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	Beachy Head - LoveToKnow 1911
		An allied force of 37 British sail of the line, under command of the earl of Torrington (Arthur Herbert), and of 2 2 Dutch under C. Evertsen, was at anchor under the headland, while a French fleet of over 70 sail, commanded by the comte de Tourville, was anchored some miles off to the south-west.
		Torrington preferred to bring his fleet down in such a way that his van, consisting of the Dutch ships, should be opposite the enemy's van, his centre opposite their centre, and his rear should engage their rear.
		Torrington took his station opposite the rear of the French centre, leaving a great gap between himself and the ships in the van.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Beachy_Head (706 words)

	Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Torrington played an important role in the War of the League of Augsburg, commanding the English and Dutch fleets at the Battle of Beachy Head (30 June 1690).
		In connection with his 1690 operations against the French, the Earl is credited with being the first to use the expression, "fleet in being".
		This biography of an earl in the peerage of England is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Herbert,_1st_Earl_of_Torrington (234 words)

	GENUKI/Devon: Great Torrington 1850
		Torrington was formerly a parliamentary borough, but the burgesses were exonerated from the burden of sending members to parliament, at their own request, in 1368.
		Torrington was incorporated by Queen Mary, and a charter of the 15th of James I. It received another charter in the 2nd of James II.
		Torrington was visited by the plague in 1591, and in the 17th century it was the scene of some of the important actions of the civil war.
	genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk /DEV/GreatTorrington/GreatTorrington1850.html (1775 words)

	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.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/Extinct3Earls.html (1924 words)

	GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Peerage - Dukes
		Humphrey, sixth earl of Stafford, was admitted by king Henry the fourth 1403 to the titles of earl of Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, in right of Anne his mother, daughter of Thomas Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester.
		Henry, sixth earl of Warwick, was created by king Henry the sixth duke of Warwick; and upon his death 11 June 1445 the title of duke of Warwick became extinct, and that of earl descended to the family of Nevile.
		Henry, second earl of Kingston, was created by that monarch 25 March 1645 marquis of Dorchester, which title became extinct in 1680, but was revived in favour of Evelyn, fifth earl of Kingston, by queen Anne 1706.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/ExtinctDukes.html (2852 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Clumber (3)
		Thomas, son and heir to the last Earl Henry, third Earl of Lincoln, was forty-five years of age when his father died; during whose lifetime he served in Parliament in Queen Elizabeth's reign for St. Ives, Cornwall, and Grimsby, in Lincolnshire.
		From this impeachment the Earl was afterwards discharged; and on June 20, 1649, he petitioned for damages from the destruction of Tattershall Castle, belonging to him.
		In this action the Earl of Torrington was so thoroughly in agreement with Clinton's conduct that on his decease the bulk of his estate was left to Lord Lincoln.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /rodgers1908/clumber3.htm (1300 words)

	Encyclopedia
		Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Conn. His family moved to Ohio when he was five years old.
		Early in life he acquired the hatred of slavery that marked his subsequent career, his father having been actively hostile to the institution.
		On January 17, 1952, three-term California Governor Earl Warren addressed the Republican National Committee on the future of the Republican Party.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=203896 (992 words)

	Herbert of Cherbury
		English soldier, diplomat, historian and religious philosopher, eldest son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle (a member of a collateral branch of the family of the earls of Pembroke) and of Magdalen, daughter of Sir Richard Newport, was born at Eyton-on-Severn near Wroxeter on the 3rd of March 1583.
		One of Herbert's son was Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington, and another was Sir Edward Herbert (c.
		After the escape of James II to France this king made Herbert his lord chancellor and created him Earl of Portland, although he was a Protestant and had exhibited a certain amount of independence during 1687.
	www.nndb.com /people/702/000094420 (1650 words)

	Beachy Head - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The battle of Beachy Head, in the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought (1690) between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the earl of Torrington and the French fleet under the comte de Tourville.
		Although the French won, they failed to exploit their victory over the damaged opponent to deal a decisive blow to Anglo-Dutch seapower.
		Torrington, meanwhile, was court-martialed for retreating but, arguing that his action prevented an invasion, was acquitted.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-beachyhe.html (324 words)

	George Monck
		Having thrashed the under-sheriff of the county in revenge for a wrong done to his father, he had to leave home, and naturally took up soldiering.
		He became gentleman of the bedchamber, knight of the Garter, master of the horse and commander-in-chief.
		Charles raised him to the peerage with the titles of Baron Monk, earl of Torrington and duke of Albemarle, and he received a pension of £7000 a year.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/George_Monck.html (1808 words)

