On this Day in History ... 3rd December
03 Dec is in December.
1660 December Creation of Baronets and Peerages
1680 Trial and Execution of William Howard 1st Viscount Stafford
Events on the 3rd December
On 03 Dec 1157 Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal (age 32) died.
On 03 Dec 1368 Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France was born to King Charles V of France (age 30) and Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France (age 30). Coefficient of inbreeding 3.59%. 
Chronicle of Gregory 1431. 03 Dec 1431. Ande that yere the kyng (age 9) passyde the see in to Fraunce, and wente unto Parysse [Map]; and he come thedyr the thyrde day of Decembyr.
Calendars. 03 Dec 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. Appointment of the king's (age 19) kinsman Richard, Earl of Warwick (age 33), to execute the office of steward of England at the trial of Henry VI and other rebels who murdered the King's father Richard, duke of York, at Wakefield.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 03 Dec 1556. The iij day of Desember cam rydyng from her plasse my lade Elizabeth('s) (age 23) grace, from Somersett place downe Fletstreet, and thrugh Old Bayle, and thrugh Smyth-field, with a grett compene; and her servandes alle in red gardyd with velvett; and so her grace toke her way toward Bysshope Atfeld [Map] plasse.
In Dec 1660 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) rewarded of further tranche of those who supported his Restoration by awarding them Baronetcies ...
On 03 Dec 1660 George Winn 1st Baronet (age 53) was created 1st Baronet Winn of Nostel in Yorkshire.
On 22 Dec 1660 John Keyt 1st Baronet (age 44) was created 1st Baronet Keyt of Ebrington in Gloucestershire for having raised a troop of horse to fight in the Royalist cause.
On 24 Dec 1660 William Frankland 1st Baronet (age 20) was created 1st Baronet Frankland of Thirkleby in Yorkshire.
On 03 Dec 1666 James Stewart 1st Duke Cambridge (age 3) was created 1st Duke Cambridge by King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 33). See Samuel Pepys' Diary 1666 December 06.
Those present included King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 36), King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 33), Prince Rupert Palatinate Simmern 1st Duke Cumberland (age 46), William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury (age 75), George Monck 1st Duke Albemarle (age 57), Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire (age 79), Charles Stewart 6th Duke Lennox 3rd Duke Richmond (age 27), Edward Montagu 2nd Earl Manchester (age 64), James Scott 1st Duke Monmouth 1st Duke Buccleuch (age 17).
Pepy's Diary. 03 Dec 1666. So to bed, and with more cheerfulness than I have done a good while, to hear that for certain the Scott rebells are all routed; they having been so bold as to come within three miles of Edinburgh, and there given two or three repulses to the King's forces, but at last were mastered. Three or four hundred killed or taken, among which their leader, one Wallis, and seven ministers, they having all taken the Covenant a few days before, and sworn to live and die in it, as they did; and so all is likely to be there quiet again. There is also the very good newes come of four New-England ships come home safe to Falmouth, Cornwall with masts for the King (age 36); which is a blessing mighty unexpected, and without which, if for nothing else, we must have failed the next year. But God be praised for thus much good fortune, and send us the continuance of his favour in other things! So to bed.
Pepy's Diary. 03 Dec 1666. Thence at noon home, and there find Kate Joyce, who dined with me: Her husband and she are weary of their new life of being an Innkeeper, and will leave it, and would fain get some office; but I know none the foole is fit for, but would be glad to help them, if I could, though they have enough to live on, God be thanked! though their loss hath been to the value of £3000 W. Joyce now has all the trade, she says, the trade being come to that end of the towne. She dined with me, my wife being ill of her months in bed. I left her with my wife, and away myself to Westminster Hall [Map] by appointment and there found out Burroughs, and I took her by coach as far as the Lord Treasurer's (age 59) and called at the cake house by Hales's (age 66), and there in the coach eat and drank and then carried her home.... So having set her down in the palace I to the Swan [Map], and there did the first time 'baiser' the little sister of Sarah that is come into her place, and so away by coach home, where to my vyall and supper and then to bed, being weary of the following of my pleasure and sorry for my omitting (though with a true salvo to my vowes) the stating my last month's accounts in time, as I should, but resolve to settle, and clear all my business before me this month, that I may begin afresh the next yeare, and enjoy some little pleasure freely at Christmasse.
