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He succeeded his father as earl in 1371, and was created Marquess of Dublin in 1385. The next year he was created Duke of Ireland. He was thus the first marquess, and only the second non-princely duke (after Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1337), in England. King Richard's close friendship with de Vere was disagreeable to the ...
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 ...
Dublin: Foundation (2004) (also known in North America as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga or sometimes simply Dublin) is a novel by Edward Rutherfurd first published in 2004 by Century Hutchinson and then by Seal Books and Doubleday Canada.
A. & G. Taylor was a British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards.. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor (1832–1909) [1] and George Taylor opened their first studio in London's Cannon Street.
Portrait by Gavin Hamilton James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton John Campbell, Duke of Argyll In January or February 1752, Elizabeth met the young James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (1724–1758). According to Horace Walpole , it was on 14 February ( Valentine's Day ) at a party at Bedford House , and the duke declared his wish to marry ...
He went on to produce 65 out of the 68 episodes from 1971 to 1975. He also wrote 12 episodes and some of the novelisations. Following this, he produced the BBC drama The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–77), and created as well as produced the 1979 Euston Films series Danger UXB (1979) for Thames Television.
Argyll House in 1854. Argyll House was a historic residence in London just south of Oxford Street on the present-day Argyll Street.It was originally the London townhouse of the Dukes of Argyll, a prominent Scottish family, before later passing into the hands of the nineteenth century politician Lord Aberdeen after considerable redevelopment.
From a series of studies of Dublin working-class people, which emphasised the plight and hardships of the city's poor Walter Osborne was born in Rathmines , Dublin, the second of three sons of William Osborne, a successful animal painter who specialised in portraying horses and dogs for the then prosperous Irish landlords. [ 3 ]