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5 days ago · From some time before 1683 until his death in 1692, this house was inhabited by Sir Robert Sawyer, whose only daughter and heiress in 1684 married the 8th Earl of Pembroke.
2 days ago · Henry Clifford 1517–1570 2nd Earl of Cumberland: House of Stuart: Thomas Keyes captain of Sandgate Castle 1544–1571: Lady Mary Keyes 1545–1578 the youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Brandon: Sir Henry Herbert after 1538–1601 2nd Earl of Pembroke: Katherine Seymour Countess of Hertford 1540–1568 Lady ...
2 days ago · Pages 671-679. Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, 1198-1304.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.
4 days ago · HENRY, seventh Earl of Kent, was, as Camden stiles him, a person plentifully endowed with all the ornaments of true nobility.
3 days ago · It is perhaps a want of historical perspective which has led to the centring of controversy around two names belonging to the highest ranks of the Elizabethan nobility, those of Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, and William Herbert, earl of Pembroke. There is some evidence to connect Shakespeare with both of these.
4 days ago · On the E. wall of the New Hall are hung seven framed canvas panels painted with the achievements-of-arms of the following, inscribed and dated "Feb. 26th, 1671": (a) Earl of Manchester; (b) Lord Henry Howard; (c) James, Duke of York; (d) King Charles II; (e) Prince Rupert of the Rhine; (f) Lord Newport; (g) Earl of Bath.
4 days ago · Since the establishment of regular parliamentary government at the end of the 17th century and the creation of the United Kingdom Parliament in 1801, possibly the longest gap between sitting was faced by Henry Drummond (1786–1860), of nearly 35 years between the dissolution of his first parliament on 29 September 1812 and returning to his ...
