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Jun 24, 2024 · For a more complete list, which adds these "hidden" baronies as well as extinct, dormant, abeyant, and forfeit ones, see List of Baronies . This page includes all life barons, including the Law Lords created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
2 days ago · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
6 days ago · In 1618 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Digby. After employment on an unsuccessful mission to save the Palatinate he was in 1622 again sent to Madrid to further the proposed marriage. At first he met with success, and was rewarded by being created Earl of Bristol, but the arrival of Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid in ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Digby, George, Baron Digby 1641, succ. as 2nd Earl of Bristol 1653 (1612-77). Politician, soldier, and playwright--a man of brilliant gifts, but almost no achievements, having, in Burnet's word, 'no jugment nor steadiness'.
2 days ago · His son Edward succeeded him and was the 2nd, and last, Earl Digby and Viscount Coleshill, dying unmarried in 1856, when the manor passed to his nephew George son of Charlotte Mary sister of the 1st Earl Digby, who had in 1796 married William Wingfield.
12 hours ago · John Dickson, 1st Baron Islington; Edward Digby, 10th Baron Digby; Simon Wingfield Digby; ... James Gascoyne-Cecil, 11th Viscount Cranborne; MP for Darwen ...
Jun 25, 2024 · The younger Robert had only one child, a daughter Alice who in 1656 married John, 3rd Baron Digby, and afterwards 3rd Earl of Bristol. She died without issue in 1658. Robert Bourne made a settlement whereby Digby was to hold the manor for life with remainder to John Cooper, nephew of Bourne. Bourne died in 1666.
