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Hace 3 días · Here, at No. 23, lived Edward, the twelfth Earl of Derby, after his ... for, in 1826, at Cambridge House (now Curzon House) resided the Duke of York, after he gave up his newly-built mansion in the stable-yard at St. James's. The house has been, at a later date, the residence of Earl Howe. In the above year, too, Lord John Russell ...
Hace 3 días · Lord Chamberlain 1660–1837. According to The Present State of the British Court, The Lord Chamberlain has the Principal Command of all the Kings (or Queens) Servants above Stairs (except in the Bedchamber, which is wholly under the Grooms [ sic] of the Stole) who are all Sworn by him, or by his Warrant to the Gentlemen Ushers.
Hace 3 días · The present owner is the Hon. Henry Dugdale Curzon, M.A.,. J.P., D.L., fourth son of Richard William Penn first Earl Howe, to whom it was given by Lady Barker-Mill, widow of Sir John Barker-Mill.
Hace 4 días · The main argument in Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour turns this question on its head. As Goldsmith asserts, ‘The Grand Tour occurred precisely because of the difficulties and dangers involved, rather than in spite of them’ (p.27). Parting from notions of danger as threat, her archival study shows that danger was ...
Hace 4 días · Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never ...
Hace 3 días · Sir Ridley, director of the 2000 film Gladiator, Sir Bill Beaumont, former England rugby union player, and Earl Howe, deputy leader of the House of Lords, ...
Hace 4 días · This was a break with the past for England and for Edward. Such was the measure of the man. Edward I was, in the title of Marc Morris’s book, ‘a mighty and terrible king’. The latest biography of Edward I is a welcome one, though it is more likely to embellish the bookshelves of the public library than the studies of academics.
