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30 Mar is in March.
14th April 1471 Battle of Barnet
1485 Richard III publicly denies that he intended to marry his niece Elizabeth
1558 Funeral of Catherine of Aragon
1661 Charles II Continues to Reward those who Supported His Restoration
Events on the 30th March
Chronicle of Roger de Hoveden. 30th March 1194. On the thirtieth day of March, a Wednesday, Richard, King of England, held the first day of his council at Nottingham. Present at this council were: Queen Eleanor (age 72), his mother, Hubert (age 34), Archbishop of Canterbury, who sat on the king's right, Geoffrey (age 42), Archbishop of York, who sat on the king's left, Hugh (age 69), Bishop of Durham, Hugh (age 54), Bishop of Lincoln, William, Bishop of Ely, the king's chancellor, William, Bishop of Hereford, Henry, Bishop of Worcester, Henry (age 46), Bishop of Exeter, John, Bishop of Whithorn (Candida Casa), Count David (age 42), brother of the King of Scotland, Hamelin (age 65), Earl of Warenne, Ranulf (age 24), Earl of Chester, William (age 26), Earl of Ferrers, William (age 18), Earl of Salisbury, Roger Bigod (age 50).
Tricesima die mensis Martii, feria quarta, Ricardus rex Angiiæ celebravit primum conciJii sui diem apud Notingliam; cui interfueiunt Alienor regina mater ejus, et Hubertus Cantuariensis arcbiepiscopus, qui in dextris regis sedebat in concilio illo, et Gaufridus Eboracensis arcbiepiscopus, qui a sinistris ejus sedebat, et Hugo Dunelmensis, et Hugo Lincolniensis, et Willelmus Eliensis regis cancellarius, et Willelmus Herefordensis, et Henriecus Wigornensis, et Henricus Exoniensis, et Johannes Candidæ Casæ episcopi; et comes David frater regis, Scotiæ, et Hamelinus comes de Warenna, et Ranulfus comes Cestriæ, et Willelmus comes de Ferreres, et Willelmus comes de Salesbiria, et Rogerus Bigot.
On 30th March 1296 Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 21) captured Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland [Map] from William "Hardy" Douglas 2nd Lord Douglas (age 56). Richard Cornwall (age 44) was killed during the course of the siege.'When the town had been taken in this way and its citizens had submitted, Edward spared no one, whatever the age or sex, and for two days streams of blood flowed from the bodies of the slain, for in his tyrannous rage he ordered 7,500 souls of both sexes to be massacred. So that mills could be turned by the flow of their blood.' - Account of the Massacre of Berwick, from Bower's Scotichronicon.
On 30th March 1465 Isabella Clermont Queen Consort Naples (age 41) died.
The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland Volume 1. 30th March 1471. The Duke of Clarence (age 21) to Henry Vernon (age 26).
[1471,] March 30. Malmesbury. — Henry, We can you right goode thanke for the goode devoir that ye have doon in sending furth men to understand of the rule and guyding of E[dward]-late King, and thanke you for the writing that ye laste sent to us, wherby we understande the goode and lovyng disposiccion towardes us of our cousin of Shrovesbury (offering to do us service erased), wherof we bee right glad. Praying you that ye will haste you towardes us as soon as ye may, making the mor spede and gretter haste inasmuch as it is nedeful and expedient as ye may wele conceyve. Warnyng all our servauntes nigh you and by the way as ye shall comme, that thay spede thaim to us in all haste possible, doing your feythefull devoir herin at this tyme, as our special trust is in you. Writen at Malmesbury [Map] the xxx day of March. (Signed: — ) Gr. Clarence. Signet.
Calendar of State Papers of Milan 1471. 26th April 1471. 30th March 1471. Potenze Estere. Francia. Milan Archives. 209. Sforza de Bettini of Florence, Milanese Ambassador in France to Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan.
There is no news of England except through the Burgundians, whom it is hard to believe because they only report things in their favour. They do not deny however that the Prince of Wales has had a great following, and many say that even if the prince should prove successful it would be more for them than for the king (dicono che quando ben el principe ottenesse chel saria più per loro che per el Rey).
Four days ago an English fellow arrived here, having recently come from England. He relates many miracles, but they are not credited. Among other things he says that King Edward was killed in a recent battle, and the Earl of Warwick is alive. His Majesty the King and every one else considers this an idle story. If this be true, and God grant it, it cannot remain long concealed. But all he says is discredited, because the Duke of Burgundy becomes more aggressive every moment.
Ham (Ahani), the 30th March, 1471. [Italian.]
On 30th March 1485 King Richard III of England (age 32) at the Hospital of St John, Clerkenwell [Map]. publicly rebutted rumours that he intended to marry his niece Elizabeth (age 19) in front of the Mayor and citizens of London.
