Brown recently purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise.

The couple owned two slaves until 1859, one inherited from his father's estate, the other purchased.

Desmond reportedly owned a Baldwin grand piano, which he loaned to Bradley Cunningham, owner of the famous Bradley's piano bar in Greenwich Village, with the condition that Mr. Cunningham had to move the large piano back to Desmond's Upper West Side apartment to become part of Desmond's estate.

Rockwell also built yachts and business jets and owned large amounts of real estate.

Soong sold her Long Island estate in 2000 and spent the rest of her life in a Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece.

Combining all the fragmentary evidence available, it seems that his family had owned a large estate in Thrace, one that even contained gold mines, and which allowed the family considerable and lasting affluence.

In 1903, she donated a parcel of real estate she owned to the church, under the instruction that it be made into a home for " aged and indigent colored people.

The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.

His paternal grandmother was Amicia de Beaumont, the senior co-heiress to the Earldom of Leicester and a large estate owned by her father Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester in England.

The duke in question was Henry I, Duke of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries.

Other notable early settlers included the inter-related Murray and Gibbes families, who owned the Yarralumla estate — now the site of the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia — from the 1830s through to 1881.

However the word " Hobbit " is a trademark owned by the Tolkien estate.

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Chatsworth ceased to be a large estate, until the 15th century when it was acquired by the Leche family who owned property nearby.

He owned the team until 1979 when he sold it, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, the Forum, and some real estate to current majority owner Jerry Buss for $ 67 million.

Henry James introduced her to Theodate Pope Riddle, " one of her most fascinating clients " who owned the estate ' Hill-Stead ' ( 1913 )-now preserved as the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut.

Lang established universal suffrage in local government elections-previously only those who owned real estate in a city, municipality or shire could vote in that area's local council elections.

Bob also lives in his own semi-detached house on a recently-built estate, whereas Terry lives with his mother in a 19th century house, which he claims has far more charm than the one owned by Bob, where " The only thing that tells you apart from your neighbours is the colour of your curtains.

The Cator Estate was built on part of the estate formerly owned by Sir John Morden, whose Morden College ( 1695 ) is another notable building to the south-east of the heath.

When it turned out that the title " Double-O Duck " could not be used as the Ian Fleming estate owned the ' double-o ' title, Disney TV Animation held a competition to come up with a replacement.

A network of streets in the north of Kentish Town was formerly part of a large estate owned by St John's College, Cambridge.

The Eastbury estate owned by David Carnegie covered much of the area by that time.

The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley ( d 1798 ), then to George's son William Tufnell ( d 1809 ), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 into a fortune owned by Mary Carleton ( daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d. 1829 ).

From the early 1970s to 2003 McAlpine Helicopters Limited and Operational Support Services Limited ( later renamed McAlpine Aviation Services Limited ) operated from two purpose-built helicopter hangars in Swallowfield Way industrial estate, as the company operated on land already owned by the Sir Robert McAlpine.

His earldom was styled after his estate, Camden Place near Chislehurst in Kent ( now in the London Borough of Bromley ), formerly owned by historian William Camden.

Bucks had ambitious plans to consolidate its divided campuses into a purpose-built site near to Hughenden Park in High Wycombe on land previously owned by CompAir.

Originally farmland in then Manor Township owned by John Miller.

The Grosvenor family has owned 40 hectares ( 100 acres ) of Mayfair since 1677, when Sir Thomas Grosvenor married Mary Davies, heiress to part of the Manor of Ebury.

The Bishop of London, who was the Lord of the Manor of Harringay, owned the area and granted 65 acres ( 263, 000 m² ), located to the east of Colney Hatch Lane, to a newly formed order of nuns.

The monks of the Bec Abbey who lived at Manor Farm in Ruislip in the 11th century owned a grange in Northwood.

There are three theatres owned by the borough: the Compass Theatre, Ickenham, the Winston Churchill Hall ( part of the Manor Farm site ) and the Beck Theatre, Hayes, which is operated on behalf of the borough by HQ Theatres Limited.

Most of the land around Belaugh-about-is owned by the Trafford family, who are Lords of the Manor.

Oxon Hill was named for the 18th Century manor home of Thomas Addison ( which burned in 1895 but was replaced by another large Georgian-style home called " Oxon Hill Manor ," now publicly owned, which has a river view ).

A number of well-known ironmasters owned and lived at Ringwood Manor from the 1740s to the late 19th century.

The majority of the city was once part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, a Dutch colonial feudal system ; however the land north of a line crossing the Cohoes Falls ( today Manor Avenue ) was outside of the Manor and was owned by the Van Olohde family between 1725 and 1750.

Open to the public for many years, the old Scaroon Manor site is now owned by the state, and access is limited to those who pay for a day pass.

Briarcliff Manor was originally part of the vast land holdings of Dutchman Frederick Philipse, who owned the stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx to the Croton River.

* The Edith Macy Conference Center, an internationally important conference and training facility owned by the Girl Scouts of the USA ( GSUSA ), is in Briarcliff Manor.

Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the Lord of the Manor who owned that land, and in return were entitled to protection, justice and the right to exploit certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence.

By the late 17th century, Europeans may have entered the area as a result of the establishment of the Dutch patroonship owned by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which extended west and east out of Albany and the fur trading community of Beverwyck.

Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth ( not to be confused with Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir also in Lincolnshire ) has grown from a hamlet of several houses in the seventeenth century to a small village of several hundred houses today ; much of the original land once owned by Woolsthorpe Manor was sold to a nearby family, and some of the immediate open land has since been built upon.

The church owned Bexhill Manor until Queen Elizabeth I acquired it in 1590 and granted it to Thomas Sackville, then Baron Buckhurst.

Past the village's new residential housing which has recently transformed and breathed new life into the village, are plenty of preserved working farms, and one of these farms supplies the ice-cream for the award-winning Goodall's Ice Cream Parlour, owned by Mark and Stephen Goodall of Manor Lane, Tong.

Around the time of the Norman invasion, it is known that Tong Manor was farmed and was owned by a Saxon named Stainulf.

Dalham Hall Stud ( the headquarters of Darley ), Cheveley Park Stud ( which local lore claims was once owned by King Canute ), and Banstead Manor Stud ( Headquarters of Juddmonte Farms ) are well-known examples all which can be found in the village of Cheveley, three miles ( 5 km ) from Newmarket.

They rapidly progressed from rehearsals at The Ruskin Arms public house ( which was owned by Winston's parents ) in Manor Park, London, to ramshackle pub gigs, to semi-professional club dates.

* Sir Thomas Bloodworth ( 1620 – 1682 ), Lord Mayor of London during the Great Fire of 1666, owned and lived at nearby Thorncroft Manor.

Amongst these are Pyports, once the home of Vernon Lushington ; the picturesque Church Stile House ; and two fine houses overlooking the River Mole: Ham Manor and Cedar House, the latter owned by the National Trust.

To the south side of the High Street stands Bookham Grove Manor, built in the early 18th century, once owned by the Dawnay family.