having adopted the grand title of 'Earl of Plymouth', his first funeral parlour was in Keyham, after which he moved to Albert Road and finally to Milehouse, opposite the old main entrance to Central Park.
www.plymouthdata.info /PP-Earl.htm   (315 words)

  
 Earl Fine Art at absolutearts.com
Jacobus Houbraken, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, 1741
Thomas Worlidge, The Installation of the Earl of Westmoreland in the Theater at Oxford, 1761
Wenceslas Hollar, Jerome Weston, Earl of Portland, 1645
wwar.com /masters/e/earl--works.html   (1452 words)

  
 The Salacious Historian's Lair - Military History 1660-1715
On 6 September 1661, King Charles appointed Henry Morduant, second Earl of Peterborough, as governor and captain-general of all the forces in Tangier, with orders to raise one regiment of foot and a troop of 100 horse.
The Earl of Peterborough arrived in Tangier with a force of 500 horse and 2000 foot.
Plymouth's regiment meanwhile sailed from Plymouth under Kirke's command, with Major Charles Trelawney as his deputy, losing one officer and 50 men to disease during the month's journey.
www.kipar.org /military-history/kirkes_history.html   (4209 words)

  
 The Online House Detective - for tracing the history of your house using architectural clues, document research, ...
Was Plymouth House previously known as 'Ty Mawr' (the Great House), listed as the main property in the village by an antiquarian historian and rumoured to bear a plaque dated 1674 with the unsettling inscription 'Woe to him that buildeth in unrighteousness'.
Records of the Earl of Plymouth were identified within the holdings of the NLW.
The deeds for the Plymouth estates show that the Plymouth family gained possession of the manor Northop in 1706 via a marriage with the heiress of Roger Whitley, who in turn had purchased Northop in 1670 from the Earl of Bridgewater.
www.house-detectives.co.uk /case_study.htm   (976 words)

  
 Earl S. Bickford 1904-2004
Earl worked as a weaver and fixer for the American Woolen Mills for several years and retired from Wrights Mill in Pittsfield at age 72.
Earl was an avid gardener, loved to walk, and also liked to play cards.
When there was anything to fix in the neighborhood Earl could be counted on to be right there and have a hand in fixing it.
morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /obits/stories/673142.shtml   (343 words)

  
 History of Shotton- CHAPTER 4
The story states that the first Earl of Plymouth was born at the old hall.
There is no direct evidence to prove this, however it is believed that Elizabeth Whitley, daughter of Thomas Whitley of Aston Hall, married the second Earl of Plymouth in 1700.
Whatever the truth may be, the Plymouth name has been preserved in the name of the street where the hall once stood.
www.angelfire.com /fl/shotton/history4.html   (591 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The title still exists, and is held by the Earl of Plymouth.
The 2nd Viscount Windsor's daughter married the 4th Earl of Bute, and her husband was created Earl of Windsor and Marquess of Bute, in the Peerage of Great Britain, in 1796.
The last Windsor title to be created was that of Duke of Windsor, conferred on HRH the Prince Edward, elder brother of King George VI, in 1937 after his abdication of the throne.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Baron_Windsor   (511 words)

  
 Noake's Worcestershire Page 343   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her ladyship's mansion, built in 1717, by the Earl of Plymouth, is an unpretending structure, being simply a square, with a portico to its principal front, supported by six Composite columns and pilasters between the windows.
From this front is seen the obelisk erected on the Lickey to the Earl of Plymouth.
The park is beautifully laid out; a large sheet of water, many acres of ornamental ground around the house, and ten devoted to kitchen gardens.
www.users.totalise.co.uk /~fortroyal/NoakeGuide/343.html   (332 words)

  
 Thomas Otway
Barry took the part of Draxilla, and her lover, the earl of Rochester, recommended the author of the piece to the notice of the duke of York.
Barry, Otway obtained a commission through Charles, earl of Plymouth, a natural son of Charles II, in a regiment serving in the Netherlands.
It was translated into almost every modern European language, and even John Dryden said of it: "Nature is there, which is the greatest beauty." The Orphan and Venice Preserved remained stock pieces on the stage until the 19th century, and the leading actresses of the period played Monimia and Belvidera.
www.nndb.com /people/347/000102041   (1046 words)

  
 PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF - Online Information article about PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF
grandson Other (1679—1725) was the 2nd earl, and the earldom became extinct when See also:
Archer, the 6th earl (1789—1833), and the wife of See also:
Lord Windsor was created earl of Plymouth in 1905.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PLYMOUTH_EARLS_OF.html   (594 words)

  
 GENUKI:Penarth - Lewis 1833   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is situated on the western side of the harbour or roadstead of Cardiff, formed by the junction of the rivers Ely and Taf, near their influx into the sea.
A neat inn has been lately erected on the shore, by the Earl of Plymouth, for the convenience of mariners, or persons desirous of the sea air : the shore is pebbly, and the cliffs contain various strata of alabaster.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with the rectory of Lavernock annexed, in the archdeaconry aud diocese of Llandaf, endowed with a rent-charge of £50 by Thomas Lewis, in 1716, and in the patronage of the Earl of Plymouth, as lessee of the great tithes under the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/GLA/Penarth/Lewis1833.html   (326 words)

