On 27 Jan 672 Pope Vitalian died.

On 27 Jan 992 Mathilde Carolingian Queen Consort Burgundy (age 49) died.

On 27 Jan 1501 Bishop Thomas Langton died of plague.

Letters and Papers 1533. 27 Jan 1533. Vienna Archives. 89. Chapuys (age 43) to Charles V.

Three days ago received the Emperor's letters of the 27th ult., concerning the visit of the Emperor and the Pope to Bologna, and the exploit of the prince of Melphi. Communicated part of it to the duke of Norfolk (age 60), to be reported to the King, who was in the country. The Duke was pleased with the news, and thanked me for my good offices, saying they would be as agreeable to the King as to himself. I told him your Majesty was very desirous to preserve friendship, and had such confidence in the King that you would not conceal any of your affairs; you were pleased to hear that the two Cardinals were coming to Italy at the King's instance, and had put off treating with the Pope until their arrival. Said this partly on account of their refusal to allow ambassadors at the interview at Calais, but chiefly because the French ambassador had said that your Majesty wished to settle everything before the Cardinals arrived, but the Pope refused. Norfolk praised your intention, and said the Cardinals had already arrived at Bologna, and were honourably received. He spoke of the sumptuousness of their train, and wondered how they could assemble so great a company in so short a time, as it was agreed by the Kings that they should only take 24 horses between them. When I tried to find out the cause of their mission, he excused himself as before by his illness, which prevented him from attending to business. He said he wished the Emperor had been at St. Omer at the same time, for then the interview would not have been without his presence. I replied, that I thought they did not want many witnesses, as they prevented ambassadors from coming. He said the reason of this was that the object was not to make treaties, but only enjoyment, and it was not worth while to give ambassadors the trouble of coming, but that the presence of your Majesty's would have been the cause of proposing many important matters. I suggested that, perhaps, the Cardinals had orders to put forward what the Kings had wished to treat with your Majesty, and, if it was feasible, they might remedy your Majesty's absence at the inverview. The Duke hoped this would happen, and said that though the Cardinals were good men, and privy councillors of the French king, they only knew the outside of affairs, and everything was in the hands of the Chancellor, Grand Master, and Admiral, all of whom he praised, but especially the Admiral. The Grand Master he liked least of the three.

Letters and Papers 1535. 27 Jan 1535. R. O. 120. [Lord Lisle (age 70)] to Leonard Smyth.

I have received your letters dated 24 Jan., stating that one Hunt is minded to make his complaint, and that I should write to the Dean of Arches to stay process in my favor. I never meddled with any of his matters, but he made a false oath before the marshal here, and had 20 days' respite before the commissary to reprove those who had sworn the contrary. He promised me and divers of the Council to give surety for £100 to be paid to the King if he did not prove his oath true. This he never did, but "fletyd away" at Sandgate or Whitesand. My letter to the Dean of Arches was to the effect that we have a plain ordinance that no curse shall be pronounced against any soldier here for fault of appearance. Hunt had procured two false knaves to perjure themselves, for which they wore papers and were banished. He was pardoned, being the King's servant, but now that he has committed the same, the retinue have desired me to discharge him, abhorring his company as a great reproach and slander to them all. If he deny this, call John Shepherd, a soldier of this town, to whom he gave money to deliver to his adversaries for agreement. Notwithstanding, if Mr. Secretary will send a commission to some of the Council and constables and vintners here, and if they say he is other than a false knave, and ought to have a room again, he shall have it and 12d. a day out of my purse. When he complains, inform Mr. Secretary thereof. Calais, 27 Jan.

If you think it convenient, I will cause the commissary to come over with the process. I trust Mr. Secretary will give no credit to any surmise unto I may make answer. There have been many running tales surmised about me since I came hither. If God were here among us, every man would not say well by him. He (Hunt) says he was stopped five tides, but he cannot prove it was by my mind, except that John à Burges complained that Hunt would have robbed him in his own house, whereupon I sent them both to the mayor. Mr. Secretary wrote asking that he might he restored, but I answered that if it had not been for Mr. Compton he would have worn paper, and if I put him to his room again all the retinue would cry out on me. God send me a good end in my matter with Sir Edward Semour (age 35). Commend me to your brother.

Pp. 2. Endd.. The copy of my letter sent to Leonard Smythe.

Letters and Papers 1535. 27 Jan 1535. R. O. 119. John Husee to Lady Lisle (age 41).

