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  William FITZWILLIAM (1° E. Southampton)
William Fitzwilliam, a younger son in a cadet branch of a relatively undistinguished Yorkshire family, was probably chosen at the age of ten as a companion for Prince Henry as a result of his mother's second marriage to Sir Anthony Browne, the King's standard-bearer and constable of Calais.
Fitzwilliam's career during the years which followed is liable to confusion with that of a namesake, the treasurer of Wolsey's household: both were associated with Calais and both became members of the Council, but it was probably the courtier who was appointed to sit in the Star Chamber in 1517.
Fitzwilliam's duties in the Household were not onerous, and he was appointed in turn to greater and more demanding offices: in 1529 he succeeded More as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, in 1536 he replaced the Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond as admiral and in 1540 he followed Cromwell as lord privy seal.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/WilliamFitzwilliam(1ESouthampton).htm   (2263 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College (usually called 'Fitz') is a college of the University of Cambridge.
This body, based at Fitzwilliam House, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum, took students who could not afford to be members of a college and allowed them access to a Cambridge education.
Fitzwilliam College is less popular with the traditional Cambridge elite, being a little away from the main tourist centre, and with rather less imposing architecture.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fitzwilliam-College,-Cambridge   (2353 words)

  
 FITZWILLIAM - LoveToKnow Article on FITZWILLIAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1571 Fitzwilliam himself was appointed lord deputy, but like Elizabeths other servants he received little or no money, and his period of government was marked by continuous penury and its attendant evils, inefficiency, mutiny and general lawlessness.
In 1588 Fitzwilliam was again in Ireland as lord deputy, and although old and ill he displayed great activity in leading expeditions, and found time to quarrel with Sir Richard Bingham (1528-1599), the new president of Connaught.
From Fitzwilliam, whose wife was Anne, daughter of Sir William Sidney, were descended the barons and earls Fitzwilliam.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FI/FITZWILLIAM.htm   (615 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
FITZWILLIAM at Cambridge, and St Catherine's at Oxford, owe their existence to the reform movement which in the last century spread gradually over both of England's ancient Universities.
His office was in a room in the building until recently known as Fitzwilliam House, and all that the students had to do there was to report five days a week, and occasionally to send the Censor a written report on the progress of their studies.
Fitzwilliam men, now far too many for them to live a contented college life in the Trumpington Street house, an I with a wide range both of sporting, academic and social pursuits, that could now be sure they had headquarters more obviously suited to their modern needs.
www.math.utah.edu /~gold/fitzwilliam2.html   (1777 words)

  
 Beers: Fitzwilliam p. 1232   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
RICHARD M. FITZWILLIAM, a prosperous and popular citizen of Franklin township, whose fine farm of 240 acres is situated near the borough of Washington, was born June 28 1825, in Rankintown, Washington Co., Pennsylvania.
Francis Fitzwilliam, father of subject, was born in Franklin township, this county in 1801.
Richard M. Fitzwilliam, the subject of this sketch, passed his early life on his father's farm, and was educated at the common schools of his vicinity.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/fitzwilliam-1232.html   (429 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge and is located on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England.
The museum was founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library and art collection of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion.
The "Friends of the Fitzwilliam" was founded in 1909 and is the oldest society in Britain devoted to supporting a museum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fitzwilliam_Museum   (188 words)

  
 Collection 272 - Jennie Kingston Fitzwilliam. T5 Transcript
FITZWILLIAM: No, no, but the mission wanted me to do...to do deputation work for that year before I...well, China was so unsettled they didn't know whether we could...whether I could go or whether I couldn't go, so they wanted me to do deputation work for a year until it was a little more clear...
FITZWILLIAM: No. I don't...I don't remember their names but I know there was a lot of carrying on [pauses] and things that we didn't enter into.
FITZWILLIAM I think...I think...now, as far as the Lisu was concerned I never had any worry in the world that they wouldn't...I never had any worry in the world that they wouldn't stand true.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/trans/272t05.htm   (6443 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin - Buildings of Ireland [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
Named after the Fitzwilliam family, Earls of Merrion, who developed this land as part of their great estate on the southside of the Liffey.
The land acquired by the Fitzwilliam family was leased as a block from the City Corporation and as it was a single block, this lent it a cohesiveness that was lacking in the Gardiner Estate, which was developed and bought in small parcels.
Fitzwilliam Street once the longest expanse of intact Georgian architecture anywhere in the world was destroyed in the 1970s when the ESB a supposedly responsible semi-state body wantonly demolished twelve of the houses.
www.irish-architecture.com /buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/fitzwilliam_street   (265 words)

