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Brogyntyn
Brogyntyn is a mansion in the parish of Selatyn to the north-west of Oswestry in Shropshire, England. Brogyntyn Hall was the home of the Ormsby-Gore family from 1815, and had previously been the estate of their ancestors the Maurices and Owens since the sixteenth century. It was abandoned and uninhabited from around 1985. History It was a residence of members of the princely dynasty of the Welsh Kingdom of Powys, belonging to the House of Mathrafal, and one of the ''taî'r uchelwyr'' (houses of the gentry) in late medieval Wales. It subsequently came into the possession of the Ormsby-Gore family (Lord Harlech). A manuscript known to have been in the possession of Brogyntyn in 1574 was a copy of the Hanes Gruf(f)udd ab Cynan. The house itself is of brick dating from circa 1730 refaced and much added to between 1813–20 by the architect Benjamin Gummow. It is noted for a portico of four giant unfluted Ionic columns with scrolls and pediment. Outside can be seen an arch wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Mathrafal
The Royal House of Mathrafal, also known as the House of Powys, began as a cadet branch of the Royal House of Dinefwr, taking their name from Mathrafal Castle.The Houses of Cunedda and Rhodri Mawr Welsh Medieval Law: The Laws of Howell the Good (1909) by Hywel ap Cadell, translated by Arthur Wade Wade-Evans. They effectively replaced the List of rulers of Wales#House of Gwertherion, House of Gwertherion, who had been ruling the Kingdom of Powys since end of Roman rule in Britain, late Roman Britain, through the politically advantageous marriage of an ancestor, Merfyn Frych, Merfyn the Oppressor.Lloyd, John Edward (1911) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswestry
Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the England–Wales border, Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5 road (Great Britain), A5, A483 road, A483 and A495 road, A495 roads. The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Oswestry until that was abolished in 2009. Oswestry is the third-largest town in Shropshire, following Telford and Shrewsbury. At the 2021 Census, the population was 17,509. The town is from the Welsh border and has a mixed English and Welsh heritage. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated Natural areas of England, natural area and national character area. Toponym The name ''Oswestry'' is first attested in 1191, as . This Middle English name transparently derives from the Old English personal name and the word ('tree'). Thus the name seems once to have meant 'tree of a man called Ōswald'.A. D. Mills, ''A Dictionary of English Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Gummow (architect)
Benjamin Gummow (1766–1840) was an architect who worked from Ruabon near Wrexham in Wales. He worked almost exclusively for Sir Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay, Ruabon and the Grosvenor family of Eaton Hall near Chester. He was born in St Endellion in Cornwall in 1766 and died at Ruabon in March 1844. Architectural career Gummow is first noted as a clerk of the works for the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell for the alterations to St Margaret's Church, Westminster from 1799 to 1802. Gummow was associated with the architect William Porden who had been a pupil of Cockerell; about 1785 Porden was appointed surveyor to the Grosvenor Estates. In 1802 Robert Grosvenor succeeded to the title of Earl Grosvenor, and shortly afterwards commissioned Porden to rebuild Eaton Hall near Chester. Gummow was appointed supervising architect for the project by Porden and at this time he moved to the Chester area."Colvin" p 436 The project lasted between 1803 and 1814. Gummow and Porden did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech
Francis David Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech (13 March 1954 – 1 February 2016), was a peer in the United Kingdom. In 1985 he inherited the property in Wales and the Harlech title from his father. Early life His parents were David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, a Conservative politician and British Ambassador to Washington in the Sixties, and his wife Sylvia 'Sissie' Lloyd Thomas. Francis was born the youngest of five children. The second son of a second son, and only inherited due to some tragic deaths. The fourth Baron's eldest son was killed at the age of 19 in a car accident. Thus Francis's father became heir and later succeeded as the 5th Baron. Francis's older brother died in what was suspected to be a suicide in 1974 making Francis the heir. Francis's father was a childhood friend of John F. Kennedy — a relationship that remained strong in adulthood. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy were close to his sociable parents, with US President Kennedy calling David ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Harlech
Baron Harlech, of Harlech in the County of Merioneth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1876 for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, John Ormsby-Gore, with remainder to his younger brother William. He had previously represented Carnarvon (UK Parliament constituency), Carnarvon and North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Shropshire in the British House of Commons, House of Commons. Ormsby-Gore was the eldest son of William Ormsby-Gore (1779–1860), William Ormsby-Gore, Member of Parliament for County Leitrim (UK Parliament constituency), County Leitrim, Carnarvon (UK Parliament constituency), Carnarvon and North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Shropshire, and the great-great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (11 April 1885 – 14 February 1964), was a British Conservative politician and banker. Background Harlech, the son of George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, and Lady Margaret Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, was born at Eaton Square, London. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. Article by K. E. Robinson. Military service and First World War Ormsby-Gore served in the Territorial Army, being commissioned a second lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry in 1907 and promoted lieutenant in 1911. He was mobilized at the outbreak of the First World War and accompanied his regiment to Egypt, where he was promoted captain in 1915 and went onto the general staff. In 1916 he joined the Arab Bureau as an intelligence officer, attached to the British High Commissioner Sir Henry A. McMahon. He strongly opposed the secret Sykes-Picot Treaty, arguing "we make professions of defending and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, (21 January 1855 – 8 May 1938), was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament. Background and education Harlech was the son of William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech, and Lady Emily Charlotte Seymour, and was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Military career He served in the regular army as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from 1875 to 1883. He later served in the Shropshire Yeomanry, becoming its commanding officer as lieutenant-colonel from 1902 to 1907, and was honorary colonel from 1908. He commanded the Welsh Guards at home during the First World War in 1915. He was chairman of the Salop Territorial Army Association. Political career He was elected to the House of Commons for Oswestry in a by-election in May 1901, a seat he held until 1904 when he succeeded his father as third Baron Harlech and entered the House of Lords. Crown appointments Lord Harlech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Powys
The Kingdom of Powys (; ) was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain. It very roughly covered the northern two-thirds of the modern county of Powys and part of today's English West Midlands (see map). More precisely, and based on the Romano-British tribal lands of the Ordovices in the west and the Cornovii in the east, its boundaries originally extended from the Cambrian Mountains in the west to include the modern West Midlands region of England in the east. The fertile river valleys of the Severn and Tern are found there, and this region is referred to in later Welsh literature as "the Paradise of Powys" (an epithet retained in Welsh for the modern UK county). Name The name Powys is thought to derive from Latin ''pagus'' 'the countryside' and ''pagenses'' 'dwellers in the countryside', also the origins of French "pays" and English "peasant". During the Roman Empire, this regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Shropshire Council (A–G)
Grade most commonly refers to: * Grading in education, a measurement of a student's performance by educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage (e.g. first grade, second grade, K–12, etc.) * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope * Graded voting Grade or grading may also refer to: Music * Grade (music), a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument * Grade (band), punk rock band * Grades (producer), British electronic dance music producer and DJ Science and technology Biology and medicine * Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine * The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach * Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms Geology * Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
