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2 giorni fa · Avon's surviving son, Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (1930–1985), known as Viscount Eden from 1961 to 1977, was also a politician and a minister in the Margaret Thatcher government until his death from AIDS at the age of 54.
1 giorno fa · Her stepson, Nicholas, Eden's surviving son from his first marriage, who succeeded him as 2nd Earl of Avon, served as Under-Secretary of State for Energy in Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s, but died of AIDS in 1985. At this point, the earldom became extinct. Eden's premiership
23 mag 2024 · Macmillan’s immediate predecessor, Anthony Eden, became Earl of Avon. Attlee, Baldwin, Lloyd-George, Asquith, Balfour and others had all accepted Earldoms, too, with the exceptions usually a consequence of dying whilst still an MP or some particularity of the retiring prime minister.
2 giorni fa · Later Earl of Avon 916 Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh: 1874–1967 1955 Chancellor of the University of Dublin 917 Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee: 1883–1967 1956 Prime Minister 1945–1951 918 Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay: 1887–1965 1957 Secretary General of NATO 919 Michael Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton: 1887–1970 1957
2 giorni fa · The east front was added or altered in the mid 18th century. The house was restored between 1938 and 1948 by Victoria Bailey, Baroness Glanusk, later wife of P. B. Frere, using panelling and ornament from other houses. (Robert) Anthony Eden, earl of Avon (Prime Minister 1955–7), lived there from 1966 until his death in 1977.
1 giorno fa · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
3 giorni fa · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
