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    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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    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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  • 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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