  
 Plymouth House, Northop, Flintshire, UK, 27 December, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Named after the Earl of Plymouth, whose estates included the manor of Northop from 1706 to the early 19th Century, this is now a four-star guest house.
The Grade II listed building featured in a BBC documentary series a few years ago, in which archaeologists studied the building and local archives, so its history is fairly well understood.
In 1808, a shorter postal route through Shrewsbury was adopted; decline and eventual closure in 1871 left the ex-inn as 'Plymouth House' by 1900.
www.ministry-of-information.co.uk /blog1/271204-08.htm   (238 words)

  
 Mount Edgcumbe House & Country Park on AboutBritain.com
Miraculously the walls of his red stone Tudor House survived a direct hit by bombs in 1941 and it was restored by the Earl of Edgcumbe between 1958-64.
The Earl's Garden was created beside the House in the 18th century.
Based in Central Plymouth near to cinema and theatres, this Travelodge is ideal for exploring Plymouth, or as a stop over before moving on to the Brittany Ferries port.
www.aboutbritain.com /MountEdgcumbeHouse.htm   (869 words)

  
 8 THE CAPITOL AND THINGS AROUND IT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The day of my installation, when the Earl Marshal of England anointed me by pouring a goblet of wine on my head, I solemnly promised to be attentive to the nobility; to avoid bad company; to excuse, rather than accuse, gentlefolks; and to assist widows and virgins.
Earl of Bindon, Bowes Howard, Earl of Berkshire, and Stafford Howard, Carl of Stafford-all together; then John Lovelace, Baron Lovelace, which peerage became extinct in 1736, so that Richardson was enabled to introduce Lovelace in his book, and to create a type under the name.
Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley, strong in points of law, was asked from the bishops’ benches by Nathaniel Crew, who was doubly a peer, being a temporal peer, as Baron Crew, and a spiritual peer, as Bishop of Durham.
books.rakeshv.org /html/order_of_king/order_of_kingch13.html   (12257 words)

  
 James Earl ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - The 7th Earl of Northampton n.d.
At the National Gallery of Art this vibrant fin-de-siècle era will be celebrated with an overview of highlights from the World's Fair of 1900 in Paris, followed by sections presenting sources of the ne...
Another storyteller, Jack Earl, uses whiteware and china paint to make a picture three-dimensional and put it in some kind of situation, according to Foley.
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 Various 6 1585-1595   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Miniature of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Nicholas Hilliard.
Miniature of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1590.
Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594.
www.tudor-portraits.com /Various_6.htm   (209 words)

  
 Hotels in Earls Court London - Hotels Earls Court Kensington and Chelsea London
The Hotel is walking distance form Earls Court, High St Kensington and Gloucester Road tube stations; it is surrounded by many restaurants, bars and small coffee shops.1 lexham Gardens is situated minutes from shopping areas such as Knightsbridge (Harrods) and Kensington High St which has a numerous of designer label outlets.
Situated close to the main London exhibition centres of Earl's Court and Olympia, the Ambassadors Hotel is ideal for exhibitors or visitors who wish to visit these centres.
The London Underground rail network at Gloucester Road and Earl's Court is just a few minutes walk away from the Ambassadors Hotel, offering you quick and easy access to all that the city has to offer.
www.earls-court-hotels.co.uk   (1165 words)

  
 Michael Abels: Frederick
5 February 1994 by James Earl Jones & the Plymouth Music Series, Minneapolis, MN under the direction of Phillip Brunelle.
carried the day, and [narrator James Earl] Jones reveled in his part, showing a puckish side of his personality not often evident in his film roles.
The score was painted in broad strokes, underlining the narration but not detailing every point.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Unplayed Sfrads -- Apr. 22, 1946   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate.
The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30.
Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,792805,00.html   (185 words)

  
 PlymouthIronworks
In 1763 John Guest and Isaac Wilkinson started the Plymouth Works, on land leased from the Earl of Plymouth, they failed to make it a success, and sold it two years later, to Anthony Bacon, this was about the same time as Bacon built his first furnace at Cyfarthfa.
The works prospered under Hill's management, the metal produced at Plymouth was considered to be the finest in South Wales.
The Duffryn Ironworks and Plymouth (Duffryn) Colliery in the 1940's.
www.alangeorge.co.uk /plymouthironworks.htm   (212 words)

  
 The Citizens Voice - News - 07/26/2005 - Crash victim remembered as someone always willing to help   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though the Plymouth man had a full-time job and co-owned a restaurant, those who knew him say he seemed to always find time to be there for his fellow man.
When other downtown Plymouth business owners started the revitalization group, Plymouth Alive!, he was there, and helped it grow into a viable organization to better the town.
Robbins, 61, was one of the dozens of Delaney's friends who dropped off flowers or a card in front of House of Wings on Monday, where a makeshift memorial was erected.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14919665&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6   (491 words)

  
 FULTON COUNTY INDIANA
He moved to Plymouth in 1860 and to Argos in 1867, since which time he has continued to reside there.
The deceased was born on farm west of this city on February 12, 1934, and has lived here all of her life.
Savilla CLIFTON, aged 86, former resident of Argos, who died at the home of her son in Plymouth, were held Tuesday afternoon from the Plymouth United Brethren Church.
www.fulco.lib.in.us /Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1936.htm   (18889 words)

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