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4 days ago · The Leicester estate, plan. Stippled area denotes ground awarded by the certificate of partition of 1788 to Elizabeth Perry's executors. Based on a plan of 1788 in the Public Record Office (C12/979/14) Robert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, was born in 1595 and in 1615 married Dorothy, one of the daughters of Henry, ninth Earl of ...
4 days ago · In his day life in Leicester House was as dull as ditch-water, and not much purer; and when he succeeded to the throne in 1727, Frederick Prince of Wales (though he lived for a short time in Norfolk House, in St. James's Square, where George III. was born in 1738) became the tenant of Leicester House the year after Sir Robert Walpole's downfall ...
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19 hours ago · Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden".
5 days ago · St. Leonard's lies well outside the old walled area of Leicester, the eastern boundary of the parish being some 300 yards from the site of the town's North Gate. Within the parish boundaries the Soar is crossed by the North Bridge, which is known to have been in existence by 1305, and may well have been built by the middle of the 13th century.
2 days ago · The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building.
4 days ago · Leicester has two universities: the University of Leicester (chartered 1957; formerly a university college, founded 1918) and De Montfort University. Among the city’s cultural venues are Curve Theatre (opened 2008) and De Montfort Hall. Area 28 square miles (73 square km). Pop. (2001) 279,921; (2011) 329,839.
5 days ago · Notes: F Also Father of the House (not necessarily contemporaneous with seniority) 1 Died in office 2 Retired 3 Defeated when seeking re-election Longest-lived MP. Although his alleged birth year predates parish registers and civil birth registration, William Badger, who was member for Winchester in the 1597 parliament of England, is supported by a History of Parliament biographer to have been ...
