Twenty Trees Books
Follow us on Facebook for updates: 
See Home Page for details ... or click on the images to go to Amazon
On this Day in History ... 18th August
18 Aug is in August.
Events on the 18th August
On 18 Aug 1304 John Capet II Duke Brittany (age 65) fought during the Battle of Mons en Pévèle.
Inquisitions Post Mortem. 153. Joan (deceased) daughter of Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester 
Writ 18 Aug 1400. 18 Aug. 1400. Inquisition. Cambridge. 20 Sept.
She held in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service the court leet of Sawston, held on the morrow of St. Barnabas, value 5s.
She died on 16 Aug. last. Anne wife of the earl of Stafford and Isabel, a nun of the order of Minoresses in the suburbs of London, between Aldgate and the Tower, are her sisters and heirs. Anne is of full age, 17 years and more. Isabel was 13 on 23 April last.
Writ 18 Aug. 1400.
Inquisition. Thornbury. 13 Sept.
She held in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief: Wheatenhurst, the manor, service unknown, annual value £21 7s. Caldicot castle and Shirenewton with their members in the Welsh March, by baron service, annual value £26 13s.4d. Date of death and heirs as above.
On 18 Aug 1477 Maximilian Habsburg I Holy Roman Emperor (age 18) and Mary Valois Duchess Burgundy (age 20) were married at Ghent [Map]. She the daughter of Charles "Bold" Valois Duke Burgundy and Isabella Bourbon. He the son of Frederick "Peaceful or Fat" Habsburg III Holy Roman Emperor (age 61) and Eleanor Aviz Holy Roman Empress. They were second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 18 Aug 1503 Margaret Tudor Queen Scotland (age 13) by marriage Queen Consort Scotland.
On or after 18 Aug 1512 Anne Wood aka Wode died in childbirth whilst visiting her sister Elizabeth at Blickling, Norfolk. St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map]. Memorial brass to Anne Wood aka Wode depicted holding the two male and female twins that she died giving birth to. The inscription:
Pray for the soul of Anne from Wode, the second wife of Thomas Astley of Melton Constable (age 43), Esquire, who on the feast day of Saint Agapitus the Martyr gave birth to a male and a female child, and after the peril of childbirth, suddenly departed to the Lord in the year one thousand five hundred and twelve of Christ.
Orate p[ro] a[n]i[m]a Anne a wode ux[oris] s[e]cu[n]de Tho[m]e Asteley de Melton Constable. Armig[eri], que in die s[an]c[t]i Agapiti Martyris masculu[m] et femella[m] ad partu[m] pep[er]it et post pariendi p[er]iculu[m] subito migravit ad Domi[num] A[nn]o M[illensim]o benignissimi Vo XIIo Xpi.
Anne Wood aka Wode: she was born to John Wood aka Wode. Before 1507 Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable and she were married.
Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable: In 1469 he was born. On 19 Oct 1543 he died.
On 18 Aug 1538 Bishop Robert Parfew aka Warton received the surrender of the Carmelites at Denbigh Friary.
Diary of Edward VI. 18 Aug 1550. A proclamacion that til Michelmas al straung(er)is that sued for pencions shuld go there way.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1553. The xviij day of August was reynyd at Westmynster hall the marqwes of Northamton (age 41), and the duke (age 49), and th'erle of Warwyke (age 26), and so they wher condemnyd to be had to the place that thay cam fro, and from thens to be drane thrugh London onto Tyburne [Map], and ther to be hangyd, and then to be cott downe, and ther bowells to be brentt, and ther heds to be sett on London bryge and odur [places.]
On 18 Aug 1553 John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 49) and John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 26) were tried at Westminster Hall [Map].
Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 80) presided at the trial.
Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 18 Aug 1553. Note, that the [18th] daye of August ther was a proclamationa set out by the queues highnes, that she willed all men to embrace that religion which all men knew she had of long tyme observed, and ment, God willing, to contynue the same; willing all men to be quiet and not call men the names of heretyk or pa(pi)st, but eche man to live after the religyon he thought best untyll further order wer taken concernyng the same.
Note a. There is a copy of this proclamation in Foxe, vol. iii. p. 18; and its substance in Strype, Memorials, vol. iii. p. 25, Heylyn's Ecclesiastical History, 1674, p. 193.
On 18 Aug 1553 William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 41) was degraded 312th Knight of the Garter for having supported the cause of Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland (age 17) for which he had been attainted, convicted of treason and sentenced to death. Marquess Northampton, Earl Essex forfeit. He was released after a few months following the accession of Elizabeth I.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 18 Aug 1554. 18 Aug 1554. Saterdaye the 18 of August, in the after-noone, the King (age 27) and Queenes (age 38) Majesties rode throughe Sowthwerke, over the bridge [Map], and so throughe London; where they were with great provision receaved of the citizens, pageants in places accustomed, the crosse in Cheape [Map] new gilte, &c.
Memorandum: In the moneth of September the Duke of Norfolke (age 81) died at Framlingham [Map] in Norfolke, and there was honorablye buried [Map] amongst his auncestors.
Allso this moneth the Bishop of London (age 54) visited all his dioces, and had sermons in everie parishe and place where he satt, and sett owt divers goodlye articles in print for the true religion.
Allso he commaunded that the feast of everie saynte that was patrone of the churche, called Festum loci in everie parishe, should be kept holiedaye in everie parishe throughe his diocesse as a principall feast used in olde tyme, after the custome of the churche.