I received your letter of Walter, servant to Lady Guarnes-he, and have delivered the 20s. I will show Mr. Tayler your Ladyship's pleasure. Your dog may be well spared, for I am told her Grace makes not much of them. I doubt that the broderer will be reasonable about the frontlets, but you have not written if you have received the same, or answered my bill of prices of grocery I hope to write in my next what end Mr. Secretary makes in my Lord's matter with Sir Edward Seymour (age 35). It rests entirely with him to show his friendship. I am sorry you have been so disquieted at the beginning of the year. My Lord will never get £500, Calais money, by the three persons you write of. Some things now colored will at length be plainly set out. I hope to get you both an ancient gentlewoman and a good tailor. Mr. Bassett came hither on the 26th, and will remain till the morrow of Candlemas day, when he will enter his chamber at Lincoln's Inn. I have spoken with Mr. Holleys this day, but Mr. Lane is not yet come. I have no doubt he will be well pleased to have the young gentleman in his company, who, I assure you, is both gentle, sober and wise. Mr. Syllyard will see to him in Mr. Lane's absence; and Mr. Densell also. Please send Mr. Tywke and Mr. Densell the French wine, Mr. Bassett is out of apparel. He has no good gown but one of chamlet, which was illfashioned, and is now amending. His damask gown is worth nothing but to make a jacket; for his velvet coat was broken to guard his chamlet gown. Reports the state of his other articles of dress. The kersey is not for him, and I have sent it by Edward Russell. He has brought with him a feather bed, bolster, blankets, counter-point and two pair sheets. He requires another bed furnished with a pillow. I intend to make him two pr. black hose, a new damask gown faced with foynes or genetts, and a study gown faced with "fox powttes" of cloth at 6s. a yd., &c. Would like £3 or £4, as what is wanted will take 20 marks at least. Bremelcome wants a coat, as he has only one. London, 26 Jan.

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Letters and Papers 1535. 27 Jan 1535. R. O. 118. John Husee to Lord Lisle (age 70).

Received his letter by lady Garnish's servant, and delivered unto Smythe Ravon's letter and Saymer's (age 35) bill. Mr. Secretary will end the matter before Candlemas. Hopes his liveries will not be prepared so hastily, as he is informed the King will not cross. As Henry Cornelis is going to Calais, there is no need to deliver the letter. Cheriton is with you. Gwydot is not here. If he come, will be in hand with him for your muscatel and malvesy. The Commission of Sewers is ready. Mr. Fowler will have to take the oaths of the other commissioners. Mr. Secretary will send 40 marks for Hacket's funeral; but I have seen him divers times, and he has not paid it. Can get no answer from him touching the toll of Mark and Oye. Mr. Rockewod promised me for my service 20 nobles, but I shall not stay here for their interests. Send me your answer respecting Hunt, and when your mule shall come. Mr. Speke will be with you in eight days. Thos. Myller says that Nicholas Persone is behind with his rent, but will pay it on a letter from you, which he desires may be sent by Edward Russell. London, 27 Jan.

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On 27 Jan 1547 Anne Jagiellon Holy Roman Empress (age 43) died.

On 27 Jan 1555 Robert Broke was knighted by Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 27).

Henry Machyn's Diary. 27 Jan 1560. The sam day cam rydyng to London, and so [entered] at Ludgatt, the good yerle of Shreusbery (age 32), with a C [100] [men] rydyng, and so to Cold Harber to ys owne plasse.

Diary of Isabella Twysden 1645. 27 Jan 1645. NOTE. Mr. John. White was chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons to remove scandalous ministers, which was appointed in 1640. A charge of popery or of loyalty to the King (age 44) was sufficient to secure ejection.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1661. To church again, a good sermon of Mr. Mills, and after sermon Sir W. Pen (age 39) and I an hour in the garden talking, and he did answer me to many things, I asked Mr. Coventry's (age 33) opinion of me, and Sir W. Batten's (age 60) of my Lord Sandwich (age 35), which do both please me. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where very merry, and here I met the Comptroller (age 50) and his lady and daughter (the first time I ever saw them) and Mrs. Turner (age 38), who and her husband supped with us here (I having fetched my wife thither), and after supper we fell to oysters, and then Mr. Turner went and fetched some strong waters, and so being very merry we parted, and home to bed. This day the parson read a proclamation at church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1661. Lord's Day. Before I rose, letters come to me from Portsmouth, Hampshire [Map], telling me that the Princess (age 16) is now well, and my Lord Sandwich (age 35) set sail with the Queen (age 51) and her yesterday from thence for France.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1663. Up and to the office, where sat till two o'clock, and then home to dinner, whither by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I talked of our Tangier [Map] business, and do find that there is nothing in the world done with true integrity, but there is design along with it, as in my Lord Rutherford, who designs to have the profit of victualling of the garrison himself, and others to have the benefit of making the Mole, so that I am almost discouraged from coming any more to the Committee, were it not that it will possibly hereafter bring me to some acquaintance of great men.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1664. Thence to the 'Change [Map], and after doing much business, home, taking Commissioner Pett (age 53) with me, and all alone dined together. He told me many stories of the yard, but I do know him so well, and had his character given me this morning by Hempson, as well as my own too of him before, that I shall know how to value any thing he says either of friendship or other business. He was mighty serious with me in discourse about the consequence of Sir W. Petty's (age 40) boat, as the most dangerous thing in the world, if it should be practised by endangering our losse of the command of the seas and our trade, while the Turkes and others shall get the use of them, which, without doubt, by bearing more sayle will go faster than any other ships, and, not being of burden, our merchants cannot have the use of them and so will be at the mercy of their enemies. So that I perceive he is afeard that the honour of his trade will down, though (which is a truth) he pretends this consideration to hinder the growth of this invention.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1664. Up and to the office, and at noon to the Coffeehouse, where I sat with Sir G. Ascue (age 48)¹ and Sir William Petty (age 40), who in discourse is, methinks, one of the most rational men that ever I heard speak with a tongue, having all his notions the most distinct and clear, and, among other things (saying, that in all his life these three books were the most esteemed and generally cried up for wit in the world "Religio Medici", "Osborne's Advice to a Son²", and "Hudibras"), did say that in these-in the two first principally-the wit lies, and confirming some pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes, by some argument smartly and pleasantly urged, which takes with people who do not trouble themselves to examine the force of an argument, which pleases them in the delivery, upon a subject which they like; whereas, as by many particular instances of mine, and others, out of Osborne, he did really find fault and weaken the strength of many of Osborne's arguments, so as that in downright disputation they would not bear weight; at least, so far, but that they might be weakened, and better found in their rooms to confirm what is there said. He shewed finely whence it happens that good writers are not admired by the present age; because there are but few in any age that do mind anything that is abstruse and curious; and so longer before any body do put the true praise, and set it on foot in the world, the generality of mankind pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world, as eating, drinking, dancing, hunting, fencing, which we see the meanest men do the best, those that profess it. A gentleman never dances so well as the dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all the delights of the world almost.

