Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 (N.S.) – 12 May 1641), was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up...
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(created Earl of Strafford in 1640) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641) (forfeit 1641) William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1626–1695)...
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Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation), KG (baptised 17 September 1672 – 15 November 1739), also known as in...
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and member of the House of Lords of Great Britain. Strafford was the only son of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672-1739). His paternal great-grandfather...
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the home of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, whom Charles I sacrificed in 1641 to appease Parliament. The builder to whom Wentworth's grandson...
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KG, PC, FRS (1765–1782) Yorke, Philip Chesney (1911). "Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...
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Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732 – 7 August 1799) was a British peer. He was the eldest son of William Wentworth, a gentleman usher of the...
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wife Elizabeth Killigrew. The Great Earl's most famous enemy was Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Strafford arrived in Ireland in 1633 as Lord...
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the additional surname Wentworth when he inherited the estate of his maternal uncle, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, in 1695. In 1728 he was...
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Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. The College was founded in 1972. Wentworth was refounded in 2001 and became the postgraduate only college of the University...
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