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    Earl of Egmont was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the...
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    John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont PC FRS (24 or 25 February 1711 – 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who...
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  • Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), the best known member of the Egmont family Egmont (play), a play by Goethe...
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    John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (12 July 1683 – 1 May 1748), known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715...
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    4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich...
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    cape after the Earl of Egmont, who claimed descent of the Dutch House of Egmond. In July 1862, Kapoaiaia near Cape Egmont was the site of a hui between...
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    Frederick George Moore Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont (14 April 1914 – 8 December 2001), was a Canadian farmer and peer. Born in Calgary, Perceval and his...
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    Mount Taranaki (redirect from Mt. Egmont)
    Mount Egmont on 11 January 1770 after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, a former First Lord of the Admiralty who had supported the concept of an oceanic...
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    Falkland, and is named after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of its founding. The original name for the settlement...
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    Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    daughter and coheiress of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and 18th Baron de Clifford. His uncle was Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham. He was educated...
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    Sir Edward Tierney, 2nd Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
    as one of the Crown Solicitor for Ireland for the North-West Circuit, and served as agent and legal adviser to Henry Perceval, 5th Earl of Egmont. Through...
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    2nd Earl Grey (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig politician who was Prime Minister of the...
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  • made Earl of Moira in the Irish peerage. Lord Moira married, firstly, Helena Perceval (1718-1746), daughter of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont and Lady...
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  • John Perceval, 4th Earl of Egmont (13 August 1767 – 31 December 1835), styled Viscount Perceval from 1770 to 1822, was a British peer and politician. He...
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    children: James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (1713–1780) Catherine Cecil (c. 1719–1752), married John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont and had issue. Anne Cecil...
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    of the 2nd Earl of Egmont; he was the second son of the Earl's second marriage. His mother, Catherine Compton, Baroness Arden, was a granddaughter of...
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  • John James Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont (29 January 1737/38 – 25 February 1822), styled Viscount Perceval from 1748 to 1770, was a British politician....
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    purchased by George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont. The present house was built by his son Charles Perceval, 7th Earl of Egmont in the 1870s. It was purchased...
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    George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, KG, PC, DL, FRS, FSA (1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834), styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British...
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    Nendö (island) (category Islands of the Solomon Islands)
    also been called New Guernsey and Lord Egmont's Island, after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, First Lord of the Admiralty. Located at 10°25′12″S 165°30′00″E...
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  • Henry Frederick Joseph James Perceval, 5th Earl of Egmont (3 January 1796 – 23 December 1841), styled Viscount Perceval from 1822 to 1835, was a British...
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    politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1761. Christened George Bubb, he was the eldest son of Jeremiah Bubb of Foy, Herefordshire and his...
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    the wife of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, and the mother of another Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval. Lord Alwyne Compton, fourth son of the second...
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    to the voters, the King created him Duke of Clarence and St Andrews and Earl of Munster on 19 May 1789, supposedly saying: "I well know it is another vote...
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    Moore Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont who lived in the Calgary area until his death in 2001. His family had at one time 600 acres of ranch land in south...
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    1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough (1 May 1885 – 11 January 1965) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the...
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  • James Arthur Williams (category American people acquitted of murder)
    preservation of the Savannah Historic District for over 35 years. Williams is the main character in John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and...
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    Earl of Balfour (/ˈbælfər, -fɔːr/; 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who was Prime Minister of the...
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    Netherlandish army commanded by the non-Spaniards the duke of Savoy and the earl of Egmont". On the other hand, Geoffrey Parker states that Spanish troops were...
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  • Charles George Perceval, 7th Earl of Egmont (15 June 1845 – 5 September 1897) was a British peer and Conservative Party politician of the Victorian era. On 19...
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