Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham PC (30 November 1738 – 20 July 1786) was a British statesman. He notably served as Foreign Secretary between 1782...
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Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham, 6th Baron Lucas, KG, PC, FRS (born Robinson, later Weddell; 8 December 1781 – 14 November...
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Grantham (/ˈɡrænθəm/) is a market town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to...
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List of Downton Abbey characters (redirect from Countess of Grantham)
Crawley, Earl of Grantham (played by Hugh Bonneville) (b. July 1865), usually called Lord Grantham, is the 7th and current Earl of Grantham. He is the husband...
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eastern part of the town. Incorporated in 1761, Grantham takes its name from Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, Secretary of State for the Southern Department...
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Theresa Parker (category Daughters of barons)
interior design and golden age of Saltram House. Daughter of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham and Frances Worsley, Parker was born in Vienna where her...
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progeny. Secondly, in 1769, to Theresa Robinson (1744/5-1775), second daughter of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham. Lord Boringdon survived her by thirteen...
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Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC (19 December 1824 – 28 October 1897), was a British colonial administrator who became the...
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Nappa Hall (section Robinson)
and added a stable and coach house. Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, inherited Nappa from Weddell family; Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, eldest son...
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Chapman: December 1957. William McKeag: December 1966. Violet Hardisty Grantham: December 1966. Dame Catherine Campbell Scott: December 1966. Gladys Robson:...
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was tall and thin, while his contemporary of the same name Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham was short and fat. "I can't imagine", said the witty Lady...
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House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney. He held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the...
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William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, PC (Ire), FRS (3 April 1745 – 28 May 1814) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from...
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Earl of Hardwicke (redirect from Baron Hardwicke)
for Philip Yorke, 1st Baron Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1737 to 1756. He had already been created Baron Hardwicke, of Hardwicke...
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"Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 350; see para 2. Grantham's elder son, Thomas Robinson (1738–1786)...
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(and sworn of the Privy Council) in July 1765 jointly with Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, until he resigned in 1766, his initial offer to resign having...
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Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 1774 – 12 May 1848), was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family....
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and left Newby Hall to his distant cousin Thomas Robinson, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), then 3rd Baron Grantham, who in 1803 in accordance with the bequest...
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Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, PC (/læbuːˈʃɛər/; 15 August 1798 – 13 July 1869) was a prominent British Whig and Liberal Party politician of the...
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Saltram, all in Devon, and his second wife Theresa Robinson, daughter of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham. His mother died when he was three years old and...
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Thomas served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Leader of the House of Commons, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantham in...
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George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (redirect from George Eden, Earl Of, 2nd Baron Auckland, 2nd Baron Auckland of Auckland, Baron Eden of Norwood Auckland)
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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Bedfordshire until 1767. He was considered a close friend of Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham. In 1759 his father the Duke, as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire...
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Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys PC (/ˈsændz/; 10 August 1695 – 21 April 1770), was a British Whig politician who represented Worcester in the House of...
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Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, OM, PC (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London...
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Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL (born 27 June 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of...
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Alexandra. 1856: Colonel the Honourable C. B. Phipps 1856: Thomas Pemberton Leigh (later Baron Kingsdown) 1856: Lord Alfred Hervey 1856: W. J. Alexander...
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Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KStJ (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and colonial...
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Keith Joseph (redirect from Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph)
2013 Moore, Charles. Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands (2013) O'Connell, Jeffrey and Thomas E. O'Connell. "Global Raising and Razing of...
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Charles James Fox (category Younger sons of barons)
the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of...
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