Charles Labelye (1705, Vevey, Switzerland – 1762) was a Swiss bridge engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage...
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Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (22 November 1706 – 20 October 1758), styled as The Honourable Charles Spencer between 1706 and 1729...
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political conservative, was also alienated by the prince's adherence to Charles James Fox and other radically inclined politicians. Soon after he reached...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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Françoise-Louise de Warens (1699–1762) benefactress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Charles Labelye (1705–1762) bridge engineer, architect of the first Westminster Bridge...
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Rothschild & Sons. From 1811 on, in negotiation with Commissary-General John Charles Herries, he undertook to transfer money to pay Wellington's troops, on...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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whom the Earl of Bristol, Groom of the Stool, stood proxy) and Princess Charles of Hesse-Cassel (his first cousin once-removed, for whom The Viscountess...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, KG, KB, PC, FRS (18 May 1701 – 8 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester...
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Columbus. Secret society Antient Noble Order of the Gormogons Lyttle, Charles H. "Historical Bases of Rome's Conflict with Freemasonry", Church History...
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problem of flooding returned, and the channel below Denver deteriorated. Charles Labelye therefore designed a new sluice for the Bedford Level Corporation,...
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Council and Board of Trade Offices, Whitehall (1823–24), remodelled by Sir Charles Barry, the building now houses the Cabinet Office; in a new departure for...
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Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, KG (8 May 1670 – 10 May 1726) was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwyn...
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President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he corresponded with Charles Henry Churchill, the British consul in Damascus, in 1841–42; his contributions...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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include John Locke, Cicero, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Charles Davenant, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban,...
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and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful...
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Bute. Selina Constance Rawdon-Hastings (1810 – 8 November 1867), married Charles Henry and had children. Adelaide Augusta Lavinia Rawdon-Hastings (25 February...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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October 1744 at Brook Street, Hanover Square, London. He was the only son of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort and Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of...
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daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. Through his father, Charles II of England was his great-grandfather. Scott was baptised on 20 January...
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pacifist. Danie G. Krige (1919–2013), South African mining engineer. Charles Labelye, engineer. Thomas Laby (1880–1946), Australian scientist. Georges-Louis...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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Baronet Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet Alexander Brodie William Hogarth Charles Labelye Walter Calverley-Blackett Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Wright...
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maçonnique des Lumières (Europe-Amériques) Dictionnaire prosopographique. Charles Porset and Cécile Révauger (eds) Paris: Editions Champion, 2013. ISBN 978-2-7453-2496-2...
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National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Metzger, Edward Charles (2004). "Montagu, John, second duke of Montagu (1690–1749)". Oxford Dictionary...
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Society. Banks appears in the historical novel Mutiny on the Bounty, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. He appears briefly as a contact with British...
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built between 1739–1750, under the supervision of the Swiss engineer Charles Labelye. The bridge opened on 18 November 1750. The City of London responded...
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Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751) was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland...
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