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5 giorni fa · York House then passed, as we have said, into the hands of the Crown, and was granted a few years later to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who rebuilt it in a style of great magnificence.
3 giorni fa · On 23rd August, 1628, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was murdered by John Felton, and with his death all schemes for the rebuilding of York (or Buckingham) House were at an end.
4 giorni fa · Qui, un giardino era già presente durante il Medioevo; poi, nel 1700 il conte di Jersey progettò il giardino in stile formale anglo-olandese. Nel 1731, la famiglia Warde acquistò la proprietà e risistemò il giardino secondo lo stile naturale alla moda nella metà del XVII secolo.
5 giorni fa · In 1808 the duke sold it to George Villiers, Earl of Jersey, for £51,000. The manor then followed the descent of the Earldom of Jersey. Manorial rights finally lapsed when the Jersey estates in Chesterton were split up and sold in 1920–1. Lesser Estates.
3 giorni fa · The publication of The Murder of King James I is perfectly timed. Much of the heat has gone out of the debate on the causes of the English Revolution, but Bellany’s and Cogswell’s book builds on the post-revisionist turn towards cultural history as well as recent interest in the politics of the early modern ‘public sphere’.
2 giorni fa · Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously served twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
4 giorni fa · Ribbon of the order. The Order of St John, [3] short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( French: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) [n 1] and also known as St John International, [4] is a British royal order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria ...
