Sir Thomas Holcroft (1505 – 31 July 1558) was a sixteenth-century English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner. Holcroft's fortune was made from...
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Parliament (MP) for Midhurst Thomas Holcroft (politician) (1505–1558), English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner Thomas Holcroft (the younger) (died...
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baronet Harold Holcroft (1882–1973), English railway engineer Holcroft valve gear Henry Holcroft (1586–1650), English politician John Holcroft (disambiguation)...
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Sir John Holcroft (died 1560) of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, was a soldier, politician, and landowner of the Tudor period. He was returned twice as a member...
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John Holcroft, the lord of the manor in the early 16th century and father of the politician John Holcroft (d.1560) and the courtier Sir Thomas Holcroft (d...
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John Holcroft (died 1656) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1648. He fought in the Parliamentary army...
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administration in Ireland. Holcroft was the son of Thomas Holcroft of Battersea, Surrey, and Joan Roydon, and grandson of Geoffrey Holcroft of Hurst, Lancashire...
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advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on...
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Blood (1872–1942), American businessman and two-term governor of Utah Holcroft Blood (c.1657-1707), Anglo-Irish soldier Maurice Blood (1870–1940), British...
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Younger – The Surrender of Calais Hannah Cowley – A Day in Turkey Thomas Holcroft – The School for Arrogance Elizabeth Inchbald Lovers' Vows Next Door...
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Colonel Thomas Blood, who nearly succeeded in stealing the Crown Jewels, was married at Winwick, and lived for a while at Holcroft Hall (on Holcroft Lane...
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John Horne Tooke (redirect from John Horne (politician))
with France and call for democratic reform, among them Thomas Hardy, Thomas Spence, Thomas Holcroft, and John Thelwall. For the government of William Pitt...
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George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (category English politicians convicted of crimes)
adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, George Boleyn is portrayed by Edward Holcroft. In the 2021 Channel 5 series Anne Boleyn, he was played by Paapa Essiedu...
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Romantic Lover Richard Cumberland – A Hint to Husbands Thomas Dibdin – Five Miles Off Thomas Holcroft – The Vindictive Man Heinrich von Kleist – The Broken...
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Reval, then subject to the Russian Empire. Rhijnvis Feith – Julia Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture Sophia Lee – The Recess Johann Karl August Musäus...
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(1789) Adelaide in The German Hotel by Thomas Holcroft (1790) Lady Peckham in The School for Arrogance by Thomas Holcroft (1791) Lauretta in A Day in Turkey...
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Suffolk. Armine married secondly, on 28 August 1628, Mary Holcroft, widow of Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal Abbey (1557–1620) and daughter of Henry Talbot...
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March 23 – Thomas Holcroft, English dramatist and miscellanist (born 1745) March 25 – Anna Seward, English poet (born 1747) June 8 – Thomas Paine, English...
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Wolfgang von Goethe – Torquato Tasso (completed) William Hayley – Eudora Thomas Holcroft – The German Hotel Edmond Malone (editor) – The Plays and Poems of...
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Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia. Vol. 1. Translated by Holcroft, Thomas. London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson. 1789 [1746]. The History of the Seven...
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Condé Nast Patrick Reyntiens (born 1925), stained glass artist Edward Holcroft (born 1987), film, television and stage actor James Honeyborne (born 1970)...
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through Sheridan that Godwin became acquainted with a life-long friend Thomas Holcroft, whose arguments convinced Godwin to finally reject Christianity and...
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military secretary Adam de Cardonnel and the artillery commander Colonel Holcroft Blood. He also worked with the Dutch political representative Anthonie...
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William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton (1550 – 1 October 1631) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1622...
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Thomas Ratcliffe of Winmarleigh, Lancashire. An heiress who brought considerable wealth to the marriage, her wardship was held by Sir John Holcroft,...
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Matthew Gregory Lewis (category English LGBTQ politicians)
other performances put on in the Drury Lane Theatre, most often for Thomas Holcroft. Lewis would insert ghosts into otherwise non-supernatural plays. These...
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Valentia. He is best remembered for his clash with the Lord Lieutenant, Thomas Wentworth, who in order to render Annesley powerless had him sentenced to...
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the name The Sot in 1775. The Rival Queens (1794), adapted by William Holcroft from Fielding's The Covent-Garden Tragedy Lock Up Your Daughters (1959)...
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Northamptonshire (died 8 March 1641) was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641...
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January 25 – The London Corresponding Society is founded. February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy The Road to Ruin in London. February 20 The Postal...
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