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While in Rome he was translated to York between 27 February 1398 and 15 March 1398, and granted the temporalities on 23 June 1398. [ 10 ] Although he did not participate in the factional strife which led up to King Richard II's deposition, on 29 September 1399 Scrope and John Trevenant , Bishop of Hereford , headed the commission which received ...
George Wetherall, Colonel of the Regiment during the Indian Rebellion Memorial inside the York Minster. Detachments boarded HMS Dromedary and HMS Coromandel as escorts for convicts bound for Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales in 1820. Both ships continued to New Zealand to harvest kauri trees for use as spars for first rate (98 gun) Royal ...
York Minster, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England.The minster is the seat of the archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the mother church for the diocese of York and the province of York. [6]
Memorial to General Sir John Maxwell and Louise Selina Maxwell in the crypt at York Minster. In 1916 Maxwell was assigned to be General Officer Commanding, Northern Command, at York. [43] He was promoted in June 1919 to full general and he retired in 1922. He died on 21 February 1929 and his memorial is in the crypt of York Minster. [44]
York Minster Ealdred (or Aldred ; [ 1 ] died 11 September 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock , Bishop of Worcester , and Archbishop of York in early medieval England . He was related to a number of other ecclesiastics of the period.
A sound and light show will be among the events to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the blaze.
Monument to Sir Christopher Cradock in York Minster. Cradock found Spee's force off Chile in the late afternoon of 1 November, and decided to engage, starting the Battle of Coronel. Useless for anything other than searching, he sent the armed merchant cruiser Otranto away. He tried to close the range immediately to engage with his shorter ...
Statue of Harry Hotspur in Alnwick, Northumberland, unveiled in 2010. Sir Henry Percy KG (20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403), nicknamed Hotspur or Harry Hotspur, was an English knight who fought in several campaigns against the Scots in the northern border and against the French during the Hundred Years' War.