Earl Amherst (/ˈæmərst/), of Arracan in the East Indies, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 December 1826, for William...
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William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst GCH PC (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General...
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William Archer Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst (26 March 1836 – 14 August 1910), styled Viscount Holmesdale from 1857 to 1886, was a British peer, politician...
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Hugh Amherst, 4th Earl Amherst (30 January 1856 – 7 March 1927) was a British peer, who succeeded to the earldom and its associated titles upon the death...
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Jeffery John Archer Amherst, 5th Earl Amherst MC (13 December 1896 – 4 March 1993), styled Viscount Holmesdale between 1910 and 1927, was a British pilot...
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Amherst Street is a north–south street in Central Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The street was named after William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst...
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William Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst Josceline Amherst, Australian politician and fifth son of the 2nd earl William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst Hugh Amherst, 4th...
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Pitt Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst (3 September 1805 – 26 March 1886), styled Viscount Holmesdale between 1826 and 1857, was a British peer. Amherst was born...
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Amherst may refer to: Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage;...
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Baronet; Hon. Jeffrey Amherst (1802–1826); William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805–1886); Hon. Frederick Campbell Amherst (1807–1829). "Monday Morning...
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Created Earl Amherst in 1826. Created Earl of Auckland in 1839. Created Viscount Hardinge in 1846. Created Marquess of Dalhousie 1849. Created Earl Canning...
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under the leadership of the Governor-General of Bengal, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. The mutiny had its roots in British insensitivity towards Indian...
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Hansard Archive 1803–2005. 17 May 1927. Retrieved 27 December 2023. "Earl of Amherst". UK Parliament. House of Lords. Retrieved 17 December 2022. "Preamble"...
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1993. Baron Amherst of Hackney (Peerage of the United Kingdom) — created in 1892 for William Tyssen-Amherst; extant. Earl Amherst Amherst (disambiguation)...
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included: William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan, GCH, PC, a future Governor-General of India Elizabeth Frances Amherst Amherst was commissioned...
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1830–1835: Earl of Fife 1830–1832: Lord Clinton 1830–18: Earl of Warwick 1830–1831: Earl of Roden 1830–18: Earl of Chesterfield 1830–1835: Earl Amherst 1830–1837:...
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Marquess of Exeter (redirect from Earl of Exeter)
third son of the first Earl of Exeter. Also, Lord William Cecil, third son of the third Marquess, married Mary, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney. Their grandson...
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cricket. Josceline Amherst was born in Westminster in London on 7 June 1846, the fifth son of William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst. He was educated at...
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William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773–1857), Governor-General of Bengal William Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805–1886), British peer William Amherst, 3rd...
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Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams (redirect from Sarah Elizabeth Pitt Amherst)
illustrator. She was born on 9 July 1801 to Sarah Amherst and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. She travelled with her parents to India and while there completed...
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Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1874 to 1890) Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom (1891 to 1898) William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst (1898 to 1901)...
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He married in 1842 Lady Sarah Elizabeth Pitt Amherst, the daughter of William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. One of their children was Margaret Maria, later...
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such as the British George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1793) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1816), refused submission before the Emperor...
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William Augustus Pitt (c. 1728–1809), British general William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773–1857), Governor-General of India between 1823 and 1828 William...
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interrogation. Lin was later executed by slicing. In 1816, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst was sent as ambassador extraordinary to the court, intending to...
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the Netherlands and VOC to greet Qianlong Emperor William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest Halliday Macartney – a...
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Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces...
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correspondence with her brother William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst was published as The Rising Country: the Hale-Amherst Correspondence, 1799-1825 (ISBN 0968931715)...
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Western Morning News. Thursday 17 August 1939. Jeffery Amherst, 5th Earl Amherst, general manager of the Great Western and Southern Air Lines Ltd., marking...
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her second husband William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, later Earl Amherst. thepeerage.com Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth The Official Baronage...
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