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Survey of London
… inclination for a parliamentary career, being devoted to country life and sport. In 1809 his disgust at the … to dismiss the ministry. Althorp gladly withdrew to the country, and could never again be prevailed on to take … were due many reforms in the administration of that country. He was Under-Secretary for the Home Department in …
Survey of London: volume
… in 1737. From about 1758 to 1765 he lived the life of a country gentleman on his Lancashire estate, but a visit to …
Survey of London
… held the position made him the most hated minister in the country. In 1763 he retired and was created Baron Holland. In … In September, 1724, while Lord Harcourt was absent in the country, his son's widow was staying at the house. (See …
Survey of London: volume
… years, with a pack on his back, and having travell'd this country for some years, became first a missionary and then a …
Survey of London: volume
… the hope that "he will live to be one day of use to that country of which he is certainly at the moment one of the …
Survey of London
… was regarded as a typical representative of the English "country gentleman" class. In 1916 he was created Viscount …
Survey of London: volume
… born in 1773 in Forfarshire. Although the son of a country shoemaker, he was enabled by the patronage of Sir … against the Government. Lord Palmerston appealed to the country, which endorsed Bowring's action. In 1857 he and his … of the poison for some years. In 1859 he returned to this country for good, suffering shipwreck on the way. He died in …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… eaten out by stranger artificers, to the suffering of this country, whereas none of Her Majesty's subjects were suffered in their country to live by their work. 17th June, 1580. I. 507. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sources) suggest they never became really popular in this country, being found only occasionally in the provincial …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Scots led on by their king, David, who had ravaged the country as far as York: the latter were defeated, with the … the Danes, who burnt the town and laid waste the adjacent country. During the insurrection of the Northumbrians against … clergy: these exiles the king allowed to return to their country; but refusing to restore their confiscated property, …