	Oatlands
		After a parliamentary survey in 1650, the palace was pulled down and the name Oatlands was passed to a former Tudor Lodge, built on the 'highest part of the park'.
		After the Restoration, the Earl of Torrington lived there until the estate was bequeathed, around 1716, to the 7th Earl of Lincoln, who built a new mansion.
		His second son, the 9th Earl of Lincoln who became Duke of Newcastle, destroyed his father's elaborate formal garden, converting the canal and other adjoining ponds into a long lake known as the Broadwater.
	www.surrey-online.co.uk /towns/WaltonOnThames/oatlands.htm (752 words)

	TORRINGTON (GREAT TORR... - Online Information article about TORRINGTON (GREAT TORR...
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TORRINGTON_GREAT_TORRINGTON_.html (1105 words)

	Sir Clowdisley Shovell
		On his return, he joined the grand fleet under Admiral Russel, who had succeeded the Earl of Torrington in that command, and was cruising in the Soundings for the protection of the trade, and in search of the fleet of France, which had sailed from Brest, under the command of the Count de Tourville.
		On the 11th of August, the fleet anchored in Altea bay, and a manifesto was published by the Earl of Peterborough, in the Spanish language, the effect of which on the inhabitants of the towns and surrounding country, produced a general acknowledgement of Charles as their lawful Sovereign.
		The attack was renewed by the Earl of Peterborough - the fort was bombarded; and a shell falling into the magazine of powder, the whole was blown up, with the governor and chief officers.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/3682/csbionavchron.html (10071 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : The Earl of Bradford
		Francis, 2nd Baron Newport, was created Earl of Bradford in 1694.
		He came to Twickenham as Lord Newport in 1682, to live in the house on Twickenham's riverside later rebuilt as Richmond House.
		When he died, in 1708 he was taken to Wroxeter to be buried.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=147 (218 words)

	Invitation to the Prince of Orange, June 30, 1688
		Lord Lumley was a famous convert from Catholicism to Protestantism; he received the title "Viscount Lumley" from the Prince of Orange in 1689 and the title "Earl of Scarborough" in 1690.
		He served as a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy, but was cashiered when he refused to serve with Catholic officers after the Declaration of Indulgence.
		He commanded the fleet which conveyed the Prince of Orange to England and received the title "Earl of Torrington" from the Prince of Orange in 1689.
	www.jacobite.ca /documents/16880630.htm (520 words)

	Torrington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Great Torrington, a market town in north Devon
		Torrington, Connecticut - by far the larger of the two
		the Battle of Torrington (1646) of the English Civil War
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torrington (104 words)

	Pre-1700 Imprints in the Navy Department Library
		Torrington was subsequently court-martialed, and although he was acquitted, the incident marked the end of his naval career.
		Although Tobias Gentleman was by his own description a simple fisherman, “more skilfull in Nets, Lines, and Hookes, then in Rethoricke, Logicke, or learned books,” his interest in encouraging the development of England’s herring fisheries led him to publish this little volume dedicated to the Earl of Northampton.
		In dedicating his work to the Earl of Essex, he stressed his strong belief that “with exercise of armes and observance of true discipline of war great enterprises most happily are achieved.”
	www.history.navy.mil /library/special/pre1700_add.htm (3794 words)

	River Wey & Navigations : More about Weybridge, Surrey
		Once owned by James II who had given it to his mistress Catherine Sedley, the king spent his last night in England at the house in her arms, before being forced to abdicate to William and Mary.
		The Earl of Portmore, who was to marry Catherine, became a major shareholder in the Wey Navigation.
		These include Arthur Herbert, the Earl of Torrington (1648-1716) who lived at Oatlands Park, and who as Admiral was court-martialled for signalling his Anglo-Dutch fleet to retreat in the Battle of Beachy Head (1690) when defeated by the French.
	www.weyriver.co.uk /theriver/places_5_weybridge.htm (1742 words)

	Life of George Monck by C. H. Firth, 1894
		About 1629 Monck entered the Dutch service, serving in the regiment of the Earl of Oxford, which after Oxford's death became the regiment of George Goring [a regiment of English officers, soldiers and gentleman adventurers hired by the States General of the Dutch Republic to fight against Spain in the Netherlands].
		At the outbreak of the Irish rebellion the Earl of Leicester -- a relative of Monck's -- was lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and at once offered Monck the command of his own regiment of foot.
		On the 28th a party of horse, under Colonel Alured, captured the Earl of Leven and the Scottish committee of estates at Alyth in Perthshire.
	www.generalmonck.com /biography.htm (11604 words)