  
 Colonel Fitzwilliam's Story
Colonel Fitzwilliam immediately ordered that a series of lines and windlass' be strung across the gorge, so that the men could be ferried across in huge wicker baskets, while the wagons and supplies crossed a rugged path along the edge of the cliff.
Colonel Fitzwilliam's small force was soon followed as General Wellesley's main body in two central columns continued to pour into the area just to the rear and totally obscured from the view of the French.
Colonel Fitzwilliam was later to maintain great pride in his units as being of the very few in which there was not a single man held for courts-martial for their actions during the evening after the battle.
www.pemberley.com /derby/georgepark1.cfs3.html   (13154 words)

  
 Young Fitzwilliam Darcy
Fitzwilliam was glad of this natural division; he would not have known what to say to any of these rather silly girls who had little or no education and talked only of dresses and each others' looks.
Fitzwilliam was delighted when his father intervened on his behalf, reminding his aunt that he had not yet partaken of the picnic and that they should go on ahead.
Fitzwilliam thought this very poor sport, but he liked the chestnuts well enough and liked to swing and aim the weapon at a tree or at a fixed spot in a haystack, one day even scaring a young farm hand and farm girl sitting on the far side of the stack.
www.pemberley.com /derby/inkoe.html   (11232 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Hotel - Dublin, Ireland Luxury Hotel
The Fitzwilliam, a contemporary luxury hotel designed by Conran Design Partnership opened in the summer of 1998 on St. Stephen's Green, heralding a new departure for the hotel industry in Ireland.
The ultimate in hotel chic, the Fitzwilliam represents both a cosmopolitan landmark for the city and stylish retreat from the everyday hustle and bustle of city life.
Ignoring the traditonal hotel trappings of chintz and four poster beds in favor or modernist architecture, the designs have given rise to a new concept called "Baronial Modern" which is a unique marriage of the spirit of the past meeting the present.
www.elegantsmallhotel.com /hotels/eww438.html   (369 words)

  
 About Fitzwilliam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fitzwilliam is the “quintessential New England village”; with the town common and surrounding 12 homes on the National Register for Historic Places.
The 200 year-old Fitzwilliam Inn is a town landmark.
Fitzwilliam is a country community located in the southwest part of the State, within an easy 20 minute driving distance to Keene (population of 20,000 and the business center of southwestern New Hampshire).
www.fitzwilliam-nh.gov /Public_Documents/FitzwilliamNH_WebDocs/about   (187 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fitzwilliam, town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Fitzwilliam Museum, art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, source of keyboard music in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fitzwilliam   (150 words)

  
 RTE Business - Fitzwilliam Capital makes IEX debut
Fitzwilliam Capital has been admitted to the Irish Enterprise Exchange market of the Irish Stock Exchange and trading of its shares started this morning.
Fitzwilliam Capital is the second company to be quoted on the IEX market since its inception in April and brings to ten the total number of companies on the market.
Until yesterday, Fitzwilliam Capital was a London-listed investment company on the lookout for a deal in the technology sector.
www.rte.ie /business/2005/0810/fitzwilliam.html   (212 words)

