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Hace 4 días · Sir Thomas Putt, the second baronet, dying without issue in 1721, the title became extinct. The sisters of Sir Thomas married Robert Dillon, Earl of Roscommon; Charles Gorsuch, Esq.; and Sir John Doyley, Bart.
Hace 4 días · William Killigrew, Esq., their immediate descendant, was created a baronet in 1661. The title, and the male line of the elder branch of the family, became extinct by the death of Sir Peter, the second baronet (nephew of Sir William) in 1704.
Hace 3 días · Briscoe of Crofton, 1782. — This ancient family were originally of Briscoe, near Carlisle, where they are traced three generations before the reign of Edward I. Their descendant, John Briscoe, Esq. was created a baronet in 1782, and was father of Sir Wastell Briscoe, the present baronet.
Hace 4 días · The house subsequently passed to Sir Robert Rich, second baronet, as the result of a complicated Chancery lawsuit. Rich's claim to the property was derived from his mother-in-law, Dame Elizabeth Rich.
Hace 1 día · Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.
Hace 5 días · When Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) left his native England to fight in World War I, he carried a small diary he could fit in his uniform. With a heartbreaking boyish eagerness he writes that he couldn’t wait “for a genuine taste of the horrors.”
Hace 3 días · Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
