
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Duke of Dorset

	John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Back in England, Dorset became one of the first members of the Marylebone Cricket Club; his public life continued in the post of Steward of the Royal Household — in which capacity his his main role was to keep an eye on the dissolute Prince of Wales, the future George IV.
		Dorset commissioned a painting of her from Thomas Gainsborough, which is reckoned to be one of Gainsborough's later masterpieces.
		The 3rd Duke of Dorset was also known for his affair with the Countess of Derby, born Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of the 5th Duke of Hamilton and the beauty Elizabeth Gunning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Frederick_Sackville,_3rd_Duke_of_Dorset (913 words)

	GEORGE STONE - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE STONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Andrew Stone (1703-1773), who was five years older than George, became private secretary to the duke of Newcastle about 1729, and was for many years on the most intimate and confidential terms both with the duke and with his brother Henry Pelham.
		On the accession of the latter to the throne, Andrew Stone was appointed treasurer to Queen Charlotte, and attaching himself to Lord Bute he became an influential member of the party known as " the king's friends," whose meetings were frequently held at his house.
		He was, therefore, well able to promote the preferment of his brother George, who went to Ireland as chaplain to the duke of Dorset when that nobleman became lord-lieutenant in 1731.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STONE_GEORGE.htm (556 words)

	[No title]
		The identification of Thomas Duke as 'taillour' appears to be a mark of membership in the guilds, rather than a simple description of his vocation.
		This is reflected in the identification of William Duke of Alderbury, in 1381, as bailiff to the Earl of Salisbury, and in many landholding associations.
		In 1421, Peter Duke was appointed Vicar of Harberton, Devon, by Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter.
	www.martinstown.co.uk /WEBSITE/DUKE/history5.htm (6259 words)

	Station Information - Dorset (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dorset is a county in south west England.
		Dorset is also a village in Ontario, Canada.
		Dorset College is a college in Dublin, Ireland.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dorset__disambiguation_.html (109 words)

	Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke Of Dorset (January 18, 1688 - October 10, 1765) was an English political leader and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
		Lionel was the son of Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and Mary Compton Sackville.
		This biography of a British peer or noble is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lionel_Cranfield_Sackville,_1st_Duke_of_Dorset (149 words)

	Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
		Afterwards Earl of Dorset and Duke of Exeter.
		1399 (96) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
		Daughter of Philip (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy, K.G. Married William of Bavaria, Duke of Holland and Count of Ostrevant, K.G. 1408 Blanch, Duchess of Bavaria.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterstalls.htm (12928 words)

	dorset
		Dorset (pronounced 'Dorsit', sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England.
		Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy.
		Dorset is also the birthplace of artist Sir James Thornhill, musicians P.J. Harvey and Robert Fripp, paleontologist Mary Anning, rowing champion Matthew Pinsent and archbishops John Morton and William Wake.
	www.fact-library.com /dorset.html (510 words)

	Henry Duke and Son - Land Agents and Auctioneers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wool from the Dorset Down and Dorset Horn Breeds is of particularly fine texture with a short staple.
		It was this added 'perk' which demanded the personal attendance of the wool merchant himself rather than a member of his staff and, with considerable rivalry between merchants, their personal attendance at the sales was considered to be one reason for the above average prices resulting.
		Wool control was imposed on the 1st September 1939 and was operated by the Board of Trade until after the war, when the Ministry of Agriculture took it in hand until the British Wool Marketing Board was estabilished in 1950.
	www.martinstown.co.uk /WEBSITE/sheep.htm (277 words)

	The Dorset Caddies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A remarkable and interesting pair of tea caddies in a Chinese mother-of-pearl case, made in London in 1764 by the Huguenot silversmith Abraham Portal for the Duke of Dorset.
		He was a great personage during the reigns of Queen Anne, George I and II, being sometime Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, President of the Privy Council, Master of the Horse, High Steward of England at the Coronation of George II, etc. He married Elizabeth, niece of the Earl of Portmore.
		These caddies were marked only eight months before the Duke’s death, but some years before his wife’s, and it is likely that she was the party responsible for the order.
	www.argentum-theleopard.com /dorsetcaddies.htm (757 words)

	Thomas Gainsborough. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		In 1746 Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of Duke of Beaufort.
		She was a friend of Prince of Wales and of Charles James Fox, for whose election in 1784 she carried on a campaign.
		Portrait of Henry, Duke of Cumberland, with the Duchess of Cumberland and Lady Elizabeth Luttrell.
	www.abcgallery.com /G/gainsborough/gainsboroughbio.html (1689 words)

