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Rockingham Castle was a popular haunt of writer Charles Dickens who was a great friend of Richard & Levinia Watson, ancestors of the current family.
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New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Forests were typically tied to castles, both to assist with the enforcement of the law and to store the goods being extracted from the local economy: Peveril Castle was linked to the Peak Forest and the local lead mining there ; St Briavels was tied to the Forest of Dean ; and Knaresborough, Rockingham and Pickering to their eponymous forests respectively.
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He was created a Baronet, of Rockingham Castle in the County of Northampton, in the Baronetage of England in 1621.
The family seats were Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, and Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire.
The nearby stately home of Boughton House, sometimes described as the ' English Versailles ' has for centuries been the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch, major landowners in Kettering and most of the surrounding villages ; along with the Watsons of Rockingham Castle, the two families were joint lords of the manor of Kettering.
He was governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest.
The Vaux family owned Great Harrowden Hall until 1695 when they sold it to Thomas Watson Wentworth, a son of Baron Rockingham, of Rockingham Castle.
* Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby ( 1267 – 1314 ), governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England
Rockingham Castle is a former royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest a mile to the north of Corby, Northamptonshire.
By the late 15th century Rockingham Castle had fallen into disrepair.
Rockingham Castle is often stated as being in the county of Leicestershire.
The Castle overlooks the villages of Rockingham and Caldecott and enjoys good views over the Welland Valley.
It is popular belief that Rockingham Forest was named for Rockingham village, however the forest was named " Rockingham " for the Castle which was named for the village.
Rockingham Castle was used as the set for the BBC English Civil War period drama By the Sword Divided.
* Photos of Rockingham Castle and surrounding area on geograph
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Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.
Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.
The Stock Car Speed Association ASCAR or Days of Thunder was a " Nascar " style racing series based at Rockingham, United Kingdom, though the series did also race at the Lausitzring in Germany as well.
In the following year he supported with great power the proposal of the Rockingham administration for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, arguing that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies.
In July 1766 Rockingham was dismissed, and Pitt was entrusted by the King with the task of forming a government entirely of his own selection.
Fluger claimed to have been a Yankee native of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and was a former militia colonel.
The Washington speech was widely circulated and read throughout New Hampshire, and it led to Webster's 1812 selection to the Rockingham Convention, an assembly that sought to declare formally the state's grievances with President James Madison and the federal government.
He was a member of the drafting committee and was chosen to compose the Rockingham Memorial to be sent to Madison.
The first winner was an unnamed filly owned by the event's organiser, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.
It was suggested that it should be called the Rockingham Stakes in honour of the host, the Marquess of Rockingham, but the Marquess proposed that it should be named instead after Anthony St. Leger.
After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.
Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.
It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.
Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.
Rockingham County was established in 1778 from Augusta County.
Harrisonburg was incorporated as a city in 1916 and separated from Rockingham County ( all cities in Virginia are independent cities ), but it remains the county seat.
The same year, immediately to the north of Rockingham County, Dunmore County, named for Virginia's last Royal Governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, an unpopular figure, was renamed.
However, long their political supporter in the British Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham was a popular figure with the citizens of the new United States.
Page County was formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham counties.
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Like neighbouring settlements Bunbury and Rockingham dolphins and whales frequent the city annually and dolphin and whale watching are a popular pastime.
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* 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1782 )
* 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* March 27 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1730 )
* May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1782 )
The county is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a British statesman ( 1730 – 1782 ).
It was named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782.
It is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who had been Prime Minister in 1765-1766.
Wentworth Woodhouse was inherited by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, briefly Prime Minister in 1765-66 and again in 1782.
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC ( 13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782 ), styled The Hon.
* S. M. Farrell, ‘ Wentworth, Charles Watson -, second marquess of Rockingham ( 1730 – 1782 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 17 Oct 2009.
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** Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was the eighth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Associated with the aristocratic Whig party of Lord Rockingham, Portland served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household in Rockingham's first Government ( 1765 – 1766 ) and then as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Rockingham's second ministry ( April – August 1782 ); he resigned from Lord Shelburne's ministry along with other supporters of Charles James Fox following Rockingham's death.
Another reason for repeal of the Stamp Act was the replacement of George Grenville, the Prime Minister who had enacted the Stamp Acts, by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.
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