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Earl of Oxford is a dormant title in the Peerage of England, held for more than five and a half centuries by the de Vere family from 1141 until the death of the 20th Earl in 1703.
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* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )
Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
* Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1925 ) 1908 – 1916
* Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1925 ) 1916 – 1926
One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.
Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.
In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.
* 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.
Oxford was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding.
He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.
Both the 16th Earl and the Countess of Oxford had established court connections: John accompanying Princess Elizabeth from house arrest at Hatfield to the throne, and Margery being appointed a Maid of Honor in 1559.
Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.
Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.
Nowell's letter to Cecil stating: " I clearly see that my work for the Earl of Oxford cannot be much longer required " and his departure after eight months has been interpreted as either a sign of the thirteen-year-old Oxford's intractability as a pupil, or an indication that his precocity surpassed Nowell's ability to instruct him.
The Earl of Oxford carrying the Sword of State before Elizabeth I in his official capacity as Lord Great Chamberlain.
In John Aubrey's Brief Lives is the story of the Earl of Oxford, who bowed deeply to the first Queen Elizabeth and accidentally farted.
On 14 April 1589 Oxford was among the peers who found Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the eldest son and heir of Oxford's cousin, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, guilty of treason.
On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".
In this troubled period Thomas Watson dedicated his Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love to Oxford, noting that the Earl had taken a personal interest in the work.
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As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.
* 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.
For Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just is the sensory version of moral goodness.
* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
The most common black tea varieties are Oolong and Earl Grey, while jasmine green tea is a mainstay at almost all tea stores.
* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.
The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.
It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.
The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.
Rhalina is taken hostage by the forces of Chaos and Corum has several encounters with the forces of Chaos, including Earl Glandyth-a-Krae.
* The standard translation of The Book of the City of Ladies is by Earl Jeffrey Richards, ( 1982 ).
Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.
The influential author Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury is also usually categorized as a deist.
The Dalhousie seal is based on the heraldic achievement of the Clan Ramsay of Scotland, largely because the founder of the university, the George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie was the head of the clan.
A public house in Motspur Park is named The Earl Beatty in his honour.
there is a school named Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public School.
During the early 1580s it is likely that the Earl lived mainly at one of his Essex country houses, Wivenhoe, which was sold in 1584.
Earl and dormant
Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").
* Reginald George de Vere Capell, 9th Earl of Essex ( 1906 – 1981 ) ( dormant 1981 )
On the death of the 20th Earl, without identifiable heirs male, the title became dormant.
The proposal greatly offended the relatives of the dormant Earldom, however, and, in the face of their opposition, another title had to be chosen-the formal title Earl of Oxford and Asquith was finally decided as a compromise, abbreviated to Earl of Oxford in everyday conversation and letters.
* Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford ( 1627 – 1703 ) ( dormant 1703 )
* William Bellenden-Ker, 4th Duke of Roxburghe ( 1728 – 1805 ), grandson of Lord Bellenden ( himself fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl ), died without issue and the Roxburghe titles went dormant 1805 – 12
* Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon ( 1729 – 1789 ) ( dormant )
* Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1527 – 1556 ) ( also restored in blood, but not honours, 1553 ; fifth creation dormant 1556 †) son of Henry above.
* George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford ( 6th Earl of Lindsay ) ( 1758 – 1808 ) ( dormant 1808 ; last male line descendant of 1st Earl of Lindsay, Earldom of Lindsay passed ( according to Lords decision in 1878 ) to a kinsman of 1st Earl of Lindsay and that of Crawford reverted to senior surviving line, as determined 1848 )
The two Earldoms continued united until the death of the fourth Earl of Elgin, when the Ailesbury and Bruce titles became extinct, and the Elgin title passed to the Earl of Kincardine ; the Lordship of Kinloss became dormant.
At the death of William, the fourth Earl, in 1761 the earldom became dormant as no-one could prove a claim to it.
The Lordship of Falconer of Halkerton and the Earldom of Kintore remained united until 1966, when, at the death of the tenth Earl, the Lordship became dormant.
The earldom of Dundee became dormant and its holdings and offices were granted to Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale, the Duke's younger brother.
It was declared dormant upon the death of John Scrymgeour, 1st Earl of Dundee and 13th Constable of Dundee, in 1668.
After the title had been dormant for 452 years, in 1841 House of Lords decided that the rightful successor to the third Earl of Pembroke and fifth Baron Hastings was his kinsman John Hastings, de jure 6th Baron Hastings.
On the death of the tenth Earl in 1789 the earldom became dormant, while the baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, Botreaux and De Moleyns passed on to his sister Elizabeth, the wife of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira.
* John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, 5th Baron Hastings ( 1372 – 1389 ) ( dormant )
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