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Norman Magnus MacLeod Of MacLeod
Norman Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod (27 July 1839 – 5 November 1929) was the 26th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Biography Norman Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod was born on 27 July 1839. He was the eldest son of Norman MacLeod of MacLeod (1812–1898), 25th Chief of Clan MacLeod and his wife Louisa Barbara St John (1818–1880), only daughter of the 14th Baron St John of Bletso. He was educated at Harrow and in 1858, at the age of 19, was commissioned into the 74th Highlanders, immediately joining the regiment in India. He served as aide de camp to General Sir Hope Grant, Commander in Chief in the Presidency of Madras from 1862 to 1865. He retired from the 74th Highlanders as a Captain in 1872. In 1878, Norman was appointed as political agent on the Transvaal border at the outbreak of the Zulu War. In 1879, he commanded a Swazi army of 8,000 attached with an undetermined number of British officers and NCOs, against the Pedis. The Swazi army decisively defeated the Pedis at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiefs Of Clan MacLeod
The Chiefs of Clan MacLeod claim descent from Leod, a high-born Norse-Gael who is thought to have lived in the 13th century, but whose ancestors are known from multiple pedigrees at least into the early 12th or late 11th centuries. It is said that the chiefs of the clan have been seated at Dunvegan Castle since the time of Leod, and this on the Isle of Skye where for centuries they were sovereign within their own territories. In 1716, Norman MacLeod (today regarded as the 22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod) was created Lord MacLeod in the Jacobite Peerage. In the early 20th century, the immediate senior male-line of the chiefs ended with Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, 28th chief, daughter of Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, 27th chief. Sir Reginald was the first president of the Clan MacLeod Society, and his daughter also became president. Dame Flora selected one of her grandsons, John Wolrige-Gordon, as her successor. John later changed his surname to ''MacLeod of MacLeod'', and on hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedis
The foot ( : feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails. Etymology The word "foot", in the sense of meaning the "terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal" comes from "Old English fot "foot," from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Danish fod, Swedish fot, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus "foot"), from PIE root *ped- "foot". The "plural form feet is an instance of i-mutation." Structure The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.Podiatry Channel, ''Anatomy of the foot and ankle'' The joints of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan MacLeod Chiefs
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, meaning that their members can marry one another. Clans preceded more centralized forms of community organization and government, and exist in every country. Members may identify with a coat of arms or other symbol to show that they are an . Kinship-based groups may also have a symbolic ancestor, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Etymology The English word "clan" is derived from old Irish meaning "children", "offspring", "progeny" or "descendants"; it is not from the word for "family" or "clan" in either Irish or Scottish Gaelic. According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', the word "clan" was introduced into English in around 1425, as a descriptive label for the organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Deaths
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1839 Births
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John St John, 11th Baron St John Of Bletso
John St John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso (died 24 June 1757) was an English peer. The son of Andrew St John and his wife Jane Blois, daughter of William Blois of Cockfield Hall, Suffolk, he was a nephew of Paulet St John, 8th Baron St John of Bletso and succeeded his brother Rowland St John, 10th Baron St John of Bletso to the family title in 1722. Lord St John married Elizabeth Crowley (the daughter of Ambrose Crowley) at Greenwich on 6 March 1725. Their children included: *John St John, 12th Baron St John of Bletso * St Andrew St John, Dean of Worcester *Henry St John, a Royal Navy captain *Anne, married in 1761 Cotton Trefusis, mother of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton *Barbara, who in 1764 became the second wife of George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry. *Jane, who married Humphrey Hall. British comedian and actor Alexander Armstrong is a direct descendant of Lord St John. References 1757 deaths John John is a common English name and surname: * John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John St John, 12th Baron St John Of Bletso
John St John of Northwood, 12th Baron St John of Bletso (15 November 1725 – 20 April 1767) was a British peer. St John was the eldest son of John St John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Elizabeth Crowley, daughter of Sir Ambrose Crowley of Greenwich. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. He inherited the title of Baron St John of Bletso on the death of his father in 1757. St John died at the age of 41 at Nice but was buried at Bletsoe. St John married 13 December 1755 to Susanne Louise Simond, the daughter of Peter Simond, a wealthy French Huguenot merchant in London. She brought £20,000 to the marriage. The couple had seven children: * John Peter St John, died in infancy 1760 * Susannah St John (18 September 1757 – 21 July 1800) * Henry Beauchamp St John, 13th Baron St John of Bletso (2 August 1758 - 18 December 1805). * St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso (22 August 1759 – 15 October 1817). * Matilda St John (b. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Norman MacLeod
John Norman MacLeod (3 August 1788 – 25 March 1835) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1828 to 1830. He was the 24th Chief of Clan MacLeod. John was born in India, the son of Major-General Norman MacLeod of MacLeod, 23rd Chief of Clan MacLeod. He married Anne Stevenson and had nine children. In 1828, John was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sudbury and held the seat until 1830. He died in 1835 and was buried at Old Kilmuir Cem, Dunvegan, Skye, Scotland. His son, Norman MacLeod of MacLeod Norman MacLeod of MacLeod (18 July 1812 – 5 February 1895) was the 25th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Biography Norman MacLeod of MacLeod was born on 18 July 1812 at Dunvegan, Skye. He was the son of John Norman MacLeod of MacLeod (1788–1835 ..., succeeded him as the 25th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Ancestry References {{DEFAULTSORT:MacLeod, John 1788 births 1835 deaths John MacLeod UK MPs 1826–1830 Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora MacLeod Of MacLeod
Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, (3 February 1878 – 4 November 1976) was the 28th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Biography Flora Louisa Cecilia MacLeod was born at 10 Downing Street, London, in 1878, the home of her grandfather Sir Stafford Northcote, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Her mother was Lady Agnes Mary Cecilia Northcote and her father, Sir Reginald MacLeod, became Chief of Clan MacLeod in 1929. She was elected President of the clan's society and went to live with her father at the 800-year-old family seat, Dunvegan Castle in Skye, where she became a county councillor for Bracadale. In 1901, she married Hubert Walter, a journalist at ''The Times'', with whom she had two daughters, Joan and Alice. Her husband, Hubert Walter, died in 1933. Upon the death of her father in 1935, Flora MacLeod of MacLeod (as she would be thenceforth known) inherited the estate and was recognised as the 28th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Years later, to raise income, she opened Dunvegan C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame (title)
''Dame'' is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being ''Sir''. It is the female equivalent for knighthood, which is traditionally granted to males. Dame is also style used by baronetesses in their own right. A woman appointed to the grades of the Dame Commander or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Royal Victorian Order, or the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire becomes a dame. A Central European order in which female members receive the rank of Dame is the Order of St. George (Habsburg-Lorraine), Imperial and Royal Order of Saint George. Since there is no female equivalent to a Knight Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet
Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (16 December 1819 – 7 April 1903) was an English landowner and gardener based at Lamport Hall, Northampton. He is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s. Bruce A. Bailey, ‘Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 Nicknamed "Lampy", the only gnome of the original batch to survive is on display at Lamport Hall and insured for £1 million. Biography Isham was educated at Rugby School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1846, on the death of his elder brother, he succeeded to the baronetcy. He is recorded as being the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1851. In 1847, inspired by the writings of John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener and horticulturalist, he commenced construction of a large rockery alongside his house. It was in this r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
