Conversely, some old recusant families, such as the earls of Shrewsbury, the viscounts Gage, and the Giffards of Chillington, embraced Anglicanism.

In a personal letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, an old friend of Leicester's, Elizabeth said she considered Leicester as " another ourself ".

In his later years he was part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and even had the “ privilege ” of being invited back to Shrewsbury to open a new wing at his old school, the entirety of his speech being “ The bugger ’ s open .”

When Humphrey was less than a year old, his father was killed fighting for the royalist forces at the Battle of Shrewsbury in July 1403.

At Shrewsbury he was captured by his old enemy John Charlton of Powys, and brought to Queen Isabella at Hereford.

Their last league game at their old ground was a 1 – 0 win over Shrewsbury Town, with the last game of any sort being a 2 – 1 win against Wrexham in the final of the 2005 FAW Premier Cup.

* Richard of Shrewsbury, younger son of Edward IV, was created Earl of Warenne and Duke of Norfolk on 7 February 1477, when he was three years old.

In 1787, when he was still under 20 years old, Darwin set up practice in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire.

It is situated on the B4380 ( the old A5 ), 5 miles south east of Shrewsbury.

There has been much speculation about the possibility of reopening the old Shrewsbury and Newport Canal route.

On 12 May 1873 Shrewsbury made his first appearance at Lord's for the Colts of England against the MCC despite having just turned seventeen years old.

Williams was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family, and was educated at Moreton Hall School then Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937.

With the ground closed, the old turnstile sold for £ 3, 050 at an auction staged at the ground on 17 June 2007, to a local Shrewsbury Town fan.

Shrewsbury had been considering relocation since 1986, when plans were drawn up for a new stadium to the north of the town, with Sainsbury's being lined up to build a supermarket on the site of the old stadium.

However, with Shrewsbury later being relegated from the old Second Division in 1989, and with Sainsbury's developing elsewhere in the town, the plans were abandoned.

All Stretton lies about a mile to the north of the market town of Church Stretton, on the old Shrewsbury Road ( the B5477 )-the county town is 12 miles to the north.

In 1989 he received his big break in football when the Shrewsbury Town manager Ian McNeill acted on the recommendation of his son, to bring the then 25-year old McGinlay back to English football, and this proved to be a very wise move indeed as the striker scored a number of goals in his first full season at Gay Meadow.

On 1 March 2011, Lowe broke a 53 year old club record by scoring in eight consecutive league games in a 3 – 0 victory over Shrewsbury Town at the Greenhous Meadow.

In 1846, H. de Winton and J. C. Thring, who had both attended Shrewsbury School, succeeded in making some old Etonians join them to form a football club at Cambridge University.

He appeared for the claimant in the Shrewsbury peerage case in 1858, when the 3rd Earl Talbot was declared to be entitled to the earldom of Shrewsbury as the descendant of the 2nd earl ; was principal agent for Great Britain on the mixed British and American commission for the settlement of outstanding claims, 1853 – 1855 ; and assisted in the prosecution of the Fenian prisoners at Manchester.

Or, the owner might have been able to have handed him over to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the world's largest and most respected organization devoted to equine rescue.

" Accordingly, the army left Shrewsbury on 12 October, gaining two days start on the enemy, and moved southeast.

" Accordingly, the army left Shrewsbury on 12 October, gaining two days ' start on the enemy, and moved southeast via Bridgnorth, Birmingham and Kenilworth.

Returning to Shrewsbury at the age of fifteen, Burney continued his musical studies for three years under his half-brother, James Burney, organist of St Mary's church, and was then sent to London as a pupil of Dr Thomas Arne for three years.

Route 35 crosses into Shrewsbury and continues north through residential and commercial areas, passing by The Grove at Shrewsbury.

It crosses the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line on the Albrighton bypass.

The Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge crosses the Shrewsbury River and carries the road traffic of Route 36 from Highlands in the west to Sea Bright in the east, at the entrance to Sandy Hook.

The Welsh Bridge is a masonry arch viaduct in the town of Shrewsbury, England which crosses the River Severn.

Peters ' depiction of Stephen's reign is an essentially local narrative, focused on the town of Shrewsbury and its environs.

( Called in to advise on a leaking roof at St Chad's Church Shrewsbury in 1788, he correctly warned the church was in imminent danger of collapse ; his reputation was made locally when it collapsed 3 days later, but he was not the architect for its replacement ).

This kingdom originally extended east into areas now in England, and its ancient capital, Pengwern, has been variously identified as modern Shrewsbury or a site north of Baschurch.

The court's Oriel windows are perhaps its most striking feature, though the dominating Shrewsbury Tower to the west is undoubtedly the most imposing.

The Brother Cadfael Chronicles drew international attention to Shrewsbury and its history, and greatly increased tourism to the town.

Beginning with Richard of Shrewsbury, ( son of Edward IV, one of the Princes in the Tower ), none of its holders were able to transmit it ; they either died without a male heir or succeeded to the throne.

Peters's depiction of the civil war is an essentially local narrative, focused on the town of Shrewsbury and its environs.

In 1913, concerned resident Joseph Burge organized the Shrewsbury Improvement Association to improve Shrewsbury and develop its first sewer system.

The school serves students from the boroughs of Little Silver, Red Bank and Shrewsbury, although students from all over Monmouth County attend the high school for its performing arts program.

On February 14, 1879, Red Bank became Shrewsbury City, a portion of Shrewsbury Township, but this only lasted until May 15, 1879, when Red Bank regained its independence.

Rumson is known for its many sprawling turn-of-the-century estates located along the shores of the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers and along historic Rumson Road, which serves as one of Rumson's main thoroughfares.

* Alastair Dunn, A kingdom in crisis: Henry IV and the battle of Shrewsbury: Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year, History Today, August 2003

Shrewsbury School also opened its library to townsfolk.

In 1882, Headmaster Henry Whitehead Moss moved the school from its original town centre location to a new site over the River Severn, in Kingsland ( a site which had, amongst other things, housed the Shrewsbury workhouse and a foundling hospital ).

In 1727, the town became a stop on the coaching road between London and Shrewsbury and its growth began.

It is named after its county town, Montgomery, which in turn is named after one of William the Conqueror's main counsellors, Roger de Montgomerie, who was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.

On the S wall of the Shrewbury Chapel is the alabaster monument to the SixthEarl of Shrewsbury with its architectural surround, armored effigy, and Latin inscription.

In 2004, when the borough council moved to their new Guildhall, it was suggested that it revert its name to simply " Shrewsbury Borough Council "-this never happened though, as the borough covers a wide area of countryside beyond the town of Shrewsbury and many felt that it should keep its historical name too.