|
Hilborough
Hilborough is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish of Hilborough also includes Bodney. Hilborough is located south of Swaffham and west-southwest of Norwich, along the A1065 road. History Hilborough's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for ''Hildeburh's'' enclosure. In the Domesday Book, Hilborough is listed as a settlement of 38 households in the hundred of South Greenhoe. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of William de Warenne. The ancestors of Admiral Nelson, including the Admiral's father, the Reverend Edmund Nelson, who left for Burnham Thorpe shortly before Horatio was born, were rectors of the parish church of All Saints at Hilborough between 1734 and 1806. In the Nineteenth Century, Old Bodney Hall was demolished and soon replaced with another hall built by Robert Adam. The residence was at one point the residence of Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Van Cutsem
Hugh Bernard Edward van Cutsem (21 July 1941 – 2 September 2013) was an English banker, businessman, landowner and horse-breeder. Early life and education Hugh Bernard Edward van Cutsem was born on 21 July 1941.Gordon Cramb ''Financial Times'', 6 September 2013 His father Bernard van Cutsem was a millionaire horse-trainer and -breeder. His mother was Mary Compton, a descendant of the chiefly line of Clan Farquharson. The van Cutsems were Catholics of Belgian origin who had moved to England in the nineteenth century. He was educated at Sunningdale School and Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic boarding school in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, and graduated from the University of Cambridge.Josh DuboffWilliam and Harry Join Prince Charles at Funeral of His Closest Friend '' Vanity Fair'', 11 September 2013 He then served as an officer in the Life Guards. Business career Van Cutsem worked as an investment banker at Hambros Bank. Later he began his own company and purchased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodney
Bodney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hilborough, in the Breckland district of the English county of Norfolk. Bodney is located north of Thetford and west of Norwich. In 1931 the parish had a population of 70. History Bodney's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Beoda's'' island.' This suggests that in the Early Medieval Period the area around the settlement was completely surrounded by marshland. In the Domesday Book, Bodney is listed as a settlement of 19 households in the hundred of Greenhoe. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of William of Warenne, Ralph of Tosny and Hugh de Montfort. Bodney Hall Farmhouse, located within the village, dates back to the Sixteenth Century with significant Eighteenth Century additions. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Hilborough. During the Second World War, warplanes operated from RAF Bodney. From 1940 to 1943, the airfield was used by the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte ( – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history. Nelson was born into a moderately prosperous Norfolk family and joined the navy through the influence of his uncle, Maurice Suckling, a high-ranking naval officer. Nelson rose rapidly through the ranks and served with leading naval commanders of the period before obtaining his own command at the age of 20, in 1778. He developed a reputation for personal valour and a firm grasp of tactics, but suffered periods of illness and unemployment after the end of the American War of Independence. The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars allowed Nelson to return to service, where he was particularly active in the Mediterranean Sea. He f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Caldwell (cricketer)
George Caldwell (8 January 1807 – 5 March 1863) was an English cricketer who made his first-class cricket debut in 1829.George Caldwell CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-04-17. Early life He was born at Hilborough in in 1807, the second son of Ralph Caldwell and his wife Louisa Isham, daughter of . He studied at |
Breckland (district)
Breckland is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Dereham, although the largest town is Thetford. The district also includes the towns of Attleborough, Swaffham and Watton, Norfolk, Watton, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The district derives its name from the Breckland, Breckland landscape region, a gorse-covered sandy heath (habitat), heath of south Norfolk and north Suffolk. The term "Breckland" dates back to at least the 13th century. The neighbouring districts are King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Broadland, South Norfolk, Mid Suffolk and West Suffolk District, West Suffolk. History The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering six former districts which were all abolished at the same time: *East Dereham Urban district (England and Wales), Urban District *Mitford and Launditch Rural District *Swaffham Rural District *Swaffham Urban Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William De Warenne, 1st Earl Of Surrey
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Lord of Lewes, Seigneur de Varennes (died 1088), was a Norman nobleman created Earl of Surrey under William II Rufus. He is among the few known from documents to have fought under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the time of Domesday Book in 1086 he held extensive lands in 13 counties, including the Rape of Lewes, a tract now divided between the ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. Early career William was a son of Rodulf or Ralph de Warenne and Emma and reported to have descended from a sibling of Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I. Chronicler Robert of Torigni reported, in his additions to the '' Gesta Normannorum Ducum'' of William of Jumièges, that William de Warenne and Anglo-Norman baron Roger de Mortimer were both sons of an unnamed niece of Gunnor. Unfortunately Robert's genealogies are somewhat confused – elsewhere he gives Roger as the son of William and yet again makes bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Johnson (architect)