On 31 Aug 1565 George Vernon "King of the Peak" (age 57) died. He was buried at All Saint's Church, Bakewell, Derbyshire [Map]. By his will of 18 Aug 1565 he bequeathed six Derbyshire manors and two in Staffordshire to his wife for life. His executors were to take the profits of his manor of Kibblestone, in Staffordshire, and two Cheshire manors for 16 years after his decease to pay his debts, funeral expenses and the fulfilment of his will, which included among numerous bequests the provision of one gold chain worth £20 to his godson, Gilbert Talbot (age 12), the future 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 'as a remembrance of my good will towards him'. His wife, his son-in-law John Manners (age 38), his brother-in-law Nicholas Longford (age 33) and his 'loving neighbours and faithful friends Thomas Sutton and Richard Wennesley were each to receive £20 for their services as executors, while his 'right worshipful friends' (Sir) John Zouche II and Francis Leke (age 55) were each to have a horse.
Monument with both his wives Margaret Tailboys and Maud aka Magdelan Longford each wearing a French Hood. Man with Two Wives.
On the left the arms of his second wife Margaret Tailboys, middle the arms of George Vernon "King of the Peak" (age 57) and right the arms of his first wife Maud aka Magdelan Longford.
On 18 Aug 1572 Henry IV King France (age 18) and Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 53). He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were second cousins.
On 18 Aug 1604 the Treaty of London was signed concluding the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War. The treaty restored the 'Status quo' between the two nations. The negotiations probably took place at Somerset House [Map] in Westminster and are sometimes known as the Somerset House Conference.
On 18 Aug 1606 Maria Anna of Spain Holy Roman Empress was born to Philip III King Spain (age 28) and Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain (age 21). Coefficient of inbreeding 10.92%.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1619. 18 Aug 1619. The 18th Sir Edward Burton came hither and I told him I was determined I would not keep his daughter.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1644. The Queen of England (age 34) came to Tours, having newly arrived in France, and going for Paris [Map]. She was very nobly received by the people and clergy, who went to meet her with the trained bands. After the harangue, the Archbishop entertained her at his Palace, where I paid my duty to her. The 20th she set forward to Paris.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1649. I went to St. Germains, to kiss his Majesty's (age 19) hand; in the coach, which was my Lord Wilmot's (age 36), went Mrs. Barlow (age 19), the King's mistress and mother to the Duke of Monmouth, a brown, beautiful, bold, but insipid creature.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1654. Hence, we passed through a fenny but rich country to Hull [Map], situated like Calais [Map], modernly and strongly fortified with three block-houses of brick and earth. It has a good market place and harbor for ships. Famous also (or rather infamous) is this town for Hotham's refusing entrance to his Majesty. The water-house is worth seeing. And here ends the south of Yorkshire.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1658. To Sir Ambrose Browne, at Betchworth Castle, in that tempestuous wind which threw down my greatest trees at Sayes Court [Map], and did so much mischief all over England. It continued the whole night; and, till three in the afternoon of the next day, in the southwest, and destroyed all our winter fruit.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Aug 1661. Lord's Day. To our own church in the morning and so home to dinner, where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys (age 40) came to me to dine, and were very merry. After dinner I took my wife and Mr. Sidney to my Lady to see my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is now pretty well again, and sits up and walks about his chamber. So I went to White Hall, and there hear that my Lord General Monk (age 52) continues very ill: so I went to la belle Pierce and sat with her; and then to walk in St. James's Park, and saw great variety of fowl which I never saw before and so home. At night fell to read in "Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity", which Mr. Moore did give me last Wednesday very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his sake. So to supper and to bed.
Calendars. 18 Aug 1662. 59. -- to [Lord Conway]. Welcomes him to Dublin. Hopes he has received the tender of his brother Dering's service. The Doctors are both at Tunbridge, and are going to Italy. The writer's cousin, Hugh Cholmley (age 30), has fought a duel with Edward Montague (age 27), without harm, and Henry Jermyn (age 26) and Giles Rawlins against one of the Howards (age 31) and Lord Dillon's son; it was fought in St. James's Fields, Pall Mall, at 11am. Rawlins is slain, Jermyn (age 26) wounded, and the other two fled. The King intends to proclaim Tangiers a free port for five years. The London ministers who will not conform have parted from their congregations with great temper. Damaged.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1663. To London, to see my Lord Chancellor (age 54), where I had discourse with my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (age 65) and the Bishop of Winchester (age 65), who enjoined me to write to Dr. Pierce (age 41), President of Magdalen College, Oxford, about a letter sent him by Dr. Goffe (age 58), a Romish Oratorian, concerning an answer to Dean Cressy's late book.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Aug 1665. Thence in Commissioner Pett's (age 55) coach (leaving them there). I late in the darke to Gravesend, Kent [Map], where great is the plague, and I troubled to stay there so long for the tide.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Aug 1666. All the morning at my office; then to the Exchange [Map] (with my Lord Bruncker (age 46) in his coach) at noon, but it was only to avoid Mr. Chr. Pett's (age 46) being invited by me to dinner.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Aug 1666. So home, calling at my little mercer's in Lombard Street [Map], who hath the pretty wench, like the old Queene (age 56), and there cheapened some stuffs to hang my roome, that I intend to turn into a closett.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Aug 1668. At noon dined, and then to the office all the afternoon also, and in the evening to Sir W. Coventry's (age 40), but he not within, I took coach alone to the Park, to try to meet him there, but did not; but there were few coaches, but among the few there were in two coaches our two great beauties, my Baroness Castlemayne (age 27) and Richmond (age 21); the first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1672. Sir James Hayes (age 35), Secretary to Prince Rupert (age 52), dined with me; after dinner I was sent to Gravesend, Kent [Map] to dispose of no fewer than 800 sick men. That night I got to the fleet at the Buoy of the Nore, where I spoke with the King (age 42) and the Duke (age 38); and, after dinner next day, returned to Gravesend, Kent [Map].
