Guisborough is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It lies north of the North York Moors National Park. Roseberry Topping, midway between the town and Great Ayton, is a landmark in the national park. At the 2011 census, the civil parish with outlying Upleatham, Dunsdale and Newton under Roseberry had a population of 17,777, of which 16,979 were in the town's built-up area. It was governed by an urban district and rural district in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the current borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, also an ancestor of the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce. It became one of the richest monastic foundations in England with grants from the crown and bequests from de Brus, other nobles and gentry and local people of more modest means. Much of the Romanesque Norman priory was destroyed in a fire in 1289. It was rebuilt in the Gothic style on a grander scale over the following century. Its remains are regarded as among the finest surviving examples of early Gothic architecture in England.
Thomas Laurence Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas, FRS was a Scottish politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1763 to 1794 when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Dundas. He was responsible for commissioning the Charlotte Dundas, the world's "first practical steamboat".
Viscount Long, of Wraxall in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Baron Gisborough, of Cleveland in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland was a British politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1790 to 1820 when he was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Henry Ulick Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood was a British peer and the son of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood.
The position of Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire was created on 1 April 1974.
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Cleveland from the county's creation in 1974 until the abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy in 1997:
Richard Eric Onslow Long, 3rd Viscount Long, was a British Conservative Party politician and Territorial Army officer.
Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1900 and 1910 to 1917, and a member of the House of Lords from 1917 until his death in 1938.
Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough was an English landowner, soldier and peer.
Richard Chaloner is the name of:
The 1917 Liverpool Abercromby by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 June 1917 for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Abercromby. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Chaloner had taken the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 18 June 1917, thus effectively resigning from the Commons. Five days later, Chaloner was created Baron Gisborough. He had been MP from Liverpool Abercromby since the January 1910 general election. The Conservative candidate, Lord Stanley held the seat for the party. He remained the constituency's MP until the seat was abolished for the 1918 general election.
Gisborough Hall is a 19th-century mansion house, now a hotel, at Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
The Baronetcy of Chaloner of Guisborough was created in the Baronetage of England on 20 June 1620 for William Chaloner and was extinct on his death in Turkey in 1641. The Chaloners acquired their estate at Guisborough in 1558 following the dissolution of Gisborough Priory. Their seat was at Gisborough Hall.
Charles Cobbe was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.
Chaloner or Challoner is an English surname which may refer to:
General John Hale (1728–1806) was a British army officer, who is remembered chiefly for his close friendship with General James Wolfe, and for his exceptionally large number of children by his wife Mary Chaloner, a noted beauty who was painted by Joshua Reynolds.
Robert Chaloner, FRS was an English Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of York.