Note 1. Sir George Ayscue or Askew. After his return from his imprisonment he declined to go to sea again, although he was twice afterwards formally appointed. He sat on the court-martial on the loss of the "Defiance" in 1668.

Note 2. Francis Osborne, an English writer of considerable abilities and popularity, was the author of "Advice to a Son", in two parts, Oxford, 1656-8, 8vo. He died in 1659. He is the same person mentioned as "My Father Osborne", October 19th, 1661. B.

John Evelyn's Diary. 27 Jan 1665. Dined at the Lord Chancellor's (age 55), who caused me after dinner to sit two or three hours alone with him in his bedchamber.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1665. Thence away to boat again and landed her at the Three Cranes again, and I to the Bridge [Map], and so home, and after shifting myself, being dirty, I to the 'Change [Map], and thence to Mr. Povy's (age 51) and there dined, and thence with him and Creed to my Lord Bellasses' (age 50), and there debated a great while how to put things in order against his going, and so with my Lord in his coach to White Hall, and with him to my Lord Duke of Albemarle (age 56), finding him at cards. After a few dull words or two, I away to White Hall again, and there delivered a letter to the Duke of Yorke (age 31) about our Navy business, and thence walked up and down in the gallery, talking with Mr. Slingsby (age 44), who is a very ingenious person, about the Mint and coynage of money. Among other things, he argues that there being £700,000 coined in the Rump time, and by all the Treasurers of that time, it being their opinion that the Rump money was in all payments, one with another, about a tenth part of all their money. Then, says he, to my question, the nearest guess we can make is, that the money passing up and down in business is £7,000,000. To another question of mine he made me fully understand that the old law of prohibiting bullion to be exported, is, and ever was a folly and an injury, rather than good. Arguing thus, that if the exportations exceed importations, then the balance must be brought home in money, which, when our merchants know cannot be carried out again, they will forbear to bring home in money, but let it lie abroad for trade, or keepe in foreign banks: or if our importations exceed our exportations, then, to keepe credit, the merchants will and must find ways of carrying out money by stealth, which is a most easy thing to do, and is every where done; and therefore the law against it signifies nothing in the world. Besides, that it is seen, that where money is free, there is great plenty; where it is restrained, as here, there is a great want, as in Spayne. These and many other fine discourses I had from him.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1667. Here we met with Mr. May (age 45), and he and we to talk of several things, of building, and such like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I skewed my cozen Roger (age 49) the Duchesse of York (age 29) sitting in state, while her own mother (age 49) stands by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Baroness Castlemayne (age 26), whom he approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without. Her little black boy came by him; and, a dog being in his way, the little boy called to the dog: "Pox of this dog!"-"Now", says he, blessing himself, "would I whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!" and I believe he would. But he do by no means like the liberty of the Court, and did come with expectation of finding them playing at cards to-night, though Sunday; for such stories he is told, but how true I know not¹.

