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5 giorni fa · Avon's surviving son, Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (1930–1985), known as Viscount Eden from 1961 to 1977, was also a politician and a minister in the Margaret Thatcher government until his death from AIDS at the age of 54.
2 giorni fa · Twilight Years. In the years after Suez, Churchill and Eden‘s paths diverged. Churchill, now in his 80s, retreated from public life, his health increasingly frail. Eden, his political career in tatters, sought solace in retirement, writing his memoirs and tending to his garden. But the bond between the two men endured.
3 giorni fa · In 1966 the farm, c. 300 a., was bought from the trustees of Una Beckingham by Anthony Eden, earl of Avon (d. 1977), who sold most of the land in 1975 to Christopher Parnell, Baron Congleton, the owner in 1983.
5 giorni fa · The Earl of Plymouth, who died in 1687, settled his rights in the navigation of the Avon upon his widow. These rights took the form of an annual rent of £400 from the carriage of coals down the Severn and up the Avon, a trade which, according to the countess's complaint, was temporarily stopped by the coal tax of 1695.
2 giorni fa · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
5 giorni fa · Marcher-Earls of Pembroke. Wales. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1199–1219) William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1219–1231) Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1231–1234) Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1234–1241) Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1242–1245) 21.
1 giorno fa · Francis Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal) by his second wife, Anne (Cooke) Bacon, the daughter of the noted Renaissance humanist Anthony Cooke. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Bacon's uncle.
