• Sir William Courten or Curteen (1572–1636) was a wealthy 17th century merchant, operating from London. He financed the colonisation of Barbados, but lost...
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  • of the wealthy merchant Sir William Courten. The title became extinct on Courten's early death in 1624. Sir Peter Courten, 1st Baronet (c. 1598–1624)...
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  • Courten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: William Courten (1572–1636), English merchant Courten baronets De Courten This page lists...
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    settlers in 1628; a previous settlement under the authority of Sir William Courten was at St. James Town. Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination...
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    conditional on paying of certain debts) the cabinet of curiosities owned by William Courten, who had made collecting the business of his life. When Sloane retired...
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    settlement was established as a proprietary colony and funded by Sir William Courten, a City of London merchant who acquired the title to Barbados and several...
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    the total world population was estimated at 158000. In 1624, when William Courten arrived in Barbados, the only domestic animal on the island was the...
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  • settlement was established as a proprietary colony and funded by Sir William Courten, a City of London merchant who acquired the title to Barbados and several...
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  • vessel. The fleet of four ships and two pinnaces were sent out by Sir William Courten, and Mundy seems to have been employed as a factor. His journals end...
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    by the East India Company, but rather by a private group led by Sir William Courten, including King Charles I's personal interest of £10,000. They were...
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    Press. pp. 303–307. ISBN 0-300-09596-1. Ravenhill, Mary (1996), "Sir William Courten and Mark Pierce's Map of Cullompton of 1633", in Gray, Dan (ed.), Devon...
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  • Weddell was given command of six ships sent by the interloper Sir William Courten of the Courteen association, who had received a patent from the King...
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    Napier, 2nd Baronet Lady Catherine Egerton, married William Courten, son of Sir William Courten Lady Magdalen Egerton, married Sir Gervase Cutler John...
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    subject of the realm. In 1627, eighty settlers and ten slaves, led by William Courten, established a colony on the leeward side of the island. During the...
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    large sum of money acquired through marriage to Hester Courten, daughter of Sir William Courten, an immensely wealthy London textile merchant and financier...
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    financier Sir William Courten (d. 1636), discoverer of Barbados. Boeve married in 1638 Susanna Dwyer, the niece of John Money, Courten's business partner...
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    struggle between Roydon's followers, and those supporting the claims of William Courten. In the end Carlisle's grant was upheld. Roydon, however, is said to...
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    times throughout the years, William The Conqueror granting the manor first to Geoffrey Alselin in 1066. Sir William Courten was a later owner who commissioned...
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  • 'A true State of the case between the Heires and Assignes of Sir William Courten...'. BL MS 2395, fo. 6o2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)...
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  • Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet. His mother was Hester Courten, daughter of Sir William Courten, an immensely wealthy London textile merchant and financier...
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    August 1621 at Warwick. In 1625 he married Hester Courten or Courteen, daughter of Sir William Courten, an immensely wealthy London textile merchant and...
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  • Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. After a struggle over patents with Sir William Courten, Hay had emerged as the proprietor of the island. He died heavily in...
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    of the lives of Lady Frances Hobart, and Lady Katharine Courten who married William Courten, daughters of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater. Collinges...
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    Hester Courten, daughter of Sir William Courten, an immensely wealthy London textile merchant and financier, originally from Menen in Flanders. Courten had...
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    the capital), General Antonio Sorice (War Minister), Admiral Raffaele de Courten (Minister of the Navy), General Renato Sandalli (Minister of the Air Force)...
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    6 March 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2022. Campbell JM, Stephenson MD, de Courten B, Chapman I, Bellman SM, Aromataris E (2018). "Metformin Use Associated...
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    remarried one Alphonsine Maria St. Amand, divorced wife of the Comte de Courten. The second marriage did not turn out well, and it appears that John Bowes...
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    Littleton, 1st Baronet of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire, by his wife Hester Courten. He made great efforts to father another son, so that Edward could be permanently...
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  • – For service to the museum and galleries sector. Professor Barbora de Courten – For service to medical research, and to healthcare. Arthur De Main –...
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    to meet Hitler at Munich, charging General Roatta, Admiral Raffaele de Courten and Air Brigadier Egisto Perino with drafting Italy's demands. The final...
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