	NORTH SEA - LoveToKnow Article on NORTH SEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lisle quarrelled bitterly with Bishop Gardiner, served as commissioner at Surreys trial, and was nominated one of the body of executors to Henrys will from which Norfolk and Gardiner were excluded.
		On Henrys death Lisle was raised to the earidom of Warwick and prctmoted to be lord great chamberlain of England, again in sticcession to Hertford, who became duke of Somerset and Protector.
		But it was difficult to combine coercion of the Catholics with the proscription of Somerset; the duke was therefore released early in 1550 and restored to the privy council; and his daughter was married to Warwicks son.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORTH_SEA.htm (2116 words)

	Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton (1735 -- 1811)
		In December 1756 Grafton entered parliament as MP for Boroughbridge, one of the Duke of Newcastle's pocket boroughs.
		Mrs Houghton went on to marry the Duke of Cumberland and therefore partly was responsible for the Royal Marriages Act of 1772..
		Early in his political career, the Duke of Grafton became associated with the "young friends" of the Duke of Newcastle.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/grafton.html (1297 words)

	A Popular History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics By Thomas D'Arcy McGee- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He, like Swift, rising from local and municipal grievances to questions affecting the constitution of Parliament itself, was in 1749, against all the efforts of his friends in the House of Commons, declared by the majority of that House to be "an enemy to his country," and a reward was accordingly issued for his apprehension.
		The enemies of the Dorset family as naturally took their part, and the duke himself was obliged to go over to protect his interest at court, leaving the odious Primate as one of the Lords-Justices.
		In little more than a year, the Duke of Dorset, whom English ministers had in vain endeavoured to sustain, was removed, and the Primate, by his Majesty's orders, was struck from the list of privy counsellors.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/ireland/book-11chapter4.html (1933 words)

	Felbridge History Group - Imberhorne Farmhouse
		The current Farmhouse was built between 1808 and 1811, under the direction of Arabella Diana, Duchess of Dorset, widow of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who succeeded as Lord of the manor of Imberhorne on his death in 1799.
		In her marriage settlement, Arabella’s lands were to belong to the Duke for his life and then pass, along with some of his lands, to Arabella and her heirs.
		On her arrival at Knole, the home of her first husband, John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset, she was described as severe and orderly, ‘under the dominion of no passion except the love of money, her taste for power and pleasure always subordinate to her economy’.
	www.zyworld.com /felbridge/handouts/Imb-farmhouse.htm (7754 words)

	GREY, LADY JANE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was the daughter of Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset (later duke of Suffolk), and Frances Brandon, daughter of Henry VIII’s sister Mary.
		She became a ward of Baron Seymour of Sudeley, who tried unsuccessfully to bring about a marriage between her and Edward VI.
		After Seymour’s execution (1549) for treason, she fell under the control of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, who married (1553) her to his youngest son, Lord Guilford Dudley.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/gr/Grey-Lad.html (170 words)

	The Royal Marriages Act, 1772
		The king desired this piece of legislation to be passed after two of his brothers, William Duke of Gloucester and Henry Duke of Cumberland, made what were deemed to be unsuitable marriages to commoners.
		Houghton (alias Nancy Parsons) was that she was: The Duke of Grafton's Mrs.
		The Duke of Gloucester, who was George III's favourite brother, secretly married Maria Waldegrave in 1766.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/marriage.html (390 words)

	My Lines - Person Page 251
		Thomas (Beaufort), Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter was the youngest son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.
		Thomas (Beaufort), Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
		Thomas (Beaufort), Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter was buried in Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, Suffolk, England.
	virts.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p251.htm (7597 words)

	GPA Mobile Disco in Weymouth Dorset - gpa discos, mobile disco dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1993 the wedding dorset, mobile dj dorset landlord from music dorset, kids discos, engagement discos the duke disco dorset, dj dorset of cambridge moved to the spread eagle in wandsworth london where I played about once a month.
		Despite vast differences disco dorset, dj dorset between genres, such as rap and jump blues, there are common musical and social elements music dorset, kids discos, engagement discos that link the many styles of RandB.
		From the wedding dorset, mobile dj dorset outset of this development, a small number of disco dorset, dj dorset white Americans become interested in both the gpa discos, mobile disco dorset music and the subculture and actively disco dorset, dj dorset participate on the fringes of the nascent music dorset, kids discos, engagement discos subculture.
	www.gpadiscos.co.uk (408 words)

	GPA Mobile Disco in Weymouth Dorset - gpa discos, mobile disco dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GPA discos wedding dorset started in june 1992 playing on average of once a month at the duke wedding dorset of cambridge in batersea london and a few other venues including the cricket wedding dorset club in thorpe surrey.
		In 1993 the landlord from the duke of cambridge moved to the spread eagle in wandsworth london wedding dorset where I played about wedding dorset once a wedding dorset month.
		Despite vast differences between genres, such as rap and jump wedding dorset blues, there are common musical and social elements that link the many wedding dorset styles of RandB.
	www.gpadiscos.co.uk /wedding_dorset.htm (238 words)

