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3 days ago · Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke (née Honeyman, 30 July 1926 – 28 February 2022), better known by the pen-name of Kate Sedley, was an English historical novelist. [2] She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maids' School, Westbury-on-Trym.
5 days ago · St. Peter's is the only mediaeval church in the old town which has survived. Fires in the 17th century and in the S. part of the town in 1725 and in the E. in 1775 have left only a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries, mostly in the main streets.
5 days ago · He resided at the priory, then called the Fryars, and left one son, Sir John Sedley, bart. of Aylesford, who was sheriff in the 19th year of king James I. and had three sons, successors to each other in title and estate, viz. Sir Henry, who died unmarried; Sir William Sedley, who married Jane, eldest daughter of John Savage, earl Rivers, and ...
3 days ago · George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings .
5 days ago · In Shire Lane, in the year 1639, the delightful song writer, and oracle of the licentious wits of his day, Sir Charles Sedley, first saw the light. He was baptised in the old church of St. Clement's. Ship Yard adjoined Shire Lane on the left.
3 days ago · Lady Ann Cunningham - Wikipedia. Lady Anna (Anne) Cunningham, Marchioness of Hamilton (died 1646 [1]) led a mixed-sex cavalry troop during the "Battle" of Berwick on 5 June 1639. Background and family.
5 days ago · Erzsebet’s story unfolds through the eyes of Boroka, a spunky peasant girl who is recruited into the countess’ household by Dorka, the countess’ right-hand woman, and Ficzko, a young factotum.