Note 1. There is little reason to doubt that it was such as Evelyn describes it at a later time. "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King (age 36) sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth (age 17), Cleveland, Mazarin (age 20), &c. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust". B.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1668. So to White Hall, and there a Committee of Tangier, but little done there, only I did get two or three little jobs done to the perfecting two or three papers about my Tangier accounts. Here Mr. Povy (age 54) do tell me how he is like to lose his £400 a-year pension of the Duke of York (age 34), which he took in consideration of his place which was taken from him. He tells me the Duchesse (age 30) is a devil against him, and do now come like Queen Elizabeth, and sits with the Duke of York's Council, and sees what they do; and she crosses out this man's wages and prices, as she sees fit, for saving money; but yet, he tells me, she reserves £5000 a-year for her own spending; and my Lady Peterborough (age 46), by and by, tells me that the Duchesse do lay up, mightily, jewells.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1668. Thence to my Lady Peterborough's (age 46), she desiring to speak with me. She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her; and there, after a little talk, to please her, about her husband's (age 46) pension, which I do not think he will ever get again, I away thence home, and all the afternoon mighty busy at the office, and late, preparing a letter to the Commissioners of Accounts, our first letter to them, and so home to supper, where Betty Turner (age 15) was (whose brother Frank did set out toward the East Indies this day, his father (age 55) and mother (age 45) gone down with him to Gravesend, Kent [Map]), and there was her little brother Moses, whom I examined, and he is a pretty good scholar for a child, and so after supper to talk and laugh, and to bed.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1669. Up, and with Sir John Minnes (age 69) in his coach to White Hall, where first we waited on the Lords of the Treasury about finishing the Victualling Contract; and there also I was put to it to make good our letter complaining against my Lord Anglesey's (age 54) failing us in the payment of the moneys assigned us upon the Customs, where Mr. Fenn was, and I know will tell my Lord; but it is no matter, I am over shy already, and therefore must not fear. Then we up to a Committee of the Council for the Navy, about a business of Sir D. Gawden's relating to the Victualling, and thence I by Hackney to the Temple [Map] to the Auditor's man, and with him to a tavern to meet with another under-auditor to advise about the clearing of my Lord Bellasses' (age 54) accounts without injuring myself and perplexing my accounts, and so thence away to my cozen Turner's, where I find Roger Pepys (age 51) come last night to town, and here is his mistress, Mrs. Dickenson, and by and by comes in Mr. Turner, a worthy, sober, serious man-I honour him mightily. And there we dined, having but an ordinary dinner; and so, after dinner, she, and I, and Roger, and his mistress, to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Five Hours' Adventure", which hath not been acted a good while before, but once, and is a most excellent play, I must confess. My wife and The. (age 17) come after us, after they had been to buy some things abroad, and so after the play done we to see them home, and then home ourselves, and my wife to read to me, and so to supper and to bed.

John Evelyn's Diary. 27 Jan 1685. I din'd at Lord Sunderland's (age 43), being invited to heare that celebrated voice of Mr. Pordage, newly come from Rome; his singing was after the Venetian recitative, as masterly as could be, and with an excellent voice both treble and basse; Dr. Walgrave accompanied it with his theorba lute, on which he perform'd beyond imagination, and is doubtlesse orie of the greatest masters in Europe on that charming in strument. Pordage is a priest, as Mr. Bernard Howard (age 44) told me in private. There was in the roome where we din'd, and in his bed-chamber, those incomparable pieces of Columbus, a Flagellation, the Grammar-schoole, the Venus and Adonis of Titian; and of Vandyke's that picture of the late E. of Digby (father of the Countess of Sunderland (age 39)), and Earle of Bedford (age 68), Sr Kenelm Digby, and two Ladys of incomparable performance; besides that of Moses and the burning bush of Bassano, and several other pieces of ye best masters. A marble head of M. Brutus, &c.

John Evelyn's Diary. 27 Jan 1689. Having thus exhausted ourselves rather than this wonderful child, or angel rather, for he was as beautiful and lovely in countenance as in knowledge, we concluded with asking him if, in all he had read or heard of, he had ever met with anything which was like this expedition of the Prince of Orange (age 38), with so small a force to obtain three great kingdoms without any contest. After a little thought, he told us that he knew of nothing which did more resemble it than the coming of Constantine the Great out of Britain, through France and Italy, so tedious a march, to meet Maxentius, whom he overthrew at Pons Milvius with very little conflict, and at the very gates of Rome, which he entered and was received with triumph, and obtained the empire, not of three kingdoms only, but of all the then known world. He was perfect in the Latin authors, spoke French naturally, and gave us a description of France, Italy, Savoy, Spain, ancient and modernly divided; as also of ancient Greece, Scythia, and northern countries and tracts: we left questioning further. He did this without any set or formal repetitions, as one who had learned things without book, but as if he minded other things, going about the room, and toying with a parrot there, and as he was at dinner (tanquam aliua agens, as it were) seeming to be full of play, of a lively, sprightly temper, always smiling, and exceedingly pleasant, without the least levity, rudeness, or childishness.

