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  EARLS OF RADNOR - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS OF RADNOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1st earl of Radnor was John Robartes (1606-1685); who succeeded his father, Richard Robartes, as and baron Robartes of Truro in May 1634, the barony having been purchased under compulsion for 10,000 in 1625.
He is said to have persuaded the earl of Essex to make his ill-fated march into Cornwall in 1644; he escaped with the earl from Lostwithiel and was afterwards governor of Plymouth.
In 1679 he was created viscount Bodmin and earl of Radnor, and he died at Chelsea on the 17th of July i685.
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 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, he was a near contemporary of King Charles II of England.
When his father was impeached in 1667, Laurence joined his elder brother, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, in defending him in parliament, but the fall of Clarendon did not injuriously affect the fortunes of his sons.
Compelled to join in arranging the treaty of 1681, by which Louis XIV agreed to pay a subsidy to Charles, he was simultaneously imploring William, Prince of Orange, to save Europe from the ambitions of the French monarch.
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 ipedia.com: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.
In 1663, the Earl of Shaftesbury was one of eight Lords Proprietors given title to a huge tract of land in North America which became the Province of Carolina.
www.ipedia.com /anthony_ashley_cooper__1st_earl_of_shaftesbury_1.html   (441 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Earl of Radnor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Radnor died in 1757, a bachelor, he left Radnor House to his Steward Frederick Atherton Hindley, and with it most of his picture collection.
15 Viscountcy of Folkestone 29 June 1747(The Viscountcy is held by the Earl of Radnor).
32 Lordship of Longford,Barony of Longford 29 June 1747(The Lordship/Barony belongs to The Viscountcy of Folkestone and is held by the Earl of Radnor).
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 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Peerage - Earls (3)
Richard Burgh, earl of Clanricard of the kingdom of Ireland, was created by king James the first 3 April 1624 lord Somerhil and viscount Tunbridge, and by king Charles the first earl of Saint Albans, which title became extinct upon the death of Ulic, second earl of Saint Albans, 1659.
George Montagu, grandson of Henry first earl of Manchester, was created by king William the third 1700 lord Halifax, and by king George the first viscount Sunbury and earl of Halifax, which titles became extinct upon the death of George, third earl of Halifax, 8 June 1771.
Margaret, daughter of Thomas earl of Coningsby, and wife of sir Michael Newton knight of the Bath, was created by king George the fist 1716 baroness and viscountess Coningsby, and succeeded to the title of countess of Coningsby upon the death of her father 1729.
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 The Twickenham Museum : The Earl of Radnor
John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor inherited the title from his cousin Henry in 1741.
The title was accompanied by an inheritance and Radnor embarked on various extensions to the house and the land.
Radnor added to the house in the Gothic style in a considerable way, much to the annoyance of Walpole who may have felt he had been upstaged before he could embark on his own extensions to Strawberry Hill.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=121   (368 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Radnor Gardens
Radnor Gardens were formed out of a number of riverside properties but take their name from Radnor House which, until its destruction by a bomb in September 1940, occupied some of the roadside frontage of the gardens.
Radnor House) was itself named after John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor who lived in the house from 1722 until his death in 1757.
The original boundary between Radnor House and Cross Deep House is marked by the central entrance to the gardens and a wall, against which stands the 'Gothick' Summerhouse.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=170   (602 words)

  
 Radnor Castle
New Radnor castle was possibly founded as early as the days of William Fitz Osbern in the Herefordshire Marches (1067-71) and it is certain that the Radnor plain to the east of New Radnor castle was considered English land in 1086.
In 1264 Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd allied with the sons of Earl Simon Montfort of Leicester and sacked Radnor castle.
Radnor castle then gently fell into decay, by 1538 only one tower remained usable and that was used as the county prison.
www.castles99.ukprint.com /Essays/radnor.html   (713 words)

  
 Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Wiltshire History Question Information
The building was remodelled 1802-17 for the 2nd earl of Radnor and again, by the celebrated French architect Anthony Salvin in 1870-8 for the 4th earl of Radnor.
The house is the family home of the earl and countess of Radnor, and as such it is not generally open to the public — not even for the annual national Heritage weekends in the early autumn.
Pleydell-Bouverie, Helen, countess of Radnor and Squire, W.B: Catalogue of the pictures in the collection of the earl of Radnor.
www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getfaq.php?id=227   (706 words)

  
 RADNOR, EARLS OF - Online Information article about RADNOR, EARLS OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bodmin and earl of Radnor, and he died at See also:
grand-son of the 1st earl, and John, the 4th earl (c.
Wiltshire, who was created viscount Folkestone in 1747, was made earl of Radnor.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/RADNOR_EARLS_OF.html   (688 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 78   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Plantagenet, Edmund of Rutland, Earl of Rutland, b.
Plantagenet, Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent 1, b.
Plantagenet, Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, b.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3430
She married Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor, son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin, on 20 January 1891.
She married Sir William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, on 11 October 1922.
She married Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor, son of Sir William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor and Helena Olivia Adeane, on 8 July 1953.
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 John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Robartes 1st Earl of Radnor (1606 - 1685) succeeded his father Richard Robartes as Baron Robartes of Truro in May 1634.
Educated at Exeter College Oxford John Robartes fought on the side the Parliament during the Civil War being present at the Battle of Edgehill and at the First Battle of and was a member of the committee both kingdoms.
He is said to have the Earl of Essex to make his ill-fated march into Cornwall in 1644 ; he escaped with the earl from Lostwithiel and was afterwards governor of Plymouth.
www.freeglossary.com /John_Robartes,_1st_Earl_of_Radnor   (350 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2858
She married William de Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor, son of Sir Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone and Mary Clarke, on 14 January 1747/48.
She married William de Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor, son of Sir Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone and Mary Clarke, on 5 September 1751.
She married, secondly, William de Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor, son of Sir Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone and Mary Clarke, on 22 July 1765.
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 House of Lords Journal Volume 16: 26 March 1701 | British History Online
Earl of Radnor versus King's Bench and Fleet Prisons Bill.
Upon reading the Petition of Charles Bodville, Earl of Radnor; praying to be heard against the Bill, intituled, "An Act for regulating the Prisons of The King's Bench and Fleete:"
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Earl of Radnor shall be heard, by his Counsel, on Wednesday the Second Day of April next, at Eleven of the Clock, before the Second Reading of the said Bill.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=13862   (290 words)

