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  Downpatrick Civil Parish, Co. Down, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
DOWNPATRICK, an unincorporated borough, market, and post-town, and parish, in the barony of LECALE, county of DOWN, (of which it is the chief town,) and province of ULSTER 18 miles (S. by S.) from Belfast, and 74 (N.) from Dublin ; containing 9203 inhabitants, of which number, 4784 are in the town.
Edward Bruce, in his invasion of Ulster, in 1315, having marched hither, plundered and destroyed the abbey, and burnt part of the town : he again plundered the town three years afterwards, and on that occasion caused himself to be proclaimed King of Ireland at the cross near the cathedral.
Downpatrick had a corporation at an early period, the existence of which is recognised in 1403, when letters of protection were granted to it by Hen.
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 Duke of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 23 April 1799, the dukedom of Kent was, as a joint title with the dukedom of Strathearn and the earldom of Dublin, given to King George III's fourth son, Prince Edward Augustus.
In 1934, Prince George (1902-1942), the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, was created Duke of Kent, Earl of St Andrews and Baron Downpatrick.
After the Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick, the current duke's younger son Lord Nicholas Windsor is in remainder to the dukedom.
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 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
His Royal Highness Field Marshal Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, KG, GCMG, GCVO, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick, was born at 3 Belgrave Square, London, the first child of Prince George, Duke of Kent and his wife Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
Originally styled Prince Edward of Kent, he succeeded to the dukedom of Kent on 25 August 1942, when his father was killed in airplane crash in Scotland (although he did not take his seat in the House of Lords until 1959).
The Earl and Countess of St. Andrews have three children: (1) Edward Windsor, styled Baron Downpatrick, born 2 December 1988, (2) Lady Marina Windsor, born 30 September 1992, and (3) Lady Amelia Windsor, born 24 August 1995.
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 Edward Windsor, Baron Downpatrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988) is the only son and heir of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and his wife, the Countess of St. Andrews (née Palma Tomaselli).
Lord Downpatrick is heir after his father to the Dukedom of Kent and for this reason enjoys the courtesy title Lord Downpatrick.
Following the examples of his grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, and of his uncle Lord Nicholas Windsor, he became a Catholic and therefore was struck from the British succession.
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 Lord Cromwell
Edward Cromwell, already in the Low Countries with a command of I50 foot, was joined in September by Captain Robert Sydney, Captain Latham, Captain Josias Bodley, Captain Richard Wingfield, who later became Viscount Powerscourt, Lord Sheffield and Sir William Russell, who became Governor of Flushing and later Lord Deputy in Ireland.
One of the attractions of the Northelmham residence was Edward Cromwell’s father in law, William Rugge, who inherited from the Bishop of Norwich large areas of land around Northelmham, including a residence built out of the ruined Cathedral, an enclosed deer park and some ancient woodlands.
Edward Cromwell’s son, Thomas, the new Lord Cromwell, Viscount Lecale and Earl of Ardglass, passed through his father’s old manor of Oakham in 1631 where he partook of the ancient tradition of forfeiting a horse shoe in homage to the Lord of the Castle and Manor of Oakham.
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 Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry - R
Baron Tschoudy, who condemns the usage, says that the latter refined upon it by designating the approach of a female by II neige, the French for It snows.
Lewis Edwards led Masonic research a step forward by incorporating in an illuminating account of early Operative Freemasonry in France 3 summary of two of the old Masonic romances which in that period (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries) were circulated orally among Craftsmen everywhere.
Edwards adverts is the romance of Renaud, one of the Four Sons of Aymon.
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 Edward CROMWELL (4° B. Cromwell)
Two years later, 1591, Edward Cromwell acted as a Captain of 150 foot, departing from Greenwich on the 28th Jun in the English Army headed by Essex to aid Henri IV in Normandy, seeing action at the Siege of Rouen.
On l2th Jul 1599 Edward Cromwell was knighted in Dublin by the Earl of Essex.
