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Hace 16 horas · Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.He was a maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a second cousin ...
Hace 2 días · Of the political revolutions that accompanied the religious revolution Cambridge had a brief taste in 1553, when Northumberland, having secured the proclamation of his daughter-in-law, Jane Grey, as queen, came to Cambridge with an army to anticipate Mary's move on London.
Hace 4 días · Walsh's Historical Account of the University of Cambridge and its Colleges (1837) was suggested by Lord Radnor's bill. Walsh thought too that a royal commission was the only solution. He attacked the authority of the heads and the cramping effect of the Elizabethan statutes, many of which it was impossible to observe.
Hace 1 día · St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, held land in Burrough Green in 1586. (fn. 70) In 1816 St. Catharine's College exchanged land in the parish with the earl of Aylesford for 25 a. in Brinkley. (fn. 71) In 1505 William Atkinson, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, gave to the college land in Burrough Green which in 1563 amounted to c. 25 a.
Hace 2 días · William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS ( / ˈɡlædstən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ...
Hace 3 días · Two first-class matches, one for Epsom and one for Lord Frederick Beauclerk's XI. Slingsby was born at Windsor in 1788 and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1807. He was ordained as a deacon in 1821 and died at Cheltenham in 1826. Small 1788 One match for a Kent side against England.
Hace 4 días · In 1882, a breakaway IRB faction calling itself the Irish National Invincibles assassinated the British Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and his secretary, in an incident known as the Phoenix Park Murders.