John Evelyn's Diary. 27 Jan 1689. I dined at the Admiralty, where was brought in a child not twelve years old, the son of one Dr. Clench, of the most prodigious maturity of knowledge, for I cannot call it altogether memory, but something more extraordinary. Mr. Pepys (age 55) and myself examined him, not in any method, but with promiscuous questions, which required judgment and discernment to answer so readily and pertinently. There was not anything in chronology, history, geography, the several systems of astronomy, courses of the stars, longitude, latitude, doctrine of the spheres, courses and sources of rivers, creeks, harbors, eminent cities, boundaries and bearings of countries, not only in Europe, but in any other part of the earth, which he did not readily resolve and demonstrate his knowledge of, readily drawing out with a pen anything he would describe. He was able not only to repeat the most famous things which are left us in any of the Greek or Roman histories, monarchies, republics, wars, colonies, exploits by sea and land, but all the sacred stories of the Old and New Testament; the succession of all the monarchies, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, with all the lower Emperors, Popes, Heresiarchs, and Councils, what they were called about, what they determined, or in the controversy about Easter, the tenets of the Gnostics, Sabellians, Arians, Nestorians; the difference between St. Cyprian and Stephen about re-baptism, the schisms. We leaped from that to other things totally different, to Olympic years, and synchronisms; we asked him questions which could not be resolved without considerable meditation and judgment, nay of some particulars of the Civil Laws, of the Digest and Code. He gave a stupendous account of both natural and moral philosophy, and even in metaphysics.

On 27 Jan 1735 Reverend Robert Dymoke of Grebby Hall in Lincolnshire (age 35) drowned in the Chequer Well, Lincoln. He was buried at Lincoln Cathedral [Map].

Reverend Robert Dymoke of Grebby Hall in Lincolnshire: On or before 17 Oct 1699, the date he was baptised, he was born to Robert Dymoke of Scremby in Lincolnshire.

On 27 Jan 1773 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex was born to King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 34) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 28) at Buckingham House [Map].

On 27 Jan 1831 Ellen Turner (deceased) was buried at St Oswald's Church, Winwick. The service was performed by Reverend Thomas Hinde. Monument to sculpted by Richard James Wyatt (age 35).

On 27 Jan 1859 Wilhelm Hohenzollern was born to Frederick III King Prussia (age 27) and Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia (age 18) at Crown Prince's Palace, Berlin. He a grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

On 27 Jan 1862 Florence Louisa Miles (age 22) died in childbirth.

On 27 Jan 1870 George Hamilton-Gordon 6th Earl Aberdeen (age 28) drowned. Travelling from Boston to Melbourne on the Hera, Lord Aberdeen was washed overboard during a violent storm and drowned,

On 25 or 27 Jan 1916 Major Rupert Chabbert Meyricke (age 38) committed suicide in Malta. His body was found in the grounds of the hospital. Suicide by shooting himself with a small automatic pistol he had smuggled into the hospital a few hours before he was due to be evacuated back to the UK - he had wanted to stay on Malta so as to be able to rejoin his battery. Maj Meyricke had himself carried on a wheeled chair to the terrace at the front of the hospital over-looking the harbour, sat on a wooden garden seat and after a few minutes produced a Colt automatic pistol he had hidden about himself and committed suicide. He was buried in Pietà Military Cemetery, TTriq id-Duluri, Malta.

The Times. 27 Jan 1916. The death of Lady Ulrica Thynne (deceased) took place on Wednesday at 30, Grosvenor-gardens. She was the second daughter of the 12th Duke of Somerset and was born in 1833. She married, in 1858, Lord Henry Frederick Thynne, second son of the third Marquess of Bath, who was Treasurer of the Household to Queen Victoria and for over 25 years M.P. for South Wilts. There were four sons and two daughters of the marriage. The funeral will be at Findon, near Worthing, on Monday, at 1 o'clock.

On 27 Jan 1918 Reverend William Greenwell (age 97) died unmarried at his home 27 South Bailey, Durham.

On 27 Jan 1364 Edward Plantagenet was born to Edward "Black Prince" (age 33) and Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales (age 35) at Château d'Angoulême, Angoulême. He a grandson of King Edward III of England. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.42%.

On 27 Jan 1533 George Brooke was born to George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham (age 36) and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham (age 31).

On 27 Jan 1603 Harbottle Grimston 2nd Baronet was born to Harbottle Grimston 1st Baronet (age 34).

Before 27 Jan 1631 Johanna St John Baroness St John Lydiard Tregoze was born to Oliver St John (age 32).

On 27 Jan 1663 George Byng 1st Viscount Torrington was born.

On 27 Jan 1673 John Carnegie 2nd Baronet was born to David Carnegie 1st Baronet (age 32) and Catherine Primrose Lady Carnegie.

