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Siward Barn. Siward Barn ( Old English: Sigeweard Bearn) was an 11th-century English thegn and landowner-warrior. He appears in the extant sources in the period following the Norman Conquest of England, joining the northern resistance to William the Conqueror by the end of the 1060s. Siward's resistance continued until his capture on the Isle ...
Lord Augustus Loftus, fourth son of the second Marquess of Ely and perhaps the most prominent member of the Loftus family. Marquess of Ely, of the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely. He was born Charles Tottenham, the son of Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet, who had ...
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. Below is a since the creation of that county in 1965 until its abolition in 1974: 1965–1966: Francis Wingate William Pemberton, of Trumpington Hall, Cambridge. [1] 1966–1967: Colonel John Goodwyn Allden Beckett, of "Mallabar's", Brays Lane, Ely. [2]
English: Coat of arms of the Isle of Ely County Council, UK, from 1931 until the council's abolition in 1965. This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.
The Bishop of Ely is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough), together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its episcopal see in the City of Ely, Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy ...
Nigel (bishop of Ely) Nigel [a] ( c. 1100 – 1169) was an Anglo-Norman clergyman and administrator who served as Bishop of Ely from 1133 to 1169. He came from an ecclesiastical family; his uncle Roger of Salisbury was a bishop and government minister for King Henry I, and other relatives also held offices in the English Church and government.
Wisbech was a rural district in Cambridgeshire in England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed from that part of the Wisbech rural sanitary district which was in Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, by the Local Government Act 1894. It covered the parishes of Elm, Leverington, Outwell, Parson Drove, Tydd St Giles, Upwell and Wisbech St Mary .
