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Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington
Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington (22 April 1825 – 29 April 1901), was a British soldier and landowner. Early life Barrington was born in London on 22 April 1825. He was the second son of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, and his wife the Hon. Jane Elizabeth Liddell, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. His elder brother was George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, MP. His younger brothers were diplomat Sir William Barrington (diplomat), William Barrington and civil servant Sir Eric Barrington, and among his sisters were Hon. Caroline Barrington (wife of James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton) and Hon. Augusta Barrington (wife of the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York). Like his father and elder brother, Barrington was educated at Eton College. Career Barrington served as an officer in the Rifle Brigade, and Scots Guards, Scots Fusilier Guards from 1841 to 1845. In 1864, he succeeded Philips Cosby Lovett, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peerage Of The United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until 1898 (the last creation was the Barony of Curzon of Kedleston). The House of Lords Act 1999 reformed the House of Lords. Until then, all peers of the United Kingdom were automatically members of the House of Lords. However, from that date, most of the hereditary peers ceased to be members, whereas the life peers retained their seats. All hereditary peers of the first creation (i.e. those for whom a peerage was originally created, as opposed to those who inherited a peerage), and all surviving hereditary peers who had served as Leader of the House of Lords, were offered a life peerage to allow them to continue to sit in the House, should they wish. Peers in the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Molyneux, 3rd Earl Of Sefton
Charles William Molyneux, 3rd Earl of Sefton (10 July 1796 – 2 August 1855), styled Lord Molyneux (or Viscount Molyneux until 1838), was a British Whig politician. Background Sefton was the eldest son of William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton, and the Hon. Maria Margaret, daughter of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven. Political career Sefton was returned to Parliament for Lancashire South in 1832, a seat he held until 1835. In 1838 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. Between 1851 and 1855 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. Family Lord Sefton married Mary Augusta, daughter of Robert Gregg-Hopwood, in 1834. They had several children. He died in August 1855, aged 59, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William. The family seats were: Croxteth Hall, Lancashire ; Stoke Farm, now called Sefton Park in Stoke Poges Stoke Poges () is a village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, England. It is centred north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe
Major-General Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe, (20 July 1844 – 21 January 1924) was a British Army general and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Early life Dawnay was the second son of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe and his wife Mary Isabel Bagot, daughter of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Bath and Wells. One younger brother, Lewis Payn Dawnay, was MP for Thirsk and another, Guy Cuthbert Dawnay, traveller and soldier, was MP for the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1882-85. In 1857, Dawnay succeeded his father, who died in his forties. He was educated at Eton College and attended Christ Church, Oxford. Career Lord Downe was an officer in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, where he was promoted to captain on 25 June 1873. He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, for which he was mentioned in despatches. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 10th Hussars between 1887 and 1892. From 1899 to March 1900 he served as a staff officer in the Second Boer War in South Africa, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ormston Eaton
Charles Ormston Eaton (25 January 1827 – 14 September 1907) was an English banker and first-class cricketer. He was born at Ketton Hall and died at Tolethorpe Hall, both in Rutland. Eaton was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1849, which was converted to a Master of Arts in 1852. He played first-class cricket in three matches between 1847 and 1853. His first game in 1847 was for a so-called "England" eleven that included some of the foremost cricketers of the day; his other first-class matches were for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and he did not play in any important games while at Cambridge University. He was a director of the Eaton, Cayley & Co. Bank in Stamford (later The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Co.) in which his father Stephen Ormston Eaton (1780–1834) had been a partner. His mother Charlotte Anne Eaton ( Waldie), as well as being a published author, carried o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Eaton (cricketer)
