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Vor 5 Tagen · Longfellow made one Lady Wentworth famous. She was the very young housekeeper of the very old governor of New Hampshire before the Revolution. But there was a second lovely governor's lady. Her name was Frances, and her poor husband was barely cold before she married her powerful cousin John.
Vor einem Tag · John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford: d. 1540 1527 294 Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland: c. 1502–1537 1531 295 Anne de Montmorency, Duc de Montmorency: c. 1492–1567 1532 296 Philip de Chabot, Comte de Neublanche: d. 1543 1532 297 James V, King of Scotland: 1512–1542 1535 298 Nicholas Carew: d. 1539 1536 Degraded 1539 299
Vor 3 Tagen · The marriage of Portsmouth's royal British governor Benning Wentworth to his housekeeper Martha Hilton on March 15, 1760 was the scandal of the decade. Almost 40 years her senior, old, unpleasant and unattractive, Wentworth was wealthy beyond imagination with a 45-room mansion near Little Harbor.
Vor 5 Tagen · Sir Edmund Pye's widow died in 1701, and the manor passed to Elizabeth West, at whose death it descended to Martha Lovelace, only surviving child of Martha Pye and John Lord Lovelace, Baroness Wentworth in her own right.
Vor 5 Tagen · Sir Ralph Hastings of Harrowden, who, among other offices, was lieutenant of the castle of Guisnes in Picardy and constable of Rockingham, received a fresh grant in 1483 to him and his wife Anne from Richard III.
Vor 5 Tagen · 1957 Birthday Honours. The Queen's Birthday Honours 1957 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published on 4 June ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Primary Source Databases: 15th to 18th Centuries. Early English Books Online. Full-text and page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
