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Grimston Park
Grimston Park is a grade II* listed Georgian country house in Grimston, North Yorkshire, England, some 1.7 miles (3 km) south of Tadcaster. Since being owned by the Isherwood family, it has been converted into a number of luxury homes. The house is built on two storeys of Tadcaster limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. It has a 7-bay frontage with a projecting portico, and a three-storey tower and a single-storey entrance lodge at each end. A limestone water tower in the grounds, designed like the house by Decimus Burton, is also grade II listed. History In the early 1600s the Grimston estate belonged to the Stanhope family. King James I and subsequently Anne of Denmark stayed at Grimston in 1603 on the way south to accept the throne of England.Henry Ellis, ''Original Letters'', 1st series vol. 3 (London, 1824), p. 75. After some expensive litigation between members of the family over its ownership it passed to the Gascoignes of Parlington Hall, Aberford. The estate an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimston Park Gates Geograph
Grimston may refer to: Places *Grimston, East Riding of Yorkshire, England *Grimston, Leicestershire, England *Grimston, Norfolk, England *Grimston, Nottinghamshire, England *Grimston, Selby, England, the location of Grimston Park, North Yorkshire, England *Grimston Park, Selby, England, country house *Grimston, York, a List of United Kingdom locations: Gree-Gz, location in the United Kingdom *Grimstone, North Yorkshire, a separate village near York, England, sometimes referred to as "Grimston" People *Baron Grimston of Westbury, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom *Doug Grimston (1900–1955), Canadian ice hockey administrator *Edward Grimston (other) *James Grimston (other) *Grimston baronets *Robert Grimston (other) *Viscount Grimston, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Other uses *Grimston Hall, 17th–18th century home of the Barker baronets#Barker baronets, of Grimston Hall (1622), Barker baronets, Suffolk, England *Grimston Manor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Georgian general and prince serving in the Russian Empire, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. Bagration, a member of the Bagrationi dynasty, was born in Tbilisi. His father, Ivan (Ivane), served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, in which Bagration also enlisted in 1782. Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration began his military career serving in the Russo-Circassian War of 1763–1864 for a couple of years. Afterwards he participated in a war against the Ottomans and the capture of Ochakov in 1788. Later he helped suppress the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 in Poland and capture Warsaw. During Russia's Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799 against the French, he served with distinction under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov. In 1805 Russia joined the coalition against Napoleon. After the collapse of the Austrians at Battle of Ulm, Ulm in October 1805, Bagration won praise for his successful defense in the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decimus Burton Buildings
Decimus may refer to: Romen praenomen * Decimus (praenomen) * Decimus Carfulenus (died 43 BC), Roman statesman * Decimus Haterius Agrippa (died 32 AD), consul in 22 AD * Decimus Junius Brutus (consul 77 BC) * Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (–43 BC), Roman politician and general, assassin of Julius Caesar * Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (180 BC–113 BC), Roman politician and general * Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus (16 AD–64 AD), consul in AD 53 * Decimus Junius Silanus (consul) () * Decimus Junius Silanus (translator of Mago) () * Decimus Laberius (–43 BC), Roman eques and writer * Decimus Laelius (), Roman lawyer and tribune of the plebs * Decimus Laelius Balbus, consul in 6 BC * Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (–47 AD), Roman senator * Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (Legatus) (35-after 69 AD), Roman senator, Legatus of Gallia Belgica * Ausonius (Decimus Magnus Ausonius, –), Roman poet and rhetorician * Balbinus (Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus, –238), Roman emperor in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Houses In North Yorkshire
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the country of Wales is a component of a multi-part sovereign state, the United Kingdom. A country may be a historically sovereign area (such as Korea), a currently sovereign territory with a unified government (such as Senegal), or a non-sovereign geographic region associated with certain distinct political, ethnic, or cultural characteristics (such as the Basque Country). The definition and usage of the word "country" is flexible and has changed over time. ''The Economist'' wrote in 2010 that "any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies." Most sovereign states, but not all countries, are members of the United Nations. The largest country by area is Russia, while the smallest is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In North Yorkshire
The county of North Yorkshire is divided into 11 Districts of England, districts. The districts of North Yorkshire are Selby (district), Selby, Harrogate (borough), Harrogate, Craven District, Craven, Richmondshire, Hambleton District, Hambleton, Ryedale, the Scarborough (borough), Scarborough, the City of York, Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough (borough), Middlesbrough, and parts are in Stockton-on-Tees (borough), Stockton-on-Tees administered from County Durham. As there are over 700 Grade II* listed buildings in the county, they have been split into separate lists for each district. This number does not include buildings in the former North Riding district which falls under Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, which are listed under Grade II* listed buildings in County Durham. * Grade II* listed buildings in Selby (district) * Grade II* listed buildings in Harrogate (borough) * Grade II* listed buildings in Craven * Grade II* listed buildings in Richmondshire * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), () is a