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4 giorni fa · Redlynch House. Alma mater. Trinity College, Cambridge. Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire, of Cricket House at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, and of 12 Wimpole Street in Westminster, [1] was a British politician and peer.
2 giorni fa · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably ...
27 mag 2024 · William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was the youngest son of George Grenville. He became Prime Minister in 1806, 41 years after his father was ousted from the job. His family connections to the job were extensive - his direct predecessor was his first cousin, William Pitt the Younger and Pitt's father the Earl of Chatham (or William Pitt the Elder) was also a former Prime Minister.
2 giorni fa · John Simms. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War ...
4 giorni fa · William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, of the second creation (c. 1520 – 30 December 1595) , was nephew and adopted heir of Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr. William West was the eldest son of Sir George West, the third of four brothers, and of Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton of Lechlade . He was attainted, 1 February 1550 of ...
2 giorni fa · Mentioned in Despatches. Order of the White Eagle [1] Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
16 ore fa · Round supposes instead that the Grenvilles of Bideford and Stowe were descended from a certain "Robert de Grenville" (alias de Grainville, de Grainavilla, etc.) who was a junior witness to Richard's foundation charter of Neath Abbey, and who in the 1166 Cartae Baronum return was listed as holding one knight's fee from the Earl of Gloucester, feudal baron of Gloucester.
