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5 giorni fa · Lord Grandison died in 1630, and was succeeded in that title, and in the Battersea estate, by William Villiers, his great-nephew, who died of a wound received at the siege of Bristol, An. 1644.
3 giorni fa · William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne: George Villiers 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800–1870) 31 October 1840 23 June 1841 Lord Privy Seal: Whig Sir George Grey MP for Devonport (1799–1882) 23 June 1841 30 August 1841 — Whig Lord Granville Somerset MP for Monmouthshire (1792–1848) 3 September 1841 27 June 1846 — Conservative Robert Peel ...
5 giorni fa · His son and heir William became Viscount Grandison while a minor in 1630 and died in 1643 leaving an only child Barbara. She married Roger Palmer, created earl of Castlemaine in 1661, and, having become mistress to Charles II, was created duchess of Cleveland in 1670.
4 giorni fa · Lady Barbara’s mother was born in 1640 as Barbara Villiers, the only child of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison and Mary Bayning. In 1643, Barbara’s father died in the First English Civil War , leaving his 18-year-old widow and his three-year-old daughter in financial difficulty.
1 giorno fa · Oliver St. John, who was the second son of Nicholas St. John (lord of the manor, d. 1589), became Lord Deputy, and later Lord High Treasurer, of Ireland and in 1623 was created Viscount Grandison. But although born at Lydiard, he had, so far as is known, no connexion with it in adult life.
1 giorno fa · This was not the only connexion that the family had formed with the unpopular party, for Barbara, the eldest sister, had married Edward Villiers, half-brother of the Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine was the wife of Sir Giles Mompesson, impeached as a monopolist by the Commons in 1621, who was the supposed original of Sir Giles Over-reach in Massinger's 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts.' Sir John ...
1 giorno fa · Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, plus connu comme Philippe de Villiers, né le 25 mars 1949 à Boulogne , est un entrepreneur, haut fonctionnaire, homme politique et écrivain français. Sous-préfet , il crée en Vendée, en 1978, le spectacle nocturne La Cinéscénie , qu'il transforme ensuite en un parc à thème , le Puy du Fou .
