Sir Thomas de Rokeby (died 1356 or 1357) was a soldier and senior Crown official in fourteenth-century England and Ireland, who served as Justiciar of...

He was born at Mortham in Yorkshire, the second son of Thomas Rokeby of Rokeby Hall, Rokeby (died 1567) and his wife Jane Constable; Jane was the daughter...

General Sir William Thomas Knollys KCB PC (1 August 1797 – 23 June 1883) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1860s. Born into the...

the family for over 700 years. Sir Thomas de Rokeby, the Justiciar of Ireland 1349-56, used the castle as his military base, and died here in 1356. In 1414...

Baron Rokeby GCB (2 February 1798 – 25 May 1883) was a senior British Army officer of the 19th century. Born the son of the 4th Baron, Rokeby was commissioned...

contains four notable Hudson River Valley estates: Edgewater, Massena, Rokeby, and Sylvania. In 1791, Peter and Eleanor Contine kept store at what would...

as Choate Rosemary Hall. Mellon owned many thoroughbred horses under his Rokeby Stables, including Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero. Two of his horses, Arts...

biographies, and some works on agriculture. He died at La Bergerie (later renamed Rokeby), the farm estate he built in Red Hook, New York in 1843 and is buried in...

Major-General Robert Montresor Rogers General Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby Brigadier-General Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo Lieutenant-General Sir Bill...

1857. This successful event was supported by many military men, including Major General Lord Rokeby (who had commanded the 1st Division in Crimea) and...

the National Gallery in London and attacked Diego Velázquez's painting Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. Her action was ostensibly provoked by the arrest...

Dream Again. Granger's first starring film role was as the acid-tongued Rokeby in the Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a...

from the amateur architect Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby to his father-in-law Lord Carlisle of 6 June 1734, Sir Thomas reports that he found the garden...

Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2015. "Rokeby House Becomes Nation's Capital: Was Leesburg really the U.S. capital in...

August 1352 Stirling bought outright the estate of Newton-by-the-Sea from a Thomas de St. Maur. In 1361 Stirling received a number of properties in Newcastle...

marble). The composition has clearly influenced Velázquez's painting of the Rokeby Venus, now in London. A reduced-scale bronze copy, made and signed by Giovanni...

Drummond 1850–1853: Col. William Thomas Knollys 1853–1854: Col. Henry Robert Colville 1854–1854: Col. The Lord Rokeby 1854–1858: Col. George Moncrieff...

of Bobcaygeon River between Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes, which was named Rokeby by visiting Lieutenant Governor John Colborne. Need laid out streets and...

house in or adjacent to Leesburg. Local sources have traditionally cited Rokeby, although some historians have proposed the location to be another vacant...

their parachute did not open. On April 3, 1969, The aircraft crashed near Rokeby, Nebraska. Aircraft's left wing was torn off before crashing. All three...

hung in a private room, along with other nudes, including the much earlier Rokeby Venus by Velasquez. The Creation of Adam (c. 1511) by Michelangelo on the...

Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, British Army of the Rhine Major Henry Rokeby Bond. For services in a civilian capacity in Malaya Alfred Edward Booth...

through the Duke of Northumberland's influence. In November 1552, Christopher Rokeby was appointed marshal of Berwick in Gower's place. In 1558 Gower is mentioned...

known as the "Astor Orphans", were raised at their parents' estate in Rokeby, New York, built by John Armstrong Jr., his mother's great-grandfather....

exception of a failed Norman attempt to reconstruct Bunratty Castle by Thomas de Rokeby from 1353 to 1355, the Norman settler-colonialist project in Thomond...

a judge. Nevertheless, this story was borrowed by Sir Walter Scott, in Rokeby, and by Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities. Sir John Popham bought...

Independence saw the English in control of Stirling Castle by 1336, when Thomas Rokeby was the commander, and extensive works were carried out, still largely...

others of Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, appointed as trustees for Harriet Rokeby of Oxenden near Market Harborough, Northamptonshire Grindlay, Robert Melville...

William Neilson Bicket, Royal Engineers Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Chetwynd Rokeby Alfred Bond, late Indian Staff Corps Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Henry...

at Leesburg. Local tradition holds that these documents were stored at Rokeby House. U.S. president James Monroe treated Oak Hill Plantation as a primary...