Ralph TollemacheRalph William Lyonel Tollemache-TollemacheJP (19 October 1826 – 5 October 1895) was an English priest in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for his numerous children. Life and careerBorn as Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache, he was the eldest son of the Reverend and the HonourableHugh Francis Tollemache (1802–1890) and his wife, Matilda, the daughter of Joseph Hume.
Ham House17th-century house in London, EnglandHam House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.William Tollemache, 9th Earl of DysartWilliam John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (3 March 1859 – 22 November 1935) was an English peer and judicial officer. Early life and familyWilliam Tollemache was the eldest son of a controversial father, William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, who had accrued huge debt on the strength of his anticipated, but unfulfilled, inheritance. William had three elder half-sisters by his father's previous relationship with a servant, Elizabeth Acford.
South WithamSouth Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,533. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) south of Grantham, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 10 miles (16 km) north of Oakham. The village is close to the Leicestershire and Rutland borders.
GranthamGrantham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road; it lies 23 miles (37 km) south of Lincoln and 22 miles (35 km) east of Nottingham. The population at the 2021 census was 44,898. The town is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of the South Kesteven District.
BuckminsterBuckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish was 335 at the 2021 census. It is on the B676 road, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 4 miles west of the A1 at Colsterworth. The parish is located in the north-east of the county, on the border with Lincolnshire.
Petersham, LondonPetersham is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the east of the bend in the River Thames south of Richmond, which it shares with neighbouring Ham. It provides the foreground of the scenic view from Richmond Hill across Petersham Meadows, with Ham House further along the river. Other nearby places include Twickenham, Isleworth, Teddington, Mortlake, and Roehampton.
EastbourneTown in East Sussex, EnglandTown and borough in EnglandEastbourne ( ) is a town and seaside resort in the East Sussex county of South East England. It lies 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton and 54 miles (87 km) south of London; it is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger Eastbourne Downland Estate. It is also a local government district with borough status.
Ham, LondonHam is a suburban district in Richmond, south-west London. It has meadows adjoining the River Thames where the Thames Path National Trail also runs. Most of Ham is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and, chiefly, within the ward of Ham, Petersham and Richmond Riverside; the rest is in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantryregiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence.
Battle of the SommeWWI battle pitting France and Britain against GermanyBelligerentsBritish Empire United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand EgyptSouth Africa India Newfoundland BermudaRhodesia FranceGerman EmpireCommanders and leadersDouglas HaigEdmund AllenbyHenry RawlinsonHubert GoughJoseph JoffreFerdinand FochÉmile FayolleJoseph Alfred MichelerErich von FalkenhaynPaul von HindenburgErich LudendorffRupprecht of BavariaMax von GallwitzFritz von BelowStrength1 July 13 divisions 11 divisionsJuly–November 50 divisions 48 divisions1 July 10 1⁄2 divisionsJuly–November 50 divisionsCasualties and lossesc.
Magdalene College, CambridgeMagdalene College ( MAWD-lin) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene. Magdalene counted some of the most prominent men in the realm among its benefactors, including Britain's premier noble the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Chief Justice Christopher Wray.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.