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, 2nd Earl of Eglinton ( d. 1546 )

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

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

* 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 )

William Allingham-Alexander Anderson-Matthew Arnold-Alfred Austin-W. E. Aytoun-Jane Barlow-William Barnes-Thomas Lovell Beddoes-Hilaire Belloc-A. C. Benson-L. S. Bevington-Laurence Binyon-Samuel Laman Blanchard-Mathilde Blinde-Robert Bridges-Anne Brontë-Charlotte Brontë-Shirley Brooks-T. E. Brown-Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Caerleon-C. S. Calverley-William Canton-Lewis Carroll-Elizabeth Charles-John Clare-Arthur Hugh Clough-Hartley Coleridge-Mary E. Coleridge-Mortimer Collins-Eliza Cook-Thomas Cooper-William Johnson Cory-John Davidson-Richard Watson Dixon-Sydney Thompson Dobell-Digby Mackworth Dolben-Alfred Domett-Edward Dowden-Ernest Dowson-R. E. Egerton-Warburton-George Eliot-Ebenezer Elliott-Anne Evans-Sebastian Evans-Michael Field-Edward Fitzgerald-David Gray-John Gray-Dora Greenwell-Thomas Gordon Hake-John Hanmer-Thomas Hardy-Frances Ridley Havergal-Robert Stephen Hawker-W. E. Henley-James Henry-Thomas Hood-Gerard Manley Hopkins-A. E. Housman-Mary Howitt-Leigh Hunt-Jean Ingelow-Lionel Johnson-Ebenezer Jones-Ernest Jones-May Kendall-Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King-Charles Kingsley-Rudyard Kipling-Mary Montgomerie Lamb-Letitia Elizabeth Landon-Walter Savage Landor-William Larminie-Edward Lear-Eugene Lee-Hamilton-Robert Leighton-Amy Levy-Caroline Lindsay-Frederick Locker-Lampson-Alfred Comyns Lyall-Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton-James Clarence Mangan-Philip Bourke Marston-George Meredith-Alice Meynell-Thomas Miller-F. B. Money-Coutts-Cosmo Monkhouse-William Morris-Arthur Munby-Robert Fuller Murray-Constance Naden-Edith Nesbit-Henry Newbolt-Eliza Ogilvy-George Outram-Coventry Patmore-Emily Pfeiffer-Stephen Phillips-Victor Plarr-May Probyn-Adelaide Anne Procter-Bryan Waller Procter-Dollie Radford-William Brighty Rands-William Renton-James Logie Robertson-Mary.

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.

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

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.

# Maud Marshal ( 1194 – 27 March 1248 ), married ( 1 ) Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, they had four children ; ( 2 ) William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, they had two children ; ( 3 ) Walter de Dunstanville.

# Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1199 – November 1245 ), married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, granddaughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester.

Afterwards they visited Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley at Castlewellan Castle.

It was used by St. Augustine ( 4th and 5th centuries ), in his De Ordine, applying the terms rhythmic ( percussion and strings ), organic ( winds ), and adding harmonic ( the human voice ); Isodore of Seville ( 6th to 7th centuries AD ); Hugh of St. Victor ( 12th century ), also adding the voice ; Magister Lambertus ( 13th century ), adding the human voice as well ; and Michael Pretorius ( 17th century )( Kartomi, 1990, pp. 119 – 21, 147 ).

The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt ( 1757 – 1833 ) and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt ( 1769 – 1848 ).

There are also many living descendants of his great-grandson Charles Evelyn, who was the grandfather of the last baronet, Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt.

She was born as Lady Constance Mary Annesley, daughter of Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, and his second wife, Priscilla Cecilia Armytage-Moore, at Castlewellan Castle.

* 1153 – 1181 Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester ( 1147 – 1181 )

He was the son of Hugh Bigod ( 1211-1266 ), Justiciar, and succeeded his father's elder brother Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk ( 1209-1270 ) as 5th Earl of Norfolk in 1270.

), for Hugh d ' Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel ( d. 1243 ): Gules, a lion rampant or.

* Hugh d ' Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel ( d. 1243 )

* Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Arthur Hugh ( 31 May 1860 – 29 April 1929 ), who married Helen, the daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet.

* Lord Hugh William ( 6 April 1884 – 30 October 1914 ), who married Lady Mabel Florence Mary, the daughter of John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne, and who was the father of Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster and Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster.

*( 1 ) Elizabeth, daughter of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Keith, by whom he had two daughters, one of them Elizabeth Stewart, wife of Hugh Fraser, 5th Baron Lovat ( this union led to descent of James Monroe, 5th President of the U. S. A .), Robert Stewart, 6th Earl of Lennox and James Stewart, Earl of Arran ; and

After the death without direct heirs of his mother's brother Hugh d ' Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel, he inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel in 1243, which, according to the admission of 1433, he was held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.

), for Hugh d ' Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel ( d. 1243 ): Gules, a lion rampant or.

Arms of first Courtenay Earls of Devon: Or, three Roundel | torteaux a Label ( heraldry ) | label azure, as depicted ( without tinctures ) impaling Bohun on the monumental brass in Exeter Cathedral, Devon, of Peter Courtenay ( d. 1405 ) | Sir Peter Courtenay ( d. 1405 ), 5th son of Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon ( d. 1377 )

* Francis Hugh George Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford ( 1812 – 1884 )

The heir apparent's heir presumptive is his kinsman ( Hugh ) William Amherst Cecil, 5th Baron Amherst of Hackney ( b. 1968 ) married with a son.

* Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue ( 1888 – 1958 )

* 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.

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.

* 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.

** 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 Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk

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