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Alumni Oxonienses
… canon 1705, and subdean of Chichester, chaplain to the duke of Richmond. See Rawl. ii. 58. Woodford, Richard s. … Berks; chaplain to Charles II. 1674, and to James, Duke of York, when in command of the Royal Prince in the … secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, and to James, duke of York, F.R.S., M.P. St. Michael 1661, until his death …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for whom Thomas Thornhill (d. 1844) and William H. Vane, duke of Cleveland (d. 1842) are said to have built the larger …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… patronage from the Cheveley estate in 1920; his son John, duke of Sutherland, retained it in 1987 when the benefice was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… than furlongs and strips. 24 In the 1730s and 1740s the duke of Somerset bought all five manors and ten freehold and … 500 a., the latter mainly from non-resident owners. 25 The duke's Cheveley Park estate included 4,100 a. of Woodditton … A copyhold windmill in Ditton Valence, sold in 1742 to the duke of Somerset, 90 was replaced shortly before 1759 91 by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… child Frances. She immediately married Henry Somerset, duke of Beaufort, 88 in whom the manors were vested by an Act … of 1730, 89 and who at once sold them to Charles Seymour, duke of Somerset, 90 soon to be owner of the Cheveley Park … Roger (d. 1707), whose son Roger sold it in 1733 to the duke of Somerset. 20 Ditton Valence manor then passed with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Cranborne; containing 454 inhabitants. The unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, after his flight from the battle of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… reign of Queen Anne, when it was granted to the celebrated Duke of Marlborough, for whom a splendid mansion called … stone building, erected about the year 1766, by the Duke of Marlborough, after a design by Sir William Chambers. … born, here. Woodstock gives the title of Viscount to the Duke of Portland. Woodstone (St. Augustine) WOODSTONE ( St. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… passed to Catherine, wife of Sir Edward Seymour, later duke of Somerset (attainted 1552); 49 he conveyed it in 1531 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the east in 1863; land and stone were supplied by the duke of Marlborough and the building cost only £495. The … sublet the inn to William Barke, formerly butler to the duke of Marlborough, and it was renamed the Marlborough Arms. … Joseph Brooks, on whose death in 1807 she sold to the duke of Marlborough the Balliol lease, the freehold parts of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the grammar school estate. 20 By will proved 1817 George, duke of Marlborough, left £500 for the poor of Oxford and … in need was sealed. 34 Other Charities In the 1790s the duke and duchess of Marlborough provided two groups of … in the 1860s as the old almshouses but was occupied by the duke's rent-paying tenants; 40 it was probably so used from …