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Duke of Somerset, from the county of Somerset, is a title that has been created five times in the peerage of England.It is particularly associated with two families: the Beauforts, who held the title from the creation of 1448, and the Seymours, from the creation of 1547, in whose name the title is still held.
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 ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC (1 February 1824 – 30 April 1899), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1835 and Marquess of Worcester from 1835 to 1853, [1] was a British peer, soldier, and Conservative politician.
Jimmy George was the house band at the basement Duke of Somerset pub in downtown Ottawa for a nine-year period, playing every Sunday night and one Thursday-Saturday weekend a month, sometimes playing the "Duke" up to 10 times in a month, as well as other shows around town.
Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset; Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset; Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset; Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset; Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset; Archibald St Maur, 13th Duke of Somerset; Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset; Algernon St Maur, 15th Duke of Somerset; Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of ...
Harold St. Maur (1869–1927), of Horton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, [15] was the eldest but illegitimate son of Edward Seymour, Earl St Maur (1835–1869), son and heir apparent of the 12th Duke, whom he predeceased. Harold inherited Stover in 1885 on the death of his grandfather the 12th Duke.
The Duke of York, known as the Duke of York Hotel for many years and now as The Duke Toronto, is a historic structure in Leslieville, Toronto, Ontario. It is located at 1225 Queen Street East, at the corner of Queen Street and Leslie Avenue.