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3 days ago · In 1897, at the age of 40, he was brevetted colonel (the youngest colonel in the British Army) and given command of the 5th Dragoon Guards in India.
May 29, 2024 · The London Charterhouse was the fourth house of the order founded in England, the first being at Witham, in Somersetshire, where Hugh, the holy Bishop of Lincoln, was the first prior.
3 days ago · After the war, Mallory returned to Charterhouse before resigning to participate in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. In 1922, he took part in a second expedition to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain, in which his team achieved a world altitude record of 27,300 ft (8,321 m) using supplemental oxygen ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Of the five erected on Charterhouse property next to the gate in 1786–7 (see page 260) two were numbered in the lane, on the site of the present Nos 121 and 123 Charterhouse Street; the surviving lease of one of them was to Daniel Pinder and William Norris, masons.
Jun 1, 2024 · Lord Zouch procured three monks from the Charterhouse, London, to begin the new foundation, Robert Palmer, John Netherby, and Edmund Dalling. These three arrived at Coventry on the eve of St. Andrew, 1381, and associated with themselves three monks from the monastery of Beauvale, Nottinghamshire, and four more who were then newly professed of ...
May 21, 2024 · Tomb of Thomas Sutton, the founder of the Charterhouse. Thomas Sutton. The fifteenth century South Aisle of the Chapel. Brother Hilary Haydon in the North Aisle of the Chapel, added in 1614. Names of Charterhouse schoolboys etched upon the glass in the nineteenth century.
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May 19, 2024 · After attending several grammar schools Thackeray went in 1822 to Charterhouse, the London public (private) school, where he led a rather lonely and miserable existence. He was happier while studying at Trinity College , Cambridge (1828–30).
