On 28 April 1653 the Great Fire of Marlborough started in a tanner's yard and spread quickly eventually after four hours burning the Guildhall, St Mary ’ s Church the County Armoury, and two hundred and forty four houses to the ground.

Thesiger attended Marlborough College and the Slade School of Art with aspirations of becoming a painter, but quickly switched to drama, making his professional debut in a production of Colonel Smith in 1909.

Another story that went round Marlborough very quickly was when he had doubled booked himself for two performances on the same evening.

New ranges of distinctive domestic wares were quickly introduced including Marlborough, Sapphire, Rosslyn, Mavis and Hotspot.

That same day Marlborough and Eugene carried out their own reconnaissance of the French position from the church spire at Tapfheim, and moved their combined forces to Münster – five miles ( 8 km ) from the French camp.

Marlborough — ignoring the wishes of the Dutch, who preferred to keep their troops in the Low Countries — led the English and Dutch forces southward to Germany ; Eugene, meanwhile, moved northward from Italy with the Austrian army.

Shortly after the plot was discovered, Eleanor was moved away from coast and transferred between Gloucester, Marlborough and Bristol Castle.

The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlborough House.

" Later that year, she moved out of Buckingham Palace to Marlborough House, but she retained possession of Sandringham.

Alger began attending the Chelsea Grammar School in 1842, but by December 1844 his father's financial troubles had increased considerably and, in search of a better salary, he moved his family to Marlborough, Massachusetts, an agricultural town 25 miles west of Boston.

The county seat was then moved from Charles Town, on the banks of the Patuxent, to Upper Marlborough.

To this end, Marlborough moved his English troops to the Moselle ( a plan approved of by The Hague ), but once there he planned to slip the Dutch leash and march south to link up with Austrian forces in southern Germany.

Marlborough – with renewed self-assurance – moved decisively to engage them.

He was initially buried in the vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, but following instructions left by Sarah, who died in 1744, Marlborough was moved to be by her side lying in the vault beneath the chapel at Blenheim.

Tournai fell after an unusually long siege of almost 70 days, by which time it was early September, and rather than run the risk of disease spreading in his army in the poorly draining land around Ypres, Marlborough instead moved eastwards towards the lesser fortress of Mons, hoping by taking it to outflank the French defensive lines in the west.

Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in attempting to celebrate the " victory " of Marlborough at Malplaquet, while it moved the English Tory party to begin agitating for a withdrawal from the alliance as soon as they formed a government the next year.

Marlborough moved his headquarters to the left flank, giving Eugène command of the right flank ( which still checked the left wing of the French army ).

After leaving Marlborough in 1958, Chatwin reluctantly moved to London to work as a porter in the Works of Art department at the auction house Sotheby's.

He was appointed an assistant master at Marlborough College in 1858, and moved to Harrow in 1859.

An early " stone frigate " was the engineering training college HMS Marlborough, moved ashore to Portsmouth in 1880.

In 1717, the Pusey family moved to East Marlborough Township, where he was involved in politics.

* HRH Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, then Catherine Middleton, attended the school for a term before being moved to Marlborough College

In 1819, this man, by now the Duke of Marlborough, became bankrupt and moved to his family home at Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire.

Æthelric was deposed by the Council of Windsor on 24 May 1070 and imprisoned at Marlborough, being replaced by Stigand ( not the same as the archbishop ), who later moved the seat of the diocese to Chichester.

Marlborough ordered the formation forward.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

Marlborough and Godolphin, now distanced from Anne, would henceforth have to conform to the decisions of a Whig ministry, while the Tories, sullen and vengeful, looked forward to their former leaders ' downfall.

On their left, on the broad plain between Taviers and Ramillies – and where Marlborough thought the decisive encounter must take place – Overkirk drew the 69 squadrons of the Dutch and Danish horse, supported by 19 battalions of Dutch infantry and two artillery pieces.

Marlborough mediated between the two parties but favoured the Dutch position.

Although Queen Alexandra never treated her sister badly and they spent time together at Marlborough House in London and at Sandringham House in Norfolk in Great Britain, Maria felt that she was now " number two ".

This daughter married Colonel Charles Churchill of Chalfont ( 1720 – 1812 ), a great-nephew of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, with whom she had two daughters.

To relieve this pressure, the network-wide New Works Programme, 1935-1940 included the construction of new sections of tunnel between the Bakerloo line's platforms at Baker Street and Finchley Road and the replacement of three Metropolitan line stations ( Lord's, Marlborough Road and Swiss Cottage ) between those points with two new Bakerloo stations ( St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage ).

His two sons Hugh ( 1866-1925 ) and Geoffrey ( 1867-1882 ) were sent to Marlborough College, where Geoffrey died at the age of 14.

), in the presence of his wife and two surviving daughters Henrietta Godolphin and Mary Montagu, the 1st Duke of Marlborough died.

Despite this, gossip spread rapidly about Mary's parentage, and her grandmother Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough did not recognise her until 1740, when the two reconciled their differences.

Ormonde was stripped of his posts as Captain-General, as colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards and as Commander in Chief of the Forces with the first two posts going to the Duke of Marlborough and the role of Commander-in-Chief going to the Earl of Stair.

Like their elder brother, Kennedy ( born 1923 ), Ross and Norris were educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford, where, at his choice, he completed his law degree in two years rather than the usual three.

In its original form Marlborough House had just two stories.

In the 1820s plans were drawn up to demolish Marlborough House and replace it with a terrace of similar dimensions to the two in neighbouring Carlton House Terrace, and this idea even featured on some contemporary maps, including Christopher and John Greenwood's large-scale London map of 1830, but the proposal was not implemented.

Cheltenham now only have Rugby courts and Dover two unrestored Eton courts ; Marlborough have four rugby and two eton courts, all in good condition.

They had two sons, John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( who became 10th Duke of Marlborough ) and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill.

They had two sons, John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, eventually the 10th Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill.

He was educated at Marlborough College, and made two unsuccessful attempts to get into the British Army colleges Royal Military Academy and three to get into Sandhurst between 1880 and 1882.

They attacked three more settlements: Longmeadow ( near Springfield ), Marlborough, and Simsbury were attacked two weeks later.

Roman remains and coins have been found two miles to the east of Marlborough, at Mildenhall ( Cunetio ).

Every October the high street is closed for the two Saturdays either side of 11 October for the Marlborough Mop Fair.

It was formed when the former Marlborough Grammar School and Secondary modern school were amalgamated. There is also a junior school, St Peter's and an infants school, St Mary's, which are named after the two churches in Marlborough.

The late renowned jockey Sir Gordon Richards is buried in the new cemetery on Marlborough Common, the second of two such cemeteries to be opened after the two churchyards stopped being used for burials.