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* Sir Walter St John's School, now Thomas's day school, was founded in 1700.
Thomas's son, Theophilus Howard, fell heavily into debt and sold the castle, the estate and the former Great Park to Sir Robert Hitcham in 1635 for £ 14, 000 ; as with several other established parks, such as Eye, Kelsale and Hundon, the Great Park was broken up turned into separate estates.
On Sir Thomas's death the estate passed to his daughter, Margaret, who in 1388 married the first Piers Legh ( Piers Legh I ).
Following the rebellion against Queen Mary by Sir Thomas's son, Thomas Wyatt the younger, the property was forfeited back to the crown.
Thomas's son John Stoner ( 22 March 1654 – 19 November 1689 ) married on 8 July 1675 Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and wife Jane Conyers, daughter of Sir John Conyers.
Sir Thomas's son Edward Pakenham, father of the first Baron, represented County Westmeath in the Irish Parliament.
* The Canberra suburb of Isabella Plains is named after Sir Thomas's daughter Isabella Brisbane.
Thomas's great-grandson Sir Thomas Tipping, who inherited the estate in 1627, was a moderate Parliamentarian in the English Civil War.
Charles was the son of Sir John's elder brother, Sir Thomas Lucas ( 1598 – 1649 ), a royalist army officer, and technically illegitimate as Thomas's parents married after he was born.
Sir Thomas's eldest son Rowland Leigh was the ancestor of the Barons Leigh of the 1838 creation while his second son Sir Thomas Leigh, 1st Baronet, of Stoneleigh, was the ancestor of the Barons Leigh of the 1643 creation.
Urquhart appears as the protagonist of Alasdair Gray's short story " Sir Thomas's Logopandocy " ( included in Unlikely Stories, Mostly ), the title taken from Urquhart's Logopandecteision and some of the material pastiching
His uncle and guardian was Sir John Cheyne, and when Sir John died in 1499 the estates of both Sir John and Thomas's father ( which were also in the care of Sir John ) found their way into the hands of his brother Francis.
In 1932, Sir Charles Nicholson, 2nd Baronet published plans to enlarge St Thomas's and the work started.
Across the road from St. Thomas's Hospital is Guy's Hospital, which had been run by the legendary Sir Astley Cooper.
In 1696, Thomas's descendant, Sir John Neale, left an interesting rent roll listing the tenants and their rents and referring to Sir John ’ s mansion house or hall with attached woods worth 3, 000 pounds and “ a large park, very well wooded, and stocked with deer ”.
In her will, the Coutts fortune was passed on to Thomas's granddaughter, Angela Burdett, the daughter of Sophie Coutts and Sir Francis Burdett.
After Sir Thomas's death, his widow moved to a smaller residence and their chaplain, Fr Benjamin Hulme found the dusty velvet-covered box of relics under the altar, when he cleared out the chapel.

Sir and cavalry
With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
* 1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English cavalry officer ( d. 1768 )
His second son was General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava.
* July 3 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer ( d. 1768 )
* February 1 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer ( b. 1685 )
Sir Richard Lundie, a Scots knight who joined the English after the capitulation at Irvine, offered to outflank the enemy by leading a cavalry force over a nearby ford, where sixty horsemen could cross at the same time.
After some time they moved to the side of Douglas's division and began shooting into its left, but upon the command of Robert the Bruce who foresaw this, the Scottish 500-horse light cavalry under the Marischal Sir Robert Keith dispersed them.
The long term implications of the battle of Adrianople have often been overstated, with many Twentieth Century writers repeating Sir Charles Oman's idea that the battle represented a turning point in military history, with heavy cavalry triumphing over Roman infantry and ushering in the age of the Medieval knight.
12 to General Sir H. Rawlinson, 16 June 1916 Stating the Objectives ') and that preparations should be made for an advance of to Bapaume should German resistance crumble, " If the first attack goes well every effort must be made to develop the success to the utmost by firstly opening a way for our cavalry and then as quickly as possible pushing the cavalry through to seize Bapaume ...." ( Note O. A. D.
Meanwhile, a Parliamentarian cavalry force under Sir Thomas Fairfax, who had been campaigning in Cheshire and Lancashire during the winter, crossed the Pennines and entered the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Grant Road is probably named after General Sir James Hope Grant who commanded a cavalry division at the relief of Lucknow, but a Private P Grant and a Sergeant R Grant both won VCs in the mutiny, as did a Lieutenant C Grant, so further research is needed.
On the left were 1, 500 " Northern Horse " ( cavalry recruited from the northern counties of England, who continued to fight even after their homes were overrun by Scottish Covenanters and Parliamentarians ) commanded by Sir Marmaduke Langdale.
The 4th division under Sir George Cathcart and the cavalry under Lord Lucan were held in reserve.
Sir Eyre Coote, serving in the British forces, estimated the enemy's strength as 40, 000 cavalry, 60, 000 infantry and thirty cannon.
The Royalist right wing of cavalry and dragoons was led by Prince Rupert, with Sir John Byron in support.
The Parliamentarian left wing consisted of a loosely organised cavalry brigade of twenty unregimented troops under Sir James Ramsay, supported by 600 musketeers and several cannon, deployed behind a hedge.
Sir Thomas Ballard's infantry brigade was deployed behind Meldrum and the cavalry regiments under Sir William Balfour and Sir Philip Stapleton behind Charles Essex.
A Royalist cavalry force under Lord Wilmot won a crushing victory over the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller who were besieging Devizes in central Wiltshire, which was defended by Lord Hopton.
At the battle of Cheriton, his men defeated Sir Henry Bard's cavalry charge, seriously weakening Hopton's army in the west.
On 29 December 1643, Sir Thomas set out to cross the Pennines in harsh winter weather, with 1, 800 cavalry.

Sir and were
In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
She and her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, were one of the rare married couples to be titled, each in their own right.
More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.
Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.
Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.
Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.
Another group under Sir John Simon then emerged, who were prepared to continue their support for the government and take the Liberal places in the Cabinet if there were resignations.
It happened so well for him, that he was next to the king when they were about to take him: he stept forth into the press, and by strength of his body and arms he came to the French king and said in good F ' rench, ' Sir, yield you.
Among his notable students were Fritz Reiner, Sir Georg Solti, György Sándor, Ernő Balogh, and Lili Kraus.
The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.
Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.
Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the new Middle East department of the Foreign Office discovered that the correspondence prior to the declaration was not available in the Colonial Office, ' although Foreign Office papers were understood to have been lengthy and to have covered a considerable period '.
Four, or perhaps five men were chiefly concerned in the labour – the Earl of Balfour, the late Sir Mark Sykes, and Messrs. Weizmann and Sokolow, with perhaps Lord Rothschild as a figure in the background.
On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".
The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.
The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.
The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.
Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by noble lords, who were among the most powerful men in England: the Earl of Orford, The Baron of Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury and Sir John Somers.
Only nine years later, in 1664, the Dutch were conquered by a fleet of English ships by Sir Robert Carr under the direction of James, the Duke of York.
It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.
Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbersome but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors.

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