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4 giorni fa · Admiral the Hon. John Leveson-Gower was succeeded by his son General Leveson-Gower, who died in 1816, and was succeeded by his son John. During his minority the trustees sold the manor of Barkham to Henry Arthur Broughton.
3 giorni fa · He married Sophia daughter of Chandos first Lord Leigh, and on his death in 1895 the manor came into the hands of his son Mr. Granville Charles Gresham Leveson-Gower, the present owner. Leveson-Gower. Quarterly: 1 and 4, Barry of eight or and gules a cross paty sable, for Gower; 2 and 3, Azure three laurel leaves or, for Leveson.
5 giorni fa · Parting from notions of danger as threat, her archival study shows that danger was productive, especially of masculinity and the superiority of the elite. This innovative argument is first supported by a rigorous historiography of the concept of danger in the eighteenth century, explored in chapter 1.
5 giorni fa · With the election of William Leveson-Gower as one of the Newcastle members in 1675 begins the control of its parliamentary representation by the Leveson-Gower family which only came to an end in 1820.
2 giorni fa · At Sir Richard's death without lawful issue in 1661 the manor passed under his will to his widow Katherine (d. 1674) for life, and thereafter to his grandnephew William Leveson-Gower (formerly Gower) of Stittenham (Yorks. N.R.).
4 giorni fa · The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, an African American nun whose surprisingly intact remains have created a sensation at a remote Missouri abbey, was placed inside a glass display case Monday after a solemn procession led by members of the community she founded.
3 giorni fa · The second of five children born to Catholic parents in St. Louis on Palm Sunday, April 13, 1924, Mary Elizabeth Lancaster (she took the name Wilhelmina when she made her vows) was raised in a deeply pious home.
