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Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. From the Middle Ages , Whitby had significant herring and whaling fleets, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship.
The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. [1] The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire , England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom .
In the centuries following the Conquest splendid abbeys and priories were built in Yorkshire. The first of these was Selby Abbey, founded in 1069 and the birthplace of Henry I of England. There followed the abbeys of St Mary's, York, Rievaulx, Fountains, Whitby, Byland, Jervaulx, Kirkstall, Roche, Meaux and many other smaller establishments.
Arthur Pease (1837-1898) - third son, Member of Parliament for Whitby (1880–1885) and Darlington (1895–1898) Arthur Francis Pease (1866–1927) - first baronet. Coal owner. He was not involved in the collapse of the family bank, J. and J. W. Pease, in 1902 and was later a director of Lloyds Bank and the London and North Eastern Railway ...
The House from the Abbey site. Cholmley House or Whitby Hall is a banqueting house sited next to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England.It was built in 1672 by Sir Hugh Cholmeley, whose family had acquired the Abbey ruins and the land around them after its dissolution in 1539 – from then until 1672, the family had lived in what had been the Abbey's gatehouse and guest lodgings.
George Roland Whitby (12 February 1878 – 21 July 1966) was a British tea planter, businessman and a member of parliament. [1]George Roland Whitby was born in Yeovil, Somerset, England on 12 February 1878, the second of six children (oldest son) to Joseph Whitby (1836-1915), a glove maker, and Maud Mary née Forster (1852-1945).
Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe (6 October 1853 – 31 May 1941) [1] was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.
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