Croyland Chronicle 1485. 30th March 1485. The king's purpose and intention of contracting a marriage with his niece Elizabeth being mentioned to some who were opposed thereto, the king was obliged, having called a council together, to excuse himself with many words and to assert that such a thing had never once entered his mind. There were some persons, however, present at that same council, who very well knew the contrary. Those in especial who were unwilling that this marriage should take place, and to whose opinions the king hardly ever dared offer any opposition, were Sir Richard Ratclyffe and William Catesby, Esquire of his body. For by these persons the king was told to his face that if he did not abandon his intended purpose, and that, too, before the mayor and commons of the city of London, opposition would not be offered to him by merely the warnings of the voice; for all the people of the north, in whom he placed the greatest reliance, would rise in rebellion against him, and impute to him the death of the queen, the daughter and one of the heirs of the earl of Warwick, through whom he had first gained his present high position; in order that he might, to the extreme abhorrence of the Almighty, gratify an incestuous passion for his said niece. Besides this, they brought to him more than twelve Doctors of Divinity, who asserted that the pope could grant no dispensation in the case of such a degree of consanguinity. It was supposed by many, that these men, together with others like them, threw so many impediments in the way, for fear lest, if the said Elizabeth should attain the rank of queen, it might at some time be in her power to avenge upon them the death of her uncle, earl Antony, and her brother Richard, they having been the king's especial advisers in those matters. The king, accordingly, followed their advice a little before Easter, in presence of the mayor and citizens of London, in the great hall of the Hospital of Saint John [Map], by making the said denial in a loud and distinct voice; more, however, as many supposed, to suit the wishes of those who advised him to that effect, than in conformity with his own.
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Extracts from The Life of Anne Boleyn. [30th March 1534] And after this again, at the prorogation of the parliament, the thirtieth of March13, he had every lord, knight, and burgess sworn to an act of succession, and their names subscribed to a schedule fixed to the same statute, where it was enacted, that his daughter princess Elizabeth, he having none other heir male, should succeed him to the crown. And after were commissioners sent to all parts of the realm to take the like oath of all men and women in the land. Neither also were her virtues only enclosed in her own breast or shut up in her own person. She had procured to her chaplains14, men of great learning and of no less honest conversing, whom she with hers heard much, and privately she heard them willingly and gladly to admonish her, and them herself exhorted and encouraged so to do. Also at the first, she had in court drawn about her, to be attending on her, ladies15 of great honour, and yet of greater choice for reputation of virtue, undoubted witnesses of her spousal integrity, whom she trained upon with all commendations of well ordered government, though yet above all by her own example she shined above them all, as a torch that all might take light of, being itself still more bright. Those that have seen at Hampton Court the rich and exquisite works by her self, for the greater part wrought by her own hand and needle, and also of her ladies, esteem them the most precious furniture that are to be accounted amongst the most sumptuous that any prince may be possessed of. And yet far more rich and precious were those works in the sight of God which she caused her maids and those about her daily to work in shirts and smocks for the poor. But not staying here her eye of charity, her hand of bounty passed through the whole land; each place felt that heavenly flame burning in her; all times will remember it, no place leaving for vain flames, no times for idle thoughts. Her ordinary amounted to fifteen hundred pounds at the least, yearly, to be bestowed on the poor. Her provisions of stock for the poor in sundry needy parishes were very great. Out of her privy purse went not a little to like purposes. To Scholars in exhibition very much: so as in three quarters of a year her alms was summed to fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds.
Note 13. A. D. 1534.
Note 14. Shaxton and Latimer.
Note 15. To every one of these she gave a little book of devotions, neatly written on vellum, and bound in covers of solid gold enamelled, with a ring to each cover to hang it at their girdles for their constant use and meditation.
One of these little volumes, traditionally said to have been given by the queen when on the scaffold to her attendant, one of the Wyatt family, and preserved by them through several generations, was described by Vertue as being seen by him in the possession of Mr. George Wyatt of Charterhouse Square, in 1721. Vide Walpole's Miscellaneous Antiquities, printed at Strawberry Hill, 1772, No. II. p. 13. It was a diminutive volume, consisting of one hundred and four leaves of vellum, one and seven-eighths of an inch long by one and five-eights of an inch broad; containing a metrical version of parts of thirteen Psalms: and bound in pure gold richly chased, with a ring to append it to the neck-chain or girdle. It was in Mr. Triphook's possession in the year 1817.
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs. 30th March 1555. Thus this godly bishop, being condemned and degraded, was committed to the secular power, who not long after was brought to the place of execution in the town of Caermarthen, where he, in the market place in the south side of the market-cross, the thirtieth day of March, being Saturday next before Passion Sunday, most constantly sustained the torments and passion of the fire.
Touching the which constancy of this blessed martyr, this is moreover to be added and noted, that one named Richard Jones, a knight's son, coming to Master Ferrar a little before his death, seemed to lament the painfulness of the death he had to suffer: unto whom the bishop answered again to this effect, saying, that if he saw him once to stir in the pains of his burning, he should then give no credit to his doctrine. And as he said, so he right. well performed the same; for so patiently he stood that he never moved, but even as he stood, (holding up his stumps,) so still he continued, till one Richard Gravell with a staff dashed him upon the head, and so struck him down.
On 30th March 1555 Bishop Robert Ferrar was burned at the stake at the Market Square, Carmarthen.
On 30th March 1558 Katherine's daughter Queen Mary I of England and Ireland (age 42) wrote her will in which specified that "I will that the body of the vertuous Lady and my most dere and well-beloved mother of happy memory, Quene Kateryn, whych lyeth now buried at Peterborowh [Map], shall within as short tyme as conveniently yt may after my burial, be removed, brought and layde nye the place of my sepulture, in wch place I will my Executors to cawse to be made honorable tombs or monuments for a decent memory of us." See The History of Queen Mary I Appendix H
The History of Queen Mary I Appendix H. 30th March 1558. Mary The Quene (age 42).
