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5 days ago · The Earl’s grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, was a daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. However, since March 2023, Edward has had a...
2 days ago · In 1670 Christopher Hamby, John Hamby, Ralph Clavering and Mary his wife, William Riddall and Margaret his wife and Matthew Middleton conveyed all minerals, lead and coal in Bowes, Sleightholme, Stonykeld and Spital to Sir John Lowther, bart., with the profits of the toll of Bowes.
2 days ago · Mary Eleanor, daughter of Sir William's son and heir George, lord in 1724, brought Kirk Leavington to her husband John Lyon Earl of Strathmore. By their eldest son John Bowes Earl of Strathmore, who held Kirk Leavington in 1792, the manor was sold to John Waldy and Henry Hutchinson, owners in 1805.
4 days ago · The prior of Tortington's house in Candlewick Street was granted to john de Vere (d. 1540), fifteenth Earl of Oxford, on June 8, 1539 (Letters and Papers, xiv. 1192 (8)). John (d. 1562), sixteenth earl, kept great state here (see i. 89 above).
4 days ago · The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Photo: The Bowes Museum©. There is a scene in Moonraker where James Bond has just landed in California, searching for the eponymous stolen space shuttle. He is helicoptered to the home of the evil Hugo Drax and is astonished to see the mansion that, although filmed at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, in ...
2 days ago · Reviews in History. The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century – Reviews In History. See Author's Response. In his seminal Ford Lecture in 1953, K. B. McFarlane argued that the ‘real politics’ of the later medieval period were inherent in the ‘daily personal relations’ between king and magnates.
3 days ago · The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom . Pat McFadden has been chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 5 July 2024.