Evelyn's Diary. 15 Nov 1678. The Queen's (age 39) birthday. I never saw the Court more brave, nor the nation in more apprehension and consternation. Coleman (age 42) and one Staly had now been tried, condemned, and executed. On this, Oates grew so presumptuous as to accuse the Queen (age 39) of intending to poison the King (age 48); which certainly that pious and virtuous lady abhorred the thoughts of, and Oates's circumstances made it utterly unlikely in my opinion. He probably thought to gratify some who would have been glad his Majesty (age 48) should have married a fruitful lady; but the King (age 48) was too kind a husband to let any of these make impression on him. However, divers of the Popish peers were sent to the Tower of London [Map], accused by Oates; and all the Roman Catholic lords were by a new Act forever excluded the Parliament; which was a mighty blow. the King's (age 48), Queen's, and Duke's servants, were banished, and a test to be taken by everybody who pretended to enjoy any office of public trust, and who would not be suspected of Popery. I went with Sir William Godolphin (age 38), a member of the Commons' House, to the Bishop of Ely (Dr. Peter Gunning (age 64)), to be resolved whether masses were idolatry, as the text expressed it, which was so worded, that several good Protestants scrupled, and Sir William, though a learned man and excellent divine himself, had some doubts about it. The Bishop's opinion was that he might take it, though he wished it had been otherwise worded in the text.
On 03 Dec 1678 Edward Coleman (age 42) was hanged, drawn and quartered on a charge of treason having been implicated by Titus Oates (age 29).
Evelyn's Diary. 03 Dec 1680. The depositions of my Lord's (age 66) witnesses were taken, to invalidate the King's (age 50) witnesses; they were very slight persons, but, being fifteen or sixteen, they took up all that day, and in truth they rather did my Lord more injury than service.
On 03 Dec 1705 Roger Gale (age 32) was elected MP Northallerton in a by-election which seat he held until 1713 when his he didn't stand.
On 03 Dec 1731 Jane Grey Benson (age 47) died. Monument in St Mary's Church, Fawsley [Map].
Jane Grey Benson:
After 1651 Lucius Knightley and she were married. The difference in their ages was 33 years.
In 1684 she was born to Henry Benson of Dodford and Elizabeth Grey.
On 03 Dec 1744 Brownlow Cust 1st Baron Brownlow was born to John Cust 3rd Baronet (age 26) and Etheldreda Payne Lady Cust (age 24).
On 03 Dec 1755 Gilbert Stuart was born.
On 03 Dec 1777 Juliette Récamier was born.
On 03 Dec 1782 Henry William Pickersgill was born.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1908 Supplement 03 December 1802. 03 Dec 1802. Accompanied by a young farmer who procured a lanthorn for the purpose we walked nearly a mile to the south east of the church to the spot where in Mr. Rowlands' time there were two carnedds [Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Mound [Map]] remaining having two rude stone pillars placed between them but these stones have been employed for the purpose of building a wall near this place as well as a great part (fol. 45.) of the western carnedd which is nearly destroyed for the same purpose about twenty years ago when the labourers when digging towards the center discovered a flat pan about ten inches over-turned bottom upwards and under it a wedge of gold as they pretend the size of the heater of an iron with a piece of wire passing through the smaller end of it. The father of the young man who was with us happened to be one of the workmen employed at the time, but as what they found was immediately taken by Colonel Peacock the proprietor of the ground the man could give no further account of the circumstance. I should imagine that what they called the wedge of gold was no other than one of the brazen celts or sacrificial instruments used in former times which have been discovered in great numbers in Cornwall and (fol. 46) other parts of the kingdom. Whilst a farmer was removing some of the stones from the north east side of the larger carnedd to employ them in his repairs he came to the mouth of a passage covered with a square stone similar to that at Plas Newydd, anxious to reap the fruits of his discovery he procured a light and crept forward on his hands and knees along the dreary vault, when lo! in a chamber at the further end a figure in white seemed to forbid his approach. The poor man had scarcely power sufficient to crawl backwards out of this den of spirits as he imagined however in the course of a few days instigated by the hopes of riches and the presence of many assistants he made his second entré into the cavern and finding the white gentleman did not offer to stir he boldly went (fol. 46a) forward and discovered the object of his apprehensions was no other than a stone pillar about six feet in height standing in the centre of the chamber. His former consternation could now only be exceeded by his eagerness to see what was contained beneath the stone which he shortly overturned but treasure there was none, some large human bones lying near the pillar sufficiently testifying the purpose for which the structure was intended. This is the substance of the account we received fromn the younger man whose father was one of Colonel Peacock's labourers and on the premises at the time of the discovery. The superstition of the common people still suppose this to be the habitation of spirits.
