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    Stamford Baron St Martin is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Stamford, in the South Kesteven district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England...
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    and is called Stamford Baron or St Martin's. A church was first erected here between 1133 and 1147 by Martin de Vecti (also known as Martin de Bec), Abbot...
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    History of Stamford, in the County of Lincoln: Comprising Its Ancient, Progressive, and Modern State: with an Account of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, and Great...
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    descended from the courtier Sir Richard Cecil of the parish of Stamford Baron St Martin in Northamptonshire. His only son, Sir William Cecil, was a prominent...
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    1835, Stamford Baron St Martin which forms the southern part of the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire was part of Northamptonshire as St Martin Without...
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  • Government Act 1888 from the part of the Stamford Baron St. Martin parish which was outside the municipal boundary of Stamford. It became part of the Barnack Rural...
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    as the Sixth Form campus, named 'St Martin's'. Since 1885 The Stamfordian has been the school magazine of Stamford School. Currently published annually...
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    of the Great North Road in St Martin's, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The hotel itself and numbers 68 and 69 St Martin's, which has been incorporated...
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    London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford. William Cecil first married Mary Cheke (Cheek), daughter of...
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    1935 Stamford Baron St Martin (an ancient parish in the Soke of Peterborough, split in 1894 into St Martin's Within (moved to Lincolnshire) and St Martin's...
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    1622. His great-great-grandson John Proby represented Huntingdonshire and Stamford in the House of Commons. His son and namesake John Proby was a Whig politician...
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    politician, courtier, and Master of Burghley (Burleigh) in the parish of Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire. His father Sir David Cecil, of Welsh ancestry, rose...
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    George Whiteley, 1st Baron Marchamley PC (30 August 1855 – 21 October 1925) was a British Conservative turned Liberal Party politician. He served as Chief...
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    Elmwood, in the parish of St Peters in the County of Kent in 1904. In 1905, Harmsworth was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of...
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    House (/ˈbɜːrli/) is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house...
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    Kesteven). It included the parishes of Bainton, Barnack, Southorpe, Stamford Baron, St Martins Without, Thornhaugh, Ufford, Wansford, Wittering and Wothorpe...
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    prominent statesman the 1st Baron Burghley, from his second marriage, to Mildred Cooke. His elder half-brother the 2nd Baron Burghley, was created Earl...
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    South and West Rural Districts and the boroughs of Grantham and Stamford The title of Baron Kesteven existed from 1868 until 1915. The title of Duke of Ancaster...
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  • Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 – June 12, 2006), known in Canada as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian/British businessman...
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    Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 1774 – 12 May 1848), was a British politician, diplomat, nobleman, and financier, and a member of...
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  • among barons is: Barons of England Lords of Parliament of Scotland Barons of Great Britain Barons of Ireland Barons of the United Kingdom However barons of...
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    Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, PC (/læbuːˈʃɛər/; 15 August 1798 – 13 July 1869) was a British Whig and Liberal Party politician of the mid-19th...
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    a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for the 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1635 to 1636...
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  • December 1638 – 1642 Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford 1642–? (Parliamentary) Interregnum Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough 14 January 1661 – 10 January...
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    Born in Beckenham, Kent, Auckland was the second son of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet. His...
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    Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford KP PC (18 January 1823 – 30 January 1898), known as Chichester Fortescue...
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  • The holders of the first creation were later elevated to the peerage as Baron Aveland and Earl of Ancaster, which titles are now extinct. However, both...
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    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (/ˈætənbərə/; 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, and producer. Attenborough...
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    Manners (died 1660), and had two children. Mary is buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford. Westmorland, Mildmay Fane Earl of (2001). The Poetry of Mildmay...
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    William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter (category Barons Burghley)
    March 1915– d. 27 June 2001 Stamford, Lincolnshire, ENG), married Major Hon. Peter Brassey, son of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey and had issue. Burghley...
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