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4 giorni fa · Beckford’s Tower, a 10-minute drive from central Bath, was built in the 19th century for the wealthy William Beckford to house items that he had collected over his life. Now it is a museum...
3 giorni fa · William, who is returned as tenant in chief of Eaton in 1211, took the side of the king in his war with the barons, and in 1225 among the sums of money allocated to him in repayment of his financial support was the first scutage due from his fee in Eaton.
2 giorni fa · Henry's son William lived at Beckford Hall until his death, unmarried, in 1836, when he was succeeded by his great-nephew, Walter Wakeman. Walter was still lord of the manor in 1856, though the house was occupied by a tenant.
2 giorni fa · The celebrated nonconformist divine, William Bagshaw, called the Apostle of the Peak, was a native of this place. Ford FORD, a township and chapelry, in the parish of Bishop-Wearmouth, union of Sunderland, N. division of Easington ward and of the county of Durham, 3½ miles (W.) from Sunderland; containing 1720 inhabitants.
2 giorni fa · Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century; works by the Romantic poets , like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron , and novelists such as Mary Shelley , Charles Maturin , Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works.
4 giorni fa · The parish was inclosed by Act of Parliament in 1798, when William Beckford acquired the right of inclosing the common lands in return for a rentcharge of £30 yearly, to be applied to the poor rates as compensation for the loss of such common rights.
5 giorni fa · Château d'Argol was written in 1938 and echoes with narrative and descriptive resonance. The gothic setting of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods, not far from a wild and inaccessible seashore, contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired château.