On 03 Dec 1830 Frederick Leighton was born to Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 31) at Scarborough [Map].
On 03 Dec 1839 Frederick VI King Denmark and Norway (age 71) died.
On 03 Dec 1878 Edith Chaplin Marchioness Londonderry was born to Henry Chaplin 1st Viscount Chaplin (age 37) and Florence Sutherland Leveson-Gower (age 23).
On 03 Dec 1918 John Percival Bishop (age 84) died. Monument sculpted by Allan Gairdner Wyon (age 36) in the Choir of Hereford Cathedral [Map].
John Percival Bishop: On 27 Sep 1834 he was born in Brough Sowerby Kirkby Stephen. In Jan 1895 John Percival Bishop was elected Bishop of Hereford by Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl Rosebery 1st Earl Midlothian.
03 Dec 1955. Nature. Obituaries. Source
Mr. Alexander Keiller.
ALEXANDER KEILLER, who died at the end of September at the age of sixty-five, was one of the long line of distinguished amateur British archæologists which goes back to Aubrey and Stukeley. Of these perhaps the greatest was Pitt-Rivers, on whom Keiller, like him with leisure and abundant means at his disposal, admittedly modelled his own work.
While still in his early thirties, Keiller carried out a systematic survey of stone circles and allied morm ments in north-east Scotland, making accurate plans and detailed descriptions of each site. A summary account of this work was presented as a paper to the British Association at its Aberdeen meeting in 1934.
In 1925, however, he embarked on the programme of excavation and field-work with which his name will be inseparably associated. He acquired and began excavations on Windmill Hill, near Avebury in north Wiltshire, and continued these annually until 1929, revealing in detail the first extensive Neolithic settlement to be explored in Britain. The material was housed in a museum in his London house, where it was at the disposal of students, and as a result the earliest Neolithic culture of southern Britain, taking its name from the type-site, was defined and clarified.
From Windmill Hill to tho Avebury monuments themselves was an inevitable step, and in 1933 Keiller began a systematic excavation programme with the oxarnination of the northern part of the West Kennet Circle itself. Avenue, continuing until 1938 within the Great Circle itself. He moved his residence to Avebury Manor, and re-housed his museum within its grounds, making it and the excavated portions of the monument available to the public. He adopted a policy of imaginative but judicious conservation and, restoration of the Avebury monuments, and system atically purchased land to preserve these and their surroundings; as a result it was eventually possible for the whole area to be acquired by the National Trust and the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works.
Keiller's outstanding contribution to contemporary British archreology was his insistence on high standards of discipline and accuracy in excavation and field-work, and his realization from the first of the value of scientific techniques as applied to archreo logical material. He early appreciated the potential ities of air photography, collaborating with Crawford in the "Wessex from the Air'' survey, and even discussing with Eckener the possibility of using the Graf Zeppelin for a similar but even more ambitious scheme. At Windmill Hill he insisted on a full study of the faunal and floral remains in their archreological context. But above all it is to Keiller that we owe the inception of the systematic study of British prehistoric stone artefacts by petrographical means, which, following his lead, is now yielding information of the highest importance on manufacture and trade in the early second millennium B.C. Alec Keiller was an enthusiast in the best sense; full of ideas, stimulating and highly individual. Archæology, like other academic disciplines, can only benefit from the impact of such men.
STUART PIGGOTT (age 45)
Births on the 3rd December
On 03 Dec 1330 Edmund Hussey was born to Reginald Hussey (age 25).
