• Sir Thomas Holcroft (1505 – 31 July 1558) was a sixteenth-century English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner. Holcroft's fortune was made from...
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  • Parliament (MP) for Midhurst Thomas Holcroft (politician) (1505–1558), English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner Thomas Holcroft (the younger) (died...
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  • baronet Harold Holcroft (1882–1973), English railway engineer Holcroft valve gear Henry Holcroft (1586–1650), English politician John Holcroft (disambiguation)...
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  • Sir John Holcroft (died 1560) of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, was a soldier, politician, and landowner of the Tudor period. He was returned twice as a member...
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    John Holcroft, the lord of the manor in the early 16th century and father of the politician John Holcroft (d.1560) and the courtier Sir Thomas Holcroft (d...
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  • John Holcroft (died 1656) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1648. He fought in the Parliamentary army...
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  • administration in Ireland. Holcroft was the son of Thomas Holcroft of Battersea, Surrey, and Joan Roydon, and grandson of Geoffrey Holcroft of Hurst, Lancashire...
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    advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on...
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  • Blood (1872–1942), American businessman and two-term governor of Utah Holcroft Blood (c.1657-1707), Anglo-Irish soldier Maurice Blood (1870–1940), British...
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  • Younger – The Surrender of Calais Hannah Cowley – A Day in Turkey Thomas Holcroft – The School for Arrogance Elizabeth Inchbald Lovers' Vows Next Door...
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    Colonel Thomas Blood, who nearly succeeded in stealing the Crown Jewels, was married at Winwick, and lived for a while at Holcroft Hall (on Holcroft Lane...
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    with France and call for democratic reform, among them Thomas Hardy, Thomas Spence, Thomas Holcroft, and John Thelwall. For the government of William Pitt...
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  • Romantic Lover Richard Cumberland – A Hint to Husbands Thomas Dibdin – Five Miles Off Thomas Holcroft – The Vindictive Man Heinrich von Kleist – The Broken...
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    George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (category English politicians convicted of crimes)
    adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, George Boleyn is portrayed by Edward Holcroft. In the 2021 Channel 5 series Anne Boleyn, he was played by Paapa Essiedu...
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  • Reval, then subject to the Russian Empire. Rhijnvis Feith – Julia Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture Sophia Lee – The Recess Johann Karl August Musäus...
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    (1789) Adelaide in The German Hotel by Thomas Holcroft (1790) Lady Peckham in The School for Arrogance by Thomas Holcroft (1791) Lauretta in A Day in Turkey...
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  • Suffolk. Armine married secondly, on 28 August 1628, Mary Holcroft, widow of Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal Abbey (1557–1620) and daughter of Henry Talbot...
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  • March 23 – Thomas Holcroft, English dramatist and miscellanist (born 1745) March 25 – Anna Seward, English poet (born 1747) June 8 – Thomas Paine, English...
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  • Wolfgang von Goethe – Torquato Tasso (completed) William Hayley – Eudora Thomas Holcroft – The German Hotel Edmond Malone (editor) – The Plays and Poems of...
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    Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia. Vol. 1. Translated by Holcroft, Thomas. London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson. 1789 [1746]. The History of the Seven...
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    through Sheridan that Godwin became acquainted with a life-long friend Thomas Holcroft, whose arguments convinced Godwin to finally reject Christianity and...
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  • Condé Nast Patrick Reyntiens (born 1925), stained glass artist Edward Holcroft (born 1987), film, television and stage actor James Honeyborne (born 1970)...
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    military secretary Adam de Cardonnel and the artillery commander Colonel Holcroft Blood. He also worked with the Dutch political representative Anthonie...
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    William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton (1550 – 1 October 1631) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1622...
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    Thomas Ratcliffe of Winmarleigh, Lancashire. An heiress who brought considerable wealth to the marriage, her wardship was held by Sir John Holcroft,...
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    Valentia. He is best remembered for his clash with the Lord Lieutenant, Thomas Wentworth, who in order to render Annesley powerless had him sentenced to...
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    Matthew Gregory Lewis (category English LGBTQ politicians)
    other performances put on in the Drury Lane Theatre, most often for Thomas Holcroft. Lewis would insert ghosts into otherwise non-supernatural plays. These...
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    the name The Sot in 1775. The Rival Queens (1794), adapted by William Holcroft from Fielding's The Covent-Garden Tragedy Lock Up Your Daughters (1959)...
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  • Northamptonshire (died 8 March 1641) was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641...
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    landed gentry family. Margaret had two brothers: Sir John Holcroft and Sir Thomas Holcroft. Both distinguished themselves in the Anglo-Scottish Wars,...
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