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1 giorno fa · Christopher Crosthwaite, from Walney, died aged 40 on October 12, 2021 after he stepped onto the railway line near Furness Abbey shortly after coming out of an assessment at Dane Garth, Furness ...
2 giorni fa · Matt Windle, 33, a former Birmingham Poet Laureate, joined the BarrowFull project and runs workshops encouraging people in Barrow-in-Furness to tell stories of the town’s past, present and future.
1 giorno fa · Christopher Urswick, LL.D., one of the more prominent officials of the time of Henry VII, was born in Furness in 1448, being in 15 17 heir male of the Urswicks of Little Urswick. He was one of the fellows of Manchester Church, and held other church preferments.
1 giu 2024 · Sir Christopher Furness bought the manor in 1898 and, through the Cavendish Land Company, offered it for sale in lots in 1909. In 1910 Manor farm, 878 a., including land in Berwick St. James, was bought by W. N. D. Burrows, whose executors sold it to his son-inlaw E. F. Andrews.
2 giorni fa · Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness and 2nd Baron Furness (29 October 1883 – 6 October 1940), was a British shipping magnate. Background. Furness was the son of Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness and Jane Annette Suggit. He served as Chairman of Furness Withy, the shipbuilding firm, and was also involved in the steel and ...
3 giorni fa · Following Hooley's bankruptcy the manor, comprising c. 2,500 a., was sold to Sir Christopher Furness, probably in 1899. It was offered for sale by Furness through the Cavendish Land Company in 1909: then or in 1910 Cary Coles (fl. 1915) bought Manor farm, c. 1,600 a., and probably Greenland farm, c. 400 a.
1 ora fa · Monteverdi’s powerful, erotically charged opera of passion and duplicity, in which Nerone rejects his wife Ottavia for the alluring attractions of Poppea, first performed in Venice during ...