On 03 Dec 1368 Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France was born to King Charles V of France (age 30) and Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France (age 30). Coefficient of inbreeding 3.59%.
On 03 Dec 1382 Robert Poynings 4th Baron Poynings was born to Richard Poynings 3rd Baron Poynings (age 23) and Isabel Grey Baroness Poynings at Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.
On 03 Dec 1572 Edward Fitton 1st Baronet was born to Edward Fitton (age 24) and Alice Holcroft (age 32).
On 03 Dec 1585 Bishop Matthew Wren was born.
On 03 Dec 1595 Henry Ley 2nd Earl of Marlborough was born to James Ley 1st Earl of Marlborough (age 43) and Mary Pettie.
Before 03 Dec 1627 Thomas Bisshopp 3rd Baronet was born to Edward Bisshopp 2nd Baronet (age 25) and Mary Tufton (age 20).
On or before 03 Dec 1633 Anthony Deane was born. On 03 Dec 1633 he was baptised at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire [Map].
On 03 Dec 1674 Elizabeth Cromwell was born to Vere Essex Cromwell 4th Earl Ardglass (age 49).
On 03 Dec 1674 Roger Owen of Condover was born to Thomas Owen (age 33).
On 03 Dec 1704 John Lee was born to Edward Lee 1st Earl Lichfield (age 41) and Charlotte Fitzroy Countess Lichfield (age 40). He a grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 03 Dec 1718 Webb Seymour 10th Duke Somerset was born to Edward Seymour 8th Duke Somerset (age 23) and Mary Webb Duchess Somerset (age 21).
On 03 Dec 1737 Thomas Somers-Cocks was born to John Cocks of Castleditch in Eastnor in Herefordshire and Mary Cocks. Coefficient of inbreeding 12.50%.
On 03 Dec 1744 Brownlow Cust 1st Baron Brownlow was born to John Cust 3rd Baronet (age 26) and Etheldreda Payne Lady Cust (age 24).
On 03 Dec 1755 Gilbert Stuart was born.
On 03 Dec 1759 Captain James Coleridge was born to Reverend John Coleridge (age 40) and Anne Bowden (age 33).
On 03 Dec 1764 Augusta Caroline Brunswick Bevern was born to Charles William Ferdinand Brunswick Bevern (age 29) and Princess Augusta Charlotte Hanover (age 27). She a great granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 03 Dec 1767 Theodore Henry Broadhead was born to Theodore Henry Brinckman aka Broadhead "The Elder" (age 53) and Mary Bingley.
On 03 Dec 1771 Henry Augustus Seymour was born illegitimately to Francis Ingram Seymour-Conway 2nd Marquess Hertford (age 28). He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 03 Dec 1772 John Osborn 5th Baronet was born to George Osborn 4th Baronet (age 30) and Elizabeth Bannister (age 26).
On 03 Dec 1777 Juliette Récamier was born.
On 03 Dec 1778 Louisa Martha Stratford was born to John Stratford 3rd Earl Aldborough (age 38) and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Aldborough (age 21).
On 03 Dec 1782 Henry William Pickersgill was born.
On 03 Dec 1794 Charles Spencer-Churchill was born to George Spencer-Churchill 5th Duke Marlborough (age 28) and Susan Stewart Duchess Marlborough (age 27).
On 03 Dec 1809 Charles William George St John was born to Frederick St John (age 43) and Arabella Craven.
On 03 Dec 1813 Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton was born to Henry Pelham-Clinton 4th Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 28) and Georgiana Elizabeth Miller Mundy Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 24).
On 03 Dec 1817 Gwendoline Catherine Talbot was born to John "Good Earl" Talbot 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 26) and Maria Theresa Talbot Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
On 03 Dec 1820 John Duke Coleridge 1st Baron Coleridge was born to John Taylor Coleridge (age 30) and Mary Buchanan (age 32).
On 03 Dec 1820 Bishop John Mackarness was born to John Mackarness.
On 03 Dec 1824 George William Fermor 5th Earl Pomfret was born to Thomas Fermor 4th Earl Pomfret (age 54).