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. And I the rather am confident of it, remembering what Sir Edward Walker (age 62) (Garter King at Arms) had likewise affirmed to me a long time before, even when he was first made a Lord; that carrying his pedigree to Lord Clifford (age 43) on his being created a peer, and, finding him busy, he bade him go into his study and divert himself there till he was at leisure to discourse with him about some things relating to his family; there lay, said Sir Edward, on his table, his horoscope and nativity calculated, with some writing under it, where he read that he should be advanced to the highest degree in the state that could be conferred upon him, but that he should not long enjoy it, but should die, or expressions to that sense; and I think, (but cannot confidently say) a bloody death. This Sir Edward (age 62) affirmed both to me and Sir Richard Browne; nor could I forbear to note this extraordinary passage in these memoirs.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. Taking leave of my Lord Clifford (age 43), he wrung me by the hand, and, looking earnestly on me, bid me God-b'ye, adding, "Mr. Evelyn, I shall never see thee more". "No!" said I, "my Lord, what's the meaning of this? I hope I shall see you often, and as great a person again". "No, Mr. Evelyn, do not expect it, I will never see this place, this city, or Court again", or words of this sound. In this manner, not without almost mutual tears, I parted from him; nor was it long after, but the news was that he was dead, and I have heard from some who I believe knew, he made himself away, after an extraordinary melancholy. This is not confidently affirmed, but a servant who lived in the house, and afterward with Sir Robert Clayton (age 44), Lord Mayor, did, as well as others, report it, and when I hinted some such thing to Mr. Prideaux, one of his trustees, he was not willing to enter into that discourse.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. For the rest, my Lord Clifford (age 43) was a valiant, incorrupt gentleman, ambitious, not covetous; generous, passionate, a most constant, sincere friend, to me in particular, so as when he laid down his office, I was at the end of all my hopes and endeavors. These were not for high matters, but to obtain what his Majesty (age 43) was really indebted to my father-in-law, which was the utmost of my ambition, and which I had undoubtedly obtained, if this friend had stood. Sir Thomas Osborn (age 41), who succeeded him, though much more obliged to my father-in-law and his family, and my long and old acquaintance, being of a more haughty and far less obliging nature, I could hope for little; a man of excellent natural parts; but nothing of generous or grateful.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. My Lord Clifford (age 43), being about this time returned from Tunbridge [Map], and preparing for Devonshire, I went to take my leave of him at Wallingford House; he was packing up pictures, most of which were of hunting wild beasts and vast pieces of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, etc. I found him in his study, and restored to him several papers of state, and others of importance, which he had furnished me with, on engaging me to write the "History of the Holland War", with other private letters of his acknowledgments to my Lord Arlington (age 55), who from a private gentleman of a very noble family, but inconsiderable fortune, had advanced him from almost nothing. The first thing was his being in Parliament, then knighted, then made one of the Commissioners of sick and wounded, on which occasion we sat long together; then, on the death of Hugh Pollard, he was made Comptroller of the Household and Privy Councillor, yet still my brother Commissioner; after the death of Lord Fitz-Harding, Treasurer of the Household, he, by letters to Lord Arlington (age 55), which that Lord showed me, begged of his Lordship to obtain it for him as the very height of his ambition. These were written with such submissions and professions of his patronage, as I had never seen any more acknowledging. The Earl of Southampton then dying, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Treasury. His Majesty (age 43) inclining to put it into one hand, my Lord Clifford (age 43), under pretense of making all his interest for his patron, my Lord Arlington (age 55), cut the grass under his feet, and procured it for himself, assuring the King (age 43) that Lord Arlington (age 55) did not desire it. Indeed, my Lord Arlington (age 55) protested to me that his confidence in Lord Clifford (age 43) made him so remiss and his affection to him was so particular, that he was absolutely minded to devolve it on Lord Clifford (age 43), all the world knowing how he himself affected ease and quiet, now growing into years, yet little thinking of this go-by. This was the great ingratitude Lord Clifford (age 43) showed, keeping my Lord Arlington (age 55) in ignorance, continually assuring him he was pursuing his interest, which was the Duke's (age 39) into whose great favor Lord Clifford (age 43) was now gotten; but which certainly cost him the loss of all, namely, his going so irrevocably far in his interest.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. This leads me to call to mind what my Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury (age 52) affirmed, not to me only, but to all my brethren the Council of Foreign Plantations, when not long after, this accident being mentioned as we were one day sitting in Council, his Lordship told us this remarkable passage: that, being one day discoursing with him when he was only Sir Thomas Clifford, speaking of men's advancement to great charges in the nation, "Well", says he, "my Lord, I shall be one of the greatest men in England. Don't impute what I say either to fancy, or vanity; I am certain that I shall be a mighty man; but it will not last long; I shall not hold it, but die a bloody death". "What", says my Lord, "your horoscope tells you so?" "No matter for that, it will be as I tell you". "Well", says my Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury (age 52), "if I were of that opinion, I either would not be a great man, but decline preferment, or prevent my danger". This my Lord affirmed in my hearing before several gentlemen and noblemen sitting in council at Whitehall.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1673. It was reported with these particulars, that, causing his servant to leave him unusually one morning, locking himself in, he strangled himself with his cravat upon the bed-tester; his servant, not liking the manner of dismissing him, and looking through the keyhole (as I remember), and seeing his master hanging, broke in before he was quite dead, and taking him down, vomiting a great deal of blood, he was heard to utter these words: "Well; let men say what they will, there is a God, a just God above"; after which he spoke no more. This, if true, is dismal. Really, he was the chief occasion of the Dutch war, and of all that blood which was lost at Bergen in attacking the Smyrna fleet, and that whole quarrel.
