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    Whitelackington is a village and civil parish on the A303 one mile north east of Ilminster, in Somerset, England. The parish includes Dillington Park...
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    The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Whitelackington, Somerset, England was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building...
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    and was buried in his father's churchyard at his childhood home of Whitelackington. Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal....
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    bars azure overall an eagle with two heads displayed gules (Speke of Whitelackington) with honourable augmentation a chief azure thereon a representation...
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    Sir George Speke (c.1530-1584) of Whitelackington in Somerset was Sheriff of Somerset in 1562–63 and was Member of Parliament for Somerset 1572–83. He...
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    Sir John Speke (c.1442–1518) of Whitelackington, Somerset and of Heywood in the parish of Wembworthy and of Bramford Speke both in Devon, was Sheriff...
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    married Anne Speke (before 1741 – 1797), daughter of George Speke MP, of Whitelackington in Somerset. She was the sole heiress of the Devonshire estates of...
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  • English writer and agitator. He was a son of George and Mary Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset. His father was a member of the Green Ribbon Club, the Whig...
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    Positivism and finally Roman Catholicism. Paul was born on 8 March 1828 at Whitelackington, Somerset, the eldest of 10 children of the Reverend Charles Paul (1802 –...
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  • (South Somerset), Wheathill, Wheddon Cross, Whitchurch, White Ball, Whitelackington, Whitestaunton, Wick, Wick St. Lawrence, Willett, Williton, Wilton...
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    were uncovered during the Baedeker Blitz John Speke (1442–1518) of Whitelackington, Somerset and of Heywood in the parish of Wembworthy and of Bramford...
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    Exeter Cathedral, Devon, burial place of Sir John Speke (d. 1518) of Whitelackington, Somerset (The Redvers lions have been incorrectly restored as sable...
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    Earnshill, Fivehead, Ilminster, Puckington, South Bradon, Swell and Whitelackington. The Hundred contained 38,575 acres (15,611 ha), had a population of...
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  • of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of Sir George Speke of Whitelackington. He was knighted at Theobalds on 15 December 1613. He was appointed...
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  • Ilminster, Ashill, Ilton, Dowlish Wake, Shepton Beauchamp, Donyatt, Whitelackington Somerset TA20 CHARD Chard, Buckland St Mary, Forton, Combe St Nicholas...
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  • Broadway, Bickenhall, Beercrocombe, Ilton, Barrington, Ashill, Ilminster, Whitelackington, Curland, Donyatt, Isle-Abbotts, Hatch-Beauchamp, and the Tithing of...
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    79 (Crewkerne) Whitelackington Civil parish 209 Chard Rural District 50°56′N 2°53′W / 50.94°N 2.88°W / 50.94; -2.88 (Whitelackington) Whitestaunton...
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    residential adult education college near Ilminster in the parish of Whitelackington, Somerset, England. The present house, which dates from the 16th century...
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    79 (Crewkerne) Whitelackington Civil parish 209 Chard Rural District 50°56′N 2°53′W / 50.94°N 2.88°W / 50.94; -2.88 (Whitelackington) Whitestaunton...
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  • that he held were rector of Chelwood, Somerset (1721); prebend of Whitelackington, Somerset (1726); chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield...
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    1567), and daughter of John and Agnes Wogan of Silving or Silvinch in Whitelackington. Ursula Stourton, who married Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln Dorothy...
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  • livings, and received in addition, on 12 September 1660, the prebend of Whitelackington in Wells Cathedral. He died in April 1668. Huish was author of: Lectures...
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  • Hillyard 1659: William Lacey 1660: William Helyar 1661: George Speke of Whitelackington 1662: John Warre of Hestercombe House, Kingston 1663: George Newton...
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    II he became an early Whig supporter in Parliament. Speke was from Whitelackington, near Ilminster in Somerset; his parents were George Speke, and Joan...
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  • Seavington-Saint-Mary, Standerwick, Tellesford, Wayford, West Dowlish, Whatley, Whitelackington, Withypoole, and Woolverton.   Brockley and Chelvey Order 1884   Ashill...
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  • College, at Bridgwater, Taunton, and Cannington Dillington House, Whitelackington Richard Huish College, Taunton Strode College, Street Yeovil College...
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    Eggesford House, for many centuries the seat of the Speke family, later of Whitelackington in Somerset. The Speke Chantry in Exeter Cathedral contains the effigy...
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    Thomas Brooke (d.1537) and Joan (d.1538) daughter of Sir John Speke of Whitelackington In 1862, the village was the scene of the rape and murder of 16-year...
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    Richard Unde, both of Exeter), 3rd wife of Sir John Speke (1442–1518) of Whitelackington, Somerset and of Heywood in the parish of Wembworthy and of Bramford...
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    Katherine Prideaux, who had married in 1679 at Exeter Sir John Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset. Katherine had no children and bequeathed it to Mr James...
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