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Killigrew Family
Killigrew is a surname of Cornish origin. Notable people with this surname include: * Alan Killigrew (1919–2001), Australian Rules footballer and coach * Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), English poet and painter, lady-in waiting to the Duchess of York * Anne Killigrew (1607–1641), English Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria; wife of George Kirke * Catherine Killigrew (1618–1689) * Lady Catherine Killigrew (c.1530–1583), English scholar * Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon (1622–1680), wife of Francis Boyle and mistress to Charles II of England * Henry Killigrew (other), several people * Sir Robert Killigrew (1580–1633), English courtier and MP * Thomas Killigrew Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England. Life Killigrew was one of twelve children of Sir Robert Killigrew ... (1612–1683), dramatist and theatre manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Killigrew
Robert "Alan" Killigrew (27 January 1918 – 10 June 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who went on to a celebrated career as senior coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL), South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Playing career Killigrew (163 cm or 5 ft 4in) was a physically small man but an effective rover in 78 matches with the St Kilda Football Club from 1938 to 1941 and 1943 to 1945. Originally from Murtoa, he was voted club champion in 1940. Coaching career After his playing career was over Killigrew moved to Ballarat, where he managed a pub and coached Ballarat East and Golden Point. In 1956 he moved back to Melbourne to coach the St Kilda Football Club. He held this position from 1956 to 1958, demanding a "guts and determination" approach with emphasis on a fast running style and use of the handpass as an offensive tool. In 1958 he led the club to its first- night premiership and during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Killigrew
Anne Killigrew (1660–1685) was an English poet and painter, described by contemporaries as "A Grace for beauty, and a Muse for wit." Born in London, she and her family were active in literary and court circles. Killigrew's poems were circulated in manuscript and collected and published posthumously in 1686 after she died from smallpox at age 25. They have been reprinted several times by modern scholars, most recently and thoroughly by Margaret J. M. Ezell. Killigrew was eulogized by John Dryden in his poem ''To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew'' (1686). Dryden praised her accomplishments in both Poësie, and Painting, and compared her poetic abilities to the famous Greek woman poet of antiquity, Sappho. Dryden's poem has received extensive critical analysis and a wide range of interpretations. Several paintings attributed to Killigrew are known. These include a self-portrait in Berkeley Castle, and a portrait of James II of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Killigrew (lady-in-waiting)
Anne Killigrew (baptised 7 September 1607, died 6 July 1641) was a Lady in Waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, and the first wife of George Kirke (d. 1675) who was Groom of the Chamber to Charles I of England. Early life Anne Killigrew was the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse. Her parents had twelve children, seven of them girls. Anne Killigrew was baptized on 7 September 1607 at Hanworth, in what was then Middlesex. Marriage and life at court Charles I of England may have helped to arrange her marriage to George Kirke, his Groom of the Chamber. The king attended their wedding, on 4 January 1627, and gave the couple an 80-year lease on the royal manor of Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire. George Kirke retained the tenancy until 1650. Anne's children include: * Charles Kirke (1633–74), christened on 4 September 1633 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. * George Kirke (b. 27 January 1635) at Sunbury, near Hampton Court, died in infancy. * Baby daughter, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kirke
George Kirke (died 1675) was a Scottish-born courtier and Member of Parliament for Clitheroe. He was a son of George Kirke, a servant of James VI of Scotland. George Kirke senior was keeper of the chamber door to Prince Charles in Scotland at Dunfermline Palace and was given a pension for his long service, with other servants of the Prince in March 1605. Career George Kirke, younger, was a page to Prince Henry. He became a Groom of the Chamber to Prince Charles in 1613. Kirke went to Spain in 1623 during Prince Charles' Spanish Match. The goldsmith George Heriot, who died in 1623, bequeathed to him either a diamond or piece of gold or silver plate worth £50. He continued as a groom of the bedchamber to King Charles and gentleman of the robes. His accounts detail purchases of fabric and tailoring for the king. He provided costume for the masque ''Coelium Britannicum'' in February 1634, and bought diamonds and pearls for robes worn on St George's day 1639. In 1662, he was made ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Killigrew
Major-General Granville Elliott, 1st Count Elliott (7 October 1713 – 10 October 1759), was a British military officer who served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army. He fought at the Battle of Minden where he was wounded, dying of his injuries several weeks later. Early life Elliott was born on 7 September 1713 at Byfeld House, Church Road, Barnes, Surrey to Major-General Roger Elliott (c. 1665 – 15 May 1714) and his wife Charlotte (née Elliot, c. 1692 – c. 1753). A member of the Eliot military family, he was baptised on 27 October 1713 at St Mary the Virgin's Church, Barnes. His godparents were George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne and Mrs Killigrew. When Elliott was less than one year old, his father died and his sister, Catherine Elliott (1714–1755) was born soon after. Both siblings were brought up by their widowed mother and her new husband, Captain Thomas Burroughs. Later that decade, he was made a ward of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Catherine Killigrew
