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Mary, Countess Of Harold
Mary, Countess of Harold (''née'' Lady Mary Tufton; 6 July 170119 February 1785) was an English aristocrat and philanthropist. She was the eighth and youngest child of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and Lady Catherine Cavendish, daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her father, a politician, was himself noted for his charitable giving. Her sisters included Lady Anne Tufton (d. 1757), who married James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Lady Margaret Tufton, who married Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation), Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. She was named in her father's will as an executor and administrator of the trust he established to provide for charities, including a school for poor children. Charity Lady Mary was one of the Signatories to the Ladies' Petition for the Establishment of the Foundling Hospital, group of aristocratic women who signed Thomas Coram, Thomas Coram's petition to George II of Great Britain, King George II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Tufton
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary the Jewess, one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois * Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy * Queen Mary of Denmark (born 1972), wife of Frederik X of Denmark * Mary I of England (1516–1558), aka "Bloody Mary", Queen of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Grey, Earl Of Harold
Anthony Grey, 3rd Baron Lucas, styled Earl of Harold (21 February 1695 – 21 July 1723) was a British peer and courtier. Biography Grey was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, and his wife, Jemima Crew. On 17 February 1718, Anthony married Lady Mary Tufton, a daughter and coheiress of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, by his wife Lady Catharine Cavendish. He was called to the House of Lords, by writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Lucas, on 8 November 1718. Lord Harold was a Lord of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales, later King George II, from 1720 until his death in 1723, aged 28, from choking on an ear of barley, the beard of which stuck in his throat. He had no children,Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 11. so his title reverted to his father and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clifford, 3rd Earl Of Cumberland
Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 13th Baron de Clifford, 13th Lord of Skipton (8 August 155830 October 1605), was an English peer, naval commander, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was notable at court for his jousting, at the Accession Day Tilts, which were highlights of the year at court. Two famous survivals, his portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1590, now National Maritime Museum) and a garniture of Greenwich armour (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), reflect this important part of his life. In contrast, he neglected his estates in the far north of England and left a long succession dispute between his heirs. Early life and wardship George Clifford was born on 8 August 1558 at Brougham Castle in Westmorland, the son and heir of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland (d. January 1570) by his second wife, Anne Dacre, daughter of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre. The Baron de Clifford, Barons de Clifford, a junior branch of the Cliffo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Margaret Sackville (1562–1591)
Lady Margaret Sackville (c. 1562 – 19 August 1591), formerly Lady Margaret Howard, was the wife of Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset. Early life Margaret Howard was born in about 1562, being the third of four children Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk had by his second wife, Margaret Audley. In keeping with family tradition, she was a devout Roman Catholic. Her half-brother, Philip, died while imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth, and was later canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church. Her mother died in January 1564, while Margaret was still a young child; and shortly after her mother's death, her father married his third wife, Elizabeth Leyburne. When his father was principal commissioner at the Conference held at York in October 1568 to determine the judicial and political situation of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Scottish statesman William Maitland of Lethington met privately with Norfolk, where he suggested to the Duke the possibility of a future marriage between Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl Of Dorset
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests. Life He was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, by Cecily, daughter of John Baker (died 1558), Sir John Baker. His grandfather, Richard Sackville (escheator), Sir Richard Sackville, invited Roger Ascham to educate Robert with his own son, an incident in 1563 that Ascham introduced into his pedagogic work ''The Scholemaster'' (1570) as prompting the book. His tutor Claudius Hollyband dedicated to him the French language manuals ''The French Schoolemaster'' (1573) and ''The Frenche Littelton'' (1576), which would see a combined total of fifteen editions through the year 1609. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, on 17 December 1576 at age 15, and graduated B.A. and M.A. on 3 June 1579; it appears from his father's will that he was also at New College, Oxford, New College. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1580 but not called to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl Of Exeter
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter (5 May 1542 – 8 February 1623), known as Lord Burghley from 1598 to 1605, was an English politician, courtier and soldier. Family Thomas Cecil was the elder son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, by his first wife, Mary Cheke (d. February 1543), daughter of Peter Cheke of Cambridge, Esquire Bedell of the University from 1509 until his death in 1529 (and sister of Sir John Cheke). He was the half-brother of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Anne Cecil, and Elizabeth Cecil. William Cecil declared the young Thomas to be like, "a spendyng sott, mete to kepe a tenniss court" (a spendthrift soak, suited merely to govern a tennis court), although the same source notes that "Thomas Cecil became an improved character as he advanced in life". Whilst Thomas's career may have been overshadowed by those of his illustrious father and half-brother, he was a fine soldier and a useful politician and had a good deal of influence on the buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet
Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet (died 1624) was an English landowner. Career and family He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker. His family home was at Hothfield in Kent. He twice served as Sheriff of Kent, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611. His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place, Rainham. Their children included: * Anne Tufton, who married Francis Tresham, the gunpowder plot conspirator, in 1593 * Elizabeth Tufton * Margaret Tufton, who married Thomas Caril of Shipley, Sussex Tufton married, secondly, Christian Browne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne. His children with Christian Browne included: * Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet (1578–1631), later Earl of Thanet, who married Frances Cecil * Humfrey Tufton (1584-1659) of the Mote, Maidstone, who married Margaret Morley * Richard Tufton (died 1631), of Tothill Street, Westminster, who married Chrysogon Morley, a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pierrepont (politician)
William Pierrepont (c. 160717 July 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1660. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Life Pierrepont was the second son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and his wife Gertrude Talbot, daughter of Hon. Henry Talbot of Burton Abbey, Yorkshire. He matriculated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1624 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 1 April 1627. He was appointed Sheriff of Shropshire for 1638. In April 1640, Pierrepont was elected Member of Parliament for Shropshire in the Short Parliament. He was elected MP for Great Wenlock in the Long Parliament in November 1640. He threw his influence on the side of peace and took part for the parliament in the negotiations with Charles I at Oxford in 1643. Pierrepont was a member of the committee of both kingdoms, and represented the parliamentary party during the deliberations at Uxbridge in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cavendish, 1st Duke Of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being patron of the playwright Ben Jonson and the intellectual group known as the Welbeck Circle. Despite spending the then enormous sum of £15,000 entertaining Charles I in 1634, he failed to gain a significant political post. In the early stages of the First English Civil War, he was appointed Royalist Captain-General in Northern England; he financed much of the war effort himself, later claiming this totalled in excess of £1,000,000. After the defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644, a battle fought against his advice, he went into exile in Europe. He returned to England after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, and although created Duke of Newcastle in 1665, he remained on the fringes of the court and became critical of Charles II. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Anne Clifford
Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, ''suo jure'' 14th Baroness de Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676) was an English peeress. In 1605 she inherited her father's ancient barony by writ and became ''suo jure'' 14th Baron de Clifford, Baroness de Clifford. She was a patron of literature and as evidenced by her diary and many letters was a literary personage in her own right. She held the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland which role she exercised from 1653 to 1676. Early years Lady Anne was born on 30 January 1590 in Skipton Castle, and was baptised the following 22 February in Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, Holy Trinity Church in Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She was the only surviving child and sole heiress of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558–1605) of Appleby Castle in Westmorland and of Skipton Castle, by his wife, Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl Of Dorset
Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (18 March 1589 – 28 March 1624) was the eldest surviving son of Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Audley. Born at Charterhouse, London, Sackville was styled Lord Buckhurst from 1608 until 1609, when he succeeded his father as Earl of Dorset and inherited the family home of Knole House. During the years 1612–24 Sackville served as a Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. He married Lady Anne Clifford, daughter of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland and Margaret, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford on 27 February 1609, but their marriage was not a success; partisans of the Earl blame Lady Anne's headstrong personality, while partisans of the Countess blame the Earl's repeated infidelities, his extravagance and indebtedness – "one of the seventeenth century’s most accomplished gamblers and wastrels". A rumour n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl Of Thanet
Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet (1578–1631) was an English peer. Nicholas Tufton was the son of Sir John Tufton, and Christian Browne, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne, Justice of the Common Pleas, by Agnes Hussey, the daughter of John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, by his second wife, Anne Grey. Tufton represented Peterborough in 1601, presumably through the influence of his father-in-law Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter. Traveling north to welcome the new king to England, he was knighted by James I at Newcastle on 13 April 1603. He was then a justice of the peace in Kent and by 1611 a deputy lieutenant. He became a member of the Virginia Company of London in 1610. In 1624 he represented Kent (UK Parliament constituency), Kent as the senior Knight of the shire. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1625 and was created Baron Tufton, of Tufton on 1 November 1626. For the latter honour he paid £15,000 to the Exchequer and possibly a further £5,000 to Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
