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In Western Australia, York County and the towns of York and Albany were named after Prince Frederick. [46] [47] Albany was originally named "Frederick Town". [48] The towering Duke of York Column on Waterloo Place, just off The Mall, London was completed in 1834 as a memorial to Prince Frederick. [49]
In its 275 years, stories, big and small, connect to shape York County’s larger story.
Although Boucher too considered the boy indolent, the arrangement continued after Boucher moved the school to Annapolis, Maryland. [2] In May 1773 Custis began to attend King's College (later Columbia University) in New York City, but left soon after his sister died. [1]
Nassau County, New York - The House of Nassau in honor of King William III of England. New York County, New York - James, Duke of York and later King James II of England. Orange County, New York - William III, King of the Great Britain and Prince of Orange. Orange County, North Carolina - Prince William V of Orange.
William Alexander, also known as Lord Stirling (December 27, 1725 [1] – January 15, 1783), was a Scottish-American major general during the American Revolutionary War.He was considered male heir to the Scottish title of Earl of Stirling through Scottish lineage (being the senior male descendant of the paternal grandfather of the 1st Earl of Stirling, who had died in 1640), and he sought the ...
The Lord Mayor of York is the chairman of City of York Council, first citizen and civic head of York. The appointment is made by the council each year in May, at the same time appointing a sheriff, the city's other civic head. York's lord mayor is second only to the Lord Mayor of London in precedence. [1]
Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or Leuconides (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias, he was entrusted with the main superintendence of Alexander's education in his earlier years, apparently before he became a student of Aristotle.
Born to the wife of Thomas Thorpe, Otto was baptised on November 6, 1630 in the King's Cliffe village church. [3] A kinsman, George Thorpe, had been a member of the King's bedchamber, and (briefly) a member of Parliament as well as of the Virginia Company of London and other entities before traveling to Berkeley Hundred in the Virginia colony and attempting to negotiate with the native ...