According to Lord Holland, the Duke of Wellington had claimed that it was Lady Jersey who had selected Caroline as George's bride.

Lincoln was joined by a number of rebel English Lords at Mechelen, in particular Richard III's loyal supporter, Lord Lovell, Sir Richard Harleston, the former governor of Jersey and Thomas David, a captain of the English garrison at Calais.

Frank Gray was one of America's earliest Scoutmasters, having started Troop 4 in Montclair, New Jersey, known as the " Lord Baden-Powell Troop " in March 1909.

Jersey City is home to the headquarters of Verisk Analytics and Lord Abbett, a privately held money management firm.

Nicolls was unaware that in June, 1664, James had given a lease and release for New Jersey to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, thus invalidating the grant to the Monmouth Patentees.

* Rockaway Townsquare Mall, a high-end mall anchored by J. C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, & Sears with a gross leasable area of, placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey.

The origin of the township's name has never been fully established, but is believed to have been taken from an area of town that was referred to by this moniker, which itself was assumed to be derived from Lord John Berkeley, who was co-proprietor of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674.

Its complement of 6, 000 regular troops included Lord John Murray's Highlanders of the 42nd Highland Regiment ( 1st Battalion ) the 27th, 44th, 46th, and 55th regiments, and the 1st and 4th battalions of the 60th, while the provinces providing militia support included Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.

On 30 November 1776, as Washington was retreating across New Jersey, Howe had written to Lord Germain with plans for the 1777 campaign season.

When the family returned from England, in 1763, he carried a commission from George III to be the Royal Governor of New Jersey, secured in large part based on his father's lobbying efforts with the Prime Minister Lord Bute.

His godparents were Prince John Adolphus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( his great-uncle, for whom the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain, stood proxy ), Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Kassel ( his first cousin once-removed, for whom the Earl of Jersey, Extra Lord of the Bedchamber, stood proxy ) and The Princess of Orange ( the wife of his first cousin once-removed, for whom the Dowager Countess of Effingham, former Lady of the Bedchamber to The Queen, stood proxy ).

Lord Anglesey was first married on 5 July 1795 in London to Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers ( 16 December 1774-16 June 1835 ), daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey and Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey.

As a descendant of the second Earl of Jersey Lord Clarendon is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Lord Longford married Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers, daughter of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, in 1899.

Lord Jersey married Sarah Sophia ( d. 1867 ), daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, and his wife Sarah Anne ( d. 1793 ), daughter of Robert Child.

In 1819 Lord Jersey assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Child.

Lord Jersey married Julia, daughter of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, in 1841.

Lord Jersey is an actor, writer and producer, known professionally as William Villiers.

* The Lord Jersey Rugby Cup

In March 1687, he became the deputy-governor for East Jersey on the absence of Deputy Lord Neill Campbell, who returned to England for business reasons.

In March 1779 it moved to Perth where, following a dispute over their pay and bounty payment, soldiers from the regiment took part in the Burntisland mutiny of March 1779, whilst under the command of Major John Sinclair, 11th Earl of Caithness ( Lord Berridale ), after which it was transferred to Jersey in the Channel Islands and embarked for New York in August 1779.

Depiction of the British landing in New Jersey, possibly by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Lord Rawdon

General Howe, after consolidating British positions around New York harbor, detached 6, 000 men under the command of two of his more difficult subordinates, Henry Clinton, and Hugh, Earl Percy to take Newport, Rhode Island ( which they did without opposition on December 8 ), while he sent General Lord Cornwallis to chase Washington's army through New Jersey.

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

Afterwards, he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord until 1927.

He was a noted advocate and served as Lord President of the Court of Session and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

Lord Aberdeen was a distinguished diplomat and statesman and served as Foreign Secretary from 1828 to 1830 and from 1841 to 1846 and as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 to 1855.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Guy's parents were regular communicants of the Church of England, as were his paternal grandparents ; his grandmother, born Ellen Harrington, was the daughter of a prominent merchant, who served as Lord Mayor of York in 1536.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

Lord Aberdeen served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between January and June 1828 and subsequently as Foreign Secretary until 1830 under the Duke of Wellington. He resigned with Wellington over the Reform Bill of 1832.

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord ( professional head of the Royal Navy ), but he was removed at the end of 1917 because of differences over policy regarding the war against the U-Boats and his perceived pessimism about Britain's ability to carry on the war.

Lord Rayleigh was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873, and served as president of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908.

James the Just, known as " the brother of the Lord ", served as head of the Jerusalem church, which is still honored as the " Mother Church " in Orthodox tradition.

The ninety-two room building formerly served as the ' out-of-season ' residence of the Irish Lord Lieutenant and the residence of two of the three Irish Governors-General: Tim Healy and James McNeill.

This building would have been well known to More, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons prior to becoming Lord Chancellor of England.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | Lord Beaverbrook served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the university's greatest benefactor.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

He served until 1855, a few weeks into Lord Palmerston's first premiership, whereupon he resigned along with the rest of the Peelites after a motion was passed to appoint a committee of inquiry into the conduct of the war.

Godfrey Paine, who served in the newly created post of Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation, sat on the board and this high level representation from the Navy helped to improve matters.