On 03 Dec 1827 Arthur Edward Valette Ponsonby was born to Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (age 44) and Emily Bathurst (age 29).
On 03 Dec 1830 Frederick Leighton was born to Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 31) at Scarborough [Map].
On 03 Dec 1833 John Aird 1st Baronet was born to John Aird Mason (age 27).
On 03 Dec 1838 Edward Henry Gervase Stracey 6th Baronet was born to Henry Josias Stracey 5th Baronet (age 36).
On 03 Dec 1838 Princess Louise of Prussia was born to William I King Prussia (age 41).
On 03 Dec 1849 Marie Hanover was born to George V King Hanover (age 30) and Marie Saxe Altenburg Queen Consort Hanover. She a great granddaughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 03 Dec 1859 Ronald Jervis 6th Viscount St Vincent was born to Carnegie Jervis 3rd Viscount St Vincent (age 34).
On 03 Dec 1861 Rosamond Broughton was born to John Lambart Broughton (age 30) and Anne Selina Adderley (age 32).
On 03 Dec 1862 Admiral Colin Keppel was born to Admiral Henry Keppel (age 53) and Katherine Crosby.
On 03 Dec 1863 Dudley McGarel-Hogg 3rd Baron Magheramorne was born to James McGarel-Hogg 1st Baron Magheramorne (age 40) and Caroline Elizabeth Emma Douglas-Pennant.
On 03 Dec 1865 Maurice Colborne Boileau 3rd Baronet was born to Francis George Manningham Boileau 2nd Baronet (age 35) and Lucy Henrietta Nugent Lady Boileau.
On 03 Dec 1878 Edith Chaplin Marchioness Londonderry was born to Henry Chaplin 1st Viscount Chaplin (age 37) and Florence Sutherland Leveson-Gower (age 23).
On 03 Dec 1880 Francis Arthur Gerard Noel was born to Gerard Henry Uctred Noel (age 35).
On 03 Dec 1883 Claud Lambton was born to Frederick Lambton 4th Earl Durham (age 28) and Beatrix Bulteel Countess Durham (age 24). Coefficient of inbreeding 1.57%.
On 03 Dec 1888 Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 10th Duke Leeds (age 26) and Katherine Frances Lambton Duchess Leeds (age 26).
On 03 Dec 1908 Ismay Hilda Margaret Fitzroy was born to Charles Fitzroy 4th Baron Southampton (age 41) and Hilda Mary Dundas Baroness Southampton (age 36).
On 03 Dec 1925 Robin Plunket 8th Baron Plunket was born to Terence Plunket 6th Baron Plunket (age 26) and Dorothé Mabel Lewis (age 25).
On 03 Dec 1949 Anthony Robert Hugo Gerard 5th Baron Gerard was born to Major Rupert Charles Frederick Gerard.
On 03 Dec 1953 Charles Anthony Assheton Harbord-Hamond 12th Baron Suffield was born to Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond 11th Baron Suffield (age 31).
Marriages on the 3rd December
After 03 Dec 1329 Gerard Lisle 1st Baron Lisle (age 25) and Eleanor Fitzalan (age 9) were married. She the daughter of Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John "Lackland" of England. 
After 03 Dec 1542 John Plunkett 4th Baron Killeen (age 32) and Ellen Barnewall Baroness Killeen (age 29) were married. She by marriage Baroness Killeen. They were third cousins.
Before 03 Dec 1595 James Ley 1st Earl of Marlborough (age 43) and Mary Pettie were married.
Before 03 Dec 1662 Thomas Cecil (age 83) and Ann Lee (age 75) were married. He the son of Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter and Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter.
On 03 Dec 1720 William Byron 4th Baron Byron (age 50) and Frances Berkeley Baroness Byron (age 17) were married. She by marriage Baroness Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire. His third marriage. Arranged by her father William Berkeley 4th Baron Berkeley (age 57) who described the age difference as being "disproportionate". The difference in their ages was 33 years.
Before 03 Dec 1767 Theodore Henry Brinckman aka Broadhead "The Elder" (age 53) and Mary Bingley were married.
On 03 Dec 1767 William Wyndham (age 28) and Elizabeth Heathcote (age 23) were married.
