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Achurch
Achurch (formerly Asenciran sometimes referred to as Thorpe Achurch) is a village in the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch, in North Northamptonshire, England. Situated on a small rise above the River Nene, 5 miles South of the market town of Oundle, the population of the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch at the 2011 census was 421. The parish includes the Grade I listed property Lilford Hall and the Grade II* listed Church of St. John the Baptist, an early and late 13th-century Anglican church restored and enlarged by architect William Slater in 1862. History The villages name means 'Asa's church' or 'Asi's church'. Settled successively since the Iron Age the village was named after the site of the nearby church as ’Aas-kirk’, meaning Church by the Water. Subsequently named Asechirce in the Domesday Book of 1086 with land held mainly by Ascelin de Waterville, a Norman knight after whom the adjoining village of Thorpe Waterville is named. Ownership of the land passed through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorpe Waterville
Thorpe Waterville is a village in the English county of Northamptonshire. It was first attested in 1199 as Torp(e), and Thorp Watervile in 1300. Ascelin de Waterville was a landowner in the area in the 12th century. Geography and administration Thorpe Waterville lies on the A605 road, three miles north-east of the town of Thrapston. Together with Achurch, it forms the ecclesiastical parish of Thorpe Achurch, which in turn is added to another combined parish, Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, to form the grouped parish council of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch. The village is part of the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire. It is located close to the River Nene. Historical buildings Thorpe Waterville Castle, of which only a building used as a barn remains, was mainly the work of Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Treasurer to King Edward I Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilford Hall
Lilford Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean stately home in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. The 100-room house is located in the eastern part of the county, south of Oundle and north of Thrapston. History It was started in 1495 as a Tudor building, with a major Jacobean exterior extension added in 1635 and a Georgian interior adopted in the 1740s, having of floor area. The Hall was originally part of Lord Burghley's estate, then the Powys family ( Baron Lilford) from 1711 to 1990. Lilford Hall and the associated parkland of is specifically located along the River Nene for around a mile, and north-west of the village of Lilford, part of the parish of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch. The land which was turned into the parkland was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and owned by King David I of Scotland at that time. The Manor of Lilford was acquired in 1473 by William Browne a wealthy wool merchant and landowner from Stamford, from the estate of Baron Welles who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England, and was created in 2021. The council is based in Corby, the district's largest town. Other notable towns are Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden, Raunds, Desborough, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, Rothwell, Irthlingborough, Thrapston and Oundle. North Northamptonshire borders the City of Peterborough, Rutland, City of Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, Huntingdonshire, Borough of Bedford, Bedford, Harborough District, Harborough, West Northamptonshire and South Kesteven districts. It has a string of lakes along the River Nene, Nene Valley Conservation Park, associated Nene Valley Railway, heritage railway, the village of Fotheringhay which has tombs of the House of York as well as a towering church supported by flying buttresses. This division has a well-preserved medieval castle in private hands next to Corby – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Browne (Brownist)
Robert Browne (1550s – 1633) was the founder of the Brownists, a common designation for early Separatists from the Church of England before 1620. In later life he was reconciled to the established church and became an Anglican priest. Biography Browne was born at Tolethorpe Hall in Little Casterton, Rutland, England, about 1550,Robert Browne of Lilford Lilford Hall, accessed 20 November 2020 and was the third of seven children of Anthony Browne and his wife Dorothy, a daughter of Sir Philip Boteler. In 1572 he graduated from . It was probably while Browne was at Corpus Christi that he first met [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Slater (architect)
William Slater (1819 – 17 December 1872) was an English architect who was born in Northamptonshire and practised in London. He oversaw restoration of many churches, latterly in partnership with R. H. Carpenter. Career He joined Richard Cromwell Carpenter as his first pupil. For some years lived with the Carpenter family, and he became Carpenter's assistant. Slater left to establish an independent practice with another of Carpenter's pupils, William Smith (later Bassett-Smith). Carpenter died in 1855 at the age of 42, and Slater was persuaded to take over his practice. In 1857 Carpenter's son Richard Herbert Carpenter joined him as a pupil, and became a partner in 1863. Work Slater and Smith designed a parsonage and restored three churches. When R. C. Carpenter died he left uncompleted the rebuilding of the parish church of SS Simon and Jude, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. Slater took over the work and completed it in 1856. In 1863 Slater and an architect called Gillet di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry FitzRoy, Duke Of Richmond And Somerset
