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Vor einem Tag · Cora Crawley (née Levinson), Countess of Grantham (played by Elizabeth McGovern) (b. 1868), usually called Lady Grantham, is the wife of Robert and mother of Mary, Edith and Sybil. A wealthy American heiress of Jewish descent, she married Robert in 1890 when the Crawleys were in straitened circumstances; her fortune helped rescue Downton. Although she has adopted the lifestyle of the British ...
A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2. A part-volume detailing the religious houses of the county. Includes accounts of the early history of Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals, and of several sites now within the conurbation of London. Victoria County History - Kent. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1926.
THE PRIORY OF MINSTER IN SHEPPEY. Sexburga, a daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles, married Ercombert, king of Kent. After his death in 664 she ruled the kingdom until their son Egbert was grown, and then, probably about 670, founded a nunnery at Sheppey, endowed it, and settled there with seventy-seven disciples.
Vor einem Tag · The earl of Leicester had by his countess six sons and eight daughters, of those the eldest, lady Dorothy, whom Mr. Waller has celebrated under the name of Sacharissa, in his poems, was married to Henry, lord Spencer, afterwards created earl of Sunderland, and secondly, to Robert Smith, esq. of Bidborough, ancestor of the late lord chief baron Smythe; Lucy to Sir Thomas Pelham, bart. of Sussex ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Founding of the KAS, 1857. In soaring language typical of the period, the introduction to the first volume of the Society journal Archaeologia Cantiana , published in 1858, provides insight into the activities and aspirations of those that founded and established the Society in the mid-nineteenth century. Craig Campbell. In soaring language ...
Vor einem Tag · The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal family who undertake public duties have separate households. They vary considerably in size, from the large household that supports the sovereign to the household of the Prince and Princess of ...
Vor einem Tag · Hackenden Banks. In the eastern part of St. Peter's Parish, near the cliffs, about midway between the North Foreland Lighthouse and Kingsgate, are two large barrows or tumuli, called Hackenden Banks, which tradition says, mark the graves of the English and Danes who were slain in battle here: probably, as Lewis conjectures, in that battle, fought A.D. 853, between the Danes, who had invaded ...
