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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… of head and shoulders of the "Revd. John de Lepine, born at Amiens in Picardy, France, 1641, died 1714." Royal …
Old and New London
… reward the meritorious; she loved a private life, though born to shine in public; and was an ornament to courts, … in the White Tower. It is remarkable that Edward was born within the precincts of Westminster Abbey, whither his … to have been a good judge, for she died in 1369, having borne to her sovereign lord a family of no less than fourteen …
Old and New London
… in 1816, sprang from very humble parentage, and was born at Ashburton, in Devonshire, in the neighbourhood of … celebrated philanthropist, William Wilberforce, and was born in 1805. He was ordained as curate of Checkendon, in … of the first Lord Ashtown, in the Irish peerage, and was born in Dublin in 1807. He graduated at Trinity College, …
Old and New London
… with the cross to the Earl of Bedford; the pointed sword (borne on the left hand of Curtana) to the Earl of Derby; the pointed sword (borne on the right hand thereof) to the Earl of Shrewsbury; … London. "And because the spoon and ampulla were not to be borne in the proceeding, and therefore ought not to have been …
Old and New London
… bust: "George Gordon, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., K.G. Born January 28, 1784; died December 14, 1860. Ambassador, … Sir William Davenant was the son of a vintner, and was born at Oxford in 1605: his mother, who was a woman of … a slab of black marble, thus inscribed: "Charles Dickens, born February 7th, 1812, died June 9th, 1870." At his death …
Old and New London
… of all her friends," she gave birth to Edward V., who was "born in sorrow and baptised like a poor man's child." She is … Milling. Caxton was a native of the Weald of Kent, and born about the year 1412. He came to London, and resided in … to Caxton's character as both editor and printer is borne by Mr. Thomas Wright, F.S.A.:"The art of printing had …
Survey of London
… Philip Astley, the founder of Astley's Circus, was born at Newcastle under Lyme in 1742. 161 He began his career … This school, for the education and maintenance of boys born in Yorkshire or of Yorkshire parents, was founded in …
Old and New London
… doing it thinketh it not more than becometh him; he, being born of princely blood only on the mother's side, serveth me that am a king born.'" In 1377, at the coronation of Richard II. (who was so wearied with the pageant that he was borne from the Abbey exhausted on a litter), history first …
Old and New London
… chapter with the school under the new title, which it has borne ever since, of the 'Collegiate Church of St. Peter, … lived in a house opposite the school. Here, in 1673, was born Joseph Wilcocks, Dean of Westminster, and successively … in 1695, the greatest of English composers, Henry Purcell. Born, it is generally supposed, in the city of Westminster, …
Old and New London
… from St. James's Palace. Here all his numerous family was born, with the exception of the Prince of Wales (afterwards … of Her Majesty, when in town. Here, in 1840 and 1841, were born the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales; and it has …