	Earl of Dorset -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The title Earl of Dorset has been created at least four times in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of England) Peerage of England.
		It was next created in 1441 for Edmund Beaufort who was later created first (Click link for more info and facts about Marquess of Dorset) Marquess of Dorset (1442) then (Click link for more info and facts about Duke of Somerset) Duke of Somerset (1446).
		In 1720 the seventh earl was created (Click link for more info and facts about Duke of Dorset) Duke of Dorset in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of Great Britain) Peerage of Great Britain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/Earl_of_Dorset.htm (374 words)

	Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There she meets the extremely eligible Duke of Dorset, an undergraduate, who leads the other students first into falling in love with her and then into suicide because of her.
		The death of thousands of students is the extravagent gesture, and much of the novel is about the day leading up to this, at the climax of Eights Week (the main rowing competition between Oxford colleges).
		The Duke is a far more sympathetic character than the vain, selfish, shallow and not terribly bright Zuleika, and it is a task which has taken much skill from Beerbohm to balance the reader's sorrow over his fate with the humour of the novel.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0804.html (310 words)

	William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was elected MP for Derbyshire in 1741 and 1747, but left the House of Commons for the Lords in 1751 by a writ of acceleration as Baron Cavendish of Hardwick.
		After inheriting his father's peerage titles (chiefly the Dukedom of Devonshire), Devonshire was given the Garter and appointed First Lord of the Treasury (most historians consider him Prime Minister during this service) in November 1756, and he served as First Lord until May 1757 in an administration effectively run by William Pitt the Elder.
		The Duke employed Capability Brown to landscape the garden and park at Chatsworth House, his main residence.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/4th_Duke_of_Devonshire (331 words)

	Aphra Behn: a brief chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is not clear which prison she went to, how long she was incarcerated, or who came up with the money to get her relased.
		(Dorset Garden) Aphra is arrested for an "abusive" and "scandalous" epilogue attacking the Duke of Monmouth.
		Poems: A Pindaric to Christopher, Duke of Albemarle; and To the Memory of George, Duke of Buckingham.
	www.okima.com /cast/behn.html (519 words)

	Dorset, Vermont VT, town profile (Bennington County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dorset, VT Dorset is a town in Bennington County, in the Bennington metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Dorset was $32,956, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Dorset, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $541.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25115 (456 words)

	My Lines - Person Page 72
		She was the daughter of John, "of Gaunt," Duke of Lancaster and Catherine de Roët L.G. She married Robert, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Wemme, son of Robert, 1st Lord Ferrers of Wemme and Lady Elizabeth Boteler, before 30 September 1390; Her 1st.
		Children of John, "of Gaunt," Duke of Lancaster and Catherine de Roët L.G. John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset+ b.
		She associated with John, "of Gaunt," Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III, King of England and Philippa d' Avesnes L.G., in 1371/72; Mistress (widow).
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p72.htm (9564 words)

	[No title]
		It rose in what may be called the brazen age of the Drama, when the prosecutions of the Puritans had just ceased, and legitimacy and licentiousness danced into the theatre hand in hand.
		The company removed thither, November 9, in the same year, and continued performing till the union of the Duke and the King's Companies, in 1682; and performances were continued occasionally here until 1697.
		Operas were first introduced on the English stage, at Dorset Gardens, in 1673, with "expensive scenery;" and in Lord Orrery's play of Henry V., performed here in the year previous, the actors, Harris, Betterton, and Smith, wore the coronation suits of the Duke of York, King Charles, and Lord Oxford.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/4/5/11456/11456.txt (10983 words)

	William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was elected Member of ParliamentMP for Derbyshire in 1741 and 1747, but left the British House of CommonsHouse of Commons for the House of LordsLords in 1751 by a writ of acceleration as Baron Cavendish of Hardwick.
		He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 2 April 1755 until 3 January 1757, when his successor John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford entered the office.
		Through her, the Devonshires inherited Chiswick House and Burlington House in London; Bolton Abbey and Londesborough Hall in Yorkshire; and Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland.
	www.infothis.com /find/William_Cavendish,_4th_Duke_of_Devonshire (181 words)

	Olennius, Duke of Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Olennius holds a seat on the Supreme Collegium, and although officially Dux Durnovaria dn Praetor Durnovaria, is commonly called the Duke of Dorset, a title that reflects his power better.
		The Army of the Duke consists of one Vexillatio of Cavalry, and two Legiones.
		The Duke may be seen as an enemy of Vortigern, and has the advantage that the latter's father is under his command, and it is expected that Olennius will oppose any plan that strengthens the power of Vortigern.
	www.pbem-portal.com /fantasy/pretannic/people/olennius.htm (133 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)