On 18 Aug 1681 Philip "Infamous Earl" Herbert 7th Earl Pembroke 4th Earl Montgomery (age 29) killed William Smeeth following a drunken evening in the tavern on Turnham Green Chiswick. On 21 Jun 1681 he was indicted for the murder; somewhat inexplicably he received a Royal Pardon.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1688. My lady (age 42) carried us to see Lord Northampton's (age 23) Seat, a very strong, large house, built with stone, not altogether modern. They were enlarging the garden, in which was nothing extraordinary, except the iron gate opening into the park, which indeed was very good work, wrought in flowers painted with blue and gilded. There is a noble walk of elms toward the front of the house by the bowling green. I was not in any room of the house besides a lobby looking into the garden, where my Lord (age 23) and his new Countess (age 19) (Sir Stephen Fox's (age 61) daughter, whom I had known from a child) entertained the Countess (age 42) and her daughter the Countess of Arran (age 21) (newly married to the son (age 30) of the Duke of Hamilton (age 53)), with so little good grace, and so dully, that our visit was very short, and so we returned to Althorpe [Map], twelve miles distant.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1688. The house, or rather palace, at Althorpe [Map], is a noble uniform pile in form of a half H, built of brick and freestone, balustered and à la moderne; the hall is well, the staircase excellent; the rooms of state, galleries, offices and furniture, such as may become a great prince. It is situated in the midst of a garden, exquisitely planted and kept, and all this in a park walled in with hewn stone, planted with rows and walks of trees, canals and fish ponds, and stored with game. And, what is above all this, governed by a lady (age 42), who without any show of solicitude, keeps everything in such admirable order, both within and without, from the garret to the cellar, that I do not believe there is any in this nation, or in any other, that exceeds her in such exact order, without ostentation, but substantially great and noble. The meanest servant is lodged so neat and cleanly; the service at the several tables, the good order and decency-in a word, the entire economy is perfectly becoming a wise and noble person. She is one who for her distinguished esteem of me from a long and worthy friendship, I must ever honor and celebrate. I wish from my soul the Lord (age 46), her husband (whose parts and abilities are otherwise conspicuous), was as worthy of her, as by a fatal apostasy and court-ambition he has made himself unworthy! This is what she deplores, and it renders her as much affliction as a lady of great soul and much prudence is capable of. The Countess of Bristol (age 68), her mother, a grave and honorable lady, has the comfort of seeing her daughter and grandchildren under the same economy, especially Mr. Charles Spencer (age 13), a youth of extraordinary hopes, very learned for his age, and ingenious, and under a Governor of great worth. Happy were it, could as much be said of the elder brother, the Lord Spencer, who, rambling about the world, dishonors both his name and his family, adding sorrow to sorrow to a mother, who has taken all imaginable care of his education. There is a daughter (age 17) very young married to the Earl of Clancarty (age 20), who has a great and fair estate in Ireland, but who yet gives no great presage of worth,-so universally contaminated is the youth of this corrupt and abandoned age! But this is again recompensed by my Lord Arran (age 30), a sober and worthy gentleman, who has espoused the Lady Ann Spencer (age 21), a young lady of admirable accomplishments and virtue.
Roger Whitley's Diary. 18 Aug 1690. Monday, Warmingham (a shoemaker of Chester) his wife, the Surgeon of the Regiment there & a man from Barrow came to see house & gardens; they dranck a bottle of ale & went away; my tenant Barnet of Shotwick, Cheshire dined with us; went away about 3; Mainwaring went to Chester past 9; retorned about 8.
On 18 Aug 1696 Bourchier Wrey 4th Baronet (deceased) was buried at St Peter's Church, Tawstock [Map]. Inscription: Juxta hoc Marmor depositæ sunt Reliquiæ Bourchieri Wrey Baronetti Honorabilis ordinis Balnei Mitiris Egregys animi dotibus Fortitudine præfertim et amicitia Insignis Ecclesiae pietate, Regi Fidelitate Conspicui filius erat naru Maximus Chichesteri Wrey de Trebeigh, in agro Cornubienfi Baronetti, E Conjuge Comitissa Middlesex (age 65) Filia Edvardi Comitis Bathon de antigua et perillustri Bourchierum strirpe nuper extincta Obijt 28vo die July Anno Domu 1696 Ætatis 44to Spe Beatae Resurrectionis.
On 18 Aug 1746 William Boyd 4th Earl Kilmarnock (age 41) was executed at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
On 18 Aug 1765 Francis I Holy Roman Emperor (age 56) died.
The London Gazette 13123. Whitehall, August 18 [1789].
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Marquess of the Kingdom of Great Britain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Salisbury (age 40), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stile and Title of Marquess of Salisbury, in the County of Wilts. [Mary Amelia Hill Marchioness Salisbury (age 39) by marriage Marchioness Salisbury in Wiltshire.]
The King has also been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Marquess of the Kingdom of Great Britain to the Right Honourable Thomas Viscount Weymouth (age 54), Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and the Heirs Male of his body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stile and Title of Marquess of Bath, in the County of Somerset. [Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath (age 54) by marriage Marchioness of Bath.]
