She is also retained in popular memory as a socialite, known for entertaining at the Castle of Good Hope as the official hostess of Governor Earl Macartney.

In the reign of Edward the Confessor Newark belonged to Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who granted it to the monastery of Stow in 1055, who retained its incomes even after the Norman Conquest as came under the control of the Norman Bishop Remigius de Fécamp.

Prince Edward was created Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Earl of Dublin on 23 April 1799 and, a few weeks later, appointed a General and commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, On 23 March 1802 he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar and nominally retained that post until his death.

On the death of the third Earl of Abingdon, Blackstone was retained as counsel for the executors and trustees to oversee the family's attempts to pay off debts and meet other obligations.

With the young queen's return to Scotland in 1561, Argyll and Stewart, now Earl of Moray, retained their leading roles in the kingdom, continuing to pursue an anglophilic policy.

The Sidneys retained the titles until the death of the seventh Earl in 1743, when the titles again became extinct.

The remaining one-eighth share of the Province ( part of North Carolina known as the Granville District ) was retained by members of the Carteret family until 1776 ; see John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

Despite these early attacks on his position, Buchan significantly strengthened his territorial position especially in the Great Glen where he retained Urquhart after his brother's death and then in the autumn of 1386 he gained the lands of Bona at the head of Loch Ness from the Earl of Moray and the adjoining lands in Abriachin from Sir Robert Chisholm.

Built by the Earl of Plymouth in 1892, on a greenfield site previously used as the town's cricket and rugby field and donated by wealthy Penarth butcher David Cornwall, the church is now surrounded by a square of later housing although the original grassed area has been retained and landscaped with trees.

When the Earl of Derby became Prime Minister in February 1852, Montrose was appointed Lord Steward of the Household, a post he retained until the government fell in December of the same year.

There was some speculation that their hostility might result in MacDonald being amongst the ministers dropped to make way for them ( as happened to Earl de la Warr, the other National Labour minister ) but instead MacDonald was retained and became Minister of Health.

In 1672 the Duchess of Somerset, in order to clear the debts of the late Duke, sold much of Symondsbury in nearly two dozen lots to various tenants, but retained Shutes Farmhouse ( the Colmer tenement ) as the centre of the residual manorial holding which along with the Lordship were sold shortly afterwards to the Earl of Ilchester whose heir still holds the title, but no land.

No Englishmen retained lands of any importance after the Conquest, and at the time of the Domesday Survey the chief lay proprietors were Alan, Earl of Brittany, whose descendants the Zouches retained estates in the county until the 15th century ; Picot the sheriff, whose estates passed to the families of Peverell and Peche ; Aubrey de Vere, whose descendants retained their estates till the 16th century ; and Hardwinus de Scalariis, ancestor of the Scales of Whaddon.

In 1642, he fought in the army of the Earl of Essex, and following the battle of Edgehill was appointed governor of Windsor Castle, a position he retained until 1645.

In 1703, he was created Baron Guernsey and a privy councillor, and after the accession of George I in 1714, Earl of Aylesford, being reappointed a privy councillor and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which office he retained till February 1716.

When he became head football coach at Auburn, he retained assistants Shot Senn ( linemen ), Joel Eaves ( defensive ends ), and Dick McGowen as head freshmen team coach, all former Auburn players who had assisted Jordan's predecessor, Earl Brown.

His descendants retained the office until the death in 1668 of John Scrymgeour, Earl of Dundee, whose estates and heritable offices, deemed to have fallen to the king as ultimus haeres, were regranted to Charles Maitland, later 3rd Earl of Lauderdale.

In spite of advancing years, Wharton retained his wardenry throughout Mary's reign, the Earl of Northumberland being joined with him on 1 August 1557 when fresh trouble with the Scots was imminent ( owing to the war with France ).

Baillie retained command but was now accompanied by a Committee of War headed by the Earl of Argyll.

Clan MacInnes retained control of the castle following this attack, along with a later attack in 1679 during a feud with the Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll.

At trial, despite Kidd's testimony on the witness stand that he had acted alone, Orange was convicted due in a large part to representation by Earl Washington, a private attorney retained by Orange's family accused of gross incompetence during the trial.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

Between 1594 and 1603, Elizabeth faced her most severe test in Ireland during the Nine Years ' War, a revolt that took place at the height of hostilities with Spain, who backed the rebel leader, Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

* 1469 – Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.

In his place, 38-year-old Earl Morrall led Miami to victory in their nine remaining regular season games, and was the 1972 NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

In 1065 Northumbria revolted against Tostig, and the rebels chose Morcar, the younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, as earl in place of Tostig.

The North administration left power in March 1782 following the American Revolution, and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne, took its place.

Instead, he had his son Edward created Earl of Aquitaine in his place and sent him to France to perform the homage.

Its assets were: The Bishop Odo of Bayeux held the monastery ( the site of the Cathedral ), the ' tide-way ' - which still exists as St Mary Overy dock ; the King owned the ' church ' ( probably St Olave's ) and its ' tidal stream ' ( St Olave's Dock ); the dues of the ' waterway ' or mooring place were shared between the ' King ' and Earl Godwin ; the King also had the ' toll ' of the strand ; and the ' men of Southwark ' had the right to a ' haw and its toll '.

It is a square, crenulated stone tower and bears the inscription: " This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty.

Home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres from the Earl of Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area.

However, as soon as the Queen died, the king named his sister Elizabeth's son, the adult John Earl of Lincoln, his heir in place of Warwick.

Earl Hamner Sr., the basis for the John Walton character, died in 1969 ( a fact referenced by Hamner in a voiceover at the conclusion of The Homecoming pilot ), the year " A Walton's Easter " takes place.

It was not until the mid 19th century that the spelling of " Folkestone " was fixed as such, with the Earl of Radnor requesting that the town's name be standardised ( although this tendency towards standardisation in the 19th century is true of English place names generally ).

In the 1790s Earl Camden began to develop some fields to the north and west of the Old Church as Camden Town, which has become a better known place name than St Pancras.

Although Leofric had been a royal clerk before he became bishop, after his elevation he managed to avoid entanglement in the various disputes taking place between the king and Godwin, Earl of Wessex.

The Second Battle of Corinth took place on October 3 – 4, 1862, when Confederate Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn attempted to retake the city.

Later, King John granted Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex permission to hold a fair and market in Kimbolton, as a consequence of which a market place was created, with the existing church at one end and a new castle at the other.

The town is mentioned in the Robert Earl Keen song " Armadillo Jackel " as the place where they pay $ 2. 50 for dead armadillos.

Attempts to curb the Douglases ' power took place in 1451, during the absence of the Earl of Douglas from Scotland, and culminated with the murder of Lord Douglas at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452.

The village stands 3¾ miles SW of Leatherhead r. station, and 4¼ NW by W of Dorking ; has a post office under Leatherhead ; was formerly a place of some importance, said to have contained sixteen churches ; and gives the title of Earl to the Howards of Grange.

Leasowe Castle was built by Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby-a patron of Shakespeare-in 1593, possibly ( though this is disputed ) as an observation platform for the Wallasey races which took place on the sands in the 16th and 17th centuries, and which are regarded as a forerunner of the Derby races.

His christening took place at Winchester Cathedral, his godfathers were Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby and John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford who was late for the ceremony.