	Beachy
		The Battle of Beachy Head, 1690, during the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington and a French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville.
		The Battle of Beachy Head or ''Beveziers'' took place on the south coast of East Sussex, England on 30 June 1690 in the War of the Grand Alliance; Beachy Head is a promontory near Eastbourne.
		The battle was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington with sixty vessels and the French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville with seventy-five ships in ten km lines with the largest in the middle.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/18/beachy.html (1335 words)

	Wikinfo \| Admiralty
		Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey(First Lord of the Admiralty) 1635 - 1636
		Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington (Lord High Admiral to 1689, then First Lord of the Admiralty) 1689 - 1690
		David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby 1919-1927
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Admiralty (1353 words)

	Torrington
		1) " Torrington" -- In the context of Torrington
		The original Torrington is a market town in the north of Devon in England
		Torrington is also the name of several places in the United Statesof America which are named after it:
	www.lottery-news.net /dust9155-torrington.html (113 words)

	LOVERS AND FRIENDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Doricourt, Cecilia was informed she was gone with a party to see a pair of Angola sheep, that had recently been added to the earl’s menagerie, and that most of the gentlemen were gone to Keswick.
		As to the earl of Torrington, be under no apprehension of his displeasure; he gave you the money, and would never ask you an account of its expenditure, though I consider it proper to inform him of the advantage that has been taken of your inexperience.”
		Freakley yawned; she took a pinch of the earl’s snuff, but that failed to rouse her, and fearful of incurring the charge of ill manners, by falling asleep, she left the room.
	www.chawton.org /novels/Lovers/Lovers3.html (7723 words)

	[No title]
		While the Commons were considering the case of Johnson, the Lords were scrutinising with severity the proceedings which had, in the late reign, been instituted against one of their own order, the Earl of Devonshire.
		For Torrington was generally regarded as one of the bravest and most skilful officers in the navy.
		That place and other lucrative places Torrington had relinquished when he found that he could retain them only by submitting to be a tool of the Jesuitical cabal.
	yarchive.net /macaulay/history/chapter_XIV.html (20881 words)

	[No title]
		This drama, which, I believe, was performed at Bartholomew Fair, is one of the most curious of a curious class of compositions, utterly destitute of literary merit, but valuable as showing what were then the most successful claptraps for an audience composed of the common people.
		The old Earl collected the opinions of the greatest lawyers of the age, which may still be seen among the archives at Woburn.
		The editor of the letters of the second Earl of Chesterfield, not allowing for the change of style, has misplaced this correspondence by a year.
	yarchive.net /macaulay/history/footnotes_III.html (16553 words)

	LOVERS AND FRIENDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lady Torrington chose to be girlish, and affected a little struggle to release herself from the major, who was clasping her in his arms, when, in the height of their toying, the door opposite to where they were sitting opened, and a gentleman entered the room.
		Saville before her marriage with the earl of Torrington, he might, out of mere spite and revenge, spread reports to injure her reputation.
		Drawley should be acquainted with the affair, before another day passed over his head; Miss Jameson had said he was passionately fond of lady Arabella, and that was cause sufficient, in her envious mind, to endeavour at making him miserable.
	www.chawton.org /novels/Lovers/Lovers4.html (6742 words)

	Genealogy of the Cotton family of Combermere, Cheshire, England, UK
		+ Philadelphia, daughter and heiress of Thomas Lynch of Esher in Surrey, Knt, governor of Jamaica and his wife Vere, the sister of the Earl of Torrington.
		He was married to Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Lionel, Earl of Dysart.
		He married Augusta daughter of the Earl of Coventry in 1806 and she died in 1865.
	www.thornber.net /cheshire/htmlfiles/combermere.html (1689 words)

	Antoine Benoist ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Guillaume-Philippe Benoist, Mordaunt Earl of Peterborough, 18th century
		Guillaume-Philippe Benoist, The Earl of Lercester, 1588, 18th century
		Guillaume-Philippe Benoist, Archibald Campbell, Earl and Marquis of Argylll, 18th century
	www.wwar.com /masters/b/benoist-antoine.html (371 words)

	1st Maritime Regiment [UK, 1662-1713]
		Earl of Torrington's Regiment of Foot, or 1st Maritime Regiment
		The Admiral's Regiment at Landguard Fort, 1667, by Mervyn Lemon
		Thomas (Osborne), 1st Duke of Leeds (1st Marquess of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer of Danby, Viscount Osborne of Dunblane, Baron Osborne of Kiveton)
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf-to-1751/662adm.htm (146 words)

	Torrington (disambiguation) - LoveToKnow 1911
		Read LoveToKnow 1911:Explanation to get more explanation and see how you can help!
		There is more than one meaning of Torrington discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
		We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Torrington_(disambiguation) (93 words)

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