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3 days ago · The Lord Napier. 1627. Francis Napier, 15th Lord Napier, 6th Baron Ettrick. Sophie Napier, Mistress of Napier (daughter) also Baron Ettrick in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 1872; known as the Lord Napier and Ettrick. The Lord Fairfax of Cameron. 1627. Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
1 day ago · The answer is twofold: the times and the man. The times were Victorian, and the man was Lord Acton. A Man of Many Vocations. Few live as synchronically with their times as did Lord Acton. He was three years old when Queen Victoria assumed the throne, and lived only a year after her passing. Acton’s heritage was aristocratic, Catholic, and ...
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ISBN: 9780230517882; 288pp.; Price: £50.00. Jenny Keating’s A Child for Keeps, based on her excellent doctoral study of the subject (1), is a welcome addition to the social history of 20th-century Britain. Despite the importance of child adoption in relation to a number of social and cultural concerns ...
3 days ago · George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. [6]
5 days ago · Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield PC FRS (1634 – 28 January 1714) was a peer in the peerage of England. Personal life. He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656.
5 days ago · Matt Stefon The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Justin Welby became the 105th archbishop of Canterbury in 2013. He is the leader of the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body of Anglican Christian churches in communion with the see of Canterbury. During his tenure, he sought to reconcile traditionalists and liberals.
2 days ago · I am sensitive, soft, fragile, my arms wrapped around all my inner children. And in my sensitivity, power. In my fragility, an unshakeable Presence. In the depths of my wounds, in what I had named “darkness”, I found a blazing Light. that guides me now in battle. I became a warrior.