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of an Earl of this Kingdom of Great Britain to the Right Honourable George Viscount Mount-Edgcumbe and Valletort (age 69), and the Heirs Male of liis Body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stile and Title of Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe. [Emma Gilbert Countess Mount Edgcumbe by marriage Countess of Mount Edgcumbe.]
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignities of Viscount and Earl of the Kingdom of Great Britain to the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Fortescue (age 36), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stile and Title of 1stViscount Ebrington, of Ebrington in the County of Gloucester, and Earl Fortescue. [Hester Granville Countess Fortescue (age 23) by marriage Countess Fortescue.]
Throwley. 18th August, we opened a barrow [Throwley Moor Barrow [Map]] on the hill behind Throwley Moor House, the dimensions of which are not ascertainable, from the greatest part of the mound being natural. We commenced digging on the north-west side, through earth one foot deep, beneath which was rock. We soon, however, arrived at a flat stone, placed upright beneath a wall that crossed the barrow; and having removed sufficient of the latter to allow us to proceed, found immediately below its foundation a large sepulchral urn, which, contrary to general usage, stood with the mouth upwards in a hole in the rock eighteen inches deep; the upper edge, from having been long exposed to the influence of the atmosphere from being so near the surface, was so much disintegrated as to be at first taken for charcoal, but we ascertained the diameter to be about fourteen inches; it is quite plain, and composed of coarse friable clay, of a brick red outside and black within. It contained calcined human bones, amongst which were the following articles - two fine pins, made from the tibia of an animal probably not larger than a sheep; a short piece cut from a tubular bone, and laterally perforated, possibly intended for a whistle; a bronze awl, upwards of three inches long, which has been inserted into a handle, and is now covered with a very dark and polished aerugo; a flint spear head; and a bipennis, or double-edged axe, of basaltic stone. All these, except the whistle and the awl, have been submitted to the fire, by which the axe had been so much injured that it was difficult to extricate it from its position under the bones at the bottom of the urn without its falling to pieces. The urn itself, being very thin and adhering to the rock, was taken out in small fragments. The few stone axes found during our researches have uniformly been associated with the brazen daggers, and were replaced by the plain axe-shaped celt at a slightly later period, but in no other instance have they accompanied an interment by cremation; indeed the instances in which the brass dagger has been found with burnt bones bear so small a proportion to those in which it accompanies the skeleton, that we may conclude there was a marked, though gradual change in the mode of burial introduced about the time when the knowledge of metallurgy was acquired. There is, however, evidence that the ancient rite of burial was resumed at a later period, dating but little, if at all, previous to the occupation of the country by the Romans.
Henry Chaplin A Memoir: 2 Family and Social Life Part II. 18th [Aug 1876].—I have just got your letter and with such a lovely long lock of brown hair. Thank you, you Dear one, a thousand times, over and over. You don't know what a pleasure it is to me to have got it, or how much it reminds me of Florrie. 1 do know, nobody better, how much I miss by not being now at Dunrobin, and I can fancy the sea and the view from your window, and the prettiest view of all as it would be to me, the little faee looking out of it. Such a mixture, too, xs it is! Bright! full of fun! almost indeed impudent at one time, and then at another serious, thoughtful, and sometimes really quite sensible, but always loving and lovable. It is always to me in its varying phases nicer and dearer than the last. There Florrie, there's a nice sentence, and the odd thing is that I mean every word of it, and yet you had the assurance to tell me one day that I had no sentiment at all.. May I ask, Miss Lamb, what it was gave rise to Papa saying he wouldn't hear of our marriage before December? It's all very well your saying you never asked for it even then, but are you quite sure that you didn't ask it should not be till then? December indeed, 4 long months, with the honeymoon during a frost and 3 feet of snow on the ground, and you always say you are x in cold weather. Well! that would be better than nothing, but I don't despair yet that you'll come round to my way of thinking and think of November as a most highly appropriate time. Dear Florrie, please be a good little girl and think this, and tell me you will next time you write, and then I'll —well, I hardly know what I will do, but anything short of promising faithfully to " Let me always do everything I like.". Three weeks is regulation for drinking the waters, but then I don't mean to be regulation. There's a good deal of good to be done in a fortnight, and by drinking one extra glass every morning and taking an extra long walk, I shall get my three weeks compressed very nearly into the inside of a fortnight.
On 11 Aug 1899 John Vinton Dahlgren (age 31) died of tuberculosis. His funeral was held on 18 Aug 1899, in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel, which had been constructed six years earlier as a memorial to the death of Dahlgren's infant son, Joseph.
18 Aug 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 48)
18 Aug 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 48) with her daughter Mercy Greville (age 6).
Mercy Greville: On 03 Apr 1904 she was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick. Some sources describe her father as Joseph Frederick Laycock. On 12 Nov 1968 Mercy Greville died.
On 18 Aug 1977 Elvis Presely's (deceased) funeral was held at Graceland. Outside the gates, a car plowed into a group of fans, killing two young women and critically injuring a third. About 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother.
18 Aug 2012. Lytham St Annes Wartime Weekend.
Births on the 18th August
On 18 Aug 1275 Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere was born to Gunselin Badlesmere and Joan Fitzbernard.
On 18 Aug 1526 Claude Duke of Aumale was born to Claude Lorraine 1st Duke Guise (age 29) was created 1st Duke Guise. Antoinette Bourbon Duchess of Guise (age 33).
On 18 Aug 1542 Charles Neville 6th Earl of Westmoreland was born to Henry Neville 5th Earl of Westmoreland (age 17) and Anne Manners Countess of Westmoreland (age 15).
On 18 Aug 1579 Charlotte Flandrina Orange Nassau was born to William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 46) and Charlotte Bourbon Princess Orange (age 32).