  
 Collection 272 - Jennie Kingston Fitzwilliam. T1 Transcript
FITZWILLIAM: Well, we settled in Muchengpo to do Lisu language study and the summer after we arrived (we were there Christmastime)...the summer after we arrived Mr.
FITZWILLIAM: The head of the church was the head of the town, yes.
FITZWILLIAM: Yes, ee was going from usually one area to another area where there was a cluster of villages and then the Lisu would gather in a central village where he would stay.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/trans/272t01.htm   (7730 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Hunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The country hunted by the Fitzwilliam is in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and is some 30 miles by 20 miles, from Stamford in the North to Higham Ferrers in the South, and covers an area of some 600 square miles.
In this considerable expanse of country are over 800 farmers, over whose land the Fitzwilliam considers itself lucky to hunt, and is very grateful for the support that it enjoys.
Before the Fitzwilliam's own involvement in the area, the Abbots of Peterborough used the lands at Milton to hunt over, and it is therefore suggested that there have been hounds kenneled continuously at Milton since the reign of Richard II.
www.mfha.co.uk /hunts/fitzwilliam_hunt.html   (327 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Police
Fitzwilliam, located in the Monadnock region, is a historic community with a population of approximately 2150 residents.
Fitzwilliam plays host to a number of small businesses, antique shops, lumber mills, and restaurants.
The Fitzwilliam Police Department was established in 1974 as a full time agency.
www.fitzwilliampolice.org   (145 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Ski Area
The Fitzwilliam Ski Area was originally built in the late 1940's as a novice/intermediate ski area, associated with the Fitzwilliam Inn.
The area expanded in 1961, as the owner of the ski Fitzwilliam Inn, Mt. Bicknell, added two rope tows on the slopes 1/3 mile from the Inn, an upper and lower tow.
Fitzwilliam adds two rope tows and becomes a lift served area
www.nelsap.org /nh/fitzwilliam.html   (477 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Since I love the keyboard idiom in the Fitzwilliam, it was at first hard for me to imagine a translation to a new medium.
Since Fitzwilliam is for keyboard, it suggests that some form of equal temperament or a keyboard with split keys must have been used.
Even more captivating is The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a variety of 16th-century music performed in a virtuoso way by the Charivari Agréable ensemble, whose members manage to ignite our musical imagination with their brilliant performances of these British selections, some by William Byrd, others by anonymous or lesser-known composers.
www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd009/reviews.htm   (2010 words)

  
 Contemporary Review: Picture galleries outside London: the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.@ HighBeam Research
The contents of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, are described.
The museum is regarded as one of the finest art galleries in the UK and regarded as even better than London's art galleries.
The museum was named after Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, who gave 144 pictures to Cambridge University in 1816.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17281265&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (222 words)

  
 Face to Face: Celebrity Spokespersons: Fitzwilliam, Wendy
Wendy Fitzwilliam was born to Juditha and Noel Fitzwilliam in October 1972.
Fitzwilliam won the Miss Universe Title in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 12th, 1998.
In June of 1998 she was honored by the United Nations with the title of UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, a direct result of her commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS and the stereotypes associated with it in the Caribbean and the world generally.
www.facetoface.org /sp_6.html   (291 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire (Cities)
Fitzwilliam is located in Cheshire County 21 miles southeast of Keene between West Ringe and Richmond along Highway 119 near Rhododendron State Park.
The town was named for William, fourth Earl of Fitzwilliam and cousin of Governor Wentworth of Massachusetts.
An early grantee in Fitzwilliam was Matthew Thorton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
www.ohwy.com /nh/f/fitzwill.htm   (243 words)

  
 luxury hotel Dublin | The Fitzwilliam Hotel | Ireland luxury hotel
The Fitzwilliam Hotel is a member of the Great Hotels of the World, a collection of the world's finest luxury hotels.
From The Fitzwilliam Hotel’s central location, it’s an easy stroll to the leading cultural, historical and leisure attractions of the city.
The Fitzwilliam Hotel lends itself to a variety of social programmes such as cocktail-making, gourmet dining or trying your hand at Irish dancing or massage.
www.ghotw.com /hotel/home/fitzwilliam.htm   (418 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Ltd. Policy Statement
Fitzwilliam Ltd. has been supplying fine Asian Antiques to discriminating dealers, collectors and museums since 1979.
Fitzwilliam Ltd. guarantees for one year after the original purchase of any work of art, valued at more than US$1,000.00, the right to exchange for another work of art.
In the unlikely event that scientific testing shows, or the opinion of at least two accredited experts is that the piece is not of the period or provenance described in the sale agreement then the purchaser has the right to a full refund or exchange for equivalent value of other works of art.
fitzw.com /fwpolicy.shtml   (335 words)

