• Ralph Liggons or Lygon (1540-1619) was an English Catholic involved in conspiracies and a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was a member of the Worcestershire...
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  • sieur du Ruisseau, to Mr Douglas, to John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, and to Ralph Lygon, for use in their correspondence with Mary. In August 1577 Nau added...
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    is corks!" William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp was the president of the club and Waugh was the secretary. Members included: Hugh Lygon; William Howard, 8th...
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  • dissolute Lord Sebastian Flyte was modelled after Hugh Lygon and Lady Julia Flyte after Lady Mary Lygon. The book, which Byrne describes in the preface as...
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    1st Earl of Ancaster. 13 Belgrave Square was the home of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp. It was also used by the St John Ambulance Brigade as...
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    Prince of Wales 1905–1907 Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey 1908–1913 William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1913–1934 Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1934–1935...
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    Knight, and had issue, William Norwood (1548–1632) who married Elizabeth Lygon, and Katherine married secondly John Williams. Mary Throckmorton (died 1603)...
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  • death, his widow, Katherine, married Roger Lygon (d.1584), esquire. The effigies of Katherine and Roger Lygon lie side by side in Fairford Church. She was...
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    He was the second son of Edward Gorges of Wraxall, by his wife Cicely Lygon. The circumstances of his father's death aged 31 suggested to Baxter (Gorges's...
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    from the RGS were Sir Francis Younghusband, Arthur Robert Hinks, Edward Lygon Somers-Cocks, and Colonel Evan Maclean Jack; from the Alpine Club were Professor...
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    Losch (1903–1975) Books: The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton Lady Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001) Books: The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends...
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    extreme difficulty in its earliest years from water scarcity. Major-General Ralph Darling was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1825, and in the same...
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  • Chamberlain 848 Christian X, King of Denmark 1870–1947 1914 849 William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1872–1938 1914 Lord President of the Council 850 Albert...
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    (1870—1954), Regimental Colonel of the 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) General Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp (1784–1863), Colonel of the 10th Royal Hussars Major-General...
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  • Edmund Colles of Leigh 32 1591 Henry Bromley of Holt Castle 33 1592 William Lygon of Madresfield 34 1593 Sir Thomas Biggs of Lenchwick 35 1594 Sir John Pakington...
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    Preceded by Henry Winnington Henry Lygon Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire 1841–1885 With: Henry Lygon to 1853 Viscount Elmley 1853–1863 William...
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  • Culpepper, Virginia. Jane Virginia Corbin (1815–1904), and brothers William Lygon Corbin (d. 1883) and Washington Shirley Corbin (d. 1877) likewise never...
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    Greene, Harry Fox-Strangways, Brian Howard, Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, and...
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    Longford (1774–1835), who married Lady Georgiana Emma Charlotte Lygon, daughter of William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp. Maj.-Gen. Hon. Sir Edward Pakenham (1778–1815)...
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  • like Lewis /ˈluːɪs/ Loesch LASH /ˈlæʃ/ Mainly North American pronunciation Lygon LIG-ən /ˈlɪɡən/ Machin MAY-chin /ˈmeɪtʃɪn/ MacCaughey, McCaughey like McCoy...
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  • Lewis Robert Lewis William Lewis Zachary Lewis William Lightfoot Thomas Lygon William Lister James Littlepage Nathaniel Littleton Southey Littleton Daniel...
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  • 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH 1843–1863: Gen. Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars (1861) 1863–1901:...
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    chapel. Tomb with effigies of Katherine Denys and her third husband Roger Lygon of Madresfield. Fairford has a 19th-century Catholic church of St Thomas...
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    (1932–2006), the daughter of Sir Richard Cotterell, 5th Baronet and Lady Lettice Lygon. Before their divorce in 1976, they had a daughter and two sons: Hon. Clare...
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  • Australian organized-crime boss Alphonse Gangitano (40), the "Black Prince of Lygon Street", was found in his home dead from gunshot wounds shortly before midnight...
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    site was opened by the university's chancellor, Lord Beauchamp William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp. A pavilion and covered stand followed in 1932, and...
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    often inspired by close women friends; Helen Weaver was succeeded by Mary Lygon, Dora Penny, Julia Worthington, Alice Stuart Wortley and finally Vera Hockman...
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    Practising School" was opened in a former primary school on the corner of Lygon and Lytton Streets, Carlton. In 1913, it changed its name to "The University...
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    of Jersey, Sir Robert Duff, Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp Governors of Western Australia: Sir James Stirling,...
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  • Christ Church Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans Christ Church Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp Christ Church Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe Christ...
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