In the name of God, Amen. I Marye by the Grace of God Quene of Englond, Spayne, France, both Sicelles, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defender of the Faythe, Archduchesse of Austriche, Duchesse of Burgundy, Millayne and Brabant, Countesse of Hapsburg, Flanders and Tyroll, and lawful wife to the most noble and virtuous Prince Philippe, by the same Grace of God Kynge of the said Realms and Domynions of England, &c. Thinking myself to be with child in lawful marriage between my said dearly beloved husband and Lord, altho' I be at this present (thankes be unto Almighty God) otherwise in good helthe, yet foreseeing the great danger which by Godd's ordynance remaine to all whomen in ther travel of children, have thought good, both for discharge of my conscience and continewance of good order within my Realmes and domynions to declare my last will and testament; and by these presents revoking all other testaments and last Wills by me at onny time heretofore made or devised by wryting or otherwise, doe with the full consent, agreement and good contentment of my sayd most Dere Le and Husband, ordeyn and make my sayd last will and testament in manner and forme following.
On 30th March 1610 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle (age 74) died. On 14th May 1635 Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton (age 61) was buried in Salisbury Cathedral [Map].
Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle: In 1536 he was born to Edward Gorges and Mary Poyntz in Wraxall, Somerset [Map]. In 1573 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle acquired the manor of Longford, Wiltshire they commissioned the building of a house on the triangular Swedish style on the banks of the Wiltshire River Avon with money from a shipwreck of the Spanish Armada. In 1576 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle and Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton were married secretly. In 1586 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle was knighted at Beddington, Surrey.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 30th March 1617. The 30th I spent in walking and sitting in the Park having my mind more contented than it was before my Lord (age 28) came from Buckhurst.
In early 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) rewarded of further tranche of those who supported his Restoration ...
On 2nd January 1661 Henry Bedingfield 1st Baronet (age 46) was created 1st Baronet Bedingfield of Oxburgh in Norfolk.
On 10th January 1661 Andrew Rutherford 1st Earl Teviot was created 1st Baron Rutherford with special remainder to his heirs and assignees whatsoever, and that under what provisions, restrictions, and conditions the said Lord Rutherford should think fit.
On 23rd January 1661 John Cole 1st Baronet (age 41) was created Baronet Cole of Newland.
On 23rd February 1661 Edward Smythe 1st Baronet (age 41) was created 1st Baronet Smythe.
On 4th March 1661 Compton Reade 1st Baronet (age 36) was created 1st Baronet Reade of Barton in Berkshire. Mary Cornwall Lady Reade (age 31) by marriage Lady Reade of Barton in Berkshire.
On 10th March 1661 Brian Broughton 1st Baronet (age 42) was created 1st Baronet Broughton of Broughton in Staffordshire.
On 20th March 1661 Thomas Rich 1st Baronet (age 60) was created 1st Baronet Rich of Sonning in Berkshire.
On 29th March 1661 Robert Cholmondeley 1st Viscount Cholmondeley (age 21) was created 1st Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells in County Meath.
On 30th March 1661 James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde (age 50) was created 1st Duke Ormonde by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde (age 45) by marriage Duchess Ormonde.
On 30th March 1661 John Fettiplace 1st Baronet (age 35) was created 1st Baronet Fettiplace of Childrey in Berkshire. Anne Wenman Lady Fettiplace (age 31) by marriage Lady Fettiplace of Childrey in Berkshire.
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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1663. Thence to see my Lord Sandwich (age 37), who I found very merry and every day better and better.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1663. So to my office where all the morning and at the Glass-house, and after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen (age 41) I carried my wife and her woman to Westminster, they to visit Mrs. Ferrers and Clerke, we to the Duke, where we did our usual business, and afterwards to the Tangier Committee, where among other things we all of us sealed and signed the Contract for building the Mole with my Lord Tiviott, Sir J. Lawson (age 48), and Mr. Cholmley. A thing I did with a very ill will, because a thing which I did not at all understand, nor any or few of the whole board. We did also read over the propositions for the Civill government and Law Merchant of the town, as they were agreed on this morning at the Glasshouse by Sir R. Ford (age 49) and Sir W. Rider, who drew them, Mr. Povy (age 49) and myself as a Committee appointed to prepare them, which were in substance but not in the manner of executing them independent wholly upon the Governor consenting to.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1665. Up, and to my Lord Ashly (age 43), but did nothing, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke (age 55) and spoke with him about business, and so back to the office, where all the morning.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1666. Thence home and eat one mouthful, and so to Hales's (age 66), and there sat till almost quite darke upon working my gowne, which I hired to be drawn in; an Indian gowne, and I do see all the reason to expect a most excellent picture of it.
