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Vor 5 Tagen · Cecil, Earl of Exeter. Barry of ten pieces argent and azure six scutcheons sable with a lion argent in each . The house was of courtyard plan, about 140 ft. north to south by about 180 ft. east to west; the oldest parts are the chapel in the south-east corner, part of the fabric at the east end of the south range, and the ruinous buildings on the east and north sides of the courtyard.
Vor 2 Tagen · The manor descended to John Cecil, earl of Exeter (d. 1700), whose son William sold it in 1709 to Mark Kirkby. Kirkby (d. 1718) left Roos to his son Mark (d. 1748). At the partition of Kirkby's estates in 1750 it fell to the share of his sister Isabel Collings, who by will proved in 1764 devised it to her nephew the Revd. Mark Sykes, later the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · In 1670 Richard Garford endowed a school with property in London; this school was held in the church until 1766 when the Earl of Exeter bought a house (mon. 2) and the Countess provided for six girls to be educated there (NRO, Terrier, 1774). In 1830 the Marchioness of Exeter transferred the girls to a new girls' school which she was establishing on Stamford Road (mon. 72), the boys only ...
Vor 2 Tagen · He was Henry Cecil (1754-1804), who was nephew and heir apparent to Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter of Burghley House, who had no children. Henry was a great improver, and on taking up residence at Hanbury Hall substantially altered the interior by enlarging the rooms, undertook exchanges of land with the Bearcrofts and others to consolidate the Vernon estates and enclose the remaining open ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In 1614 the Mercers granted a 30 years' lease of it to Thomas, Earl of Exeter, who in the following year sold his lease to Sir William Slingsby. The street called Long Acre was laid out at about this time by Slingsby and the Earl of Bedford, the line of the street following approximately the line of the common boundary of their properties. Thenceforth the term Long Acre was frequently applied ...
Vor 4 Tagen · William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was made Elizabeth’s secretary at her first privy council meeting, just three days after her accession. Burghley was well-educated and had served in a political capacity under Edward VI, Princess Elizabeth, and even briefly under Mary I. Not only was Burghley Elizabeth’s principle secretary from 1558 to mid-1572, he was her chief councillor and directed the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