On 27 Jan 1678 Sarah Margetson was born to John Margetson (age 22) and Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter (age 17).

On 27 Jan 1722 Benedict Swingate Calvert was born illegitimately to Charles Calvert 5th Baron Baltimore (age 22) and Petronilla Melusine Schulenburg Countess Chesterfield (age 28). He a grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 27 Jan 1725 Mary Stawell 1st Baroness Stawell was born to Edward Stawell 4th Baron Stawell.

On 27 Jan 1755 Manasseh Masseh Lopes 1st Baronet was born to Mordecai Lopes (age 26).

On 27 Jan 1764 Charles Burroughs-Paulet 13th Marquess Winchester was born to George Paulett 12th Marquess Winchester (age 41) and Martha Ingoldsby Marchioness Winchester.

On 27 Jan 1768 Augusta Murray Duchess Sussex was born to John Murray 4th Earl Dunmore (age 38) and Charlotte Stewart Countess Dunmore (age 38).

On 27 Jan 1773 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex was born to King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 34) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 28) at Buckingham House [Map].

On 27 Jan 1795 Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess Westminster was born to Robert Grosvenor 1st Marquess Westminster (age 27) and Eleanor Egerton Marchioness Westminster (age 24).

On 27 Jan 1800 Evelyn Denison 1st Viscount Ossington was born to John Denison (age 42).

On 27 Jan 1803 Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl Essex was born to John Thomas Capell (age 34) and Caroline Paget (age 29).

On 27 Jan 1803 Anne Wood was born to Francis Lindley Wood 2nd Baronet (age 31) and Anne Buck Lady Wood.

On 27 Jan 1809 Margaret Bruce Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was born to Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 5th and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (age 22) and Mary Dundas (age 21). Coefficient of inbreeding 6.25%.

On 27 Jan 1825 Adelaide Horatia Seymour-Conway Countess Spencer was born to Horace Beauchamp Seymour-Conway (age 33) and Elizabeth Malet Palk (age 28).

On 27 Jan 1832 Arthur Hughes was born.

On 27 Jan 1837 Reverend John Cæsar Hawkins 4th Baronet was born to John Cæsar Hawkins (age 31) and Louisa Georgiana Letitia Ricketts.

On 27 Jan 1839 George Alexander Duntze 4th Baronet was born to Reverend Samuel Henry Duntze (age 38).

On 27 Jan 1850 John Collier was born to Robert Collier 1st Baron Monkswell (age 32) and Isabella Rose Baroness Monkswell (age 35).

On 27 Jan 1859 Wilhelm Hohenzollern was born to Frederick III King Prussia (age 27) and Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia (age 18) at Crown Prince's Palace, Berlin. He a grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

On 27 Jan 1860 George Reresby Sitwell 4th Baronet was born to Sitwell Reresby Sitwell 3rd Baronet (age 40).

On 27 Jan 1862 Edmund Byng 6th Earl Strafford was born to Francis Edmund Cecil Byng 5th Earl Strafford (age 27) and Florence Louisa Miles (age 22).

On 27 Jan 1870 Florence Hamilton Davis Countess Howe was born to John Hagy Davis and Florence Chapman.

On 27 Jan 1877 James Ernest Thorold 14th Baronet was born to John Henry Thorold 12th Baronet (age 34) and Alexandrina Henrietta Matilda Willoughby (age 32).

On 27 Jan 1884 Osbert Mordaunt 11th Baronet was born to Charles Mordaunt 10th Baronet (age 47) and Mary Louisa Cholmondeley Lady Massingham Parva (age 32).

On 27 Jan 1921 Maurice Victor Macmillan was born to Harold Macmillan 1st Earl Stockton (age 26) and Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish (age 20).

On 27 Jan 1949 Juliana Noel Countess Liverpool was born to Anthony Gerard Edward Noel 5th Earl of Gainsborough (age 25) and Mary Stourton Countess Gainsborough (age 23).

On 27 Jan 1393 Philip Artois Count of Eu (age 36) and Marie Valois I Duchess Auverge (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Eu. She the daughter of John Valois 1st Duke Berry (age 52) and Joanne Armagnac Duchess Berry. He the son of John "Sans Terre" Artois 1st Count of Eu and Isabeau Melun Countess Eu. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry III of England.

After 27 Jan 1443 Christopher Talbot (age 24) and Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft (age 39) were married. She the daughter of Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster. He the son of John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (age 60) and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

On 27 Jan 1447 Richard Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Powick (age 12) and Elizabeth Stafford (age 12) were married at Beauchamp's Court, Alcester. They were half fourth cousins.

After 27 Jan 1667 Francis Godolphin (age 28) and Elizabeth Johnson Lady Mordaunt (age 28) were married.