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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1667. At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife's knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady Newcastle's (age 44), called "The Humourous Lovers"; the most silly thing that ever come upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have seen it, that I might the better understand her. Here I spied Knipp and Betty, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges, but, having little money about me, did not offer to carry them abroad, which otherwise I had, I fear, been tempted to. So with Sir W. Pen (age 45) home (he being at the play also), a most summer evening, and to my office, where, among other things, a most extraordinary letter to the Duke of York (age 33) touching the want of money and the sad state of the King's service thereby, and so to supper and to bed.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1668. Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till about to o'clock, and then out with my wife and Deb. and W. Hewer (age 26) by coach to Common-garden Coffee-house, where by appointment I was to meet Harris (age 34); which I did, and also Mr. Cooper, the great painter, and Mr. Hales (age 68): and thence presently to Mr. Cooper's house, to see some of his work, which is all in little, but so excellent as, though I must confess I do think the colouring of the flesh to be a little forced, yet the painting is so extraordinary, as I do never expect to see the like again. Here I did see Mrs. Stewart's (age 20) picture as when a young maid, and now just done before her having the smallpox: and it would make a man weep to see what she was then, and what she is like to be, by people's discourse, now. Here I saw my Lord Generall's picture, and my Lord Arlington (age 50) and Ashly's, and several others; but among the rest one Swinfen, that was Secretary to my Lord Manchester (age 66), Lord Chamberlain, with Cooling, done so admirably as I never saw any thing: but the misery was, this fellow died in debt, and never paid Cooper (age 59) for his picture; but, it being seized on by his creditors, among his other goods, after his death, Cooper himself says that he did buy it, and give £25 out of his purse for it, for what he was to have had but £30. Being infinitely satisfied with this sight, and resolving that my wife shall be drawn by him when she comes out of the country, I away with Harris and Hales to the Coffee-house, sending my people away, and there resolve for Hales to begin Harris's head for me, which I will be at the cost of.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th March 1669. Up, and to Sir W. Coventry (age 41), to see and discourse with him; and he tells me that he hath lately been with my Lord Keeper, and had much discourse about the Navy; and particularly he tells me that he finds they are divided touching me and my Lord Brouncker (age 49); some are for removing; and some for keeping us. He told my Lord Keeper that it would cost the King (age 38) £10,000 before he hath made another as fit to serve him in the Navy as I am; which, though I believe it is true, yet I am much pleased to have that character given me by W. Coventry, whatever be the success of it. But I perceive they do think that I know too much, and shall impose upon whomever shall come next, and therefore must be removed, though he tells me that Sir T. Clifford (age 38) is inclined well enough to me, and Sir T. Osborne (age 37); by what I have lately done, I suppose. This news do a little trouble me, but yet, when I consider it, it is but what I ought not to be much troubled for, considering my incapacity, in regard to my eyes, to continue long at this work, and this when I think of and talk with my wife do make me the less troubled for it. After some talk of the business of the navy more with him, I away and to the Office, where all the morning; and Sir W. Pen (age 47), the first time that he hath been here since his being last sick, which, I think, is two or three months; and I think will be the last that he will be here as one of the Board, he now inviting us all to dine with him, as a parting dinner, on Thursday next, which I am glad of, I am sure; for he is a very villain.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1673. At the sermon coram Rege, preached by Dr. Sparrow (age 61), Bishop of Exeter, to a most crowded auditory; I stayed to see whether, according to custom, the Duke of York (age 39) received the Communion with the King (age 42); but he did not, to the amazement of everybody. This being the second year he had forborne, and put it off, and within a day of the Parliament sitting, who had lately made so severe an Act against the increase of Popery, gave exceeding grief and scandal to the whole nation, that the heir of it, and the son of a martyr for the Protestant religion, should apostatize. What the consequence of this will be, God only knows, and wise men dread.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1676. Dr. North (age 30), son of my Lord North (age 74), preached before the King (age 45), on Isaiah liii. 57, a very young but learned and excellent person. Note. This was the first time the Duke (age 42) appeared no more in chapel, to the infinite grief and threatened ruin of this poor nation.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1676. Dining with my Lady Sunderland (age 30), I saw a fellow swallow a knife, and divers great pebble stones, which would make a plain rattling one against another. The knife was in a sheath of horn.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1684. Easter day. The Bp. of Rochester [Dr. Turner] (age 46) preach'd before, the King (age 53) after which his Ma*, accompanied with three of his natural sonns, the Dukes of Northumberland (age 18), Richmond (age 11), and St. Alban's (age 13) (sons of Cleaveland (age 43), Portsmouth (age 34) and Nelly (age 34) respectively), went up to the Altar; ye three boyes entering before the King within the railes, at the right hand, and three Bishops on the left, viz. London (age 52) (who officiated), Durham (age 51), and Rochester, with the Sub-dean Dr. Holder. the King kneeling before the Altar, taking his offering, the Bishop first receiv'd, and then his Ma* after which he retir'd to a canopied seate on the right hand. Note, there was perfume burnt before the Office began. I had receiv'd ye Sacrament at Whitehall early with the Lords and Household, ye Bp. of London officiating. Then went to St. Martin's [Map], where Dr. Tenison (age 47) preach'd (recover'd from ye small-pox); then went againe to Whitehall as above. In the afternoone went to St. Martin's againe.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1694. I went to the Duke of Norfolk (age 39), to desire him to make cousin Evelyn of Nutfield (age 52) one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Surrey, and entreat him to dismiss my brother (age 76), now unable to serve by reason of age and infirmity. The Duke granted the one, but would not suffer my brother to resign his commission, desiring he should keep the honor of it during his life, though he could not act. He professed great kindness to our family.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1699. The King (age 48) preferring his young favorite Earl of Albemarle (age 29) to be first Commander of his Guard, the Duke of Ormond (age 33) laid down his commission. This of the Dutch Lord passing over his head, was exceedingly resented by everybody.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th March 1699. The Duke of Devon (age 59) lost £1,900 at a horse race at Newmarket, Suffolk.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Edelsborough [Map]. Grave in the Chancel, and memorial, of Margaret Pym, died 30th March 1701, wife of Thomas Bayley, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford University. And also of her first husband John Theed, and their eldest son John Theed of Horton Hall.
After 30th March 1775. Monument to William Irby 1st Baron Boston (deceased) at St Nicholas Church, Whiston [Map] sculpted by Joseph Nollekens (age 37).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1782 Georgiana Augusta Frederica Seymour was born to King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 19) and Grace Elliott. Alternatively she may have been the daughter of George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley (age 32); both men claimed paternity. Paternity was also claimed by Charles William Wyndham (age 21) among others.
