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Earl of Clarendon is a title that has been created twice in British history, in 1661 and 1776. The family seat is Holywell House, near Swanmore, Hampshire.
John Douglas Stuart, 21st Earl of Moray (born 29 August 1966) is the only son of the 20th Earl of Moray and Lady Malvina Dorothea Murray, elder daughter of Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield. Known as Lord Doune between 1974 and 2011, he was educated at Loretto School and University College London , graduating BA in History of Art.
— James Guthrie, Scottish Presbyterian minister (1 June 1661), prior to execution by hanging for high treason "Jesus, oh Jesus, you are my God, my justice, my strength, my all." [8] [note 93] — Marie Angélique Arnauld, Abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal (6 August 1661) "It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17 ...
The Earl of Limerick: 1803 [Notes 1] Edmund Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick: Ireland Felix Pery, Viscount Glentworth: 121 The Earl of Clancarty: 1803 [Notes 2] Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty: Ireland None: 122 The Earl of Powis: 1804 John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis: United Kingdom Jonathan Herbert, Viscount Clive: 123 The Earl Nelson: 1805
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG, PC (24 June 1532 [note 1] – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The most well-known Earls of Essex were Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485 – 1540) (sixth creation), chief minister to King Henry VIII, Sir William Parr (1513-1571) who was brother to Queen Catherine Parr who was the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601) (eighth creation), a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I ...
Monument to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Radcliffe Earls of Sussex in St Andrew's Church, Boreham, Essex Originally built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 19th, the Sussex Chapel running south off the chancel is for this 1587-1589 tomb of the first three Earls of Sussex, of the second creation: Robert, Henry and Thomas, built by Richard Stevens of Southwark, in the Grade I listed 11th- to 15th ...