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Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess Of Marlborough
Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, VA (15 April 1822 – 16 April 1899), was an English noblewoman, the wife of British peer and statesman John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. One of her sons, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the father of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. She had a total of 11 children, and her principal home was the monumental Blenheim Palace, which she rejuvenated with her "lavish and exciting entertainments", and transformed into a "social and political focus for the life of the nation".Margaret Elizabeth Forster, ''Churchill's Grandmama: Frances, 7th Duchess of Marlborough'', The History Press Ltd., 2010, publisher's note. Retrieved 16 April 2010. She was invested as a Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert for her efforts at famine relief in Ireland. Family Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane was born on 15 April 1822 at the Duke of St Albans's house in St James's Square, London, the eldest daughter of Irish-born Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace (style)
His Grace and Her Grace are English Style (manner of address), styles of address used with high-ranking personages, and was the style for English monarchs until Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), and for Scottish monarchs until the Act of Union (1707), Act of Union of 1707, which Union of the Crowns, united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. In Great Britain and Ireland, it is also the style of address for archbishops, dukes, and duchesses; e.g. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk and His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The correct style is “Your Grace” in spoken and written form; as a stylistic descriptor for Dukes in the United Kingdom, British dukes, it is an abbreviation of the full, formal style: “The Most High, Noble and Potent Prince His Grace”. However, a Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom, royal duke, such as Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is addressed as Your Royal Highness. Ecclesiastical usage Christianity The style "His Grace" and "Your Grace" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godparent
Within Christianity, a godparent or sponsor is someone who bears witness to a child's baptism (christening) and later is willing to help in their catechesis, as well as their lifelong spiritual formation. In both religious and civil views, a godparent tends to be an individual chosen by the parents to take an interest in the child's upbringing and personal development, and to offer mentorship. A male godparent is a godfather, and a female godparent is a godmother. The child is a godchild (i.e., godson for boys and goddaughter for girls). Christianity Origins and history As early as the 2nd century AD, infant baptism had begun to gain acceptance among Christians for the spiritual purification and social initiation of infants. Normally, these sponsors were the birth parents of a child, as emphasized in 408 by St. Augustine who suggested that the sponsors could be other individuals in exceptional circumstances. Within a century, the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' indicates tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Wilson Dame of Grace of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, DStJ Royal Red Cross, RRC (born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill; 4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929) became one of the first female war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the ''Daily Mail'' during the Second Boer War. Family Born on 4 July 1865 at Blenheim Palace, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill was the youngest of the eleven children of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, and his wife, the former Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane, daughter of the Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. Her eldest brother was George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, and another brother was Lord Randolph Churchill, father of the Prime Minister Winston Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe
Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe, (28 April 1861 – 10 January 1929), styled Viscount Curzon between 1876 and 1900, was a British courtier and Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household between 1896 and 1900 and was Lord Chamberlain to Queen Alexandra. Background and education Curzon was the eldest son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, and his wife, Isabella Maria Katherine Anson, daughter of Major-General the Hon. George Anson and his wife, the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Annabella Weld-Forester. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Career He served as a member of the council of Royal College of Music in London; and on the committee of Queen Alexandra's field force fund. Then he worked with the British military forces as honorary lieutenant colonel in the 2nd battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment voluntary regiment, and voluntary regiment captain for Leicestershire Yeomanry, he gained a Territorial Decoration. Politics In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James's
St James's is a district of Westminster, and a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End of London, West End. The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St. James's Palace and much of it is still owned by the Crown Estate. During Stuart Restoration, the Restoration in the 17th century, the area was developed as a residential location for the British nobility, British aristocracy, and around the 19th century was the focus of the development of their List of London's gentlemen's clubs, gentlemen's clubs. Once part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields (parish), St Martin in the Fields, much of it formed the parish of Westminster St James, St James from 1685 to 1922. Since the World War II, Second World War the area has transitioned from residential to commercial use. St James's is bounded to the north by Piccadilly and Mayfair, to the west by Green Park, to the south by The Mall (London), The Mall and St. James's Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke Of Roxburghe