On 30th March 1803 Aglae de Polignac "Guichette" Duchess Gramont (age 34) died in a house fire at her home in Edinburgh.
On 30th March 1806 Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire (age 48) died at Devonshire House [Map]. She was buried at Derby Cathedral [Map]. Her husband William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 58), her mother Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer (age 68), her sister Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough (age 44) and her eight months pregnant daughter Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle (age 22) were present, as was Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 48), her husband's mistress and future wife.
The London Gazette 19842. Whitehall, March 30, 1840.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Duchess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood (age 55) (eldest surviving daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, by Elizabeth, his third wife, daughter of Richard Underwood, late of the city of Dublin,Esq.), and the heirs male of her body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Duchess of Inverness.
30th March 1848, Saturday. Marylebone. – Extraordinary Charge Of Indecent Assault Against The Earl Of Kingston (age 51). – Yesterday, amongst the charges brought up by Inspector Tedman from the Marylebone-lane Station-house (D division) was one of a very extraordinary and serious nature, preferred against no less a personage than Robert King, Earl of Kingston, 35, Alpha-road, Regent's Park, and of Mickelstown Castle, county Cork, for having indecently assaulted a young man named Cull, with intent to commit an unnatural offence. – The accused, when brought in, was placed at the bar; he was attired in black, and appeared to be about sixty years of age. He was asked if he had any witnesses, and the answer he made was, "No, I have none; I deny it all." – Mr. Long remarked that as the case was one of misdemeanour, the defendant was at liberty to leave the situation in which he was placed, and stand in front of the bar, which he did. A gentleman, said to be a Member of the House of Commons, sat close to him during the proceedings, pending which he more than once addressed Sir James Hamilton, who attended to be sworn in as a special constable, and who sat near the worthy magistrate. The noble defendant seemed by no means ill at ease, although he was locked up all night at the station, and had not provided himself with the assistance of his own private solicitor. Mr. Justins, from the firm of Maples, Stevens, and Co., Old Jewry, happened, however, to be sitting at the attorneys' table owing to an engagement which he had respecting a railway robbery, and he was upon the instant specially engaged to conduct the case for his Lordship.
30th March 1851. Census. 5 Prospect Place.
William Holman Hunt (age 23). 22. Historical Painter.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1855 Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (age 57) died from childbirth having given birth to twins the day before.
On 30th March 1863 George I King Greece (age 17) succeeded I King Greece.
On 12th January 1884 Robert Nicholas Hamond (age 74) died. On 1st March 1893 his wife Sophia Caroline Musters (age 71) died.
On 13th December 1869 Anthony Hamond (age 65) died. On 31st January 1900 his wife Mary Anne Musters (age 63) died.
On 30th March 1895 Anthony Hamond (age 61) died.
Memorials in All Saints Church, West Acre [Map].
On 30th March 1895 Arthur Gore 6th Earl of Arran (age 26) was commissioned a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards.
On 20th August 1914 Reverend Edmund Thomas Daubeney (age 74) died. On 30th March 1926 Mary Castle (age 74) died. They were buried in churchyard of Church of St George, South Acre [Map].
Reverend Edmund Thomas Daubeney: On 14th July 1840 he was born to Edmund Joseph Daubeney. Before 20th August 1914 he and Mary Castle were married.
Mary Castle: Around 1840 she was born.
On 30th March 1917 Captain Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth (age 29) was killed in action at Vimy Ridge. He was buried at the Villers Station Cemetery, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, Villers Au Bois, France.
On 30th March 1918 Lieutenant Edward Wodehouse (age 19) was killed in action.
Memorial to George Edward Mason, Rector of the Church of St Lawrence, Whitwell [Map] 1874-1908, Conon of Southwell Minster [Map] 1888-1908, Principal of St Bede's College, Umtata Kaffraria, 1908-1919. Died at Rondebosch near Cape Town, 30th March 1928.
On 30th March 1945 Major Thomas Mitford (age 36) was killed in action.
Births on the 30th March
On 30th March 1562 Cardinal Charles Bourbon Conti was born to Louis Bourbon Prince Condé (age 31) and Eléanor de Roucy de Roye Princess Condé (age 27).
On 30th March 1691 Charles Hamilton Comte d'Arran was born illegitimately to James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon (age 32) and Barbara Fitzroy (age 18) at Cleveland Row.
On 30th March 1746 Francisco Goya was born.
On 25 or 30th March 1750 Jane Tollemache was born to Lionel Tollemache 4th Earl Dysart (age 41) and Grace Carteret Countess Dysart (age 36).
On 30th March 1750 John Tollemache was born to Lionel Tollemache 4th Earl Dysart (age 41) and Grace Carteret Countess Dysart (age 36).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1762 John Campbell 1st Marquess Breadalbane was born to Colin Campbell of Carwhin (age 58).
On 30th March 1763 George Markham was born to Archbishop William Markham (age 44).
On 30th March 1773 John Hayford Thorold 10th Baronet was born to John Thorold 9th Baronet (age 38) and Jane Hayford Lady Thorold.
On 30th March 1782 Georgiana Augusta Frederica Seymour was born to King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 19) and Grace Elliott. Alternatively she may have been the daughter of George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley (age 32); both men claimed paternity. Paternity was also claimed by Charles William Wyndham (age 21) among others.
On 30th March 1785 Henry Hardinge 1st Viscount Hardinge was born.
