John Ashton (died 1691) was an English courtier and Jacobite conspirator. Ashton was clerk of the closet to Mary of Modena, the wife of James II, and,...

British cleric John Ashton (Jacobite) (died 1691), British conspirator John Ashton (architect) (1860–1953), American architect John Ashton (bishop) (1866–1964)...

Portuguese Catholic. Like a number of other pirates of the Golden Age, he was a Jacobite who professed support for England's ousted Catholic King James II over...

The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones...

John R. Ashton MBE (1917–2008) was an English writer, lecturer, local historian and educationist active in Sweden. He was the former chairman of the British...

the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite army loyal to James II and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 (old...

Smith of Long Ashton and had a son and two daughters. History of Parliament Online - Knight, John Paul D. Halliday (2008). Knight, Sir John (d. 1718). The...

order of the government, to slow the advance of Jacobite forces during the Jacobite rising. The Jacobites repaired the bridge upon reaching Manchester,...

1561), chief of the Clan Mackenzie John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod (1727–1789), Scottish Jacobite and soldier of fortune John Randoll Mackenzie (1763–1809),...

The Battle of Preston (9–14 November 1715) was the final action of the Jacobite rising of 1715, an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart on the British...