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5 giorni fa · From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 250-253:. HAVING EFFECTIVELY DEALT WITH both the King and the Queen and given Sicily its admirable new constitution, Bentinck—who never forgot that he was also a soldier—decided to obey a recent summons to go and join Wellington’s army in Catalonia.
2 giorni fa · Hannan refers to the ‘socially encompassing character of natural history’ in the eighteenth century and incorporates case studies from across the social spectrum, ranging from the second Duchess of Portland, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-85) to botanist and illustrator James Bolton, the son of a weaver (p. 103).
1 giorno fa · William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland: 1738–1809 1794 Prime Minister 1783, 1807–1809 620 Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe: 1726–1799 1797 Not Installed 621 George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer: 1758–1834 1799 First Lord of the Admiralty 622 John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden: 1759–1840 1799 Later Marquess Camden 623
1 giorno fa · George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover ...
5 giorni fa · Questa decisione, secondo l'esperto reale Tom Quinn, è strettamente legata al suo litigio con il fratello William. Harry escluso dal matrimonio del duca di Westminster, chi è... Hugh...
4 giorni fa · Along the line of Piccadilly, when the district was more or less open country, besides Burlington House, stood some of the mansions of the nobility of the seventeenth century. Westward of Burlington House, facing the top of St. James's Street, and on the site of what is now Bond Street, Stafford Street, and Albemarle Street, formerly stood ...
4 giorni fa · It began in 1642, when Sir William Berkeley became Virginia’s governor. Over thirty-five years, with a high-handed “cavalier” spirit that he brought from southern England, Berkeley built up Virginia from “a sickly settlement of barely 8,000 souls” to a true colony of 40,000 people, with “a coherent social order, a functioning economic system, and a strong sense of its own special ...
