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Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle KG PC (14 August 1653 – 6 October 1688) was an English Army officer, peer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1670 when he inherited his father's dukedom and sat in the House of Lords. Monck briefly served as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica and is credited ...
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670) was rewarded with his peerages for his part in the Restoration. Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (1653–1688), only son of the 1st Duke, died childless.
It is the site of a former grand mansion house re-built by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670) circa 1660 [1] on the site of the former manor house occupied by his family since at the latest 1287. [2] It was mostly demolished in 1734 after the death of the widow of his son Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (died 1688).
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish married Christopher Monck (later Duke of Albemarle) on 30 December 1669 at Whitehall, London. [1] She went with her husband to Jamaica when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 1687; there Monck amassed a small fortune, which Elizabeth acquired and brought with her back to England upon his death in the following year ...
Contests in Mr. Figg's time, in addition to fist fighting, also contained fencing and cudgeling. On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica), engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (1653–1688), English statesman and failed soldier Francis Ward Monck (born 1842), British clergyman and spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), English soldier and naval officer
Chip Monck may be the second-best known behind-the-scenes person from the original 1969 Woodstock festival, thanks to his having been drafted as a master of ceremonies for the daytime parts of the ...
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