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1 giorno fa · George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon: 1800–1870 1849 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 705 Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer: 1798–1857 1849 Former Lord Chamberlain 706 Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby: 1797–1863 1851 Ambassador to France 707 Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam: 1786–1857 1851
4 giorni fa · The first Earl had acquired the family's great estates, but it was the fourth Earl's energy and acumen—manifested in his rebuilding of Woburn Abbey and his scheme for draining the Fens, as well as in the development of Covent Garden—which established them on a profitable and healthy base and provided the means of wealth that ...
4 giorni fa · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
5 giorni fa · In 1794 he was sent with Earl Spencer as minister-extraordinary to the court of Vienna, and in 1799 was appointed ambassador to Berlin, to propose an alliance against France. He was shipwrecked on the way and arrived too late.
2 giorni fa · Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
4 giorni fa · Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957.
5 giorni fa · As the third child and youngest daughter of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, heir to the 7th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances Ruth Burke Roche (daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy), she was part of British nobility.
