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Popham was killed in a duel with Colonel Kirk in 1669, and his estates devolved on his next brother, Francis, who likewise assumed the name of Conway, and having been created Baron Conway in 1703 was the father of Francis Seymour Conway ( 1719-1794 ), created Marquess of Hertford in 1793, and of field-marshal Henry Seymour Conway.
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During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.
In a letter to Ann Popham he wrote: ' I was sometimes unfaithful to Eileen, and I also treated her badly, and I think she treated me badly, too, at times, but it was a real marriage, in the sense that we had been through awful struggles together and she understood all about my work, etc.
Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.
In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.
The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607.
; Province of Maine: Settled in 1622 ( An earlier attempt to settle the Popham Colony in Sagadahoc, Maine ( near present day Phippsburg and Popham Beach State Park ) in 1607 was abandoned after only one year ).
The area was first explored by members of the ill-fated Popham Colony in September 1607.
* North Sheen Recreation Ground in Dancer Road, known locally as " The Rec ", was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.
Jane Small continued to live in Paddington after her second husband's death, and her manor house was big enough to have been let to Sir John Popham, the attorney general, in the 1580s.
In 1607, the English Popham Colony was established in what is now Phippsburgh ; it was abandoned a year later, but English fishermen and trappers continued to visit the area.
Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was — between 1607 and 1608 — the first English settlement attempted in New England.
A Popham semaphore was a single fixed vertical 30 foot pole, with two movable 8 foot arms attached to the pole by horizontal pivots at their ends, one arm at the top of the pole, and the other arm at the middle of the pole.
Colony leader George Popham sailed aboard the Gift of God, while second-in-command Ralegh Gilbert traveled on the Mary and John, whose captain was Robert Davies.
Later in 1607, the Plymouth Company established its Popham Colony in present day Maine, but it was abandoned after about a year.
* Gilbert was father to Ralegh Gilbert, who was to become second in command of Popham Colony.
The first section, from Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey to Popham near Basingstoke opened between in sections, first the Hampshire section in 1971 and then the Surrey section in 1974 at a cost of £ 46m and by 1987 the A33 road from Popham to the eastern end of the Winchester Bypass was being widened to dual carriageway.
The first public inquiry for the ' M3 London to Basingstoke Motorway: Popham to Compton ' extension of the motorway which include the section past Winchester was held in 1971.
The scope of the extension was reduced to defer the difficult decision about the section around Winchester and it was built in two sections ( from ' Popham to Bridget's Farm ' and from ' Bridget's Farm to Bar End ') in 1985.
Popham and killed
The Conway estates were inherited by the Earl's second cousin Popham Seymour, who was shortly afterwards killed in a duel by a Colonel Kirk.
Popham and with
The next British settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec River began in 1653 ; Thomas Atkins, a fisherman, purchased from the sachem Mowhotiwormet, commonly called Chief Robinhood, the southern end of Phippsburg ( with the exception of Popham ).
During the Gilded Age, Popham Beach developed into a resort area, with steamboats transporting excursionists from Bath.
In 1592 the Lord Chief Justice died and, according to custom the Attorney General, John Popham, succeeded him, with the Solicitor General, Thomas Egerton, succeeding Popham.
The first commissioners were Edward Popham, Robert Blake and Deane, with the title of generals-at-sea.
Colony leader George Popham sailed aboard the Gift of God with Raleigh Gilbert as second-in-command.
* Maine's Popham Colony Article with many references
The protection of the duke was exercised with so much effect that Popham was promoted commander in 1794 and post captain in 1795.
Popham was recalled, and censured by a court martial for leaving his station ; but the City of London presented him with a sword of honour for his endeavours to " open new markets ," and the sentence did him limited harm.
Popham is credited with maintaining the stability of the British State, and for being one of the " real colonisers " of the British Empire ; hosting two Wabanaki tribesmen kidnapped on the Maine coast in 1605, subsequently funding and orchestrating the aborted Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine ( 1607 – 1608 ).
While working as the messenger to the Queen, Popham was imprisoned by the Earl of Essex with his henchman.
In 1805 Popham received orders to escort the David Baird-led expedition against the Dutch colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which was allied with Napoleon.
However, Popham had the idea of taking the Río de la Plata with a military action similar to the one made at the Cape.
Popham manifested Baird his will to take the zone, with or without his help.
In the aftermath of the disastrous expedition, Popham and Whitelocke were court-martialed, with Popham reprimanded and Whitelocke dismissed from the Army.
When Edward Maria was nineteen he apparently accompanied his uncle, one of the key settlers involved in building a plantation in Munster, Ireland, truly the " forging house for Virginia ", with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir John Popham and others.
Bonham's successful writ worried the college, whose previous success with Popham and " keen cultivation " of Popham, Lord Ellesmere ( the Lord Chancellor ) and other Crown officials had left them assured that their jurisdiction would be maintained.
Popham and Colonel
The group that followed Hastings to England consisted of Halhed, David Anderson, Major William Sands, Colonel Sweeney Toone, Dr. Clement Francis, Captain Jonathan Scott, John Shore, Lieutenant Col. William Popham, Sir John d ' Oyly and was known as the Bengal Squad.
He married Anne Gardiner Dudley and was the father of Edward Popham, General-at-Sea, and of Colonel Alexander Popham ( 1605-1669 ), JP, MP, who fought for the Parliamentarians during the Civil War and had a garrison stationed at Littlecote House.
In July 1645 he moved from the rural western counties to the London area, as Colonel Alexander Popham, the patron of St. Mary ’ s parish, brought him east to the tiny town of Stoke Newington, in Middlesex county, outside London proper.
Lord Wharton married Anne Popham ( née Carr ), the widow of Colonel Edward Popham.
Popham and estates
Popham became a very wealthy man, and amongst the many estates he owned was Publow in Somerset, Littlecote in Wiltshire, and Hemyock Castle in Devon.
By his first wife he had two sons, Edward, 5th baronet, whose son Edward became the 8th duke of Somerset, and William, who became a lieutenant-general ; by his second wife, a daughter of Alexander Popham of Littlecote House, he had six sons, the eldest of whom, Popham, on succeeding to the estates of his mother's cousin, Edward, Earl of Conway, assumed the name of Conway in addition to that of Seymour.
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