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    Earl of Downe was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 16 October 1628 for Sir William Pope, 1st Baronet. He had already been created...
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    Downe, formerly Down (/daʊn/), is a village in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley, which formed part of Kent until 1965...
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    Pope, 1st Earl of Downe (1573 – 2 June 1631), known as Sir William Pope, 1st Baronet from 1611 to 1628, was an English peer. Pope was the son of John Pope...
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    Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore (category Daughters of British earls)
    Henry Lee of Ditchley, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe. On 2 January 1699, at the age of twenty,...
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    2nd Earl of Downe (1622–1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist. Baptised at Cogges, near Witney, 16 December 1622, the eldest of the three sons of Sir...
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    was the son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and his wife Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe, who was later...
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  • Look up Downe or downe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Downe is a village in London. Downe may also refer to: Bill Downe (born 1952), Canadian banker...
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    building literally rose from the ruins when rebuilt by William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe, in the early 17th century. Further additions were made over the following...
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  • England consisted exclusively of earls and barons. It remains a matter of debate whether early Anglo-Norman counts/earls held their title by tenure (as...
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  • Downe. A few fragments of the original building are preserved in the existing structure, which was erected between 1600 and 1618 by the earl of Downe...
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  • Downe (15 May 1812 – 26 January 1857) was a British politician. Downe was the son of the Reverend William Henry Dawnay, 6th Viscount Downe, Rector of...
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  • Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
    Watson, daughter of Sir Thomas Watson and widow of Sir William Pope. His stepson by this marriage inherited the title Earl of Downe in 1631, becoming...
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  • Lee baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England)
    Bt, of Quarendon, later of Ditchley (died 1667), who married Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (later third wife of Robert...
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    sister Jane, as well as a number of half-siblings from his mother's second marriage to William Pope, Earl of Downe. Wentworth attended Trinity College...
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    of acts of the Parliament of Scotland, and the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland. For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the...
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  • married a third time, to Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe and widow of Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet. By her he had two children:...
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    Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
    Frances Pope, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe by his wife Beatrice (Beata) Poole, daughter of Henry Poole. Frances inherited the...
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  • Sir Richard Combe (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Sir Bernard (1866), "Pope—Earl of Downe", A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison...
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    list of baronetcies in the Baronetage of England. The first Baronetage was created in 1611. The Baronetage of England was replaced by the Baronetage of Great...
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  • Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of England for Malmesbury)
    at the age of 28. Lee married Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (later third wife of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey)....
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    (Countess of Downe), married (1) Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558–1593), and (2) Sir William Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, Earl of Downe (died 1631)...
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    Lt-Col Ronald Dawnay (brother of David Dawnay and grandson of Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe) and had issue 5th Earl Grey died in Howick, near Alnwick...
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    The Devil's Charter (category Cultural depictions of Charles VIII of France)
    end of the year, in a quarto printed by George Eld for the bookseller John Wright. Barnes dedicated the play to William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe and to...
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    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 (O.S.) – 26 July 1680 (O.S.)) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court...
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  • Peerage of the United Kingdom Summoned to Greenwich in 1489 Summoned to Greenwich in 1489 but did not attend Summoned to Greenwich in 1489 as an Earl Summoned...
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  • Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet (category Year of birth missing)
    3rd Earl of Downe (connecting Soame with Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford who married another daughter); and then Mary Howe, daughter of Sir Gabriel...
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  • Henry Poole (died 1645) (category Alumni of Merton College, Oxford)
    daughter of Robert Tracy, 2nd Viscount Tracy Anne married James Livingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh Beatrice married Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe. "POOLE...
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    Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631; also spelled Mervin, Touchet), was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and...
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  • between 1660 and 1669. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant,...
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    Pope, with whose heirs it remained until a later Thomas Pope, the 3rd Earl of Downe sold it in 1660. From 1676 the manor belonged to the Perrott family...
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