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4 days ago · The Earl of Leicester was one of Elizabeth's leading statesmen, involved in domestic as well as foreign politics alongside William Cecil and Sir Francis Walsingham. Although he refused to be married to Mary, Queen of Scots , Leicester was for a long time relatively sympathetic to her until, from the mid-1580s, he urged her execution.
1 day ago · At Oxford, the Latin plays of William Gager, composed during the 1580s and early 1590s, represent some of the best examples of university drama. Dramatic activity at both universities continued until the closure of the theaters, and by this point playwrights such as Thomas Randolph (active in the 1630s) composed both college plays and plays for the London stage. 118
6 days ago · The first known were two overmantels made for his older brother Sydney and for Sidney Perkins Pick, a fellow architect, by a Leicester maker, William Henry Noble. When Sydney Gimson moved house in 1889, Ernest proposed a new fire surround to improve the existing one and was commissioned to design a sofa and easy chair.
6 days ago · Leicester was investigated by John Bale, Thomas Merry, George Faunt, William Whalley, and Richard Orton. Faunt and Orton were deputy-lieutenants, and Faunt was one of the knights of the shire elected in 1661 and counted as one of the court party in that Parliament.
5 days ago · William Wigston ( c. 1457–1536), founder of this hospital, was a member of a prominent Leicester family of wool merchants who had risen to prosperity in the 15th century. He inherited and maintained considerable commercial interests in Leicester, in Coventry, and at the port of Calais, of which he was mayor four times.
Jun 27, 2024 · ATLANTA — A metro Atlanta family is mourning the loss of the visionary founder of the New Black Wall Street Market, Lecester "Bill" Allen, according to his family. He was 80.
Jun 27, 2024 · Death of Sir William Dent, Kt. Hallaton, Leicestershire, England. Genealogy for William Dent (c.1501 - 1582) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