:''See Francis Johnston (architect) for Irish architect with a similar name.'' Francis Frederick Johnson (18 April 1911 – 29 September 1995), was an English architect born in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was active in designing churches and country houses and restoring historic buildings. Education and early career Johnson studied at the Leeds University, Leeds School of Architecture and then toured Europe in 1931 on a travelling scholarship before joining the firm of Allderidge & Clark in Kingston upon Hull, Hull. He started his own practice in 1937 in his home town of Bridlington. This was interrupted by the Second World War, when he served in the Royal Engineers from 1943 to 1946. Work Francis Johnson's favoured field of work was domestic architecture. He is known particularly for country houses in a Georgian architecture, Georgian style. He designed a number of churches in the post-war period for clients, including the Church of England Commissioners. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Nelson (clergyman)
The Reverend Edmund Nelson (19 March 1722 – 26 April 1802) was a British priest who was Rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk and the father of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Early life and family Nelson was born in Cambridge on 19 March 1722, one of eight children of Edmund Nelson, a priest, and Mary Bland. The Nelsons were an old Norfolk family and were moderately prosperous. Nelson was baptised on 29 March 1723 at the parish church at East Bradenham in Norfolk. Three of his siblings died in infancy, whilst Nelson himself had 'a weak and sickly constitution'. He was educated at several Norfolk schools, at Scarning, Northwold and Swaffham, before attending Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He attained a bachelor's degree, followed by a Master's, after which he left to become curate at his father's church in Sporle. He then worked under Thomas Page, Rector of Beccles, and on his father's death in 1747, Nelson succeeded to the livings of Hilborough and Beccles. During hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1065 Road
The A1065 is a main road in the English region of East Anglia. It provides the principal road connection to parts of the west and north of the county of Norfolk from Newmarket and points south of there, including London. It runs from a junction near Mildenhall, to a junction on the western outskirt of Fakenham. Most of the road is in the county of Norfolk but the southernmost are in SuffolkCounty A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, Page 227 &231 Route The southern end of the road is at a roundabout on the A11 London to Norwich road, situated about east of the town of Mildenhall and the same distance north east of the village of Barton Mills. At the same roundabout the A1101 Bury St. Edmunds to Littleport road crosses the A11. To the south of this junction the A11 and M11 provide a fast, dual carriageway and largely grade separated route as far as the outskirts of London. From this roundabout, the road passes through Mildenhall Woods, an outlying section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role in the Strategic bombing during World War II#Europe, strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became Area bombing directive, less restrictive and increasingly targeted industrial sites and the civilian manpower base essential for German war production. In total 501,536 operational sorties were flown, of bombs were dropped and 8,325 aircraft lost in action. Bomber Command crews also suffered a high casualty rate: 55,573 were killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew, a 44.4% death rate. A further 8,403 men were wounded in action, and 9,838 became prisoners of war. Bomber Command stood at the peak of its post-war Armed forces, military power in the 1960s, the V bombers holding the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent and a supplemental force of English Electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West Norfolk
South West Norfolk is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Terry Jermy of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It was previously represented by Liz Truss of the Conservative Party (the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history; serving as head of government for 49 days in 2022) between 2010 and 2024. Constituency profile This is a rural constituency which retains a significant agricultural and food-production sector. The population is largely white British, white and predominantly homeowners, with incomes and house prices slightly below the UK average. Electoral Calculus describes this as a "Strong Right" seat characterised by socially conservative values and strong support for Brexit and the Irish border, Brexit. History Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the three two-member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James VI And I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until Death and funeral of James VI and I, his death in 1625. Although he long tried to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and Kingdom of England, England remained sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, ruled by James in personal union. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII of England, Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones. He acceded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was forced to abdicate in his favour. Although his mother was a Catholic, James was brought up as a Protestant. Four regents gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