On 30th March 1791 Mary Beauclerk Countess Coventry was born to Aubrey Beauclerk 6th Duke St Albans (age 25) and Jane Moses (age 23). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 30th March 1805 Henrietta Laura Wodehouse was born to John Wodehouse 2nd Baron Wodehouse (age 34) and Charlotte Norris Baroness Woodhouse.
On 30th March 1811 William Petty-Fitzmaurice was born to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne (age 30) and Louisa Emma Fox-Strangways Marchioness of Lansdowne (age 25) at Lansdowne House Mayfair.
On 30th March 1819 Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster was born to Augustus Fitzgerald 3rd Duke Leinster (age 27) and Charlotte Augusta Stanhope Duchess Leinster (age 26).
On 30th March 1824 John Alexander Campbell 6th Earl Breadalbaine and Holland was born to Lieutenant Colonel William John Lamb Campbell of Glenfalloch (age 36).
On 30th March 1849 Cecil Molyneux Howard was born to Charles Howard 17th Earl Suffolk 10th Earl Berkshire (age 43) and Isabella Catherine Mary Howard-Molyneux-Howard Countess Suffolk and Berkshire (age 42).
On 30th March 1852 George Montagu Bennet 7th Earl Tankerville was born to Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville (age 42) and Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville (age 21) at Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street.
On 30th March 1859 Arthur Edward Sebright was born to Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright 8th Baronet (age 57).
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1859 Almeric Edmund Frederic Rich 5th Baronet was born to Frederick Dampier Rich (age 41) and Jacinthia Catherine Hesketh Lethbridge (age 39). Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.
On 30th March 1861 Edith Maria Hill-Trevor was born to Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 41) and Mary Catherine Curzon Baroness Trevor (age 23).
On 30th March 1864 John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry was born to William Scott 6th Duke Buccleuch 8th Duke Queensberry (age 32) and Louisa Jane Hamilton Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury (age 27).
On 30th March 1864 Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster was born to William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham (age 35) and Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham (age 31). Coefficient of inbreeding 1.57%.
On 30th March 1866 Susan Alice Portman was born to William Henry Portman 2nd Viscount Portman (age 36) and Mary Selina Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Viscountess Portman (age 30).
On 30th March 1886 Irene Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury (age 51) and Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury (age 24)
On 30th March 1896 Charles Leicester 9th Baronet was born to Major William Frederic Leicester (age 64).
On 30th March 1900 Thomas Brand 4th Viscount Hampden was born to Thomas Brand 3rd Viscount Hampden (age 31) and Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott (age 25).
On 30th March 1901 Serena Lumley was born to Aldred Beresford Lumley 10th Earl Scarborough (age 43) and Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Garnder Countess Scarborough.
On 30th March 1902 George Hay 14th Earl of Kinnoull was born to Edmund Hay (age 22).
On 30th March 1904 Walter Peel Grove was born to Walter John Grove 2nd Baronet (age 51) and Agnes Geraldine Lane Fox-Pitt Lady Grove (age 41).
On 30th March 1908 Anne Hicks-Beach Baroness Leigh was born to Ellis Hicks-Beach (age 33).
On 30th March 1921 Elizabeth Sutherland 24th Countess of Sutherland was born to Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (age 31) and Elizabeth Demarest (age 28). Her father died a month later.
On 30th March 1936 Katherine Mary Alice Baring was born to Evelyn Baring 1st Baron Howick (age 32) and Mary Cecil Grey Baroness Howick Glendale (age 29).
On 30th March 1960 John Salusbury-Trelawny 14th was born to John Barry Salusbury-Trelawny 13th Baronet (age 25).
On 30th March 1962 Andrew Ian Henry Russell 15th Duke Bedford was born to Henry Robin Ian Russell 14th Duke Bedford (age 22) and Henrietta Joan Tiarks Duchess Bedford (age 22).
On 30th March 1965 Garret Graham Wellesley 8th Earl Cowley was born to Garret Wellesley 7th Earl Cowley (age 30).
Marriages on the 30th March
On 30th March 1231 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 22) and Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford (age 30) were married at Fawley, Lambourn. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke and Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke. He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England (age 43). They were fifth cousins.
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The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall describes the reigns of Kings Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III, providing a wealth of information about their lives and the events of the time. Ralph's work is detailed, comprehensive and objective. We have augmented Ralph's text with extracts from other contemporary chroniclers to enrich the reader's experience. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1751 Henry Herbert 1st Earl Powis (age 47) and Barbara Herbert Countess Powis (age 15) were married. She by marriage Countess Powis. The difference in their ages was 32 years.
On 30th March 1752 Thomas Villiers 1st Earl Clarendon (age 42) and Charlotte Capell Countess Clarendon were married. She the daughter of William Capell 3rd Earl Essex and Jane Hyde Countess Essex. He the son of William Villiers 2nd Earl Jersey. They were second cousin once removed.
On 30th March 1761 Richard Henry Bedingfield 4th Baronet (age 40) and Mary Browne (age 39) were married. They were half fourth cousins.
On 30th March 1761 Thomas Woods Knollys 7th Earl Banbury (age 33) and Mary Porter (age 18) were married at St Thomas Church, Winchester. He the son of Charles Knollys 5th Earl Banbury (age 58) and Martha Hughes (age 57).
