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Lord Dulverton
Baron Dulverton, of Batsford in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the businessman Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton, Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet. He was President of the Imperial Tobacco Company and also sat as a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament for Taunton (UK Parliament constituency), Taunton and Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency), Weston-super-Mare. The Wills Baronetcy, of Manor Heath in the Bournemouth, Parish of Bournemouth in the County of Southampton, was created in 1897 for his father Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet, Frederick Wills. He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol North in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, he was the younger brother of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batsford
Batsford is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearby, situated on the Cotswold escarpment. Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial, on the High Street in Moreton-in-Marsh, commemorates the village's dead of two World Wars. Civil parish The civil parish of Batsford extends east from the village, and includes the hamlets of Dorn, Gloucestershire, Dorn and Lower Lemington. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 99. Batsford was an ancient parish, which became a civil parish in 1866. In 1935 the civil parish more than doubled in size, when Dorn was transferred from the parish of Blockley and the civil parish of Lower Lemington was abolished and merged into Batsford. Religious sites The Church of St Leonard, Lower Lemington, Church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
