William Weddell (13 May 1736 – 30 April 1792) of Newby Hall in the parish of Skelton-on-Ure, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was a British...
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The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats...
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Richard Elcock (later Richard Elcock Weddell), to whose young son William Weddell it passed in 1762. William Weddell (1736–1792), an MP for the constituency...
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Catholicism. The Burgh (Burke) dynasty descends from the Anglo-Norman knight, William de Burgh, who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following Henry II of England's...
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3rd Baron Grantham. In 1792 he became the heir of his distant cousin William Weddell (1736–1792) of Newby Hall in Yorkshire, a notable art collector. Also...
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America, and of the African slave trade. Fellow abolitionist of slavery, William Wilberforce, took Hartley's place as MP for Hull in 1780 and was co-Member...
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Weddell Island (Spanish: Isla San José) is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is...
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was "almost universally admired and approved". Fitzwilliam wrote to William Weddell on 2 March 1790 that he supported Fox's support for the repeal of the...
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Yorkshire, for Edwin Lascelles (1767–78); Newby Hall, Yorkshire, for William Weddell (c. 1772–76); Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, for Lord Irwin (1774); Paxton...
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John Weddell (1583–1642) was an English sea captain who served for the Muscovy Company and then the East India Company (EIC). From May to August 1617...
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Nappa Hall (section Weddell, Elcock)
the surname Weddell, with remainder to Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham. The Weddells of Newby Hall made some improvements. William Weddell (1736-1792)...
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Barberini Venus (redirect from Weddell Venus)
community established in Rome, and then from him in the spring of 1765 by William Weddell of Newby Hall, Yorkshire, who was on the Grand Tour. The undisclosed...
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by Ernest Shackleton. The personnel were divided into two groups: the Weddell Sea party consisting of the men who would attempt the crossing and their...
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Books. ISBN 0-670-03026-0. OCLC 150844927. Guilding, Ruth, and others, William Weddell and the transformation of Newby Hall, Jeremy Mills Publishing for Leeds...
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Marion Rogers "Mimi' Weddell (February 15, 1915 – September 24, 2009) was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Stanford's grandmother...
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1080/000337900296308. S2CID 145603120. Guilding, Ruth; et al. (2004). William Weddell and the transformation of Newby Hall. Jeremy Mills Publishing for Leeds...
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completed his study of Divinity in 1760. He became tutor to the family of William Weddell of Belford, Northumberland for a year then became assistant to the...
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in 1804. She left the estate to her stepsister Elizabeth, widow of William Weddell MP, who sold it to Josias Du Pré Porcher in 1805. In 1810 the estate...
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1761–1780 With: John Mostyn 1761–1768 The Viscount Downe 1768–1774 Edmund Burke 1774–1775 William Weddell 1775–1780 Succeeded by Edmund Burke William Weddell...
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A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking...
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by-election. Cavendish resigned, causing a by-election. Wentworth-FitzWilliam resigned in order to contest a by-election at North Northamptonshire, causing...
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Point (East Falkland) Walker Creek (Lafonia/East Falkland) Weddell Settlement (on Weddell Island) Westpoint Island Settlement (on Westpoint Island) List...
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conveyed to them. William Weddell's Estate Act 1777 17 Geo. 3. c. 92 7 May 1777 An Act for vesting Part of the Settled Estates of William Weddell Esquire, in...
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expedition of 1907–1909. In this new venture, he proposed to sail to the Weddell Sea and to land a shore party near Vahsel Bay, in preparation for a transcontinental...
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upon which the estate passed to her stepsister Elizabeth, widow of William Weddell MP. Her husband had left her Newby Hall in Mayfair, therefore having...
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Most spectacularly of all, the MP and collector of ancient sculpture, William Weddell, died of a seizure in the bath on a hot day in the spring of 1792 (though...
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satellite data against more direct upward looking sonar observations in the Weddell Sea area. He concluded that Bootstrap data produced a better fit than data...
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of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave Nathaniel Dance – William Weddell, The Reverend William Palgrave and Mr Janson in Rome Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The...
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Drawing from the Past: William Weddell and the Transformation of Newby Hall (2005) by Giles Worsley, Kerry Bristol, and William Connor (catalogue of 2004–5...
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(seat 2/2) William Strahan Tory Malton (seat 1/2) Savile Finch Malton (seat 2/2) Edmund Burke – sat for Bristol Replaced by William Weddell 1775 Whig Marlborough...
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