The canal was first proposed by Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton in 1791.

Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, had already spent £ 100, 000 on a separate project to build a dead sea harbour at Ardrossan, at the proposed terminus of the canal.

Immediately after the Norman Conquest, King William of England installed three of his most trusted confidants, Hugh d ' Avranches, Roger de Montgomerie, and William FitzOsbern, as Earls of Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford respectively, with responsibilities for containing and subduing the Welsh.

Eglinton was born in Palermo, Sicily, the son of Major-General Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie ( 30 July 1773 – 4 January 1814 ), the eldest son of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton.

* Hugh Montgomerie, 2nd Lord Montgomerie ( c. 1460 – 1545 ) ( created Earl of Eglinton in 1508 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 2nd Earl of Eglinton ( d. 1546 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton ( d. 1585 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 4th Earl of Eglinton ( 1563 – 1586 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 5th Earl of Eglinton ( d. 1612 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton ( 1613 – 1669 )

** Hugh Montgomerie, Master of Montgomerie ( 1680 – 1696 )

* Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton ( 1739 – 1819 )

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hugh Archibald William Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie ( b. 1966 )

* November 5 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, politician and composer ( died 1819 )

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Montgomerie was a younger son of the Ayrshire laird Hugh Montgomerie of Hessilheid ( d. 1558 ) and so was related to the Earl of Eglinton and a distant relation of James VI.

Led by Montgomerie ’ s friend and fellow-poet Hugh Barclay of Ladyland, this enterprise soon collapsed, Barclay being killed in the process, and on 14 July 1597 Montgomerie was declared an outlaw.

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

The brothers had supporters in England, ready to rise up ; led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, the rebellion in England from Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, and William I of Scotland.

Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone " Tony " Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

* February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force ( b. 1873 )

* 27 October – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester ( executed ; b. 1262 )

* September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O ' Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, flee Ireland for Spain with ninety followers to avoid capture by the English crown, never to return.

* Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk

* Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer ( d. 1265 )

* Hugh d ' Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester

# REDIRECT Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

* September 7 – Margaret de Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester ( b. 1318 )

* Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk ( b. 1095 )

* Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester ( d. 1326 )

** Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer ( b. 1223 )

Prince Albert ( left ) at an RAF dinner in 1919 with Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Sir Hugh Trenchard ( centre ) and Christopher Courtney ( right )

14th-century manuscript illustration that depicts Isabella and allegedly Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March at Hereford ; the execution of Hugh Despenser the younger can be seen in the background.

* Hugh Dickson-Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

James Smithson was born about 1765 to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland and Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie.

College Park has three city recreation centers — the Wayman & Bessie Brady Recreation Center, the Hugh C. Conley Recreation Center, and the Gody Road Recreation Center ) The 1st Two ( Wayman & Bessie Brady Recreation Center, the Hugh C. Conley Recreation Center were opened in 1956 and named in honor of three prominent city residents.

The chief rebel in East Anglia was Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk a rival to William d ' Aubigny, who seized Norwich Castle during the rebellion.

Granted in 1774, Stark was originally named Percy, after Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

Between 1594 and 1603, Elizabeth faced her most severe test in Ireland during the Nine Years ' War, a revolt that took place at the height of hostilities with Spain, who backed the rebel leader, Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

The Ashbourne portrait of William Shakespeare, which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library was analysed by Charles Wisner Barrell, director of Photography at Bell, who concluded it was an overpainting of the Earl of Oxford, though more recent research identifies it as a portrait of Hugh Hamersley.

The painting, long claimed to be one of the portraits of Shakespeare, but considered by Barrell to be an overpaint of a portrait of the Earl of Oxford, turned out to represent neither, but rather depicted Hugh Hamersley.

) He appointed as regents Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, and William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex — who soon died and was replaced by Richard's chancellor William Longchamp.

* March 31 – The Nine Years War ( Ireland ) is ended by the submission of Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.

** Nine Years ' War: In Ireland, Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O ' Donnell form an alliance to try to overthrow English domination.

* Ulster chieftains, with the lead of Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist the English reconquest of Ireland.

* July 20 – Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, dies in Rome, thus concluding the Flight of the Earls from Ireland.

** Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier ( b. 1540 )

** Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel ( d. 1616 )

* Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester ( d. 1181 )