  
 A song for Europe bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Earl of Guilford is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1752.
Earl of Hardwicke is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1754 for Philip Yorke, 1st Baron Hardwicke, then Lord Chancellor.
Earl of Radnor is a title which has been created several times, first in the Peerage of England in 1679 for Lord Robartes, a notable political figure of the reign of Charles II, and then in the
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 Encyclopedia: John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Current GDP per capita figures show that 79 countries are higher.
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606-1685) succeeded his father, Richard Robartes, as Baron Robartes of Truro in May 1634.
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606 - 1685) succeeded his father, Richard Robartes, as Baron Robartes of Truro in May 1634, the barony having been purchased under compulsion for £10,000 in 1625.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Robartes,-1st-Earl-of-Radnor   (462 words)

  
 Holmes à Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1st Earl of the county of Radnor as also BARON PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE OF COLESHILL, Co Berks (both GB), with ordinary remainder to heirs male of his body.
Married Harriet only daughter of Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, 1st and last Bt, of Coleshill, Berks, who entailed his estates on his grandson, the 2nd Earl of Radnor, and other BOUVERIEs on condition that each heir should add the name PLEYDELL.
Pleydell Bouverie 2nd Earl of Radnor was born 4/03/1750.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2772
She married, firstly, Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom, son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom and Lady Alice Villiers, on 15 August 1889.
She married William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor, son of Jacob Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor and Mary Augusta Frederica Grimston, on 19 June 1866.
She married Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork, son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, on 31 August 1764.
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 Earl Of Romney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Younger and Earl Allison are out, Margaret Zilinsky and William Prentiss are in.
The title of Earl of Romney was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Marsham (1801) in the Peerage of the UK and Baron Romney (1716) in the Peerage of Great Britain, and is an English baronet (1663).
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 BOUVERIES AND LONGFORD CASTLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The elderly Lord Radnor is seated and has just put down his ‘Morning Post’ newspaper when he sees young Shaw-Lefevre standing in the doorway looking a little lost.
I once had a request for money from the Vicar of Downton and the old Earl was very indignant as that was his affair, not mine.
The Nelson Earldom passed to Thomas Bolton, the nephew of the first Earl, Nelson’s elder brother William, and son of Nelson’s sister Susannah.
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 Pepys' Diary: Robartes, Sir John (2nd Baron Robartes, Lord Privy Seal)
Robartes, Sir John\ [Danvers House] “… was let from 1660 to 1685 to John Lord Robartes, later Earl of Radnor, who despite having fought for Cromwell was able to entertain Charles II within months of the restoration.
Lord Robartes, Earl of Radnor, was painted by his enemies as a morose and unsociable man. Those who knew him better, or who had enjoyed his patronage, praised him as a man of principle, a lover of learning and a friend to foreigners (mainly Huguenots).
He sponsored, for example, the research of John Graunt who was the first to analyse tables of mortality and population growth in London.
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 Earl
1584 Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major
1582 Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII
1188 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
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 Lanhydrock
Situated in the north wing, it fortunately survived the devastating fire of 1881, and the exquisitely carved plasterwork ceiling is of outstanding quality.
Among the large collection of books is one of the four volumes of the Lanhydrock Atlas, a survey of Charles Bodville Robartes' (the 2nd Earl of Radnor) estates in Cornwall at the end of the 17th century, showing 40,000 acres on 258 manuscript maps.
It was through his marriage that the family also acquired Wimpole Hall near Cambridge, and most of the contents of the drawing room came from that stately mansion.
www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /notable%20houses/lanhydrock.htm   (547 words)

  
 The Transformation of Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, 17581829   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An indication of the importance of Radnor's collections was again made reference to in Vertue's notebooks when they were sold at auction in 1724 a year after the 2nd Earl's death.
The 3rd Earl was mentioned in Venice by 1731; a contemporary records that he had ‘taken a very large house and furnish'd it most magnifecently, for ye use of a family brought with him from Naples’.
Llanhidrock-the Earl of Radnor's is in a Park, no view from it and no sight, sure, in itself; tis all built of stone; there is a large Gate-house to it built later than the house.
www.marjon.ac.uk /cornish-history/conf2002holden   (3761 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 57   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James Charles Herbert Welbore, Earl of Normanton 3rd Agar, b.
James Daniel, Earl of Lismore 2 O'Brien, b.
James Edward, Earl of Malmesbury 2nd Harris, b.
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 Ashen Copse, Swindon, Wiltshire
It is part of a large estate of some 3,600 acres of farmland and woods owned by the National Trust.Coleshill House was built in 1667, to a design by Inigo Jones, for Sir George Pratt - the son of a wealthy local cloth merchant.
Thereafter it came into the possession of the Pleydell family, the Earl of Radnor, later the Pleydell-Bouverie family.
Tragically this very fine house was burnt down in 1952, and its site cleared before the estate was passed to the National Trust in 1956.The well-preserved stone houses were built by the second Earl of Radnor, to accommodate the staff necessary for the estate to support its many varied activities.
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