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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Tamerton Foliot (section Gorges)
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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