On 18 Aug 1606 Maria Anna of Spain Holy Roman Empress was born to Philip III King Spain (age 28) and Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain (age 21). Coefficient of inbreeding 10.92%.
On 23 Jul 1611 Frances Sutton 6th Baroness Dudley was born to Ferdinando Dudley (age 23) and Honora Seymour (age 18) at Dudley Castle [Map]. She was baptised 18 Aug 1611 at the same place.
On 18 Aug 1613 Thomas Peyton 2nd Baronet was born to Samuel Peyton 1st Baronet (age 22).
On or before 18 Aug 1666 William Paulett was born to Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton (age 36) and Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester.
On 18 Aug 1683 John Shuckburgh 3rd Baronet was born to Charles Shuckburgh 2nd Baronet (age 24) and Catherine Stewkley Lady Schuckburgh.
On 18 Aug 1683 Christian Ernst Saxe Coburg Saalfeld IV Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld was born to John Ernest Saxe Coburg Saalfeld IV Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld (age 24) and Sophie Hedwig Saxe Merseburg Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld at Saalfield.
On 18 Aug 1692 Louis Henri Bourbon Condé Duke Bourbon was born to Louis Bourbon Condé (age 23) and Louise Françoise Bourbon (age 19). He a great x 3 grandson of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.
On 18 Aug 1719 Bernard Ward 1st Viscount Bangor was born.
On 18 Aug 1720 Laurence Shirley 4th Earl Ferrers was born to Laurence Shirley (age 26) and Anne Clarges (age 25).
On 18 Aug 1727 Mary Buller Lady Copley was born to John Francis Buller (age 32) and Rebecca Trelawny (age 31).
On 18 Aug 1728 James Caulfeild 1st Earl Charlemont was born to James Caulfeild 3rd Viscount Charlemont and Elizabeth Bernard Viscountess Caulfeild (age 25).
On 18 Aug 1748 John Freeman-Mitford 1st Baron Redesdale was born to John Mitford1688-1761 (age 60).
On 18 Aug 1776 Thomas Howard 16th Earl Suffolk 9th Earl Berkshire was born to John Howard 15th Earl Suffolk (age 37) and Julia Gaskarth (age 39).
On 18 Aug 1776 Robert Newman 1st Baronet was born.
On 18 Aug 1782 Charles Bannerman 8th Baronet was born to Alexander Bannerman 6th Baronet (age 40).
On 18 Aug 1785 Richard Brooke 6th Baronet was born to Richard Brooke 5th Baronet (age 32) and Mary Cunliffe Lady Brooke.
On 18 Aug 1785 Captain Charles Shaw was born to John Gregory Shaw 5th Baronet (age 29) and Theodosia Margaret Monson Lady Shaw (age 22).
On 18 Aug 1792 John Russell 1st Earl Russell was born to John Russell 6th Duke Bedford (age 26) and Georgiana Elizabeth Byng (age 24). He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 18 Aug 1798 John Haggerston 8th Baronet was born to Thomas Haggerston.
On 18 Aug 1801 John Lister Lister-Kaye 2nd Baronet was born to John Lister-Kaye 1st Baronet (age 29) and Amelia Grey Lady Lister-Kaye (age 22).
On 18 Aug 1807 Stillborn Hesse Darmstadt was born to Louis Hesse Darmstadt II Grand Duke (age 29) and Princess Wilhelmine Baden (age 18). Coefficient of inbreeding 7.03%.
On 18 Aug 1809 William Craven 2nd Earl Craven was born to William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 38) and Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 24).
On 18 Aug 1811 Harriet Blanche Somerset Countess Galloway was born to Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort (age 44) and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort (age 40).
On 18 Aug 1852 Lieutenant Mark McDonnell was born to Mark Kerr aka McDonnell 5th Earl of Antrim (age 38) and Jane Macan Countess of Antrim (age 27).
On 18 Aug 1869 Mary Adelaide Agar was born to James Charles Agar 3rd Earl Normanton (age 50) and Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington Countess Normanton (age 34).
On 18 Aug 1874 Maud Grosvenor was born to Robert Grosvenor 2nd Baron Ebury (age 40) and Emilie Beaujolais White.
On 18 Aug 1879 James Stewart-Murray 9th Duke of Atholl was born to John Murray aka Stewart-Murray 7th Duke of Atholl (age 39).
On 18 Aug 1902 Major Thomas William Assheton Frankland 11th Baronet was born to Frederick Frankland 10th Baronet (age 33) and Mary Cecil Curzon 17th Baroness Zouche (age 27).
On 18 Aug 1916 James Antony Butler was born to James George Anson Butler 5th Marquess Ormonde (age 26).
On 18 Aug 1920 Edward Pelham-Clinton 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne was born to Guy Edward Pelham-Clinton.
On 18 Aug 1925 Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton 6th Baronet was born to Thomas Fowell Buxton 5th Baronet (age 35).
On 18 Aug 1928 David Bernard Montgomery 2nd Viscount Montgomery was born to Field-Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery (age 40) and Elizabeth Hobart.
On 18 Aug 1935 David Gordon Bannerman 15th Baronet was born to Donald Arthur Gordon Bannerman 13th Baronet (age 36).
Marriages on the 18th August
Before 18 Aug 1347 Edmund St John 3rd Baron St John of Basing (age 13) and Elizabeth Strange Baroness St John of Basing were married. She by marriage Baroness St John of Basing. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John "Lackland" of England.
