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, 1st Earl of Eglinton ( c. 1460 – 1545 )

* 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.

* Holly Madison, one of Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriends, born in Astoria but left before 2nd birthday

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.

** 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.

* 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.

* 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 Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford ( 1342 – 1386 )

* the Tenantry Column — much in the style of Nelson's Column, tall and topped by the Percy Lion, symbol of the Percy family — designed by Charles Harper and erected for Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in 1816 in gratitude to the Duke.

O ' Neill was the illegitimate son of Art O ' Neill, a younger brother of Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone ( the Great O ' Neill ), who held lands in County Armagh.

William was the second son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Stafford, daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, KG, and Philippa de Beauchamp.

* Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster ( 1825 – 1899 ), eldest son of the 2nd Marquess

They had three children: Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor ( 22 August 1875 – 8 July 1957 ), married 9th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1899 and had issue ; Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor ( 25 December 1876 – 28 July 1936 ), married 7th Earl Beauchamp in 1902 and had issue ; Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster ( 1879 – 1953 ).

* Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster ( 1879 – 1953 ), only son of Lord Grosvenor

** Edward George Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor ( 1904 – 1909 ), only son of the 2nd Duke, died young

* Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford ( c. 1342 – 1386 ), eldest son of the 1st Earl

* Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone ( c. 1540 – 1616 ), Irish chieftain who resisted the annexation of Ireland by Elizabeth I of England

Bell was just three at the time, and the death led to a close relationship with her father, Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, who was three times mayor of Middlesbrough, High Sheriff of Durham 1895, Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

George Francis Hugh Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge, GCVO ( 11 October 1895 – 16 April 1981 ), known as Prince George of Teck until 1917 and as Earl of Eltham from 1917 to 1927, was a minor member of the British Royal Family, a great-great-grandson of King George III and nephew of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. He was also nephew to the 1st Earl of Athlone.

* Firstly to Lady Margaret de Stafford, c. 1382, daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and Philippa de Beauchamp.

In 1600 Mountjoy went to Ireland as Lord Deputy in succession to Essex and, with the able assistance of Sir George Carew, brought the Nine Years War to an end with ruthless scorched-earth tactics in the stronghold of the rebel Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone in Ulster.

Hugh d ' Avranches ( born c. 1047-died 27 July 1101 ), also known as le Gros ( the fat ) and Lupus ( Wolf ) was the first Earl of Chester ( 2nd creation ) and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.

* 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.

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.

) 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.

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

* 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.

* Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk

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