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (c. 15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536) was the son of Henry VIII of England and his mistress Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry acknowledged. He was the younger half-brother of Mary I, as well as the older half-brother of Elizabeth I and Edward VI. Through his mother, he was the elder half-brother of Elizabeth, George, and Robert Tailboys. His surname means "son of the king" in Norman French. Birth Henry FitzRoy was born in June 1519. His mother was Elizabeth Blount, Catherine of Aragon's lady-in-waiting, and his father was Henry VIII. FitzRoy was conceived when Queen Catherine was approaching her last confinement with another of Henry's children, a stillborn daughter born in November 1518. To avoid scandal, Blount was taken from Henry's court to the Augustinian priory of St Laurence at Blackmore near Ingatestone, in Essex. FitzRoy's birthdate is often given as 15 June 1519, but the exac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams served as an ambassador and also as a member of the United States Congress representing Massachusetts in both chambers. He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801, and First Lady of the United States, First Lady Abigail Adams. Initially a Federalist Party, Federalist like his father, he won election to the presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and later, in the mid-1830s, became affiliated with the Whig Party (United States), Whig Party. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, Adams spent much of his youth in Europe, where his father served as a diplomat. After returning to the United States, Adams established a successful leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Quincy (1602-1636)
Edmund Quincy may refer to: * Edmund Quincy (1602–1636), settled Mount Wollaston area of Quincy, Massachusetts around 1628 * Edmund Quincy (1628–1698), colonist, Massachusetts representative, son of Edmund (1602–1636) * Edmund Quincy (1681–1737), colonist, Massachusetts Supreme Court judge, son of Edmund (1627–1698) *Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) Edmund Quincy IV (; 1703–1788) was a prominent Boston merchant during much of the 18th century. Early life and career Edmund Quincy was one of four children born to Edmund Quincy (1681-1737), Edmund Quincy III (1681-1737) and Dorothy Fly ..., son of Edmund (1681–1737) * Edmund Quincy (1726–1782), businessman and land developer, son of Edmund (1703–1788) * Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), diarist, lecturer, author, abolitionist, son of Josiah Quincy III See also * Quincy political family, a prominent political family {{DEFAULTSORT:Quincy, Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peake
William Peake (c. 1580–1639) was an English painter and printseller. Life He was the son of the painter Robert Peake the Elder, and father of the printseller and royalist army officer, Sir Robert Peake. In the accounts for the funeral of Henry, Prince of Wales in 1612 he is referred to as "Mr Peake, the younger Paynter", and credited with making a gilded staff for the prince's effigy. His apprentices included the painter William Dobson and the engraver William Faithorne. No paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but the National Portrait Gallery in London has several of his engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...s. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Peake, William English engravers 1580s births 1639 deaths 16th-century English painters English male pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownists
The Brownists were a Christian group in 16th-century England. They were a group of English Dissenters or early English Dissenters#Puritans, Separatists from the Church of England. They were named after Robert Browne (Brownist), Robert Browne, who was born at Tolethorpe Hall in Rutland, England, in the 1550s. The terms Brownists or Separatists were used to describe them by outsiders; they were known as Saints among themselves. A majority of the Separatists aboard the ''Mayflower'' in 1620 were Brownists, and the Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Pilgrims were known into the 20th century as the Brownist Emigration. The Brownists were eventually absorbed into the Mennonites, Mennonite Church, while others joined the Baptists, Baptist Church. Origins There had been early advocates of a Congregationalist polity, congregational form of organisation for the Church of England in the time of Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII. It became clear that the English government had other plans on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Lilford
Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1797 for Thomas Powys, who had previously represented Northamptonshire in the House of Commons. His grandson, the third Baron, served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip) from 1837 to 1841 in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron, an ornithologist. On the death of his younger son, the sixth Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), in 1949, the line of the third Baron failed. The late Baron was succeeded by his second cousin twice removed, the seventh Baron. He was the great-great-grandson of Robert Vernon Powys, second son of the second Baron. , the title is held by his only son Mark Powys, the eighth Baron, who succeeded in 2005. The family seat from 1711 until the 1990s was Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire. The current Baron Lilford retains ownership of land in Jersey, South Africa and West Lancashire, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 15204 August 1598), was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (England), Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition, Albert Pollard, A.F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England." Cecil set as the main goal of English policy the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles. His methods were to complete the control of Ireland, and to forge an alliance with Scotland. Protection from invasion required a powerful Royal Navy. While he was not fully successful, his successors agreed with his goals. In 1587, Cecil persuaded the Queen to order the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, executio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