On 27 Jan 1678 John Margetson (age 22) and Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter (age 17) were married. His sister Anne Margetson (age 21) married her brother William Caulfeild 2nd Viscount Charlemont (age 23) six months later.

On 27 Jan 1776 Nigel Bowyer Gresley 7th Baronet (age 23) and Wilmot Gresley were married by which he acquired Drakelow Hall. They were first cousins.

On 27 Jan 1812 Francis Hartwell 1st Baronet (age 54) and Louisa Aldridge (age 35) were married. They had a daughter.

On 27 Jan 1916 John Henry Montagu Manners 9th Duke Rutland (age 29) and Kathleen Tennant Duchess Rutland (age 21) were married. He the son of Henry John Brinsley Manners 8th Duke Rutland (age 63) and Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland (age 59).

On 27 Jan 1937 Bernard Fitzalan 16th Duke of Norfolk (age 28) and Lavinia Mary Strutt Duchess Norfolk (age 20) were married. She by marriage Duchess Norfolk. She the daughter of Algernon Strutt 3rd Baron Belper (age 53) and Eva Isabel Countess Rosebery (age 44). He the son of Henry Fitzalan Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk and Gwendolen Constable-Maxwell Duchess Norfolk (age 60).

On 27 Jan 672 Pope Vitalian died.

On 27 Jan 992 Mathilde Carolingian Queen Consort Burgundy (age 49) died.

On 27 Jan 1443 John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft died. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Enfield. His son John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester (age 15) succeeded 2nd Baron Tiptoft.

On 27 Jan 1471 John de Lisle 7th Baron Lisle (age 64) died. His half brother Nicholas de Lisle 8th Baron Lisle succeeded 8th Baron Lisle.

On 27 Jan 1501 Bishop Thomas Langton died of plague.

On 27 Jan 1547 Anne Jagiellon Holy Roman Empress (age 43) died.

On 27 Jan 1665 Margaret Montgomerie Countess Glencairn (age 47) died.

On 27 Jan 1665 William Cunningham 9th Earl Glencairn (age 55) died.

On 27 Jan 1669 Gaspar de Crayer (age 84) died.

On 27 Jan 1670 Anne Clarges Duchess Albermarle (age 50) died.

On 27 Jan 1681 Nicholas Leke 2nd Earl Scarsdale (age 69) died. His son Robert Leke 3rd Earl Scarsdale (age 26) succeeded 3rd Earl Scarsdale, 3rd Baron Deincourt of Sutton, 3rd Baronet Leke of Sutton in Derbyshire. Mary Lewis Countess Scarsdale (age 23) by marriage Countess Scarsdale.

On 27 Jan 1689 Henry Beaumont 2nd Baronet (age 50) died. His son Thomas Beaumont 3rd Baronet (age 25) succeeded 3rd Baronet Beaumont of Stoughton Grange in Leicestershire.

On 27 Jan 1689 Thomas Culpepper 2nd Baron Culpepper (age 53) died. His brother John Colepeper 3rd Baron Culpepper (age 49) succeeded 3rd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway in Lincolnshire.

On 27 Jan 1697 Thomas Blount 1st Baronet (age 47) died. His son Thomas Pope Blount 2nd Baronet (age 27) succeeded 2nd Baronet Blount of Tittenhanger.

In 27 Jan 1720 Frances Cromwell Baroness Russell (age 82) died.

On 27 Jan 1726 Philip Stanhope 3rd Earl Chesterfield (age 52) died. His son Philip Stanhope 4th Earl Chesterfield (age 31) succeeded 4th Earl Chesterfield, 4th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire and inherited Boughton aka Bocton Place, Kent [Map].

On 27 Jan 1726 Nicholas Morice 2nd Baronet (age 45) died. He was buried at Werrington, Devon on 07 Feb 1726 . His son William Morice 3rd Baronet (age 19) succeeded 3rd Baronet Morice of Werrington in Devon.

On 27 Jan 1740 Louis Henri Bourbon Condé Duke Bourbon (age 47) died.

On 27 Jan 1753 William Napier 4th Baronet (age 53) died. His brother Gerard Napier 5th Baronet (age 52) succeeded 5th Baronet Napier of Middle Marsh in Dorset.

In 1770 John Kennedy Lord Kennedy (age 98) died. His fourth cousin once removed Thomas Kennedy 9th Earl Cassilis succeeded 9th Earl Cassilis. A dispute arose between the heir general William Douglas 4th Duke Queensberry (age 45) and the heir male Thomas Kennedy 9th Earl Cassilis as to who should succeed to Earl Cassilis. On 29 Feb 1760 the Court of Session found the right to the estates to be with Thomas Kennedy 9th Earl Cassilis. On 27 Jan 1762 the House of Lords found the right to the title to be with Thomas Kennedy 9th Earl Cassilis.

On 27 Jan 1781 Kenneth Mackenzie 1st Earl Seaforth (age 37) died. Earl Seaforth extinct.

