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William Vere Reeve King-Fane
Colonel William Vere Reeve King-Fane (born Fane; 29 October 1868 – 5 November 1943) was an English local politician, magistrate and landowner, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Family A member of the Fane family, William Vere Reeve Fane was born on 29 October 1868 at 7 Norfolk Crescent, London, the eldest son of William Dashwood Fane, JP (1816–1902), of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife Sarah Millicent (1823–1877), elder daughter of General John Reeve, of Leadenham House, Lincolnshire.Mosley, Charles (2003). ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 107th ed., volume 2 (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry), p. 4138Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1914), Visitation of England and Wales', vol. 18, p. 9 Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, William Dashwood Fane was a barrister, and served as Secretary to the Mercantile Law Commission (1853–56), and Legal Assistant (1856–67) and Assistant Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of a regiment in an army. Modern usage varies greatly, and in some cases, the term is used as an honorific title that may have no direct relationship to military service. The rank of colonel is typically above the rank of lieutenant colonel. The rank above colonel is typically called brigadier, brigade general or brigadier general. In some smaller military forces, such as those of Monaco or the Vatican, colonel is the highest rank. Equivalent naval ranks may be called captain or ship-of-the-line captain. In the Commonwealth's air force ranking system, the equivalent rank is group captain. History and origins By the end of the late medieval period, a group of "companies" was referred to as a "column" of an army. According to Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017. Trinity was the top-performing college for the 2020-21 undergraduate exams, obtaining the highest percentage of good honours. Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of Cambridge University (the highest of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge). Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel Prize. Trinity alumni include the father of the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eton College
Eton College () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England, Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, Cambridge, making it the 18th-oldest Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) school. Eton is particularly well-known for its history, wealth, and notable alumni, called :People educated at Eton College, Old Etonians. Eton is one of only three Public school (United Kingdom)#21st century, public schools, along with Harrow School, Harrow (1572) and Radley College, Radley (1847), to have retained the boys-only, boarding-only tradition, which means that its boys live at the school seven days a week. The remainder (such as Rugby School, Rugby in 1976, Charterhouse School, Charterhouse in 1971, Westminster School, Westminster in 1973, and Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury in 2015) have sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashby De La Launde
Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just west of Digby, and east of the A15 and B1191 roads. History In ''Domesday Book'' the village is called "Ashebi", comprising two manors, in the possession of Ralph Paynel and Kolsveinn of Lincoln. The Lord of the Manor, William de Essheby, (or ''Ashby''), founded the Knights Templar preceptory Temple Bruer, around 1150, joining the order himself, and increasing his endowment to it before his death. In time, the preceptory, became the second wealthiest in Britain, funding the Crusades from sheep rearing and wool exports to Europe. A descendant, also named William de Essheby, gave the Knights Templar the advowson of the village's church, dedicated to Saint Hybald, in return for the Templars providing, for ever more, a chaplain to perform divine service in the private chapel, dedicated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Rochester
The Dean of Rochester is the head of the chapter of canons at Rochester Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester. The current dean is Philip Hesketh, who has served in that role since June 2016. List of deans Early modern *1541–1570 Walter Phillips *1570–1572 Edmund Freke *1572–1581 Thomas Willoughby *1581–1591 John Coldwell *1592–1611 Thomas Blague *1611–1615 Richard Milbourne *1615–1620 Robert Scott ''(elder)'' *1621–1624 Godfrey Goodman *1625–1639 Walter Balcanquhall *1639–1642 Henry King *1642–1644 Thomas Turner *1644–1660 ''Vacancy (Commonwealth)'' *1660 Benjamin Lany *1661–1670 Nathaniel Hardy *1670–1673 Peter Mews *1673–1688 Thomas Lamplugh *1676–1688 John Castilion *1688 '' Simon Lowth (nominated)'' *1689–1706 Henry Ullock *1706–1723 Samuel Pratt *1724–1732 Nicholas Clagett *1732–1743 Thomas Herring *1743–1744 William Barnard *1744–1765 John Newcombe *1765–1767 William Markham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Blackie
Ernest Morell Blackie (19 August 18675 March 1943) was a British Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Early life and ministry Blackie was born in Leamington Spa and educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of London. Ordained priest in on 13 March 1892, by Charles Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, at Gloucester Cathedral, he was a curate at St Mark's Gloucester and then a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral until 1900. He later became the rector of Limpsfield and then St Paul's York Place, Edinburgh before becoming the vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. Leicester and Rochester From his installation on 24 June 1921 until his 1937 move, he was Archdeacon of Stow and a residentiary canon (Canon Precentor, prebendary of Gretton) at Lincoln Cathedral. In 1930, he was additionally appointed a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln; he was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leadenham
__NOTOC__ Leadenham is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 410. It lies north from Grantham, 14 miles (22 km) south of Lincoln and 9 miles (14 km) north west of Sleaford on the A607 between Welbourn and Fulbeck, and at the southern edge of the Lincoln Cliff. History There is evidence of Bronze Age, Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation. The name of the village probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'Leodan' and 'ham' for "homestead or village of a man called Leoda." It appears in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Ledeneham". Much of the village belonged to the Reeve family whose family seat is still Leadenham House, a Georgian country house built from 1790 for William Reeve. The Royal Flying Corps airfield to the east was built in 1916, and closed in 1919. The village boasted a railway station from 1876 to 1965 which was part of the Grantham and Lincoln Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant (navy)
LieutenantThe pronunciation of ''lieutenant'' is generally split between , , generally in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Commonwealth countries, and , , generally associated with the United States. See lieutenant. (abbreviated Lt, LT (U.S.), LT(USN), Lieut and LEUT, depending on nation) is a commissioned officer rank in many English-speaking nations' navies and coast guards. It is typically the most senior of junior officer ranks. In most navies, the rank's insignia may consist of two medium gold braid stripes, the uppermost stripe featuring an executive curl in many Commonwealth of Nations; or three stripes of equal or unequal width. The now immediately senior rank of lieutenant commander was formerly a senior naval lieutenant rank. Many navies also use a subordinate rank of sub-lieutenant. The appointment of "first lieutenant" in many navies is held by a senior lieutenant. This naval lieutenant ranks higher than an army lieutenants; within NATO countries the nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V and comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were originally made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire (later Commonwealth) and the Viceroy of India. Nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most Commonwealth countries ceased recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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