Before 03 Dec 1772 George Osborn 4th Baronet (age 30) and Elizabeth Bannister (age 26) were married.
On 03 Dec 1773 John Tollemache (age 23) and Bridget Henley were married. She the daughter of Robert Henley 1st Earl Northington and Jane Huband. He the son of Lionel Tollemache 4th Earl Dysart and Grace Carteret Countess Dysart.
On 03 Dec 1779 Thomas Hanmer 2nd Baronet (age 32) and Margaret Kenyon Lady Hanmer were married.
On 03 Dec 1794 Thomas Baring 2nd Baronet (age 22) and Mary Ursula Sealy Lady Baring (age 20) were married in Calcutta, India.
On 03 Dec 1816 Robert Menzies of that Ilk 6th Baronet (age 36) and Grace Conyers Charlotte Norton were married.
Before 03 Dec 1817 John "Good Earl" Talbot 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 26) and Maria Theresa Talbot Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford were married.
Before 03 Dec 1819 Thomas Kinnersley of Clough Hall in Staffordshire (age 67) and Mary Kinnersley were married.
On 03 Dec 1827 John Gerard 12th Baronet (age 22) and Monica Strickland-Standish (age 22) were married. She by marriage Lady Gerard of Bryn in Lancashire.
On 03 Dec 1828 Henry Maxwell 7th Baron Farnham (age 29) and Anna Frances Esther Stapleton (age 23) were married.
On 03 Dec 1863 Samuel Clowes (age 42) and Adelaide Cavendish (age 22) were married.
On 03 Dec 1946 Robert George Grosvenor 5th Duke Westminster (age 36) and Viola Maud Lyttelton Duchess Westminster (age 34) were married. They were second cousins.
Deaths on the 3rd December
On 03 Dec 311 Diocletian Roman Emperor (age 68) died.
On 03 Dec 649 or 03 Dec 650 Bishop Birinus of Dorchester died.
On 03 Dec 1099 Osmund 1st Earl Dorset died. Earl Dorset extinct.
On 03 Dec 1157 Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal (age 32) died.
Before 03 Dec 1252 John Lovell (age 62) died at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 03 Dec 1322 Maud Chaworth (age 40) died.
On 03 Dec 1352 William Ros 3rd Baron Ros Helmsley (age 23) died. His brother Thomas Ros 4th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 17) succeeded 4th Baron Ros Helmsley and inherited Belvoir Castle [Map]. Beatrice Stafford Countess Desmond (age 11) by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.
On 03 Dec 1375 Robert Corbet Lord of Moreton (age 65) died.
On 03 Dec 1397 Thomas Hungerford died at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset. He was buried at Chapel of St Anne in St Leonard's Chapel, Farleigh Hungerford Castle [Map].
On 03 Dec 1403 Roger Scrope 2nd Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 34) died at Bolton. His son Richard Scrope 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 10) succeeded 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton. Margaret Neville Baroness Scrope Bolton by marriage Baroness Scrope of Bolton.
On 03 Dec 1498 Robert de Fouleshurst of Crewe (age 79) died.
On 03 Dec 1500 Hélène of Laval (age 61) died.
On 03 Dec 1532 Louis II Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (age 30) died. His son Wolfgang Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (age 6) succeeded Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.
On 03 Dec 1600 Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 70) died. His grandson Dudley North 3rd Baron North (age 18) succeeded 3rd Baron North.
On 03 Dec 1605 Thomas Isham of Langport in Northamptonshire (age 50) died.
On 03 Dec 1614 brothers John Sheffield, Edmund Sheffield (age 25) and Philip Sheffield (age 21) were drowned whilst attempting to cross the flooded River Ouse at the Whitgift Ferry, East Yorkshire [Map].
On 03 Dec 1640 Christopher Wandesford (age 48) died.
On 03 Dec 1662 Thomas Cecil (age 83) died.
On 03 Dec 1668 William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury (age 77) died. His grandson James Cecil 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 20) succeeded 3rd Earl Salisbury. Margaret Manners Countess of Salisbury by marriage Countess Salisbury.
On 03 Dec 1670 Anne Twysden died.
On 03 Dec 1674 Eleanor Blount died.