The "new men" at the Jacobean court were not very sympathetic to Edward Cromwell, and the division of his properties continued with the "Grant to Sir Edward Coke and John Dodderidge, of the reversion of lands in Co. Leicester, part of the possessions of Lord Cromwell".
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 Edward, Lake - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Edward, Lake
Lake Edward is one of the Nile's western reservoirs.
The explorer Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to see the lake in 1889, when he succeeded in tracing the Semliki River, the only outlet of the lake, to its source.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Prince George, Duke of Kent Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund Wettin, later Windsor) (20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary.
His Royal Highness The Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, KG, KT, GCVO, GCMG, PC, 1st Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick was born at York Cottage, Sandringham House, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, to the then Prince and Princess of Wales.
At the time of his birth, he was styled "HRH Prince George of Wales." From his father's ascension to the throne in 1910 until his creation as Duke of Kent on 12 October 1934, he was styled "HRH The Prince George." He became a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) at age 21.
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 Baron Von Carl Von Drais | Edward Baron Downpatrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Royal Biographies
On the death of HM King George VI on 6th February 1952, and the accession to the Throne of the Queen, Prince Charles succeeded to the titles that are borne by the eldest son of the Sovereign.
HRH The Prince Edward Antony Richard Louis was born at Buckingham Palace, London, on the 10th March 1964, the fourth and youngest child of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
HRH Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick was born on the 9th October 1935, the eldest child of HRH The Prince George Duke of Kent and HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.
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 History of Ireland. Preparatory Material. Engels 1870   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Edward called on lords spiritual and temporal and all the other Englishmen in Ireland to hold counsel about the petition asking for the Irish to be placed under English law.
Edward Bruce and 6,000 men landed in Antrim, the Irish joining him en masse, and conquered Ulster; he was crowned King of Ireland in Dundalk, defeated the English under de Burgh on the Banne River, Down County, and waited for reinforcements from Scotland.
Gerald Fitz-Gerald reinstated as eleventh Earl Kildare (and Baron of Offaley).
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1870/history-ireland/chronology.htm   (13201 words)

  
 The Parish of Finglas
According to his own account he tried to reform as customer a state of things in which everyone did as seemed right in their own eyes, and found that the more honest and faithful he became the less he was trusted, until finally he was so misjudged as to be committed to Dublin Castle.
Not far off was Sir Edward Bagshawe's house, also held under the Archbishop of Dublin, and described as of a like value and built of stone to it there was attached a malt-house and stable, as well as a garden, an orchard, a plantation, and 80 acres of land.
As one who was known to the king, and had been "always right," he was given after the Restoration, in addition to the battle-axe command, a company of foot and the office of surveyor of woods south of the Trent, which had been held by his father and brother.
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 Edward, Edwards- WordWeb dictionary definition
King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)
Son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)
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 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
Katherine, Duchess of Kent converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994, followed by the Kent's younger son, Lord Nicholas Windsor and her grandson, Edward, Baron Downpatrick, both of whom accordingly lost their places in the Line of Succession, as all Catholics are barred from inheriting the throne.
In 2002 she made the decision not to use her royal title, preferring to be known as simply 'Katherine Kent' and to reduce the number of her royal engagements.
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 Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick - Politics.ie Wiki
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick (1922-77), was the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the Parliament of Northern Ireland was prorogued by the British government in March 1972.
He was born in Helen's Bay, County Down on 18 February 1922, the eldest of two sons of James and Lilian Faulkner.
An avid horseman, he was killed in a riding accident on 3 March 1977, and in bearing the title for a mere 24 days he still holds the record for holding a life peerage for the shortest time prior to death.
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 Royal Houses of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Earl of Ulster, K.G., born 14 March, 1739, died unmarried 17 September 1767.
Edward VII died at Buckingham Palace, 6 May, 1910 (buried at Windsor), and was succeeded by his only surviving son.