On 18 Aug 1471 George Gordon 2nd Earl Huntley (age 16) and Elizabeth Hay Countess Huntley (age 21) were married; she having been his mistress. She by marriage Countess Huntley. She the daughter of William Hay 1st Earl Erroll and Beatrice Douglas Countess Erroll. He the son of Alexander Gordon 1st Earl Huntley and Elizabeth Crichton Countess Huntley (age 61).
On 18 Aug 1477 Maximilian Habsburg I Holy Roman Emperor (age 18) and Mary Valois Duchess Burgundy (age 20) were married at Ghent [Map]. She the daughter of Charles "Bold" Valois Duke Burgundy and Isabella Bourbon. He the son of Frederick "Peaceful or Fat" Habsburg III Holy Roman Emperor (age 61) and Eleanor Aviz Holy Roman Empress. They were second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 18 Aug 1524 Richard Cornwall 9th Baron Burford (age 31) and Janet Wogan (age 31) were married at Wiston.
On 18 Aug 1572 Henry IV King France (age 18) and Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 53). He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were second cousins.
On 18 Aug 1687 Edward Radclyffe 2nd Earl Derwentwater (age 32) and Mary Tudor Countess Derwentwater (age 13) were married. She the daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland and Mary "Moll" Davis (age 39). He the son of Francis Radclyffe 1st Earl Derwentwater (age 62).
On 18 Aug 1692 John Vaughan 1st Viscount Lisburne (age 24) and Malet Wilmot Viscountess Lisburne (age 16) were married. She the daughter of John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester and Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester.
After 18 Aug 1703 Fulwar Skipwith 2nd Baronet (age 27) and Mary Dashwood Lady Skipwith were married. She by marriage Lady Skipwith of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire.
Before 18 Aug 1728 James Caulfeild 3rd Viscount Charlemont and Elizabeth Bernard Viscountess Caulfeild (age 25) were married.
On 18 Aug 1783 Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Baronet (age 24) and Hester Lyttelton were married.
On 18 Aug 1787 Charles Compton 1st Marquess Northampton (age 27) and Maria Smith Marchioness Northampton (age 21) were married. He the son of Spencer Compton 8th Earl of Northampton (age 49) and Jane Lawton Countess Northampton.
On 18 Aug 1806 Thomas Foley 3rd Baron Foley (age 25) and Cecilia Olivia Geraldine Fitzgerald Baroness Foley (age 20) were married at Boyle Farm, Kingston Upon Thames. She by marriage Baroness Foley of Kidderminster in Worcestershire. She the daughter of William Robert Fitzgerald 2nd Duke Leinster and Emilia St George Duchess Leinster. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 18 Aug 1825 John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 27) and Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 22) were married.
On 18 Aug 1828 Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 23) and Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 22) were married at St Mary's Church Cadogan Street. She by marriage Countess Chichester. She the daughter of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan (age 59) and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan. He the son of Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester and Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester (age 51).
On 18 Aug 1831 John Paulet 14th Marquess Winchester (age 30) and Caroline Ramsden were married. He the son of Charles Burroughs-Paulet 13th Marquess Winchester (age 67) and Anne Andrews Marchioness of Winchester (age 58).
On 18 Aug 1840 Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice 4th Marquess Lansdowne (age 24) and Georgiana Herbert (age 23) were married. She died six months later. She the daughter of George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery and Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 55). He the son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne (age 60) and Louisa Fox-Strangways Marchioness Lansdowne.
On 18 Aug 1857 Frederick Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes 10th or 16th Baron Saye and Sele (age 58) and Caroline Eliza Leigh Baroness Saye and Sele (age 32) were married. She by marriage Baroness Saye and Sele. The difference in their ages was 25 years. They were first cousin once removed.
On 18 Aug 1870 Charles Douglas-Home 12th Earl of Home (age 36) and Maria Gray Countess of Home (age 21) were married. He the son of Cospatrick Alexander Douglas-Home 11th Earl of Home (age 70) and Lucy Elizabeth Montagu Scott Countess Home.
Deaths on the 18th August
On 18 Aug 1347 Edmund St John 3rd Baron St John of Basing (age 13) died at Calais [Map]. His sister Isabel St John 4th Baroness St John of Basing (age 14) succeeded 4th Baroness St John of Basing.
On 18 Aug 1430 Thomas Ros 8th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 22) died. His son Thomas Ros 9th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 2) succeeded 9th Baron Ros Helmsley.
On 18 Aug 1510 Edmund Plunkett 3rd Baron Killeen (age 61) died. His son John Plunkett 4th Baron Killeen succeeded 4th Baron Killeen.
On 18 Aug 1562 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 82) died at Bedford, Bedfordshire [Map]. His son John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 54) succeeded 2nd Baron Mordaunt.
On 31 Aug 1565 George Vernon "King of the Peak" (age 57) died. He was buried at All Saint's Church, Bakewell, Derbyshire [Map]. By his will of 18 Aug 1565 he bequeathed six Derbyshire manors and two in Staffordshire to his wife for life. His executors were to take the profits of his manor of Kibblestone, in Staffordshire, and two Cheshire manors for 16 years after his decease to pay his debts, funeral expenses and the fulfilment of his will, which included among numerous bequests the provision of one gold chain worth £20 to his godson, Gilbert Talbot (age 12), the future 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 'as a remembrance of my good will towards him'. His wife, his son-in-law John Manners (age 38), his brother-in-law Nicholas Longford (age 33) and his 'loving neighbours and faithful friends Thomas Sutton and Richard Wennesley were each to receive £20 for their services as executors, while his 'right worshipful friends' (Sir) John Zouche II and Francis Leke (age 55) were each to have a horse.
