During the colonial era, Gloucester County's main economic activity was agriculture.

Gloucester County's Freeholders are:

The culinary program places a heavy emphasis on French cuisine, as well as Gloucester County's historical significance in the seafood industry.

WGLS-FM is Gloucester County's only FM radio station.

This explained that the judge of probate of Essex County, 1785 or 1786, appointed three free-holders of Gloucester to divide and establish the Norberg estate.

* Ark, Virginia, in Gloucester County, Virginia

* Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, a town in southern New Jersey

* Delaware River Region, encompassing Mercer County, Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, and Salem County.

* Gloucester County, New Brunswick

* Gloucester ( Natchez, Mississippi ), listed on the NRHP in Adams County, Mississippi

* Gloucester County, New Jersey

* Gloucester County, New York

* Gloucester County, Virginia

The adjacent counties are Montgomery to the north ; Bucks to the northeast ; Burlington County, New Jersey to the east ; Camden County, New Jersey to the southeast ; Gloucester County, New Jersey to the south ; and Delaware County to the west.

This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.

This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.

This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.

This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770, by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.

Gloucester is suffocated in his bed ; Winchester dies in a passionate frenzy ; Suffolk is beheaded ; Somerset and Clifford are killed in battle ; Cade has Matthew Gough, Humphrey Stafford, William Stafford, Lord Saye, James Comer, and the Clerk of Chatham executed during the rebellion, and is then killed and beheaded himself by Alexander Iden.

Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is owned by Frederick Warne and Company, The Tailor of Gloucester by the Tate Gallery and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by the British Museum.

The annal for 577 reads " Here Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons, and they killed three kings, Coinmail and Condidan and Farinmail, in the place which is called Dyrham, and took three cities: Gloucester and Cirencester and Bath.

* 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

A significant date in sub-Roman Britain is the famous Groans of the Britons, an unanswered appeal to Aëtius, leading general of the western Empire, for assistance against Saxon invasion in 446 ; another is the Battle of Dyrham in 577, after which the significant cities of Bath, Cirencester and Gloucester fell and the Saxons reached the western sea.

Present at the assembly is Eldad, brother of Eldol and bishop of Gloucester.

Poster and billboard space ( and in the case of Gloucester Road tube station, an entire disused platform ) is given over to artwork and poetry to " create an environment for positive impact and to enhance and enrich the journeys of ... passengers ".

He is the only Australian ever appointed to this order, although three British governors-general of Australia ( Lord Hopetoun ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, later Lord Novar ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester ) were members.

* On the coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts is first inhabited by men from Dorchester, England.

* November 1 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester is exchanged by Empress Matilda for King Stephen, who reassumes the throne of England.

* The Roman Legion II Augusta is stationed at Gloucester.

* June 25 – Before his coronation, King Edward V of England is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who becomes King as Richard III of England.

* Worcester College, University of Oxford is founded ( formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries ).

There is a popular myth in Gloucester that the famous children's rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is about a battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the English Civil War.

The young Henry III of England is crowned at Gloucester on October 28.

The witenagemot is known to have met in at least 116 locations, including Amesbury, Calne, Cheddar, Gloucester, London and Winchester.

Henry IV's son, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and mother of their daughter Elizabeth II.

She died at Tamworth, Staffordshire in 918, and was buried at St Peter's Church ( now St Oswald's priory ) in Gloucester, a city she had reconstructed from Roman ruins, and laid out the core street plan, which is still in existence today.

Finally, Alison Weir, again drawing on the Fieschi Letter, has recently argued that Edward II escaped his captors, killing one in the process, and lived as a hermit for many years ; in this interpretation, the body in Gloucester Cathedral is of Edward's dead captor.

* Duke of Gloucester, is a title in Peerage of the United Kingdom

The marriage negotiations and dowry payments led to the invasion of Scotland and capture of Berwick in 1482 by his uncle Alexander, Duke of Albany and Richard, Duke of Gloucester while James remained at Stirling.

