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

* 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.

* 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.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

In 1919, the Cabinet's Secret Service Committee, chaired by Lord Curzon, recommended that a peace-time codebreaking agency should be created, a task given to the then-Director of Naval Intelligence, Hugh Sinclair.

In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

* Lady Anne Hamilton ( 1592 – 1620 ), married Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill and had issue

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

* September 15 – Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London ( b. c. 1440 )

A lifelong Gilbert and Sullivan fan, in 1975, Wilson joined the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Trust at the invitation of Sir Hugh Wontner, who was then the Lord Mayor of London.

The earliest monument in the town is the motte-and-bailey castle, now known as Millmount Fort, which overlooks the town from a bluff on the south bank of the Boyne, and which was probably erected by the Norman Lord of Meath, Hugh de Lacy sometime before 1186.

* Hugh Inge, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland ( died 1528 ) was a native of Shepton Mallet.

The infantry and the first battle, consisting of 900 Provençals were at the front, commanded by Hugh of Mirepoix and Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres.

Lord Aldington, then the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, wrote to the BBC's director-general Hugh Carleton Greene saying that Frost had a " hatred " of the Prime Minister, which " he finds impossible to control ".

In April 1902, Chamberlain dined with the Hughligans, a small parliamentary clique which included Lord Hugh Cecil and Churchill among its membership.

The collection of drawings includes over 10, 000 British and 2, 000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley.

The first Lord of the Manor was Walter Giffard ; it passed to Hugh, Earl of Chester, who then left it to the De Vaux family.

* Nicholas Irons ..... Lord Hugh Lamson-Scribener

* Hugh the Dull, Lord of Douglas ( 1294 – 1342 / 1346 )

Guy was a son of Lord Hugh VIII of Lusignan, in Poitou, at that time a part of the French duchy of Aquitaine, held by Queen Eleanor of England, her third son Richard, and her husband the English King Henry II.

The first use of attainder was in 1321 against both Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger, Earl of Gloucester ( they were both attained, not for opposing the King, but for supporting the King ) and the last in 1798 against Lord Edward FitzGerald for leading the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

* North Seymour Island – Its name was given after an English nobleman, Lord Hugh Seymour.

On 29 June 1210 King John of England, Lord of Ireland and his forces met with Cathal Crobhderg, King of Connacht and his men in Ardbraccan before proceeding north to attack the forces of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster.