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    Luxborough is a small village and civil parish located some 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Dunster, lying amongst the Brendon Hills and the Exmoor National...
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    The Luxborough Galley was an English ship owned by the South Sea Company which in 1727 burnt, exploded and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Twelve of the crew...
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  • Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1763 for Robert Knight, 1st Baron Luxborough (1702–1772), Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby, Castle Rising and...
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    Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (née St John; 15 July 1699 — 26 March 1756), was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener...
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    Luxborough Street, formerly Northumberland Street, is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Marylebone Road in the north to Paddington...
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    The Anglican St Mary's Church at Luxborough within the English county of Somerset dates from the 13th century. It is a Grade II listed building. The chancel...
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    (1747–54) and Milborne Port, Somerset (1770–72). He became successively Baron Luxborough (1745), Viscount Barrells and Earl of Catherlough (both 1763), all titles...
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  • Luxborough Road (sometimes referred to as "Langham" or "Langham Hill") was an intermediate station on the West Somerset Mineral Railway (WSMR), which was...
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  • £4 million, and the club moved the training ground to the Spurs Lodge on Luxborough Lane, Chigwell in Essex, opened in September 1996 by Tony Blair. The training...
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    first recorded by the OED in a letter of 1748 by Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough to the fanatical gardener William Shenstone: "Nature has been so remarkably...
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  • brother and political ally Cornelis. The accounts of the sinking of the Luxborough Galley in 1727 reported cannibalism among the survivors during their two...
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  • Parliament of Great Britain Preceded by Joseph Mellish The Lord Luxborough Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1768–1774 With: Joseph Mellish Succeeded by...
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    (1748–1754) Succeeded by Sewallis Shirley John Sharpe Preceded by The Lord Luxborough Thomas Howard Member of Parliament for Castle Rising 1754–1757 With: Thomas...
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  • Little is known of Hylton's early life, but later correspondence with Lady Luxborough speaks of his "shattered fortune" and mentions his "loss of a place at...
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    The loss of the slave ship Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the triangular trade, between the Caribbean and Britain....
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  • Ditton Portsmouth Road Old Loughtonians Chigwell Roding Sports Centre, Luxborough Lane Richmond Chiswick Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Sevenoaks Sevenoaks...
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    West Somerset Mineral Railway West Somerset Mineral Railway Gupworthy Luxborough Road Brendon Hill Comberow Roadwater Clitsome Torre (WSMR) Washford (WSMR)...
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  • Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at the Roding Sports Centre, Luxborough Lane in Chigwell. The club runs ten men's and five women's teams in addition...
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  • parishes of Minehead, Cutcombe, Carhampton, Luccombe, Withycombe, Wootton, Luxborough, Almsworthy, Oare, Dunster, Porlock, Langham, Selworthy, Wilmersham, Allerford...
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    Frederick. In June 1725 he was on board the South Sea Company slaver Luxborough Galley when the ship sunk following a fire and the six survivors only...
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  • Pixell of Edgbaston; William Somervile of Edstone in Warwickshire; Lady Luxborough of Barrells Hall near Henley-in-Arden; Richard Jago of Snitterfield, whom...
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  • 1958, Hemingway and Sharp purchased the freehold for Slowley Woods, near Luxborough which was the first League Against Cruel Sports sanctuary "for wild animals...
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    to Marylebone High Street in the west. Sherlock Mews, Chiltern Street, Luxborough Street, and Nottingham Place join Paddington Street on its north side...
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    Hills. The route then crosses Exmoor through the villages of Monksilver, Luxborough, Winsford and Exford to the Doone Valley, Badgworthy Water and Malmsmead...
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  • Weacombe, Lower Whatley, Loxton, Luccombe, Lufton, Lullington, Lulsgate, Luxborough, Lydeard St Lawrence, Lydford-on-Fosse, Lynch, Lyncombe, Lympsham, Lyng...
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    included in Select Letters (ed. Thomas Hill 1778). The letters of Lady Luxborough (née Henrietta St John) to Shenstone were printed by T. Dodsley in 1775;...
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    the parlour of one of the survivors of the Luxborough Galley, was repeated in The Loss of the 'Luxborough' Galley in 1727 and the Escape of Some of her...
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    of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull (d. 1757) Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener (d...
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  • Northumberland Street may also refer to: Northumberland Street, London, London Luxborough Street, formerly Northumberland Street, London Northumberland Avenue,...
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  • trainer) (born 1946), English racehorse trainer Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough (1699–1756), British poet This disambiguation page lists articles about...
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