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4 giorni fa · Learn about the fascinating founders of Milford Haven, find out how the street names we’ve come to know and love came to be. Plus, how Charles Greville, William Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson all had something in common. To begin with, let’s talk about Charles Greville (The town’s Greville Road and Charles Street are named after him).
4 giorni fa · Historic Haven Heritage Walking Trail. Formed by a drowned valley, or ‘ria’ after the ice age, our deep water, tidal estuary has brought Vikings, crusaders, would-be kings, sea merchants and admirals to shelter in our safe and beautiful historic haven.
4 giorni fa · Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven (born May 24, 1854, Graz, Austria—died Sept. 11, 1921, London, Eng.) was a British admiral of the fleet and first sea lord, who was responsible, with Winston Churchill, for the total mobilization of the fleet prior to World War I.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 giorni fa · Lady Tatiana Mountbatten - daughter of King's cousin Marquess of Milford Haven - admits she's so 'dedicated' to her fitness tracking watch she wore it under her dress while attending a...
3 giorni fa · The Marquess of Milford Haven was a naturalised British subject who, after a career in the Royal Navy, had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten—an Anglicised version of Battenberg—during the First World War, owing to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom.
4 giorni fa · Milford Haven’s deep waterway was formed around 10,000 BC by the flooding of a ria or ‘drowned valley’. It is an estuary forming a natural harbour that has been used as a port since the Middle Ages even though the town of Milford did not exist until 1793 when it was founded by Sir William Hamilton. The waterway has a long history as a ...
1 giorno fa · Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
