Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was an Indian queen, the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1566.
Baron Kensington is a title that has been created three times, in the Peerages of England, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Jasmine Lydia Bligh was one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. Along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell, she provided continuity announcements introducing programmes in-vision.
Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes was a Scottish soldier and representative peer.
Sir Michael Owen Edwardes was a British-South African business executive who held chairmanships at several companies including motor manufacturer British Leyland.
George Joseph Edwardes was an English theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond.
Gertrude "Gertie" Ward, Countess of Dudley was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.
William Edwardes, 1st Baron Kensington of Johnston Hall, Pembrokeshire, was a British landowner and a long-standing Member of Parliament.
William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington PC, also 1st Baron Kensington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, styled The Honourable William Edwardes between 1852 and 1872, was a British landowner and Liberal politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household from 1880 to 1885 and as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1892 to 1895.
Edward James was an English Catholic priest and martyr.
Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Baronet, of Welham Grove in Leicestershire and Exton Park in Rutland, known as Gerard Edwardes until 1798, was an English Member of Parliament.
The name Rhyd-y-gors or Rhydygors has been associated with two historic sites near the market town of Carmarthen in Southwest Wales. The first was the Norman Rhyd-y-gors Castle and the other was Rhyd-y-gors Mansion, home of the Edwardes family.
Events in the year 1858 in India. Act of Parliament 1858
Mowbray Stephen O'Rorke was an Anglican bishop in Africa in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Thomas Brice (1536–1571) was a Church of England clergyman, martyrologist and poet in the later 16th century.
Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London, situated in a country estate that is now Holland Park. It was built in 1605 by the diplomat Sir Walter Cope. The building later passed by marriage to Henry Rich, 1st Baron Kensington, 1st Earl of Holland, and by descent through the Rich family, then became the property of the Fox family, during which time it became a noted gathering-place for Whigs in the 19th century. The house was largely destroyed by German firebombing during the Blitz in 1940 and today only the east wing and some ruins of the ground floor and south facade remain, along with various outbuildings and formal gardens. In 1949 the ruin was designated a grade I listed building and it is now owned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Olga Florence Edwardes Davenport was a South African-born British actress and artist, born in c. 1915.
Augustus Theodore Wirgman, DD was an Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, most notably Archdeacon of Port Elizabeth from 1907 until his death.
Francis Walter Flack was an Anglican priest in the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first three of the Twentieth, most notably Archdeacon of Port Elizabeth from 1919 until his death.
