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5 giorni fa · He was the only son of four children born to Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence and William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll. His elder sister, Lady Ida Hay, married Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (her descendants include the Earls of Gainsborough, the Marquesses of Bute and the Baronets of Bellingham).
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Lady Eliza Amelia Hay
- Scotland
- May 3, 1823
1 giorno fa · Gentleman of the Horse c. 1693–1782; 1828–37. According to The Present State of the British Court, 'the Gentleman of the Horse is always the first Equerry...and is the next immediate Officer under the Master of the Horse, in whose absence he presides in all Affairs relating to the King's Stables.' The gentleman of the horse was appointed by royal warrant.
4 giorni fa · The Prima Porta statue of Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward.
Footnotes. Gentlemen of the Bedchamber 1660–1702, 1714–1837. One gentleman of the Bedchamber provided close attendance on the Sovereign per week. His duties included assisting the King at his dressing, waiting on him when he ate in private, guarding access to him in his bedchamber and closet and providing noble companionship, generally.
3 giorni fa · Augustus dramatically enlarged the empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia, expanding possessions in Africa, and completing the conquest of Hispania, but he suffered a major setback in Germania.
5 giorni fa · While literary references in Augustan-era poets like Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus are decorous and idealizing after the Greek style, the treatment of homosexuality in much Roman literature is markedly different, manifesting an anatomical frankness and obscenity seldom found in Greek texts outside of Attic comedy.
2 giorni fa · The Augustan period (1700-1745) in British literature, named after the Roman Emperor Augustus and reflecting the perceived parallels between the reigns of Augustus and the contemporary British monarchs, was characterized by a sense of order, clarity, and balance.