Tudor- Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it is situated, and lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk and Colton. It is one of nine sites in the Leeds Museums & Galleries group. The house is a Grade I listed building, defined as a "building of outstanding or national architectural or historic interest". The stables are Grade II* listed ("particularly significant buildings of more than local interest"), and ten separate features of the estate are Grade II listed ("buildings of special architectural or historic interest"), including the Sphinx Gates and the Barn. Temple Newsam House is one of Leeds Museums and Galleries sites. It is also part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership. History 1066 to 1520 In the ''Domesday Book' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Middleton was a county constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was represented by one Member of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1918. Members of Parliament Boundaries The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of "The Sessional Division of Middleton (except so much of the Parish of Spotland as is included in Division No. 10 as herein described, or in the Municipal Borough of Bacup), the Municipal Borough of Rochdale, and the Parishes of Alkrington and Tonge, and in the Sessional Division of Bury so much of the Parish of Hopwood as is not included in the Municipal Borough of Heywood." Elections Elections in the 1880s Elections in the 1890s Fielden's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1900s Elections in the 1910s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fielden (politician)
Thomas Fielden (1854 – 5 October 1897) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He was born at Todmorden, Lancashire, in 1854, eldest son of Joshua Fielden (politician), Joshua Fielden. His father, his grandfather John Fielden of Todmorden, and brother Edward Brocklehurst Fielden were also Members of Parliament. Fielden was educated at Wellington College (Berkshire), Wellington College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1878 he married Martha, daughter of Thomas Knowles of Darn Hall, Cheshire, who was Member of Parliament for Wigan (UK Parliament constituency), Wigan Coincidentally, his brother, Edward, married another daughter of Knowles, Mary Ellen, later on in 1884. He was a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway company, and a Justice of the Peace, J.P. for the county of the West Riding of Yorkshire, where his home was at Grimston Park, near Tadcaster. He was elected at the 1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fielden
John Fielden (17 January 1784 – 29 May 1849) was a British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham (1832–1847). He entered Parliament to support William Cobbett, whose election as fellow-MP for Oldham he helped to bring about. Like Cobbett, but unlike many other Radicals, he saw Radicalism as having little more in common with Whiggism than with Toryism: in the Commons he sat with the Whigs but frequently did not vote with them. Whigs and the more orthodox Whig-Radicals, therefore, thought the name of one of the machines used in his cotton-spinning business, "the self-acting mule," a highly appropriate soubriquet. Having started work in his father's cotton mill when little more than ten, he was a firm and generous supporter of the factory reform movement. He also urged repeal of the New Poor Law and pressed for action to be taken to alleviate the 'distress of the country' (in particular the plight of hand-loom weavers), but found little support in Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Yorkshire
The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. Sheriff is a title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. A list of the sheriffs from the Norman conquest onwards can be found below. The Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires. The office was a powerful position in earlier times, especially in the case of Yorkshire, which covers a very large area. The sheriffs were responsible for the maintenance of law and order and various other roles. Some of their powers in Yorkshire were relinqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough
Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, KCH, FRS, FSA (21 October 1805 – 15 January 1860) was a British Whig Party politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham from 1816 to 1849. Early life and career Born Albert Denison Conyngham, he was the third son of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison. He was educated at Eton, and was commissioned a cornet and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, in 1821, before joining the diplomatic service. On 28 April 1826, he purchased an unattached infantry lieutenancy. In 1824, he was an Attaché to Berlin, then Vienna in 1825, and Secretary of the Legation to Florence in 1828, and to Berlin, from 1829 to 1831. Conyngham was knighted in 1829, and at the 1835 general election he was elected as Whig Member of Parliament for Canterbury, a seat he held until 1841, when he did not contest the election. He was elected unopposed at a by-election in March 1847 and held the seat until he was elevate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Bagration
Princess Catherine Bagration (russian: Екатерина Павловна Багратион) née Skavronskaya (7 December 1783 – 21 May 1857 or 2 June 1857) was a Russian princess, married to general Pyotr Bagration. She was known for her beauty, love affairs and unconventional behaviour. Early life She was the daughter of Count Pavel Martinovich Skavronsky, Chamberlain of the Royal Court and Minister Plenipotentiary to Naples, well known for his mental imbalance and extraordinary love of music, and Yekaterina von Engelhardt, niece and at the same time favorite of Prince Grigory Potemkin. She was educated at the court of the Empress Catherine II the Great and the Empress Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Maria Feodorovna, wife of her son Emperor Paul I of Russia, Emperor Paul I; and later became a maid of honor for the Empress Maria. Marriage to Prince Bagration In 1800 the Paul I of Russia, who was well known for his caprices, found out that General P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