Hubert Francis Joseph Eaton (19 January 1864 – 25 March 1910) was an English first-class cricketer. Early life Eaton was born at Westminster in January 1864 to Charles Ormston Eaton and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Eaton. He was educated at The Oratory School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. Career While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for C. I. Thornton's XI against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1884. The following year he made his debut for Cambridge University, playing three first-class matches against C. I. Thornton's England XI, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and A. J. Webbe's XI. After graduating from Cambridge, he played four first-class matches for the MCC between 1887–1894. Across his eight first-class appearances, Eaton scored 173 runs at an average of 14.41, with a high score of 64 not out. Outside of cricket he served in the British Army with the Northamptonshire Regiment, where he reached the rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coutts
Coutts & Co. () is a British private bank and wealth manager headquartered in London, England. Founded in 1692, it is the eighth oldest bank in the world. Today, Coutts forms part of NatWest Group's wealth management division. In the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, Coutts Crown Dependencies operates as a trading name of The Royal Bank of Scotland International Limited. In 2021, Coutts achieved B-Corp status, becoming only the third UK bank to achieve the certification. History In 1692, a young Scots goldsmith-banker named John Campbell of Lundie, Scotland, formed the bank originally as a goldsmith-banker's shop. Lundie opened the new business in the Strand, London, under a sign of the Three Crowns, as was customary in the days before street numbers. Today, the Coutts logo still has the three crowns, and its headquarters is still on the Strand. Campbell died in 1712, leaving the business to members of his family. The dominant force was Campbell's son in law, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squash Rackets
A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components: a widened distal end known as the ''head'', an elongated handle known as the ''grip'', and a reinforced connection between the head and handle known as the ''throat'' or ''heart''. The head of the racket forms a flattened firm surface, known as the ''face'', which is used to strike the ball or shuttlecock. In the strictest sense, the word "racket" specifically refers to a striking implement with a mesh face made of interlaced, tightly stretched strings fixed on an ovoid frame known as the ''rim''. This type of racket is used in sports such as tennis, badminton, and racquetball. Some rackets have a rigid one-piece head with a solid or fenestrated face instead of a meshwork of strings. Such rackets are called a paddle or bat, and are used in sports such as table tennis, pickleball and padel. Collectively, sporting games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Robarts
Gerald Robarts (15 April 1878 – 27 December 1961) was a British Army officer, banker, and leading squash rackets player. He was a director of Coutts & Co. until 1931. Early life Robarts was born in Buckinghamshire on 15 April 1878. He was the second son of Abraham John Robarts and the former Hon. Edith Barrington, a daughter of Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington. He had an older brother, John, and four sisters, Mary Edith, Elsie, Marjorie Alice, and Laura Louise. Although Robarts's father was the tenant at Lillingstone Dayrell of the Dayrell family, in 1868 he paid for the restoration of the parish church. He was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1869, and in 1882 he built Tile House, Lillingstone Dayrell, where he later lived, designed by Ewan Christian and described by Pevsner as “Neo-Elizabethan, big and forbidding with groups of huge chimneys. His grandson David was High Sheriff in 1963. Through his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Sarah Smyth, Robarts was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackley
Brackley is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It is on the borders with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, east-southeast of Banbury, north-northeast of Oxford, and southwest of Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the intersecting trade routes between London, Birmingham, the Midlands, Cambridge and Oxford. Brackley is close to Silverstone and home to the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team. In 2021 the parish had a population of 16,195. History The place-name 'Brackley' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Brachelai''. It appears as ''Brackelea'' in 1173 and as ''Brackeley'' in 1230 in the Pipe Rolls. The name means 'Bracca's glade or clearing'. Brackley was held in 1086 by Earl Alberic, after which it passed to the Earl of Leicester, and to the families of De Quincy and Roland. In the 11th and 12th centuries Brack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke Of Grafton
George Henry FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton (14 January 1760 – 28 September 1844), styled Earl of Euston until 1811, was a British Peerage, peer and British Whig Party, Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1782 to 1811 when he succeeded to the Dukedom. Early life Euston was the son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, and his wife, Anne FitzPatrick, Anne Lidell. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of the William Pitt the Younger. He married Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Euston, Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808), daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, on 16 November 1784 at Navestock, Essex. Political career From 1782 to 1784, Euston was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Thetford (UK Parliament constituency), Thetford, and in 1784, he and Pitt were elected as MPs for Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridge University. Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
