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Richard Neville Aldworth
Richard Neville Aldworth Neville (3 September 1717 – 17 July 1793) was an English politician and diplomat. Life The only son of Richard Aldworth of Stanlake, by Catherine, daughter of Richard Neville (the younger), Richard Neville of Billingbear House, he was born on 3 September 1717; through his mother he was descended from Henry Neville (died 1615), Sir Henry Neville. He was educated at Eton College, where he was on good terms with John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Lord Sandwich, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Lord Rochford, Lord Orford, Owen Cambridge, and Jacob Bryant. On 12 July 1736 he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford. Instead of finishing his course at Oxford Aldworth travelled abroad. In 1739 he visited Geneva, and he spent every winter there till 1744, with other English visitors: John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, William Windham Sr., and Benjamin Stillingfleet. He later contributed to William Coxe's ''Literary life and Select works of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldworth Neville
Aldworth is a village and mainly farmland Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English county of Berkshire, near the boundary with Oxfordshire. Orthography and slight change of name Aldworth was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 by scribes whose orthography was heavily geared towards French, lacking k and w, regulated forms for sounds ð and θ and ending many hard consonant words with e, as ''Elleorde'', hinting at El(d)ward, the Old English language, Old English for ''Old Ward'' i.e. ''Old farmed out (let) land''. Scribes in the 12th century rendered it at least once as ''Aldewurda''. Geography Aldworth is in a rural area between Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury and Streatley, Berkshire, Streatley. It includes the hamlet (place), hamlet of Westridge Green. It lies on the high ground of the North Wessex Downs AONB, Berkshire Downs, just off the B4009 road between Newbury and Streatley. The Ridgeway, an 87-mile (140 km) pre-Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