On 27 Jan 1784 Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers (age 29) died. Her son George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds (age 8) succeeded 13th Baron Darcy of Knayth, 10th Baron Conyers.

On 27 Jan 1794 Elizabeth Cuffe 1st Countess Longford (age 74) died. Her grandson Thomas Pakenham 2nd Earl Longford (age 19) succeeded 2nd Earl Longford.

On 27 Jan 1818 John Hamilton 1st Marquess Abercorn (age 61) died.

On 27 Jan 1824 Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower Countess Carlisle died.

On 27 Jan 1828 Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie 2nd Earl Radnor (age 77) died. His son William Pleydell-Bouverie 3rd Earl Radnor (age 48) succeeded 3rd Earl Radnor, 4th Viscount Folkestone, 4th Baron Longford, 6th Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London. Judith St John-Mildmay Countess Radnor (age 37) by marriage Countess Radnor.

On 27 Jan 1836 Princess Wilhelmine Baden (age 47) died.

On 27 Jan 1837 Nathaniel Curzon 2nd Baron Scarsdale (age 84) died. His son Nathaniel Curzon 3rd Baron Scarsdale (age 56) succeeded 3rd Baron Scarsdale.

On 27 Jan 1852 Robert Graham 8th Baronet (age 82) died. His son Edward Graham 9th Baronet (age 32) succeeded 9th Baronet Graham of Esk in Cumberland

On 27 Jan 1857 Elizabeth Egerton Lady Broughton died at Hoole Hall, Cheshire.

On 07 Jan 1866 or 27 Jan 1866 John Gibson (age 75) died at Rome, Italy [Map]. He bequeathed the contents of his studio, a large selection of his works and a large sum of money to the Royal Academy.

On 27 Jan 1867 Elizabeth Fortescue Countess Devon (age 65) died.

On 27 Jan 1870 Captain Edward Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baronet (age 43) died. Baronet Bisshopp of Parham in Sussex extinct.

On 27 Jan 1874 Andrew St John 15th Baron St John (age 62) died. His son St Andrew St John 16th Baron St John (age 33) succeeded 16th Baron St John of Bletso, 13th Baronet St John of Woodford in Northamptonshire.

On 27 Jan 1886 John Rous 2nd Earl Stradbrooke (age 91) died. His son George Rous 3rd Earl of Stradbroke (age 23) succeeded 3rd Earl Stradbrooke, 3rd Viscount Dunwich, 8th Baronet Stradbrooke of Henham in Suffolk.

On 27 Jan 1892 Georgiana Tredcroft Lady Watson-Copley (age 65) died.

On 27 Jan 1899 Montague Peregrine Bertie 11th Earl Lindsey (age 83) died. His son Montague Peregrine Albemarle Bertie 12th Earl Lindsey (age 37) succeeded 12th Earl Lindsey. Millicent Cox Countess Lindsey (age 36) by marriage Countess Lindsey.

On 27 Jan 1918 Reverend William Greenwell (age 97) died unmarried at his home 27 South Bailey, Durham.

On 27 Jan 1923 Walter Henry James 2nd Baron Northbourne (age 76) died. His son Walter James 3rd Baron Northbourne (age 53) succeeded 3rd Baron Northbourne of Betteshanger in Kent and Jarrow Grange in County Durham, 4th Baronet James of Langley Hall and Denford Court in Berkshire.

On 27 Jan 1925 Francis Grenfell 1st Baron Grenfell (age 83) died. His son Pascoe Grenfell 2nd Baron Grenfell (age 19) succeeded 2nd Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in Glamorganshire.

On 27 Jan 1931 Cecil Lister-Kaye 4th Baronet (age 77) died. His son Kenelm Arthur Lister-Kaye 5th Baronet (age 38) succeeded 5th Baronet Lister-Kaye of Grange in Yorkshire.

On 27 Jan 1932 Charles Frederick Cavendish 5th Baron Waterpark (age 48) died. His second cousin Henry Sheppard Hart Cavendish 6th Baron Waterpark (age 55) succeeded 6th Baron Waterpark, 7th Baronet Cavendish of Doveridge Hall.

On 27 Jan 1952 Fanny Ward aka Buchanan (age 79) died.

On 27 Jan 1953 Charles Michael Wentworth Noel-Hill 9th Baron Berwick (age 55) died. Baron Berwick of Attingham in Shropshire extinct.

On 27 Jan 1965 William Craven 6th Earl Craven (age 47) died. His son Thomas Craven 7th Earl Craven (age 7) succeeded 7th Earl Craven in Yorkshire, 7th Viscount Uffington, 13th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.

On 27 Jan 1974 Edward Louis Spears 1st Baronet (age 87) died at the Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. He was buried in the churchyard of St Michael the Archangel Church, Warfield. Baronet Spears of Warfield in Berkshire extinct.