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4 days ago · John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was born in 1718 and succeeded his grandfather, the 3rd Earl, in 1729. After an education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled abroad, returning to England in 1739.
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John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent, born in 1735, was the...
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4 days ago · Both he and his son, who married a co-heiress of John Lord Dinham, sat in parliament as Lords Fitzwarren. John, the grandson, was, in 1536, created Earl of Bath. The title became extinct by the death of Henry, the fifth earl, in 1654. This noble family had their residence at Tawstock, now the seat of their descendant Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart.
4 days ago · The Glorious First of June (1 June 1794), also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, (known in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) [b] was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars .
3 days ago · Genealogy profile for Elizabeth (Popham) Montagu Seymour Elizabeth Seymour (Popham) (1693 - 1761) - Genealogy Genealogy for Elizabeth Seymour (Popham) (1693 - 1761) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
5 days ago · John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery, was born in 1707, and succeeded his father in the earldom of Orrery in 1731. In 1753, on the death of his kinsman, Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork and Burlington, he succeeded to that title also.
2 days ago · A fisherman removed several wooden stakes about thigh-width and 6 feet (1.8 m) high that were very black and hard enough to turn an axe, and shod with iron. He sold these to John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, who used to come to the neighbouring Shepperton bank to fish, for half a guinea apiece.
2 days ago · The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished. Photo from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. New York...
