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Vor einem Tag · After the Battle of Flodden in 1513, a MacPhedran and a MacIntyre carried the body of the slain 2nd Earl back to Argyll. Other MacPhedrans appear in the record, piping at events or building walls on the estate. My great grandfather Duncan MacPhedran worked for the Duke and was consulted on local history. His son Hughie, who died in 1999 ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Prince Albert's 42 grandchildren included four reigning monarchs: King George V of the United Kingdom; Wilhelm II, German Emperor; Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and five consorts of monarchs: Empress Alexandra of Russia and Queens Maud of Norway, Sophia of Greece, Victoria Eugenie of Spain, and Marie of Romania. Albert's many descendants ...
- 10 February 1840 – 14 December 1861
- 14 December 1861 (aged 42), Windsor Castle, England
Vor 3 Tagen · Soon after becoming king, James faced a rebellion in southern England led by his nephew, the Duke of Monmouth, and another rebellion in Scotland led by Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll. Monmouth and Argyll both began their expeditions from Holland , where James's nephew and son-in-law, the Prince of Orange, had neglected to ...
- 6 February 1685 – 23 December 1688
- Henrietta Maria of France
Vor 5 Tagen · In 1747 the house was purchased by Lord Ilay, then third Duke of Argyll, and demolished shortly afterwards. Its site was left open as a garden for the new house built by the Duke on the next site westward. The house numbered 24 on figs. 55 and 56 was the last in the street on the north side.
Vor 3 Tagen · The Statistical Account of Scotland in 1795 states that marble quarrying by the Duke of Argyll had resulted in considerable quantities being sent to Leith and London. The quarry was used intermittently over the centuries, the last major period of extraction occurring just before the First World War. Iona marble is Lewisian (Precambrian) in age. The island consists of biotite-hornblende gneiss ...
Vor 4 Tagen · About the centre of this street, on the eastern side, there formerly stood a dull, heavy mansion of no architectural pretensions, called Argyll House, after the Dukes of Argyll, to whom it had originally belonged. It had a small paved court-yard before it, with a wall and gates of the approved pattern. Early in the present century it ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The property was then devised by the Duke of Argyll to his nephew John, third Earl of Bute, who is only too well remembered in the opening of the reign of George III. for his unpopularity as a minister of the Crown.
