• Jane Whorwood (née Ryder; 1612 – September 1684) was a Royalist agent during the English Civil War. She managed circulation of intelligence, as well as...
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  • Whorwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jane Whorwood (1612–1684), English spy Matthew Whorwood (born 1989), British Paralympic...
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  • influential English writer Lady Jane Wellesley (born 1951), British television producer and writer Lady Jane Whorwood (1612–1684), Royalist agent during...
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    brother, the Duke of Holstein, set with diamonds. The Royalist agent Jane Whorwood was her daughter from her marriage to Ryder. Their daughter Diana Maxwell...
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    with Jane Whorwood, of whose letter Charles I of England wrote: "This Note [...] I know, by the fowldings [...] that it is written by [Mrs Whorwood]". The...
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    to last Viceroy of India Sir William Welsh (1891–1962), air marshal Jane Whorwood (1612–1684), Royalist agent during the English Civil War Prince William...
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    Aytoun gave a diamond hatband to William Murray and his French bed to Jane Whorwood. He is also the author of a ballad called "Bothwell" about the battle...
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    the case. In 1644, Pindar provided 1,705 lbs (775 kg) of gold, via Jane Whorwood, to smuggle the Queen and the Prince of Wales to France. In the 18th...
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  • kill a man at King's Norton. Thomas Whorwood had married Ursula Brome, their son Brome Whorwood (1615-1684) married Jane Ryder in 1634. She became a spy for...
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    at the Battle of Trafalgar, and Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. Jane Digby was his sister. He was commissioned...
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    Oxford: B.H. Blackwell. pp. 40–43. Fox, John (2011). The King's Smuggler: Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I. The History Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0752469034...
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    Whorwood, the High Sheriff, who was John Sutton's father-in-law. Littleton, cheated of certain victory, filed bills against the Suttons and Whorwood in...
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  • received his annuity. In about 1590 John married Elizabeth Whorwood, daughter of a Thomas Whorwood, a wealthy Staffordshire landowner and politician, apparently...
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  • He married, firstly, Helena Olivia Adeane, daughter of Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane and Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, on 11 October 1922...
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    Kett. Back in London, Dudley was knighted and married Anne Whorwood, daughter of William Whorwood, deceased Attorney-General. In 1552, they had a daughter...
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    was sold to William Whorwood in 1540, which made him the effective owner, but one of the early lessees must have paid off Whorwood, because it was later...
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    Brigadier Alleyne John Addy (1917—1994), Royal Pioneer Corps General James Whorwood Adeane (1740—1802) Brigadier-General Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron (1873—1966)...
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  • of George Henry Law, the bishop of Bath and Wells, and Jane, daughter of General James Whorwood Adeane, MP, of Babraham, Cambridgeshire. He was educated...
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    Mortlock to office. By-election triggered by the appointment of James Whorwood Adeane to office. By-election triggered by the elevation to the peerage...
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    County of Worcester. Enabling Viscountess Gage and her trustees and Thomas Whorwood to purchase lands of inheritance with proceeds of sale of estates in Berkshire...
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    Brooke, his eldest son by each marriage; and Richard Whorwood, his "clerk and cousin". Whorwood very briefly took wardship of John, as he reached his...
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    the twenty-six peers who signed Edward's settlement of the crown on Lady Jane Grey in June of that year. He made his peace with Queen Mary I, who reinstated...
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    Throckmorton of Coughton (1534 – 13 March 1615), who married, about 1556, Mary Whorwood (c. 1535 – 28 April 1607), by whom he had two sons, including John Throckmorton...
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    William Whorwood and his wife, Margaret. Whorwood was then Solicitor General but soon to be appointed Attorney General. This made the Whorwoods the effective...
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    investor in Washington, D.C. On 13 July 1784, Law married Jane Adeane, daughter of General James Whorwood Adeane MP. They had the following children: Anna Law...
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  • freestyle S6 details Darragh McDonald  Ireland Anders Olsson  Sweden Matthew Whorwood  Great Britain 400 m freestyle S7 details Josef Craig  Great Britain Shiyun...
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    frantically by Thetis Tooke, a farmer's daughter, but prefers his 'chum', Jack Whorwood, to both of them. Meanwhile Mrs Yajñavalkya, a black masseuse, manages...
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    Sutton Coldfield Alan C. York 12,488 (23.8%)   Norman Fowler 27,373 (52.2%) James E. Whorwood 10,139 (19.4%) Douglas Hope 2,401 (4.6%)   Norman Fowler...
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  • descents discovered and omitted...". He was the grandson of Gen. James Whorwood Adeane. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Adeane became a...
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  • Hall, Burton on Trent 1573: John Giffard of Chillington Hall 1574: Thomas Whorwood of Stourton Castle and Compton 1575: Ralph Adderley of Coton Manor 1576:...
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