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Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater FRS ( 11 November 1756 – 11 February 1829 ), known as Francis Egerton until 1823, was a noted British eccentric, and supporter of natural theology.
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By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.
The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.
Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.
* 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".
By 1569, relations with the Habsburgs had deteriorated, and Elizabeth considered marriage to two French Valois princes in turn, first Henry, Duke of Anjou, and later, from 1572 to 1581, his brother Francis, Duke of Anjou, formerly Duke of Alençon.
But just as quickly, late in 1580 he denounced a group of Catholics, among them Charles Arundel, Francis Southwell and Henry Howard, for treasonous activities and asking the Queen's mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.
* The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552 Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893 London: Burns and Oates, ( 1872 )
Francis Urquhart MP, the Chief Whip of the House of Commons, introduces viewers to the contestants, from which the popular and decent Henry Collingridge emerges victorious.
After the death of Francis, Alamanni enjoyed the confidence of his successor Henry II, and in 1551 was sent by him as his ambassador to Genoa.
Cardinal Wolsey, Henry's chief adviser, then resumed marriage negotiations with the French, and Henry suggested that Mary marry the Dauphin's father, King Francis I himself, who was eager for an alliance with England.
A marriage treaty was signed which provided that Mary marry either Francis I or his second son Henry, Duke of Orleans, but Wolsey secured an alliance with France without the marriage.
By the 19th century the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche could access the Indian scriptures for discussion of the doctrine of reincarnation, which recommended itself to the American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and was adapted by Francis Bowen into Christian Metempsychosis.
Richard made overtures to Landais, offering military support for Landais's weak regime under duke Francis II of Brittany in exchange for Henry.
Henry Francis Fynn provided medical treatment to the king after an assassination attempt from a rival tribe member hidden in a crowd ( see account of Nathaniel Isaacs ).
" What are we to make, then, of trader Henry Francis Fynn's statement that once the Zulu army reached hard and stony ground in 1826, Shaka ordered sandals of ox-hide to be made for himself?
Isaacs was aided in this by Henry Francis Fynn, whose diary ( actually a rewritten collage of various papers ) was edited by James Stuart only in 1950.
Mark Rothko took an interest in biomorphic figures, and in England Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Paul Nash used or experimented with Surrealist techniques.
The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.
The convention nominated William Henry Harrison for President and Francis Granger for Vice President.
She enlisted the help of Henry Francis du Pont of the Winterthur Museum to assist in collecting artifacts for the mansion, many of which had once been housed there.
According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, 1908 – 1993, the introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis Edwardes 1788 – 1866.
* May 3 – Henry Francis Bryan, governor of American Samoa ( d. 1944 )
* June 7 – King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet at the famous Field of Cloth of Gold.
Francis and Egerton
The British Association came to his aid, and the Earl of Ellesmere — then Lord Francis Egerton — gave him yet more efficient help.
* January 1 – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere ( d. 1857 )
Ellesmere Island was named in 1852 by Edward Inglefield's expedition after Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
Nearby Ashridge House was the home of the Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, affectionately known as the Father of Inland Navigation.
Bridgewater House, Westminster, London ( 1845 – 64 ) for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, in a grand Italianate style.
William ( 8 October 1831 – 15 May 1834 ) who died as an infant, and a daughter, Lady Louisa Caroline ( d. 21 September 1907 ), who married Admiral the Honourable Francis Egerton.
It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned some of the coal mines dug to supply north west England with fuel for the steam engines instrumental in powering England's industrial revolution.
In 1803 he succeeded to the vast estates of his maternal uncle Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.
According to the will of the Duke of Bridgewater, the Egerton estates passed on the death of the first Duke of Sutherland to his third son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, who changed his surname to Egerton by Royal license.
He also died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, Francis Ronald Egerton, the seventh and present duke, a grandson of the Hon.
Francis William George Egerton, second son of the third Earl of Ellesmere.
Today most of the duke's wealth is in the form of the art collection put together by the first duke's uncle, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, which had been inherited by the Ellesmere line of the family.
* John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland ( 1915 – 2000 ), already 5th Earl of Ellesmere, great-great-grandson of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere ( previously Lord Francis Leveson-Gower ), third son of the 1st Duke, died without issue
* Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland ( b. 1940 ), first cousin once removed of the 6th Duke and great-grandson of Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere
Francis and 8th
** Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( d. 1823 )
* Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1866 – 1941 ), second and youngest son of the 6th Duke
* Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss, 4th Earl of March ( 1772 – 1853 ) ( restored 1826 )
*( Francis ) David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 8th Earl of March ( 1912 – 2008 )
Francis Greville, 8th Baron Brooke, undertook a renewed programme of improvements to Warwick Castle and its grounds.
Francis was the son of John Lovell, 8th Baron Lovell and Joan Beaumont, daughter of John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont.
The next in line to the marquessate and the other titles is Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, who is heir male of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, himself third and youngest son of the first Marquess.
* Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford ( b. 1933 )
The title was again re-created when Francis Greville, 8th Baron Brooke was made Earl of Warwick in the Peerage of Great Britain.
* David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Earl of Warwick, 8th Earl Brooke ( 1934 – 1996 )
He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( 1758 – 1823 ) and the father of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick ( 1819 – 1898 ).
Two middle schools, Francis C. Hammond Middle School, and George Washington Middle School, serve 6th through 8th grade students and are housed in the former high schools.
* Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 11th Duke of Queensberry ( 1923 – 2007 ), only son of the 8th Duke
Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll ( 30 April 1564 – 16 July 1631 ), Scottish nobleman, was the son of Andrew, 8th Earl of Erroll, and of Lady Jean Hay, daughter of William, 6th earl.
* Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle, 15th Earl of Lincoln ( 1866 – 1941 )
Francis Seymour ( 1679 – 1732 ) was the fourth son of Sir Edward Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 4th Baronet, a descendant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ( Sir Edward's grandson Sir Edward Seymour, 6th Baronet, of Berry Pomeroy succeeded as 8th Duke of Somerset in 1750 ).
( His second flight was piloted by Robert H. Fesmire, uncle of Francis Fesmire, of the 801st / 492nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force ).
* Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, 8th Baron Lucas and 4th Lord Dingwall ( 1834 – 1905 )
* Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, 8th Baron le Despencer ( 1580 – 1629 )
* Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton ( b. 1934 )
The 7th Earl having no children, he was succeeded as 8th Earl by Francis Egerton Grosvenor, son of Robert Egerton Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury.
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