On 30th March 1772 Archibald Montgomerie 11th Earl Eglinton (age 45) and Jean aka Jane Lindsay Countess Eglinton were married. She by marriage Countess Eglinton. She the daughter of George Lindsay Crawford 21st Earl Crawford 5th Earl Lindsay (age 49). He the son of Alexander Montgomerie 9th Earl Eglinton and Susanna Kennedy Countess Winton (age 82).
On 30th March 1799 James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 1st Baron Wharncliffe (age 22) and Elizabeth Caroline Mary Crichton Baroness Wharncliffe (age 21) were married. She the daughter of John Crichton 1st Earl Erne (age 68) and Mary Caroline Hervey Countess Erne (age 46). They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 30th March 1844 William Frederick Pollock 2nd Baronet (age 28) and Juliet Creed were married.
On 30th March 1875 Archibald Lamb 3rd Baronet (age 29) and Louisa Mary Caroline Durrant Lady Lamb were married. She by marriage Lady Burges of Burghfield.
On 30th March 1909 Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny (age 25) and Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny (age 18) were married.
On 30th March 1978 Edward Charles Fitzroy 7th Baron Southampton (age 22) and Rachel Caroline Vincent Millett Baroness Southampton were married. She by marriage Baroness Southampton.
Deaths on the 30th March
On 30th March 987 Arnulf II Count Flanders (age 27) died. His son Baldwin (age 7) succeeded IV Count Flanders.
On 30th March 1290 Joyce Zouche Baroness Mortimer (age 50) died at Worcester, Worcestershire [Map]. She was buried at Worcester Cathedral [Map].
On 30th March 1296 Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 21) captured Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland [Map] from William "Hardy" Douglas 2nd Lord Douglas (age 56). Richard Cornwall (age 44) was killed during the course of the siege.'When the town had been taken in this way and its citizens had submitted, Edward spared no one, whatever the age or sex, and for two days streams of blood flowed from the bodies of the slain, for in his tyrannous rage he ordered 7,500 souls of both sexes to be massacred. So that mills could be turned by the flow of their blood.' - Account of the Massacre of Berwick, from Bower's Scotichronicon.
On 30th March 1463 David Fleming 6th Baron Slane (age 40) died. His first cousin James (age 21) succeeded 7th Baron Slane. Elizabeth Welles Countess Kildare by marriage Countess Kildare.
On 30th March 1465 Isabella Clermont Queen Consort Naples (age 41) died.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1472 Amadeus "Happy" Savoy IX Duke Savoy (age 37) died. His brother Philip (age 34) succeeded II Duke Savoy.
On 30th March 1486 Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 68) died at Knole House, Sevenoaks. He was buried at Canterbury Cathedral [Map].
On 30th March 1543 Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 76) died. His son William (age 44) succeeded 2nd Baron Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire. Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 42) by marriage Baroness Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire.
On 30th March 1555 Bishop Robert Ferrar was burned at the stake at the Market Square, Carmarthen.
On 30th March 1610 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle (age 74) died. On 14th May 1635 Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton (age 61) was buried in Salisbury Cathedral [Map].
Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle: In 1536 he was born to Edward Gorges and Mary Poyntz in Wraxall, Somerset [Map]. In 1573 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle acquired the manor of Longford, Wiltshire they commissioned the building of a house on the triangular Swedish style on the banks of the Wiltshire River Avon with money from a shipwreck of the Spanish Armada. In 1576 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle and Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton were married secretly. In 1586 Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle was knighted at Beddington, Surrey.
On 30th March 1636 Dorothy Devereux Lady Shirley (age 36) died.
On 30th March 1655 James Stewart 4th Duke Lennox 1st Duke Richmond (age 42) died. His son Esmé (age 6) succeeded 2nd Duke Richmond, 5th Duke Lennox, 3rd Earl March, 4th Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.
On 30th March 1665 Thomas Fanshawe 1st Viscount Fanshawe (age 69) died. His son Thomas (age 33) succeeded 2nd Viscount Fanshawe. Sarah Evelyn Viscountess Fanshawe and Castleton (age 23) by marriage Viscountess Fanshawe.
On 30th March 1673 John Tyrrell 1st Baronet (age 38) died. His son Charles (age 13) succeeded 2nd Baronet Tyrrell of Springfield.
On 30th March 1677 Robert Jenkinson 1st Baronet (age 56) died. His son Robert (age 22) succeeded 2nd Baronet Jenkinson of Walcot in Oxfordshire and of Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire.
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The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall describes the reigns of Kings Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III, providing a wealth of information about their lives and the events of the time. Ralph's work is detailed, comprehensive and objective. We have augmented Ralph's text with extracts from other contemporary chroniclers to enrich the reader's experience. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1695 Francis Howard 5th Baron Howard (age 51) died at Lingfield, Surrey. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His son Thomas (age 13) succeeded 6th Baron Howard of Effingham.
On 30th March 1699 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet (age 61) died without issue. Baronet Whitmore of Apley extinct.
On 30th March 1721 Robert Eden 1st Baronet died. His son John (age 43) succeeded 2nd Baronet Eden of West Auckland.
On 30th March 1746 William Gordon 2nd Earl Aberdeen (age 67) died. His son George (age 23) succeeded 3rd Earl Aberdeen. Catherine Elizabeth Hanson Couness Aberdeen (age 16) by marriage Countess Aberdeen.
On 30th March 1759 William Molyneux 7th Viscount Molyneux (age 74) died. His nephew Charles (age 10) succeeded 8th Viscount Molyneux, 9th Baronet Molyneux of Sefton.
On 30th March 1775 William Irby 1st Baron Boston (age 68) died. His son Frederick (age 25) succeeded 2nd Baron Boston, 3rd Baronet Irby of Whaplode and Boston.
