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2021
Frances Jennings, elder sister of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, had an interesting and eventful life, most notably as the influential wife of Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell, Catholic viceroy of Ireland under James II. Born circa 1649 into a Hertfordshire gentry family, she was a noted beauty at the Restoration court.
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Frances Jennings, elder sister of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, had an interesting and eventful life, most notably as the influential wife of Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell, Catholic viceroy of Ireland under James II. Born circa 1649 into a Hertfordshire gentry family, she was a noted beauty at the Restoration court.
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2005
If you look up John Robison in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), the first thing you’ll find out about him is that he was “a scientific writer (described by Sir James Mackintosh as ‘one of the greatest mathematical philosophers of his age’).” He was born in Boghall, Stirlingshire, in 1739, educated in Glasgow, and, in 1773, became professor ...
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If you look up John Robison in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), the first thing you’ll find out about him is that he was “a scientific writer (described by Sir James Mackintosh as ‘one of the greatest mathematical philosophers of his age’).” He was born in Boghall, Stirlingshire, in 1739, educated in Glasgow, and, in 1773, became professor ...
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1998
The Royal Family themselves were the leading Jacobite exiles, and after 1746 Charles continued for many years to struggle to secure from Europe’s courts the support required to mount another rising. The elevation of his brother to the Cardinalate in 1747 was a considerable blow to these hopes: not only was it a propaganda gift to anti-Catholic ...
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The Royal Family themselves were the leading Jacobite exiles, and after 1746 Charles continued for many years to struggle to secure from Europe’s courts the support required to mount another rising. The elevation of his brother to the Cardinalate in 1747 was a considerable blow to these hopes: not only was it a propaganda gift to anti-Catholic ...
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