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Francis Lovelace (* um 1621 in Kent; † 22. Dezember 1675 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire) war von 1668 bis 1673 der zweite englische Gouverneur der Provinz New York . Frühe Jahre. Francis Lovelace war der dritte Sohn von Sir William Lovelace (1584–1627) und dessen Frau Anne Barne of Lovelace Place.
Francis Lovelace (c. 1621–1675) was an English Royalist and the second Governor of New York colony. [1] Early life. Lovelace was born circa 1621. He was the third son of Sir William Lovelace (1584–1627) and his wife Anne Barne of Lovelace Place, Bethersden and Woolwich, Kent. He was the younger brother of Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier poet.
Second Governor of New York, 1668-1673. Francis Lovelace, son of Sir William Lovelace of Bethersden in Kent, England, was born around 1621. The family was ardently royalist and, during the English Civil War, Colonel Francis Lovelace commanded the royal forces resisting the siege of Carmarthen Castle in Wales in 1644-45.
Lovelace, Francis (c. 1621-1675), second English governor of New York, was eighth in descent from John Lovelace, who founded Lovelace Place at Bethersden, Kent, in 1367. His father was Sir William (1584-1627) of Bethersden and Woolwich, son of Sir William ...
Francis Lovelace languished in the Tower of London in 1675, unaware he had created the Boston Post Road two years earlier and forever shaped New England. He had been the royal governor of New York, and he had sent the first official post rider to Boston. Sometime in February 1673, the first mail ever arrived in Boston from New York City via the ...
LOVELACE, Francis (1594-1664), of Canterbury, Kent and Gray's Inn. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983. Available from Boydell and Brewer. Constituency. Dates. CANTERBURY. 1661 - Feb. 1664. Family and Education.
Francis Lovelace was the son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne of Bethersden and Woolrich, Kent, England. He served as a colonel in the royalist forces during the English Civil War and in 1644 was appointed governor of Carmarthen Castles in Wales. He later succeeded Richard Nicholls as the governor of New York in 1668. During his tenure ...
