The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility

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Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Nobility - 531 pages
 

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Page viii - KG Knight of the Garter. KT Knight of the Thistle. KP Knight of St. Patrick. GCB Knight Grand Cross of the Bath KCB Knight Commander of the Bath. CB Companion of the Bath.
Page 13 - ... concerning the marriage of Mary queen of Scots, to the Dauphin of France...
Page 356 - A man of candour cannot, without an emotion of grief and indignation, reflect upon the ruin of the noble family of Ormond, in the person of a brave, generous, and humane nobleman, to whom no crime was imputed, but that of having obeyed the commands of his sovereign.
Page 473 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for Fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Page 473 - Townshend ; nor of course know what a ferment he was able to excite in every thing by the violent ebullition of his mixed virtues and failings. For failings he had undoubtedly — many of us remember them ; we are this day considering the effect of them.
Page 473 - Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence.
Page 163 - The coronets of the peers and their robes disguised them strangely. It required all the beauty of the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall new gilt. It added to the energy of his person, that one considered him acting...
Page 422 - Gladstone, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Acton of Aldenham.
Page 146 - VII., on his landing with a contemptible force at Milford Haven, Sir Rhys repaired with a considerable accession of choice soldiers, marching with them to Bosworth field, where he right valiantly behaved himself.
Page 352 - Earl of Marchmont, as Baron Polwarth, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, failing which, to the heirs of such heirs male. He was the only son of the late Walter Scott of Harden, Co. Berwick, Esq., by his marriage with Lady Diana Hume-Campbell, 3rd and only daughter, who left surviving issue, of Hugh, 3rd Earl of Marchmont; was A.

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