Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another], Band 2

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Seite 570 - Horatio was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of...
Seite 660 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of a ' great man' is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced.
Seite 1043 - Bath shall henceforth upon no account be conferred upon any officer in his Majesty's service, who shall not have attained the rank of Major-General in the army, or Rear-Admiral in the navy, except as to the Twelve Knights Grand Crosses, who may be nominated and appointed for civil services.
Seite 1043 - Commanders, the number shall not exceed one hundred and eighty, exclusive of foreign officers holding British commissions, of whom a number, not exceeding ten, may be admitted into the second class as honorary Knights Commanders. But in the event of actions of signal distinction, or of future wars, the number...
Seite 703 - Court, where he erected the castle of Ballylawn,) took an active part in the transactions in the north, to prevent the subversion of the constitution, which James II. and his chief governor, lord Tyrconnel, were attempting to effect : he raised a troop of horse at his own expense when the city of Londonderry was invested, and did essential service to the protestant interest in that part, by protecting those who were well affected to king William III., and was appointed lieut.col.
Seite 709 - Jan. 1832, and was in 1835 created a Peer of the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Fitz-Gerald of Desmond, and of Clan-Gibbon, Co.
Seite 1043 - Class - Companions of the Order ; not limited in number ; they are to take precedence of esquires, but not entitled to the appellation, style, &c. of knights bachelors. To wear the badge assigned to the third class, pendent by a narrow red riband to the button-hole.
Seite 703 - Marquess descends, is that derived from Sir Thomas Stewart of Minto, second son of Sir William Stewart of Garlies, ancestor to the Earls of Galloway. William Stewart, of Ballylawn Castle, county of Donegal, Esq. (great grandson of John Stewart, Esq. who had a grant from Charles I. of the manor of Stewarts...
Seite 1043 - The new badge for the military classes of the Order is a gold Maltese cross, of eight points, enamelled argent, in the four angles, a lion passant guardant, or; in the centre, the rose, thistle, and shamrock, issuant from a sceptre between three imperial crowns, or, within a circle gules; thereon the motto of the Order, surrounded by two branches of laurel proper, issuing from an escrol...
Seite 1043 - Jan. 1815, it was declared, that "for the purpose of commemorating the auspicious termination of the long and arduous contests in which this empire has been engaged," the Order should be composed of three classes, viz.

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