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    Ussher. Thomas Ussher was born in Dublin, the son of Henry Ussher, the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, and Mary Burne. The Usshers...
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    James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656...
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    Katharine Anne Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British economist, public policy research professional and former politician. In November 2023 she moved...
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    Accra, Ghana Ussher Fort Ussher Fort Ussher Fort Ussher Fort Ussher Fort at Ghana Ussher Fort at Ghana Ussher Fort at Ghana Ussher Fort at Ghana Notes The...
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    Captain Thomas was eventually invalided home, and command of Undaunted passed to Captain Thomas Ussher on 2 February 1813. Under Captain Ussher's command...
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    book on flags. The commander of the British frigate HMS Undaunted, Thomas Ussher, which led Napoleon to Elba from Marseille, tells that "Napoleon had...
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  • (née Ussher) (1619–1693), daughter of James Ussher Henry Ussher (d. 1613), Irish archbishop, nephew of John Ussher, uncle of James Ussher Henry Ussher (astronomer)...
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    Fontainebleau, and conveyed to the island on HMS Undaunted by Captain Thomas Ussher; he arrived at Portoferraio on 4 May 1814. He was allowed to keep a...
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  • February–March 1805. In his biography of Thomas Ussher, Marshall describes Colpoys as having a crew of 40 men. Lieutenant Thomas Ussher (or Usher) was appointed to...
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  • Gold Coast". He was the son of Thomas Neville Ussher, Consul General of Haiti (and son of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher), and his wife Eliza Fawcett....
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    1817–1821 Captain Thomas Briggs 1823–1829 Captain, the Hon. Thomas Ussher, 1830–1831 Post holders included: Commodore, Sir Thomas Ussher, 1832–1838 Note:...
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  • Military offices Preceded by Thomas Ussher Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown 1848–1850 Succeeded by Manley Dixon...
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  • Military offices Preceded by New Post Commander-in-Chief, Cork Station 1844–1847 Succeeded by Thomas Ussher...
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  • VC, group of six medals, sold for £348,000 on 19 November 2009. Sir Thomas Ussher KCH, five-clasp naval general service medal sold for £138,000 on 25...
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    HMS Espoir, one of the squadron off Marseille, under the command of Captain Thomas Ussher. He was later appointed to HMS Carron, stationed on the coast of North...
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    sons of Thomas Ussher by Margaret (d. January 1597), daughter of Henry Geydon, alderman of Dublin, he was born in Dublin about 1550. Ambrose Ussher and James...
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  • wife Margaret Elliott, daughter of Thomas Elliott of Balreask, and brother of Marcus Ussher MP and of Robert Ussher, Bishop of Kildare, he was born in...
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    that shall specify you have acted 'prudently'!" In August 1813 Captain Thomas Ussher on HMS Undaunted discovered a number of vessels lying in the mole at...
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    Delesdernier Grave of Sir Thomas Ussher's wife, Eliza Ussher, died 1835 Grave of William Lawson's father and family Honourable Thomas Cochran (St. Matthew's)...
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  • Captain Sir George Francis Seymour Promoted GCH 1834 1831 Captain Sir Thomas Ussher 1831 Colonel Stephen Remnant Chapman 1831 Sir William Burnett (civil...
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  • Henry Ussher (1741–1790) was an Irish mathematician and astronomer, best known as the inaugural Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin...
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    and survived for several years despite the opposition of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh. James Shirley, the English dramatist, wrote several plays for...
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    p. 242 George Farnham, Quordon records (1912), p. 213 Ball Wright, The Ussher memoirs, pp. 105–107  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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    Book of Uss(h)er" and refers to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh. Despite the name, it is doubtful that Ussher ever actually owned the manuscript. The...
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    His work is what Thomas Heffernan refers to as a "sacred biography", probably intended for a politically ambitious audience. James Ussher wrote that Ninian...
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  • Channel. In February 1813 he was moved into the Undaunted with Captain Thomas Ussher, whom he accompanied to the Duncan of 74 guns in August 1814. On 20...
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  • some time. The youngest son of Henry Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and his first wife Margaret Eliot, daughter of Thomas Elliott of Balreask, he was educated...
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    to have distinguished subsequent naval careers. A case in point was Thomas Ussher, who rose from the hired armed brig Colpoys to become an admiral.[citation...
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    Honthorst. Among Arundel's circle of scholarly and literary friends were James Ussher, William Harvey, John Selden and Francis Bacon. The architect Inigo Jones...
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    Blennerhassett family). Sir Thomas Osborne married secondly on 9 October 1703 his first cousin Anne Ussher, sister of John Ussher MP, and youngest daughter...
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