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George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 21st Baron Audley
George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 21st Baron Audley (26 January 1817 – 18 April 1872). George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet was the eldest son of George John Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley (1783–1837) and Anne Jane Donelly. He married twice: firstly on 16 April 1857 in Sydney, Australia Emily Mitchell, daughter of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell; and secondly on 15 February 1868 in London, Margaret Anne Hudson (24 December 1802 – 22 August 1888).England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 By his first wife he had two children, Mary and Emily. Thicknesse-Touchet died on 18 April 1872 in Bad Homburg, Germany and was buried in Frankfurt. On his death his title went into abeyance until restored by writ to his eldest daughter, Mary Thicknesse-Touchet, 22nd Baroness Audley (1858–1942) on the death in 1937 of her younger sister. References * ThePeerage.com entry 1817 births 1872 deaths *21 {{England-baron-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley
George John Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley (16 April 1781 – 14 January 1837) was a British peer. The only son of George Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley (1758–1818) and Elizabeth Delaval, he married on 18 April 1816 in Brussels Anne Jane Donelly, daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly. They had four sons, George Edward, John Nicholas, William Ross and James. Audley suffered from financial difficulties; an appeal on his behalf in 1829 from Charles Tennant to Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, was met with the latter insisting that Audley had 'received more than his fair share of government assistance'. The year before his death, he had commissioned Benjamin Haydon to paint a six- by nine-foot canvas commemorating the distinguished service of his forebear, Lord James Audley, at the Battle of Poitiers (this being rewarded by an annuity that continued through the generations), agreeing a price of 500 guineas with an initial payment of 50 pounds. He visited th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mitchell (explorer)
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish Surveyor (surveying), surveyor and European land exploration of Australia, explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsular War. In 1827 he took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales. The following year he became Surveyor General of New South Wales, Surveyor General and remained in this position until his death. Mitchell was knighted in 1839 for his contribution to the surveying of Australia. Early life Thomas Livingstone Mitchell was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland on 15 June 1792. He was son of John Mitchell of Carron Company, Carron Works and was brought up from childhood by his uncle, Thomas Livingstone of Parkhall, Stirlingshire. The antiquarian John Mitchell Mitchell was his brother. Peninsular War On the death of his uncle, he joined the British army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Thicknesse-Touchet, 22nd Baroness Audley
Mary Thicknesse-Touchet, 22nd Baroness Audley (13 August 1858 – 27 May 1942). Mary Thicknesse-Touchet was eldest daughter of George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 21st Baron Audley George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 21st Baron Audley (26 January 1817 – 18 April 1872). George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet was the eldest son of George John Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley (1783–1837) and Anne Jane Donelly. He married ... (1817–1872) and Emily Mitchell. She never married. She obtained her title by writ on the death of her younger sister, Anne, on 17 May 1937. It had been in abeyance since the death of her father in 1872. Mary Thicknesse-Touchet died on 27 May 1942. On her death her title passed by writ to her second cousin, Thomas Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley (1913–1963). References * ThePeerage.com entry 1868 births 1942 deaths *22 {{England-baron-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley
George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley (4 February 1757 – 24 August 1818) was an English peer. George Thicknesse-Touchet was the son of Captain Philip Thicknesse and Lady Elizabeth Tuchet, daughter of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven. Upon the deaths of his mother's two brothers, the Earldom became extinct, but the barony passed in the female line. He gained the rank of ensign in the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot. He married, Elizabeth Delaval, daughter of Sir John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval of Seaton Delaval and Susannah Robinson, on 21 May 1781 in Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, England. Later he married Augusta Henrietta Catherina Boisdaune, daughter of Rev. André Boisdaune and Elizabeth Strode, on 2 May 1792. Thicknesse-Touchet died in Sandridge Lodge, near Melksham, Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Audley
Baron Audley is a title in the Peerage of England first created in 1313, by writ to the Parliament of England, for Sir Nicholas Audley of Heighley Castle, a member of the Anglo-Norman Audley family of Staffordshire. The third Baron, the last of the senior Audley line, died without issue in 1391, when the barony fell into abeyance; it was revived in 1408 for the descendants of his sister Joanne Audley, and her husband, Sir John Tuchet, KG (b. 1327); the 11th Baron Audley was created Earl of Castlehaven and his son, the 2nd Earl, was attainted of felony and executed, forfeiting the ancient English barony but not the Irish earldom. (The Castlehavens also held two other different baronies Audley of Orier (1616) and Audley of Hely (1633).) The titles were revived by Act of Parliament in 1678 for his son, James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, devolving in the same line until the death of John Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven in 1777, when the earldom became extinct, and the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. * January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College, Calcutta, offering instructions in English on Western subjects, including other European languages. * February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: Argentine and Chilean soldiers of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata defeat the Spanish royalist troops in what is now Chile, marking the turning point in the war against European rule of South America. * March 3 ** On his last day in office, U.S. President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill as unconstitutional after it has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress. ** The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 Deaths
Events January * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. *January 20 – The Cavite mutiny was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite, Philippine Islands.Foreman, J., 1906, The set course for her patrol area off the northeastern coast of the main Japanese island Honshū. She arrived, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons February * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on the Gold Coast, from the Netherlands. * February 4 – A great solar flare, and associated geomagnetic storm, makes northern lights visible as far south as Cuba. * February 13 – Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. * February 17 – Filipino priests José Burgos, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, collective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
