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Hace 5 días · Edward Coke, Esq., of Longford, son of Clement, was created a Baronet in 1641: he married a coheiress of Dyer; his son, the second baronet, a coheiress of Barker. The title of this branch of the family became extinct by the death of Sir Edward, the third baronet, in 1727.
Hace 4 días · The school at South Kensington (with recruits from Sheffield) did, however, provide designers and executants for decorative work, often employing relatively untried techniques, on the buildings with which the Department was associated.
Hace 4 días · When Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, grandson of George Pellew, of Flushing near Falmouth, was created a baronet in 1796 for his gallant services, he was described of Treverry in St. Martins (in Meneage), the property of his brother Samuel Pellew, Esq.
Hace 4 días · RCA Galleries, British Council, Romanian State Committee for Culture and Arts, RCA Galleries, Kensington Gore, London, Rumanian Art of the 20 Century, Brancusi and his countrymen, October–November 1966 (exhibition catalogue). Catalogue. Click image to view. Invitation. Click image to view.
Hace 5 días · Primary Source. The Petition of Right. Annotation. In 1628, the position of Charles I of England had gone from bad to worse. Rash enterprises, lavish and illegal expenditure, and broken promises of better government had almost ruptured relations between the monarch and his subjects.
Hace 1 día · Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office, playing a vital role in drawing up plans to deploy an ...
Hace 3 días · 10 min read. British Civil Wars Britain 1600s Great Battles School Essentials Army at Home. View this object. The Battle of Naseby, 1645. Crown v Parliament. Civil war broke out in England in 1642 when King Charles I botched the arrest of his political opponents and declared war against Parliament.