This Council consisted of the earls of Leicester, Gloucester, Norfolk, Warwick, Hereford, the Count of Aumale, Peter of Savoy, John fitzGeoffrey, Peter de Montfort, Richard Grey, Roger Mortimer, James Audley, John Maunsell, Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester as well as Boniface.

At that time, most of the area which became Gloucester County would have been considered part of " James Cittie ", although it was not yet settled.

The area includes the Virginia cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg, and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, and York, as well as the North Carolina county of Currituck.

The area includes the Virginia cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg, and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, and York, as well as the North Carolina county of Currituck.

The island was seen and erroneously named " Cape Gloucester " by British explorer James Cook in 1770.

* James Brooks Bishop of Gloucester ( 1554 – 1558 ).

The first plans for a canal between Hereford and Gloucester were made by Robert Whitworth, one of James Brindley's pupils, in 1777.

William Shakespeare borrowed from it for the Gloucester subplot of King Lear ; parts of it were also dramatised by John Day and James Shirley.

She bought the fief from James Milner's heir Joseph Wilcocks, the incumbent Bishop of Gloucester.

Robert of Gloucester died in 1147 at Bristol Castle, where he had previously imprisoned King Stephen, and was buried at St James ' Priory, Bristol, which he had founded.

In the same year he also refused the see of Gloucester: at the time English delegates to Dort were receiving preferment, since King James approved of the outcome.

" Aside from Howard and Mirren, the production starred Emrys James as York and Graham Crowden as Gloucester.

In 1983, the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Suffolk and Williamsburg, as well as Gloucester, James City and York counties, were added.

* Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Protestant younger brother of Charles II and James II of England

The Riverhead Centre development caused some controversy at the time as it followed the 1960s trend of replacing old architecture with new ; in this case it involved the wholesale demolition of much of the old town centre including the historic Bull Ring ( which is now where Wilkinson's, the Halifax Bank and the St James Hotel are based ) and streets going back many centuries including Flottergate ( located at the present day entrance to Freshney Place between British Home Stores and the market ), Brewery Street ( located at the present day entrance to Freshney Place between the branch of Barclays Bank and the offices of the Cheltenham and Gloucester ) and East St Mary's Gate ( no trace remains ).

In 1865 he re-married, his second wife being Marianne Byles, daughter of James Byles of Bowden Hall, Gloucester ; a year later he purchased Buxted Hall in Surrey, the history of which he wrote in How I managed my Estate ( 1886 ).

Prinny, as he was known, was a supporter of Charles James Fox, who was in turn a friend of Parr's ; it was likely, therefore, that if the prince had come into power as regent, he would have chosen Fox to be the Prime Minister ; Fox in turn who would have nominated Parr as Bishop of Gloucester.

Two of these were Henry Law ( 1797 – 1884 ), dean of Gloucester, and James Thomas Law ( 1790 – 1876 ), chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield.

Captain James Cook named Cape Gloucester on his voyage of exploration up the Australian coast in 1770.

* James Bailey ( rugby union ) ( born 1983 ), English rugby union footballer for Gloucester RFC

Many of these works were answered in print, and among those who wrote against Faber's views were Thomas Arnold, Shute Barrington ( bishop of Durham ), Christopher Bethell ( bishop of Gloucester ), George Corless, James Hatley Frere, Richard Hastings Graves, Thomas Harding ( vicar of Bexley ), Frederic Charles Husenbeth, Samuel Lee, D. D., Samuel Roffey Maitland, D. D., N. Nisbett, Thomas Pinder Pantin, Le Pappe de Trévern, and Edward William Whitaker.

New forwards include flanker Mark Lock from London Wasps, Argentinian 7s and ex-Plymouth Albion flanker Martín Schusterman, Former Bristol Rugby No 8 Rhys Oakley from Newport Gwent Dragons, hooker James Parkes from Gloucester and props USA international Mike MacDonald, ex-Worcester who helped the Eagles to qualify for the World Cup, and Colin Noon from Biarritz.