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    Sir Ferdinando Gorges Frances Gorges (1580–1649), who in about 1610 married Thomas Tyringham of Little Langford, Wiltshire Bridget Gorges (1584-c1634),...
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  • also refer to: Gorges, Loire-Atlantique, France Gorges, Manche, France Gorges, Somme, France Cognin-les-Gorges, Isère, France Three Gorges, a region in...
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    Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World. Ferdinando Gorges was born between 1565 and 1568, probably in...
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    English Civil War. Gorges was born in 1618 to Henry Gorges of Batcombe, Somerset and his wife Barbara Baynard, daughter of Thomas Baynard of Colerne,...
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    China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The world's largest power station by installed capacity (22,500 MW), the Three Gorges Dam generates 95±20 TWh of electricity...
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    of Radnor and an example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. In 1573 Thomas Gorges acquired the manor (at the time written "Langford"), which was originally...
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    The Gorges family was a gentry family established in the southwest of England. Believed to have come from Gorges in Normandy, the first documented member...
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  • Thomas Gorges, D.D. (13 February 1603 – 12 December 1667) was an English priest in the 17th century. Reniger was born in Wraxall, Somerset and educated...
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    The Gorges family in the Elizabethan era included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the Province of Maine, and Arthur Gorges' uncle, Sir Thomas Gorges of...
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    Baron Gorges of Dundalk was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 13 July 1620 for Sir Edward Gorges, 1st Baronet. He had already been...
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    Helena Snakenborg (category Gorges family)
    (b 1582/3, d in or before 1652), Theobald Gorges (1583–1647), Robert Gorges (1588–1648), and Thomas Gorges (b 1589, d after 1624).[citation needed] The...
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  • side in the English Civil War. Gorges was the son of Sir Thomas Gorges of Langford Wiltshire. In November 1640, Gorges was elected Member of Parliament...
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    train of Cecilia, Margravine of Baden. In 1580, she remarried to Sir Thomas Gorges (1536-1610) of Longford Castle in Wiltshire, by whom she had issue,...
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    itself is 120 km south of Durban. Oribi Gorge, cut by the Mzimkulwana River, is the eastern gorge of two gorges that cut through the Oribi Flats (flat...
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    and Horsewell. His heir was his brother Thomas. Thomas Gorges, born about 1264, died in 1304. John de Gorges, born about 1299. One member of the family...
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  • Thomas Stuart Chambers (born 22 May 1977) is an English actor, known for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical dramas Holby City and Casualty, Max...
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    son of Sir Hugh Smith (1574–1627) and his wife Elizabeth Gorges, a daughter of Thomas Gorges of Lanford and Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton...
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    family, and it was acquired in 1610 by Sir Thomas Gorges, who was succeeded by his son Sir Edward, Baron Gorges of Dundalk. In 1638 he sold it to Edward...
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    Squanto (redirect from Thomas Hunt (slaver))
    Ferdinando Gorges ... (London: E. Brudenell, for N. Brook, 1658) as well as other works of Gorges and his son Thomas Gorges. Volume 3 is devoted to Gorges's letters...
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    Baron Gorges was a title created in the Peerage of England for the soldier Sir Ralph Gorges (died 1323), of Wraxall in Somerset, who was summoned to Parliament...
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    in turn led to many malaria deaths among Native Americans. In 1642, Thomas Gorges wrote that between 1637 and 1645, colonists in Maine (then part of Massachusetts)...
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  • Bonython later served as a councillor to the deputy governor of Maine Thomas Gorges. Bonython was born to John Bonython, a Cornish landowner, and Elinor...
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    Earl of Hertford (1539–1621), nephew of queen-consort Jane Seymour Thomas Gorges, (1536–1610) and wife Helena, Marchioness of Northampton, (1548/1549–1635)...
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  • Piscataqua, before 1643, as a grant of one hundred acres made to him by Thomas Gorges, the deputy governor of the Province of Maine. He died in 1665. Underhill...
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    to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine, territory which included the Plantation of Wells. His young cousin, Thomas Gorges, acting as deputy...
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  • Scituate, p. 69. See also p. 71. Moody, “Thomas Gorges," p. 18; spelling modernized. Moody, “Thomas Gorges,” p. 24. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty, p...
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    Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (b. 1546) March 30 – Thomas Gorges, English knight (b. 1536) April 7 – Hirata Masumune, Japanese samurai...
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  • respects, Bachiler's reputation was such that in 1642, he was asked by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine, to act as arbitration "umpire"...
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    government district of the same name. Famous MPs for the borough include Thomas Cromwell. The 1754 by-election was so fiercely contested that rioting broke...
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    thereupon to have assumed the name de Gorges, and as Theobald de Gorges was sued in 1346–7 by Elizabeth widow of Ralph de Gorges the younger for the manor. Judgement...
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