Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the Ilchester Friary.

Talbot was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, and of Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester.

Richard of Ilchester, a fellow bishop, held that it was Richard of Dover's defects that prevented the English Church from profiting more from Becket's martyrdom.

For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford ( 1780 – 1806 ), Westminster ( 1806 – 1807 ) and Ilchester ( 1807 – 1812 ).

Zephaniah was arrested in 1683 and sent to Ilchester Goal for three month, but “ emerged unscarred ”.

The Fosse Way was a Roman road in England that linked Exeter ( Isca Dumnoniorum ) in South West England to Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia ) in Lincolnshire, via Ilchester ( Lindinis ), Bath ( Aquae Sulis ), Cirencester ( Corinium ) and Leicester ( Ratae Corieltauvorum ).

A total of 31 mints were employed in this recoinage — Bedford, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Colchester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Pembroke, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Thetford, Wallingford, Wilton, Winchester, and York — but once the recoinage was completed only 12 mints were allowed to remain active.

In the Roman period there was a provincial boundary between the area governed from Exeter and those governed from Dorchester and Ilchester.

* Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester ( 1920 – 2006 ), RAF officer and nuclear weapons engineer, was educated here.

She was born Lady Christian Henrietta Caroline Fox-Strangways, the daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, and married Major John Dyke Acland in 1770.

Yeovil was on the main Roman road from Dorchester to the Fosse Way at Ilchester.

Until 1983 Somerset was split into four constituencies and Yeovil constituency also contained the towns of Ilchester, Martock and Somerton but they were moved into the newly created constituency of Somerton and Frome.

Around 1000 AD there was a mint at Ilchester, which was moved to South Cadbury following attacks by the Danes, and prior to the Siege of Ilchester in 1088.

The parish of Ilchester was part of the Tintinhull Hundred.

Ilchester Friary was founded between 1221 and 1260 as a Dominican monastery.

Ilchester was a base for Henry III of England for a short period in 1250.

In July 1645 during the English Civil War Ilchester was the scene of several skirmishes between Royalist and Parliamentary forces fighting for control of the bridges over the River Parrett and River Yeo before the Battle of Langport.

Ilchester was the parliamentary seat of Sir William Manners ( later Lord Huntingtower ) in 1802, 1812 and 1818 ; however it is said that he maintained his position by demolishing the houses of his opponents and putting them in the workhouse which meant they did not have the vote.

In 1957 the parish was abolished and with a population of 11 people transferred to Ilchester parish and and 12 people transferred to Tintinhull parish.

In 1962 the Ilchester Cheese Company was formed.

Most of Dumnonia is notable for its lack of a villa system though there were substantial numbers south of Bath and around Ilchester, and for its many settlements that have survived from the Romano-British period.

St Mary's Pre-School, Ilchester has been in existence for around 40 years.

Roman roads radiated from Dorchester, following the tops of the chalk ridges north west to Ilchester near Yeovil, and east to Badbury Rings where it forked to Winchester, Bath and a particularly well-preserved route running north east to Old Sarum near Salisbury, as well as tracks to the many small Roman villages around the county.

The crown also held some land in the village, but during the reign of Charles I, the crown sold Earl Shilton ’ s farm to the Earl of Ilchester, whose rents were given up to Guy ’ s Hospital, London, which received them for many years.

* Fox-Strangways, Earls of Ilchester, archive ( ref: D / FSI ), estate and family papers, 965-1900s, held at the Dorset History Centre

Catonsville is bordered by Baltimore to the east, by Arbutus to the southeast, by Ilchester to the southwest, and by Ellicott City to the west.

After Ilchester the Fosse Way is followed by a section of the A303 under the ramparts of the Iron Age hill fort of Ham Hill, occupied by the Second Legion after the conquest of the Durotriges in Dorset.

* The Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey: Ilchester, by Miranda Richardson

The Red Lion was opened by the Earl of Ilchester in 1768 as a model coaching inn.

Lord Ilchester survived both his sons and was succeeded by his half-brother, the fourth Earl.

Holland House is now a fragmentary ruin, having been devastated by incendiary bombing in 1940, but the ruins and the grounds were bought by London County Council in 1952 from the last private owner, the 6th Earl of Ilchester.

Local business men including the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers and the Earl of Ilchester funded an extension to the harbour, which was completed by 1883.

The elder son by the second marriage, Stephen ( 1704 – 1776 ), was created Lord Ilchester and Stavordale in 1747 and Earl of Ilchester in 1756 ; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the Earldom of Ilchester.

Another ancient track struck northeast from the Borough toward Ilchester, and is revealed by the housing layout but the route across the Park has been lost.

John Whiting, a Quaker yeoman imprisoned at Ilchester, Somerset in the 1680s had books sent by carrier from London, and left for him at an inn.

Fairfax, having nothing to gain by continuing his detour through Yeovil, came back and quietly crossed at Long Sutton, west of Ilchester on 9 July.

It was built in 1798 as a dower house by Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester.

This and other blended cheeses are manufactured and distributed by the Ilchester Cheese Company.

As part of minor changes implemented following the review by the Boundary Commission for England, the town of Ilchester was returned to the Yeovil constituency at the 2010 general election.

Ilchester had at least eight churches in medieval times of which two remain.

It was created in 1756 for Stephen Fox, 1st Baron Ilchester, who had previously represented Shaftesbury in Parliament.

He had already been created Baron Ilchester, of Ilchester in the County of Somerset in 1741, and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale, of Redlynch, in the County of Somerset, in 1747.

Bridgwater was the right of this second line, as it had been the left of the first ; the new left was at Ilchester.

The post at that place, which had been the right of Goring's first position, had perhaps rightly been withdrawn to Ilchester, when the second position was taken up.

In 1868 the students were transferred to the new house of studies at Ilchester, Maryland and in 1907 the faculty and the students moved to Esopus, New York on the Hudson River where a more spacious building had been erected.