George Edward Alexander Edmund, DUKE OF KENT, KG (1923), KT (1935), PC (1937), GCMG (1934), GCVO (1924), born at Sandringham 20 December 1902, created Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick 12 October 1934, married at Westminster Abbey 29 November 1934 Marina (died at Kensington Palace 27 August 1968, buried Frogmore), yst.
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 Co. Cavan; Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
Baron PENNEFATHER said that several cases had occurred of men being punished for circulating speeches made in the legislature.
Edward SMITH pleaded guilty to a charge of having in his possession a quantity of hay, knowing same to be stolen--One week's improson- ment and hard labour.
Edward SUNNY pleaded guilty to a like offence; he had but purchased the gun, and sent a notification thereof to the police constable.
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 Mackey Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Edward Conder, from whose Hole Craft these figures are being taken, notes that in 1336 a Mason received one shilling a day.
Arthur Edward Waite: A Check list of his Writings, by Harold V. Voorhis, privately printed; Red Bank, New Jersey; 1932, is an exhaustive but not wholly complete list of works possessed by Voorhis of which Waite was "either the author, the compiler, the translator, the editor, or the writer of the preface or foreword.
Albert Edward, 23rd Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, was initiated at Stockholm by the King of Sweden, in 1868.
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 alt.talk.royalty FAQ: British royalty and nobility
In the case of King Edward VIII, he succeeded because he was the heir of Electress Sophia of Hanover, and Parliament made her the heir in the 1701 Act of Settlement.
Were Edward VIII to have actually quit, to have unilaterally declared that he refused to reign, that he was walking off the job, then he would have been acting in defiance of the will of Parliament, as expressed in the Act of Settlement.
Edward VII was "by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India", which in his time described a single imperial domain.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches from the Dock, Part I, by Various
Russell was taken to Downpatrick, escorted by a strong force of cavalry, where he was lodged in the governor's rooms, preparatory to being tried in that town by a Special Commission.
While in prison in Downpatrick he addressed a letter to Miss M'Cracken, a sister of Henry Joy M'Cracken, one of the insurgent leaders of 1798, in which he speaks as follows: "Humanly speaking, I expect to be found guilty and immediately executed.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald was born in October, 1763; being the fifth son of James Duke of Leinster, the twentieth Earl of Kildare.
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 Line of Sucession To British Throne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, uses the name Edward Windsor professionally.
The queen has given her approval for Parliament to consider a law that would give royal daughters the right to inherit the throne before their younger brothers.
Under current law, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward rank ahead of their older sister, Princess Anne, in the line of sucession.
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 Royal Insight > September 2003 > Mailbox > Page 2
I have been trying to confirm the Royal line of succession for Lady Helen Taylor, and found that on numerous 'non-official' sites that she was listed as being 25th in line to the throne, but on the royal.gov.uk site she is listed as being 24th.
Baron Downpatrick is not included in the line of succession due to his recent conversion to Catholicism.
It does not necessarily mean that any children Baron Downpatrick might have would be barred from the throne, however, so long as they are brought up in the Protestant faith.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page2527.asp   (364 words)

  
 List of Succession to the British Throne
Baron Johann von Holzhausen[?], son of Archduchess Maria Magdalena
Baron Georg von Holzhausen[?], son of Archduchess Maria Magdalena
Baron Tassilo von Holzhausen[?], son of Baron Georg
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 marks of cadency in the British royal family
The children of the sovereign's daughters and granddaughters in male line used to quarter their mother's arms in Victoria and Edward VII's time.
Edward, earl of Rutland 1390, duke of Albermarle 1397, 2d duke of York (1373-1415)
But in 1911, the next prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), was given an inescutcheon of Wales ensigned with the coronet of heir apparent, in place of the Saxony esctucheon, when he was first granted arms (interestingly, Fox-Davies had "deplored" in 1909 that the previous Prince's arms did not allude to Wales; Complete Guide, p.
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