Lady Catherine Killigrew ( 1530 – 27 December 1583) was an English gentlewoman and scholar, the wife of Sir Henry Killigrew. Biography Catherine was the fourth daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and Alice, daughter of Sir William Waldegrave. Her older sister Anne was the wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and another sister Mildred was the wife of Lord Burghley. Catherine was said to have been proficient in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Lady Catherine married Sir Henry on 4 November 1565, and had four surviving daughters. Sir John Harington, in the notes to his translation of ''Orlando Furioso'', has preserved some Latin lines in which she asked her sister Mildred, wife of Cecil, Lord Burghley, to use her influence to get her husband excused from going on an embassy to France. The verses were reprinted in Fuller's ''Worthies''. On 21 December 1583, she gave birth to a stillborn child, and on 27 December she died. She was buried in the church of St. Thomas the Apostle, London. It was burnt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon (16 May 1622 (baptised) – December 1680) was an English courtier. She was a daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, and sister of dramatist Thomas Killigrew. Elizabeth was baptised at St Margaret Lothbury, London. On 24 October 1639 she married Francis Boyle (later Viscount Shannon), son of the Irish landowner Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. He was a friend of her stepfather, Thomas Stafford (MP). As the couple was young, there was discussion whether they should live together, or Francis Boyle depart on a Grand Tour first. Elizabeth joined the royalist court-in-exile of Queen Henrietta Maria as a maid of honour – where she became one of the many mistresses of the queen's son, the future King Charles II.Hilliam, David (2000). ''Monarchs, Murders and Mistresses''. Sutton Publishing. p. 239. Her daughter Charlotte was fathered by the exiled Prince Charles. In 1660, the year Charles was restored to the throne as Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Killigrew (other) (died 1712), Lord of Admiralty and son of the playwright
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Henry Killigrew may refer to: * Henry Killigrew (diplomat) (1528–1603), English diplomat and ambassador * Henry Killigrew (playwright) (1613–1700), wrote ''Pallantus and Eudora'' * Henry Killigrew (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Henry Killigrew (c. 1652 – 9 November 1712) was a Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of Admiral of the Blue and was appointed a Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty and member of the Board of Admiralty. After retiring from the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Killigrew
Sir Robert Killigrew (1580–1633) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1629. He served as Ambassador to the United Provinces. Life Killgrew was born at Lothbury, London, the son of William Killigrew and his wife Margery (Mary) Saunders, daughter of Thomas Saunders of Uxbridge, Middlesex. In January 1591, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford at the age of 11. He travelled abroad in 1596 and may have become an official of the Privy Chamber in 1601. He was elected MP for St Mawes in 1601. Killigrew was knighted by King James I in 1603. In 1604 he was elected MP for Newport. It is possible that he travelled to Jamestown in 1604. His name appears in the Second Charter of Virginia as a backer. In 1606 he was appointed ambassador to the United Provinces. In June 1612, Killigrew was noted as "one of Carr's favourites" according to John Chamberlain. The following May, he was committed to the Fleet Priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Killigrew
Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England. Life Killigrew was one of twelve children of Sir Robert Killigrew of Hanworth, a courtier to James I, and his wife Mary née Woodhouse; he became a page to King Charles I at about the age of thirteen. According to Samuel Pepys, the boy Killigrew used to volunteer as an extra, or "devil," at the Red Bull Theatre, so that he could see the plays for free. The young Killigrew had limited formal education; the Court and the playhouse were his schoolroom. Killigrew was present at the exorcism of the possessed nuns of Loudun. In 1635 he left a sceptical account of the proceedings. Before the English Civil War, Killigrew wrote several plays— tragicomedies like ''Claracilla'' and ''The Prisoners'', as well as his most popular play, ''The Parson's Wedding'' (1637). The latter play has been criticized for its c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Killigrew (other)
William Killigrew may refer to: *William Killigrew (1606–1695), English courtier *William Killigrew (Chamberlain of the Exchequer) Sir William Killigrew (died 1622) of Hanworth, Middlesex, was a courtier to Queen Elizabeth I and to her successor King James I, whom he served as Groom of the Privy Chamber. He served as a member of parliament at various times between 1571 and 1 ... (died 1622), English politician *Sir William Killigrew, 1st Baronet (died 1665), of the Killigrew baronets {{hndis, Killigrew, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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