  
 Rhododendron State Park Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire (State Parks)
This National Natural Landmark, which was designated in 1982, is one of the largest tracts of the hardy shrubs north of the Allegheny Mountains.
The park also includes a wildflower trail with blooming flowers from early spring through the first frost, and is maintained by the local Fitzwilliam Garden Club.
Fitzwilliam is located in Cheshire County 21 miles southeast of Keene between West Ringe and...
www.ohwy.com /nh/r/rhododsp.htm   (193 words)

  
 FITZWILLIAM
Notes: Fitzwilliam data was put together as near as could be remembered after family records were destroyed by a jealous in law.
Notes: co-heiress of her brother, William Fitzwilliam, and of her uncle, William, Earl of Southampton.
The Fitzwilliams of Dundrum came into possession of Mount Merrion (where they would later have their seat) about the same time as Dundrum Castle, "probably under the name of Owenstown" [Ball, vol.2, 1903], from 1379 to 1400 he occupied Baggotrath Castle.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /FITZWILLIAM.htm   (851 words)

  
 City Development of Dublin - The Fitzwilliam Estate [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
As built it was 1150 x 650 and the positioning of exit streets at the corners laid the plan for the rest of the estate.
Fitzwilliam Street forms the eastern side of both Merrion and the later Fitzwilliam Square and is a long expanse of Georgian architecture terminated by Holles Street Maternity Hospital.
Fitzwilliam Square was designed from 1789 but was not developed until the first decades of the 19th century.
www.archeire.com /buildings_ireland/dublin/city_development/fitz.htm   (308 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | New light on Fitzwilliam as glass-roofed space opens
The courtyard development, which has required the total closure of the Cambridge museum for five months and its partial closure since late 2001, is the result of a £12m project, paid for half by the Heritage Lottery Fund and half by the museum's own fundraising.
A completely new gallery at the top of the building now houses an exhibition of the Fitzwilliam's top-notch collection of French Impressionist paintings, while the Adeane Gallery, previously a riot of 1970s claret-coloured hessian, has been transformed into a cool and light space for 20th-century arts.
The Fitzwilliam is one of the most significant museums in the UK.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1249489,00.html   (535 words)

  
 Miss Universe in South Africa for AIDS fundraising
MISS Universe Wendy Fitzwilliam, of Trinidad and Tobago, jetted into South Africa on Friday for a week-long visit to help raise funds for the charity AIDSlink.
The boy has full-blown AIDS and his battle to be accepted into school two years ago helped highlight the need for an official policy on the issue.
Fitzwilliam also hopes to see former Miss SA Kerishnie Naicker, with whom she shared a room at the Miss Universe pageant in Hawaii last May.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/1999/ST990403.html   (462 words)

  
 Fitzwilliam Museum - Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Fitzwilliam Museum is delighted to announce the allocation of Roelandt Savery’s oil painting of a Still life with flowers in a glass berkemeyer with a lizard, frog and dragonfly on a ledge to the Museum by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax.
The Fitzwilliam owns two other paintings by Savery, a brilliant small oil on copper of 1622 showing Orpheus with beasts and birds and an oil on panel, dated 1619, of The creation of birds.
Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, said "This newly allocated painting is an important addition to the distinguished collection of flower paintings in the Fitzwilliam, mostly given or bequeathed by Major Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Lord Fairhaven, and we are delighted to have it on display in Gallery V of the Founder’s Building".
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk /news/press_releases/press_savery.htm   (728 words)

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