On 03 Dec 1678 Edward Coleman (age 42) was hanged, drawn and quartered on a charge of treason having been implicated by Titus Oates (age 29).
On 03 Dec 1687 St John Booth (age 51) died.
On 03 Dec 1691 Katherine Boyle Viscountess Ranelagh (age 76) died.
On 03 Dec 1698 Frances Freschville (age 60) died.
On 03 Dec 1715 Will Hewer (age 73) died.
On 03 Dec 1715 William Hewer (age 73) died.
On 03 Dec 1731 Jane Grey Benson (age 47) died. Monument in St Mary's Church, Fawsley [Map].
Jane Grey Benson:
After 1651 Lucius Knightley and she were married. The difference in their ages was 33 years.
In 1684 she was born to Henry Benson of Dodford and Elizabeth Grey.
On 03 Dec 1737 Mary Wilbraham Countess Bradford (age 76) died in High Ercall, Shropshire. She was buried in Weston Park, Staffordshire.
On 03 Dec 1749 Charles Carrington Hungate 6th Baronet (age 63) died at Blacksburg, Montgomery County. Baronet Hungate of Saxton in Yorkshire extinct.
On 03 Dec 1765 John Sackville (age 52) died at Geneva.
On 03 Dec 1768 John Spelman (age 76) died.
On 03 Dec 1769 Thomas Rawlinson of Stowlangtoft died at his house in Fenchurch Street [Map]. He was buried at Haughley, Suffolk.
On 03 Dec 1779 Ernest Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 9) died at Gotha.
On 03 Dec 1793 Thomas Fowell Buxton (age 37) died.
On 03 Dec 1800 George de la Poer Beresford 1st Marquess Waterford (age 65) died. His son Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford (age 28) succeeded 2nd Marquess Waterford.
On 03 Dec 1805 Henry Murray (age 38) died.
On 03 Dec 1815 Barbara Carnegie (age 74) died.
On 03 Dec 1819 Thomas Kinnersley of Clough Hall in Staffordshire (age 67) died.
On 03 Dec 1822 Archbishop Campbell Tait (age 10) died.
On 03 Dec 1828 Reverend John Dymoke (age 64) died.
On 03 Dec 1831 Carnaby Haggerston 5th Baronet (age 75) died. His nephew Thomas Haggerston 6th Baronet (age 46) succeeded 6th Baronet Haggerston of Haggerston Castle in Northumberland.
On 03 Dec 1832 Thomas Villiers (age 31) died.
On 03 Dec 1833 Pownoll Bastard Pellew 2nd Viscount Exmouth (age 47) died. His son Edward Pellew 3rd Viscount Exmouth (age 22) succeeded 3rd Viscount Exmouth, 3rd Baron Exmouth of Canonteign, 3rd Baronet Pellew of Treverry in Cornwall.
On 03 Dec 1837 Charles Douglas 6th Marquess Queensberry (age 60) died. His brother John Douglas 7th Marquess Queensberry (age 58) succeeded 7th Marquess Queensberry, 9th Earl Queensberry, 8th Lord Douglas Hawick, 6th Lord Drumlanrig, 6th Baronet Kelhead. Sarah Douglas Marchioness Queensbury by marriage Marchioness Queensberry.
On 03 Dec 1839 Frederick VI King Denmark and Norway (age 71) died.
On 03 Dec 1840 Robert Ferguson of Raith (age 71) died.
On 03 Dec 1842 Mary Wyndham Countess Munster (age 50) died.
On 03 Dec 1843 Maria Harriet Conyngham died.
On 03 Dec 1845 Charles Leonard Irby (age 56) died.
On 03 Dec 1877 Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 60) died at his home 40 Eaton Square, Belgravia, unmarried. He was buried on 07 Dec 1877 in the Percy faily vault in the Chapel of St Nicholas, Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 03 Dec 1879 Octavius Duncombe (age 62) died.
On 03 Dec 1882 Bernhard II Duke of Saxe Meiningen (age 81) died. His son Georg II Duke of Saxe Meiningen (age 56) succeeded II Duke Saxe Meiningen.