On 30th March 1795 Lewis Watson 1st Baron Sondes (age 66) died. His son Lewis (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baron Sondes.
On 30th March 1803 Aglae de Polignac "Guichette" Duchess Gramont (age 34) died in a house fire at her home in Edinburgh.
On 30th March 1804 Charles Dormer 8th Baron Dormer (age 78) died. His son Charles (age 51) succeeded 9th Baron Dormer of Wyng in Buckinghamshire, 9th Baronet Dormer of Wyng in Buckinghamshire.
On 30th March 1806 Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire (age 48) died at Devonshire House [Map]. She was buried at Derby Cathedral [Map]. Her husband William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 58), her mother Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer (age 68), her sister Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough (age 44) and her eight months pregnant daughter Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle (age 22) were present, as was Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 48), her husband's mistress and future wife.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1810 James Stopford 2nd Earl of Courtown (age 78) died. His son James (age 44) succeeded 3rd Earl of Courtown. Mary Scott Countess of Courtown (age 40) by marriage Countess of Courtown.
On 30th March 1819 Walter Farquhar 1st Baronet (age 80) died. He was buried at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. His son Thomas (age 43) succeeded 2nd Baronet Farquhar of Cadogan House in Middlesex.
On 30th March 1842 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (age 86) died in Paris [Map].
On 30th March 1868 Frederick Richard Say (age 63) died.
On 30th March 1868 Charles John Salusbury 3rd Baronet (age 76) died unmarried. Baronet Salusbury of Llanwern in Monmouthshire extinct.
On 30th March 1879 Penelope Smyth Baroness Tenterden (age 39) died.
On 30th March 1894 Nelson Rycroft 4th Baronet (age 63) died. His son Richard (age 34) succeeded 5th Baronet Rycroft of Calton in Yorkshire.
On 30th March 1895 Rowland Hill aka Clegg-Hill 3rd Viscount Hill (age 61) died. His son Rowland (age 32) succeeded 4th Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke in Shropshire, 4th Baron Hill of Almaraz and of Hawkestone in Shropshire, 6th Baronet Hill of Hawkestone in Shropshire.
On 30th March 1895 Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour-Conway 1st Baron Alcester (age 73) died unmarried. Baron Alcester in Warwickshire extinct.
On 30th March 1903 Joseph John Elliott (age 67) died
On 30th March 1913 Julia Frances Somerville Lady Blackett (age 69) died.
On 30th March 1913 Sidney Herbert 14th Earl Pembroke 11th Earl Montgomery (age 60) died in Rome, Italy [Map]. His son Reginald (age 32) succeeded 15th Earl Pembroke, 12th Earl Montgomery, 4th Baron Herbert Lea. Beatrice Eleanor Paget Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 29) by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery.
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The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall describes the reigns of Kings Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III, providing a wealth of information about their lives and the events of the time. Ralph's work is detailed, comprehensive and objective. We have augmented Ralph's text with extracts from other contemporary chroniclers to enrich the reader's experience. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 30th March 1917 George Byron 9th Baron Byron (age 61) died. His brother Frederick (age 56) succeeded 10th Baron Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire.
On 30th March 1920 Feodorowna Cecilia Wellesley Viscountess Bertie Thame (age 82) died.
On 30th March 1923 Edward Green 1st Baronet (age 92) died. His son Edward (age 62) succeeded 2nd Baronet Green of Wakefield in Yorkshire and of Ken Hill in Norfolk. Ethel Mary Wilson Lady Green (age 58) by marriage Lady Green of Wakefield in Yorkshire and of Ken Hill in Norfolk.
On 30th March 1929 John Douglas-Scott-Montagu 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (age 62) died. His son Edward (age 2) succeeded 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu.
On 30th March 1935 Georgina Harriet Deffell Lady Pollock died.
On 30th March 1939 Gerald Arthur Arundell 15th Baron Arundel (age 77) died. His son John (age 31) succeeded 16th Baron Arundel of Wardour in Wiltshire.
On 30th March 1942 Mabel Addington Lady Orr-Ewing died.
On 30th March 1954 Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny (age 70) died. His son John (age 39) succeeded 5th Marquess Abergavenny, 9th Earl Abergavenny, 9th Viscount Neville, 5th Earl Lewes, 25th Baron Abergavenny, 23rd Baron Abergavenny. Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny (age 38) by marriage Marchioness Abergavenny.
On 30th March 1955 Reverend Aubrey Neville St John-Mildmay 10th Baronet (age 90) died. Verus Arundell Maunder St John-Mildmay 11th Baronet (age 49) de jure Baronet St John-Mildmay of Farley in Southampton. It appears he never claimed the title.
On 30th March 1956 John Ryder 5th Earl of Harrowby (age 91) died. His son Dudley (age 63) succeeded 6th Earl of Harrowby, 7th Baron Harrowby of Harrowby in Lincolnshire.
On 30th March 1967 William Hay 11th Marquess of Tweeddale (age 82) died.
On 30th March 1973 Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton 14th Duke of Hamilton 11th Duke Brandon (age 70) died. His son Angus (age 34) succeeded 15th Duke Hamilton, 12th Duke Brandon of Suffolk, 12th Baron Dutton of Cheshire.
On 30th March 1990 Humphrey Thomas Tollemache 6th Baronet (age 92) died. His son Lyonel (age 58) succeeded 7th Baronet Tollemache of Hanby Hall in Lincolnshire.
