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Duke of Leinster (/ ˈ l ɪ n s t ər /; [2] [3] Irish: Diúc Laighean [4]) is a title and the premier dukedom in the Peerage of Ireland.The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Leinster are: Marquess of Kildare (1761), Earl of Kildare (1316), Earl of Offaly (1761), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham (1747), Baron of Offaly (c. 1193), Baron Offaly (1620) and Baron Kildare, of ...
Dukedom of Leinster (1st creation) extinct, 1719: Charles Schomberg (1683–1713) styled Marquess of Harwich: Charles Lennox (1701–1750) Duke of Richmond: Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, 1747 Marquess of Kildare, 1761 Duke of Leinster (2nd creation), 1766: Emily Lennox (1731–1814) James FitzGerald (1722–1773)
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
Doug Corkern, who as an architect helped create the “Hilton Head Island look” and as an artist helped Bluffton find its soul, died at 88 on New Year’s Eve at Hilton Head Hospital.
The Bluffton Movement was spawned during a political rally held under the "Secession Oak" in the village of Bluffton, South Carolina, on July 31, 1844. [1] [better source needed] The movement was an attempt to invoke "separate state action" against the Tariff of 1842 after John Calhoun's failure to secure the presidential nomination and the Northern Democrats' abandonment of the South on the ...
Jason Flack, 45, of Bluffton, died early Monday morning in a hit-and-run on Hilton Head Island. At some time before 7:00 a.m., Flack was crossing Gumtree Road, at the traffic circle, when an ...
Luke Peeples, son of Jesse and Maud Peeples, lived from 1906 to 1994. He composed a processional and recessional for Bluffton High School graduations, and a piece for the dedication ceremony for ...
Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster (1892–1976), whose biological father it has been alleged was the 11th Earl of Wemyss. [ 3 ] During his minority, his family's large estates in County Kildare were sold in November 1903 by his trustees to 506 tenant farmers via the Land Commission .