James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe (5 September 1839 – 23 October 1892), became Duke of Roxburghe on the death of his father, James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe. Early life He was born on 5 September 1839 to James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe and Susanna Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, Susanna Dalbiac, Duchess of Roxburghe, only child of James Charles Dalbiac, Sir Charles Dalbiac. His mother was one of Queen Victoria's staff until she died in 1895. His elder sister was Lady Susan Harriet Innes-Ker, who married Grant-Suttie baronets, Sir James Suttie, 6th Baronet. His younger siblings were Lady Charlotte Isabella Innes-Ker, wife of George Russell, and Lord Charles John Innes-Ker, who married Blanche Mary Williams (a daughter of Col. Thomas Peers Williams). Career He served as a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire (UK Parliament constituency), Roxburghshire fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth, (8 July 1849 – 15 September 1909), was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords. He served in various capacities in the Liberal governments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Tweedmouth was the son of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and Isabella, daughter of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet. Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was his sister. He was descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635 and is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho,Marjoribanks, Roger. "Marjoribanks of Lees"''The Marjoribanks Journal'' Number 3 page 14, June 1995. Accessed on 22 May 2010 head of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, but expelled in 1870 following a prank that led to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fellowes, 2nd Baron De Ramsey
William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey (16 May 1848 – 8 May 1925), was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. De Ramsey was the eldest son of Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey, and Hon. Mary Julia Milles. Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn, was his younger brother. He Purchase of commissions in the British army, purchased a commission as a Cornet (military rank), cornet in the Life Guards (United Kingdom), Life Guards on 16 March 1867; he retired as a captain on 21 July 1877. Career Parliament He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency), Huntingdonshire in 1880, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Ramsey (UK Parliament constituency), Ramsey until August 1887, when he inherited the barony on his father's death and entered the House of Lords. In 1890 de Ramsey was appointed a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Churchill (1880–1947)
Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill (4 February 1880 – 23 February 1947) was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and the brother of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill. Early life Churchill was born on 4 February 1880, at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, where his father, Lord Randolph, was secretary to Churchill's grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, then Viceroy of Ireland. Churchill was educated at Harrow School in England. His mother's sisters believed that Churchill's actual biological father was Evelyn Boscawen. Although that was mostly discredited due to his striking resemblance with his father and brother. Career Churchill was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1898. He served in the South African Light Horse alongside his war correspondent brother in the Second Boer War in 1899–1900. He was shot through the leg in February 1900, during the Battle of the Tugela Heights, part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie Jerome Churchill (born Jeanette Jerome; later Mrs. Cornwallis-West; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, British prime minister Winston Churchill. Early life Jeanette Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa "Clara", daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner. Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710. Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother; however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this. She was raised in Brooklyn, Paris, and New York City. She had two surviving sisters, Clarita (1851–1935) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne
Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet, DL (29 August 1835 – 22 February 1914) was a British industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family. Early life Ivor Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, the son of Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the ''Mabinogion'', and Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, owner of the world's largest iron foundry, Dowlais Ironworks. His middle name (Bertie) was from his mother's family, the Earls of Abingdon, descended from a Tudor courtier who married the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk (herself ''suo jure'' Baroness Willoughby de Eresby). His siblings included Montague Guest, a Liberal politician, Arthur Edward Guest, a Conservative politician, Charlotte Maria Guest, Mary Enid Evelyn Guest, who married Austen Henry Layard, and Blanche Guest, who married Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough. Guest was educated at Harrow School in Middlesex, and he went on to gain a Master of Arts degree in 1856 from Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Woodstock is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish, north-west of Oxford in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census recorded a parish population of 3,521, up from the previous 3,100 in 2011. Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is next to Woodstock, in the parish of Blenheim, Oxfordshire, Blenheim. Winston Churchill was born in the palace in 1874 and buried in the nearby village of Bladon. Edward, the Black Prince, Edward, elder son of Edward III of England, King Edward III and heir apparent, was born in Woodstock Manor on 15 June 1330. In his lifetime he was commonly called Edward of Woodstock, but is known today as the Black Prince. In the reign of Mary I of England, Queen Mary I, her half-sister Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth was imprisoned in the gatehouse of Woodstock Manor. The River Glyme, in a steep valley, divides the town into New and Old Woodstock. The town has two main subur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
