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4 giorni fa · On the death of the first Duke in 1700 the couple became Duke and Duchess of Bedford and took up residence, with Lady Russell, at Southampton House. The new Duke is said to have been 'the richest peer in England, worth upwards of £30,000 per annum'.
1 giorno fa · When Francis Russell became Earl of Bedford in 1627, more than half of his estate, that is the outer part, was already built on or occupied as garden ground (see page 24). Although the licence to build implies that the Earl contemplated the wholesale redevelopment of the outer part, very little rebuilding took place there under his ...
4 giorni fa · George Bernard Shaw Shaw in 1911 Born (1856-07-26) 26 July 1856 Portobello, Dublin, Ireland Died 2 November 1950 (1950-11-02) (aged 94) Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England Resting place Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence Pen name Bernard Shaw Occupation Writer political activist Citizenship United Kingdom (1856–1950) Ireland (dual citizenship, 1934–1950) Spouse Charlotte Payne-Townshend ...
1 giorno fa · Bedford Place, connecting Russell Square with Bloomsbury Square, was built between 1801 and 1805 on the site of Bedford House. Here, at the house of Mr. Henry Fry, died, in 1811, Richard Cumberland, the author of The West Indian .
6 giorni fa · 1708 - Wriothesley Russell, III duca di Bedford, nobile britannico († 1732) 1708 - Giuseppe Tomaso de Rossi, vescovo cattolico italiano († 1786) 1713 - John Stuart, III conte di Bute, nobile, politico e botanico britannico († 1792) 1715 - Antonio Casali, cardinale italiano († 1787)
6 giorni fa · 1858 - Herbrand Russell, XI duca di Bedford, politico inglese († 1940) 1859 - Svante Arrhenius, chimico e fisico svedese († 1927) 1859 - Celso Cianchi, fantino italiano; 1860 - Giuseppe Ciscato, matematico e astronomo italiano († 1908) 1861 - Henry Horne, generale inglese († 1929) 1863 - Augusto Leguía y Salcedo, politico peruviano ...
8 ore fa · The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
