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The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).
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* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill
* George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough ( 1844 – 1892 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke
It was purchased by the Museum from William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland in 1945 with the aid of a bequest from James Rose Vallentin.
* 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish commander ( d. 1615 )
* September 10 – Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada ( d. 1615 )
* December 21 – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer and Whig politician ( d. 1847 )
Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.
In the 1860s the 7th Duke had St Peter's Church in Edensor enlarged by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
St Peter's in Edensor is also where the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Duke of Devonshire and their wives are buried.
In the 7th century the area was part of the Slavic principality of Carantania, which about 743 fell under the suzerainty of Duke Odilo of Bavaria.
* 1685 – Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, 6th Earl of March, 4th Earl of Cambridge, and 7th Earl of Ulster, conventionally called Richard of York ( 21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460 ) was a leading English magnate, great-grandson of King Edward III.
A Roman Catholic by birth, Alice married her first husband, Marie Odet Armand Aimable de La Chapelle, Marquis of Jumilhac, 7th Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, on February 27, 1875 in Paris.
* The Devonshire Dome ( 1780 – 1789 ) was created from the Great Stables, converted in 1859 by Henry Currey, architect to the 7th Duke of Devonshire.
* Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1864 – 1928 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke, died without issue
The Department is named to commemorate British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish for contributions to science and his relative William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Chancellor of the University and donated money for the construction of the laboratory.
* Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk 1684 – 1701
By the 1870s the Marlboroughs were in severe financial trouble, and in 1875 the 7th Duke sold the " Marriage of Cupid and Psyche ", together with the famed Marlborough gems, at auction for £ 10, 000.
In 1880 the 7th Duke was forced to petition Parliament to break the protective entail on the Palace and its contents.
7th and Marlborough
* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 8 March 1867 – 9 December 1868 )
Long considered one of the most beautiful women of the time, she was married for the first time on April 15, 1874, aged 20, at the British Embassy in Paris, to Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane.
He was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and his wife, Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane ( 1822 – 1899 ), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC ( 2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883 ), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British statesman and nobleman.
John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 )
* Lord Randolph Churchill, son of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, father of Winston Churchill
On March 8, 1947, she married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, the son of Frederick Guest, who was a son of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill ( daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ) through his mother he was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, also he was a national polo champion, member of the Guest family.
Guest married Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, on 25 May 1868 and was thus an uncle-by-marriage of Sir Winston Churchill.
Lord Tweedmouth married Lady Fanny Octavia Louise, daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Sir Winston Churchill, in 1873.
Guest was the son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia, daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.
* Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane ( 1822 – 1899 ); married John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.
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* John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough 25 August 1857 – 4 July 1883
Frederick Guest was born in London, the third son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Spencer-Churchill ( 1847 – 1927 ), daughter of John Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.
Marlborough married Lady Susan Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway, on 15 September 1791.
Styled Earl of Sunderland from birth, Marlborough was born at Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berkshire ( an estate his father was renting at the time ), the eldest son of George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Susan Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway.
* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ).
Marlborough was the eldest son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, by Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane, daughter of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
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The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.
For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.
It was the 7th Cavalry whose troopers were charged with guarding the Imperial Palace of the Emperor.
When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.
Just a month after the Korean War broke out, the 7th Cavalry was moving into the lines, ready for combat.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.
Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).
It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test ( one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled ) that England's success was secured.
The change spread more slowly in the West, where the office of abbot was commonly filled by laymen till the end of the 7th century.
In the west, organized Arianism survived in North Africa, in Hispania, and parts of Italy until it was finally suppressed in the 6th and 7th centuries.
It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.
The intervening 7th century was a period of genuine syncretism during which Christian symbolism and doctrine gradually grew in influence.
Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.
In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.
After the Arab Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD Assyria was dissolved as an entity.
Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.
Ajmer ( Sanskrit Ajayameru ) was founded in the late 7th century A. D. by Ajayraj singh Chauhan.
This historical founding was traditionally dated to 654 BC, which is unverified, although evidence in 7th century BC Greek pottery tends to support it.
The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan ( 642 – 870 ) began in the middle of the 7th century after the Islamic conquest of Persia was completed, when Arab Muslims defeated the Sassanid Empire at the battles of Walaja, al-Qādisiyyah and Nahavand.
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