Viscount Cobham is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1718. Owing to its special remainder, the title has passed through several families. Since 1889, it has been held by members of the Lyttelton family.
Baron Cottesloe, of Swanbourne and Hardwick in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 2 March 1874 for the Conservative politician and former Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baronet (1798–1890). He was the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle (1765–1819). Lord Cottesloe had already been created a Baronet, of Swanbourne in the County of Buckingham, on 14 August 1821, chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and with remainder to the latter's heirs. His father Sir Thomas Fremantle was created Baron Fremantle, of the Austrian Empire, which Lord Cottesloe inherited in 1819 with the death of his father. Subsequently, in 1822 he was given a Royal licence, which authorized him and his successors to use the title in Britain. However, a warrant issued on 27 April 1932 withdrew all the royal licences, only allowing the use of the title to the then current holders, their heir and their heir's heir. The fifth baron was the last holder being allowed to use the Austrian title in the United Kingdom.
The Imperial Order of the Crown of India is an order in the British honours system. The Order was established by Queen Victoria when she became Empress of India in 1878. The Order was open only to women, and no appointments have been made since the Partition of India in 1947. The Order was limited to British princesses, wives or female relatives of Indian princes and the wife or female relatives of any person who held the office of:
Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer in the American Revolutionary War, he fought with the Coldstream Guards under the Duke of York during the Flanders Campaign. He then commanded the Buckinghamshire Volunteers in the actions of St. Andria and Thuyl on the river Waal and participated in the disastrous retreat from the Rhine. He went on to be commander of the northern district of Ireland, in which post he played an important part in placating the people of Belfast during the Irish Rebellion, and then became Adjutant-General in Ireland. He went on to be Governor of Jamaica, commander of the Western District in England, commander of the Kent District in England and finally Commander-in-Chief, India.
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, 2nd Baron Fremantle,, known as Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt, between 1821 and 1874, was a British Tory politician.
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle was a British peer and sportsman who competed in the shooting event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Commander John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe, 6th Baron Fremantle, was a British baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Baronet, was a British Indian Army officer who later served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1890 to 1903.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury,, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and she was known as Lady Violet, as a courtesy title, from her father's elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Later she became active in Liberal politics herself, and was a leading opponent of appeasement. She stood for Parliament and became a life peer.
Thomas Steele PC was a British politician at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet, was a Northumbrian landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1812.
The Asquiths were originally a middle-class family from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. They were members of the Congregational church, whose family name derived from the village of Askwith. The first prominent member of the family was H. H. Asquith, who was prime minister from 1908 to 1916. In 1925, Asquith was raised to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith. His great-grandson Raymond is the present Earl.
'Free Village is the term used for Caribbean settlements, particularly in Jamaica, founded in the 1830s and 1840s with land for freedmen with independence of the control of plantation owners and other major estates. The concept was initiated by English Baptist missionaries in Jamaica, who raised funds in Great Britain to buy land to be granted to freedmen after emancipation. The planters had vowed not to sell any land to freedmen after slavery was finally abolished in the Empire in 1838; they wanted to retain freedmen as agricultural workers. The Free Villages were often founded around a Baptist church, and missionaries worked to found schools as well in these settlements.
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe, 3rd Baron Fremantle was a British businessman and Conservative politician.
Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne was a British politician.
William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton, was an Irish peer, landowner and Conservative politician in both Houses of Parliament, entering first the Commons for two years.
Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet was an Anglo-Irish soldier, politician and baronet.
Elizabeth "Betsey" Wynne Fremantle was born at Falkingham, now Folkingham, Lincolnshire, and died in or near Nice in France. She was the main author of the extensive Wynne Diaries and wife of the Royal Navy officer Thomas Fremantle (1765–1819), a close associate of Nelson.
Admiral The Honourable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
The Nugent baronetcy, of Waddesdon in the County of Berks, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 November 1806 for Field Marshal Sir George Nugent. He was the illegitimate son of the Honourable Edmund Nugent, only son of The 1st Earl Nugent. The 1st Baron Nugent was the younger brother of the fourth Baronet.
