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History of the Worthies of England (1662). [8] Fuller's best-known work. The Poems and translations in verse, including fifty-nine hitherto unpublished epigrams of Fuller and his much-wished form of prayer for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes, by rev. Grosart, 257 pp., Liverpool, printed for private circulation ...
John Paton's sword, flag and Bible which were owned by Howie [8] The old Lochgoin Covenanters Museum Lochgoin Farm and the John Howie Memorial, East Ayrshire. The list below reflects the chapter order in the book. For an alphabetical list see the "Scots Worthies" template at the foot of the page. Patrick Hamilton; George Wishart; Walter Mill
GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". [1] It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphasis on primary sources, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
James Anthony Froude FRSE (/ f r uː d / FROOD; [1] [2] 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove ...
The coat of arms of Ulster King of Arms, who preceded the Chief Herald of Ireland. Taken from Lant's Roll. The Genealogical Office is an office of the Government of Ireland containing genealogical records. It includes the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland (Irish: Príomh Aralt na hÉireann), [1] the authority in Ireland for heraldry.
The Statesmen and Favourites of England since the Reformation, London, 1665 and 1670, 8vo.A reprint of the work appeared under the title of State Worthies in 2 vols. London, 1766, 8vo, under the editorship of Sir Charles Whitworth, who added the characters of the sovereigns of England, and sought to counteract the effect of Lloyd's extravagant eulogies of the royalists by introducing extracts ...
An unenthusiastic solicitor, Hine's first love was the study of the history of his home area. He wrote a number of volumes on the history of Hitchin and its environs, including his The History of Hitchin (1929) and Hitchin Worthies (1932), which won national acclaim. [6] In 1934 he was commissioned to write the History of Stagenhoe. [7]