On 03 Dec 1883 Matthew Blakiston 4th Baronet (age 72) died unmarried at Sandybrook Cottage, Ashbourne. His nephew Horace Neville Blakiston 5th Baronet (age 22) succeeded 5th Baronet Blakiston of the City of London.
On 03 Dec 1884 Georgiana Campbell (age 64) died.
On 03 Dec 1885 Colonel Walter Rodolph Trefusis (age 47) died.
On 03 Dec 1887 Henry Charles Silvertop (age 60) died.
On 03 Dec 1890 Thomas Fremantle 1st Baron Cottesloe (age 92) died. His son Thomas Fremantle 2nd Baron Cottesloe (age 60) succeeded 2nd Baron Cottesloe of Swanbourne and Hardwick in Buckinghamshire, 2nd Baronet Fremantle of Swanborne in Buckinghamshire. Augusta Scott by marriage Augusta Henrietta Scott Baroness Cottesloe.
On 03 Dec 1891 William Harry Hay 19th Earl Erroll (age 68) died. His son Charles Hay 20th Earl of Erroll (age 39) succeeded 20th Earl Erroll. Mary Caroline L'Estrange Countess of Erroll by marriage Countess Erroll.
On 03 Dec 1898 David Stuart Erskine 13th Earl of Buchan (age 83) died. His son Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine 14th Earl Buchan (age 48) succeeded 14th Earl Buchan.
On 03 Dec 1900 Annie Louisa Thompson (age 70) died.
On 03 Dec 1901 George Bannerman 10th Baronet (age 74) died. His son Alexander Bannerman 11th Baronet (age 29) succeeded 11th Baronet Bannerman of Elsick in Kincardineshire.
On 03 Dec 1906 Prince Karl of Baden (age 74) died.
On 03 Dec 1915 Algernon Hanbury-Tracy (age 44) died from wounds. He was buried at the Church of St Peter Petersham, Surrey. The inscription on his grave reads: "Sacred to the memory of Algernon Henry Charles Hanbury-Tracy CMG. Major Royal Horse Guards 2nd son of the 4th Baron Sudely and grandson of the Honorable Frederick Tollemache. Died Dec 3 1915 aged 44 years. Served his country with distinction in East Africa 1897-1899, South Africa 1899-1900, Somaliland 1901."
On 03 Dec 1918 John Percival Bishop (age 84) died. Monument sculpted by Allan Gairdner Wyon (age 36) in the Choir of Hereford Cathedral [Map].
John Percival Bishop: On 27 Sep 1834 he was born in Brough Sowerby Kirkby Stephen. In Jan 1895 John Percival Bishop was elected Bishop of Hereford by Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl Rosebery 1st Earl Midlothian.
On 03 Dec 1919 Thomas Grey 6th Baron Walsingham (age 76) died. His half brother John Augustus Grey 7th Baron Walsingham (age 70) succeeded 7th Baron Walsingham of Walsingham in Norfolk.
On 03 Dec 1920 Rosamond Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill (age 72) died.
On 03 Dec 1921 Frederick Huth Jackson (age 58) died.
On 03 Dec 1935 Princess Victoria Windsor (age 67) died at Coppins, Iver.
On 03 Dec 1939 Peter Arthur Marsham Hoare (age 70) died.
On 03 Dec 1939 Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll (age 91) died.
On 03 Dec 1944 Andrew Glücksburg (age 62) died at the Metropole Hotel Monte Carlo.
On 03 Dec 1945 Selina Louise Grace Dundas Lady Harington (age 71) died.
On 03 Dec 1966 Edward Knollys 2nd Viscount Knollys (age 71) died. His son David Knollys 3rd Viscount Knollys (age 35) succeeded 3rd Viscount Knollys of Caversham in Oxfordshire, 3rd Baron Knollys of Caversham in Oxfordshire.
On 03 Dec 1980 Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet (age 84) died. His son Nicholas Mosley 3rd Baron Ravensdale (age 57) succeeded 7th Baronet Mosley of Ancoats.
On 03 Dec 2012 Geoffrey Adam Shakerley 6th Baronet (age 79) died. His son Nicholas Shakerley 7th Baronet (age 48) succeeded 7th Baronet Shakerley of Somerford-Park in Cheshire.
