Robert Morwent was an Oxford college head in the 16th-century. [1]
Morwent was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. [2] He held the livings at Lydeard St Lawrence, East Knoyle and Bishopstone, Wiltshire [lower-alpha 1] . Morwent was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1537 until his death on 26 August 1558. [3]
Bishopstone is a rural village in the civil parish of Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England.
Stone is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located southwest of the town of Aylesbury, on the A418 road that links Aylesbury to Thame. Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell is a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district and also incorporates the nearby settlements of Bishopstone and Hartwell.
Earl of Oxford and Asquith is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the Liberal politician H. H. Asquith. He was Home Secretary from 1892 to 1895, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 to 1908, Leader of the Liberal Party from 1908 to 1926 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Asquith was made Viscount Asquith, of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title is used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom.
Bishopstone railway station is on the western side of the town of Seaford, East Sussex, England. It is situated close to the coast, and about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the hamlet of Bishopstone after which it is named. Train services from the station are provided by Southern, and the station is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line, 58 miles 3 chains (93.4 km) measured from London Bridge.
Bishopstone is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, in the Ebble valley, about 5.5 miles (9 km) south-west of Salisbury. The parish includes the small village of Croucheston south of the river and the hamlet of The Pitts.
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, PC was an English barrister and judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1951 until his death three years later.
Tide Mills is a derelict village in East Sussex, England. It lies about two kilometres (1.2 miles) south-east of Newhaven and four kilometres (2.5 miles) north-west of Seaford and is near both Bishopstone and East Blatchington. The village was condemned as unfit for habitation in 1936 and abandoned in 1939.
Bishopstone is a village with a population of about 200 people, with the nearby village of Norton, located along a dead-end road west of Seaford, East Sussex, in East Sussex, England.
Denis George Mackail was an English novelist and short-story writer. Although his work had mainly been forgotten, his Greenery Street, a novel of early married life in upper middle-class London, was republished in 2002.
James Hurdis (1763–1801) was an English clergyman and poet.
The Seaford branch line is a rural railway line in East Sussex constructed in 1864 primarily to serve the port of Newhaven and the town of Seaford. It now sees fairly regular trains across the line except for the Newhaven Marine branch, which is still technically open but is fenced off from the public and not on any timetables.
Lord Asquith may refer to:
Bishopstone Beach Halt was a railway station in East Sussex, England that was opened on 1 June 1864 and closed on 1 January 1942. The station was built on the Seaford Branch Line for residents of the Bishopstone and Tide Mills villages and located on the west side of Mill Drove. The company that operated the trains on opening was the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, later merged into the Southern Railway.
Whittington Landon was an academic at the University of Oxford and an Anglican clergyman who became Dean of Exeter.
Stratford Tony, also spelt Stratford Toney, formerly known as Stratford St Anthony and Toney Stratford, is a small village and civil parish in southern Wiltshire, England. It lies on the River Ebble and is about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Salisbury.
John Barnston, D.D., was an English divine.
The Ven. Richard Lane Freer was Archdeacon of Hereford from 1852 to 1863.
James Dawkins (c.1696–1766) was an English landowner and politician.
Francis Lear was the Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England from 1846 until his death.
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