Monument with both his wives Margaret Tailboys and Maud aka Magdelan Longford each wearing a French Hood. Man with Two Wives.
On the left the arms of his second wife Margaret Tailboys, middle the arms of George Vernon "King of the Peak" (age 57) and right the arms of his first wife Maud aka Magdelan Longford.
On 18 Aug 1580 Maurice Wynn (age 60) died. John Wynn 1st Baronet (age 27) inherited Gwydir Castle.
On 18 Aug 1580 Robert Douglas Earl Buchan (age 40) died. His son James Douglas 5th Earl Buchan succeeded 5th Earl Buchan.
On 18 Aug 1625 Edward Zouche 11th Baron Zouche Harringworth (age 69) died. Baron Zouche Harringworth abeyant between his two daughters Elizabeth Zouche and Mary Zouche (age 43).
On 18 Aug 1669 William Gawdy 1st Baronet (age 56) died. His son John Gawdy 2nd Baronet (age 29) succeeded 2nd Baronet Gawdy of West Harling.
On 18 Aug 1707 William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire (age 67) died. His son William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire (age 35) succeeded 2nd Duke Devonshire, 5th Earl Devonshire, 5th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire (age 33) by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
On 18 Aug 1712 Richard Savage 4th Earl Rivers (age 58) died. His first cousin John Savage 5th Earl Rivers (age 47) succeeded 5th Earl Rivers, 5th Viscount Colchester, 5th Viscount Savage, 5th Baron Darcy of Chiche, 6th Baronet Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire.
On 18 Aug 1746 William Boyd 4th Earl Kilmarnock (age 41) was executed at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
On 18 Aug 1748 Elizabeth Pert Baroness Stawell (age 71) died. She was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston [Map].
On 18 Aug 1765 Francis I Holy Roman Emperor (age 56) died.
On 18 Aug 1770 John Bellew 4th Baron Bellew (age 68) died. Baron Bellew of Duleek extinct.
On 18 Aug 1816 Frances Thorpe Lady Heathcote (age 74) died.
On 18 Aug 1851 John Fitzgibbon 2nd Earl of de Clare (age 59) died. His brother Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon 3rd Earl de Clare (age 58) succeeded 3rd Earl Clare.
On 18 Aug 1852 Alexander Hamilton 10th Duke Hamilton 7th Duke Brandon (age 84) died. His son William Alexander Archibald Hamilton 11th Duke Hamilton 8th Duke Brandon (age 41) succeeded 11th Duke Hamilton, 8th Duke Brandon of Suffolk, 8th Baron Dutton of Cheshire.
On 18 Aug 1855 Sarah Rudd Baroness Teynham died.
On 18 Aug 1855 George Montagu 6th Duke Manchester (age 56) died. His son William Drogo Montagu 7th Duke Manchester (age 31) succeeded 7th Duke Manchester, 10th Earl Manchester, 10th Viscount Mandeville, 10th Baron Montagu of Kimbolton. Louisa Vonalten Duchess Devonshire and Manchester (age 23) by marriage Duchess Manchester.
On 18 Aug 1855 Robert Devereux 15th Viscount Hereford (age 46) died. His son Robert Devereux 16th Viscount Hereford (age 12) succeeded 16th Viscount Hereford, 13th Baronet Devereux of Castle Bromwich.
On 18 Aug 1891 George St Vincent Duckworth-King 4th Baronet (age 82) died. His son Dudley Gordon Alan Duckworth-King 5th (age 39) succeeded 5th Baronet King of Bellevue in Kent.
On 18 Aug 1892 George Victor Drogo Montagu 8th Duke Manchester (age 39) died at Tandragee Castle. His son William Montagu 9th Duke Manchester (age 15) succeeded 9th Duke Manchester, 12th Earl Manchester, 12th Viscount Mandeville, 12th Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.
On 18 Aug 1903 Mary Arabella Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil Countess Galloway (age 53) died.
On 14 Aug 1905 Simeon Solomon (age 64) died in the dining-room of St Gile's Workshouse, Bloomsbury [Map] from complications brought on by alcoholism. He was buried at Willesden Cemetery.
"Inquest." The Times, 18 August 1905:
Mr. Walter Schroder held an inquest at St. Giles's Coroner's Court yesterday regarding the death of Simeon Solomon, aged 63, bachelor, an oil-painter, who was described as of the pre-Raphaelite school and at one time an associate of Rossetti and Burne-Jones. Solomon, according to his cousin, Mr. G. J. Nathan, of late years had led an intemperate and irregular life. The witness last saw him alive in May, when he gave him an outfit of clothes and money. He also gave him a commission for a drawing which was never executed. People highly placed in society would have liked him to paint pictures for them, but he could not be relied on to execute any commission. Other evidence showed that Solomon had been "off and on" an inmate of St. Giles's Workhouse during the past five years. On Wednesday, May 24 last, after the visit to his cousin, he was found lying on the footpath in Great Turnstile, High Holborn. He complained of illness and was conveyed to King's College Hospital, whence he was transferred to St. Giles's Workhouse. He was then suffering from bronchitis and alcoholism. He remained in the house, and on Monday morning last suddenly expired in the dining hall from, as Dr. A. C. Allen, the medical officer testified, heart failure consequent on aortic disease of that organ and other ailments. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. It was stated that a picture by the deceased recently sold at Christie's realised 250 guineas and that in former days several of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy.
On 18 Aug 1917 Emma Harriet Wilson 12th Baroness Berners (age 81) died. Her son Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt-Wilson 13th Baron Berners (age 62) succeeded 13th Baron Berners.
On 18 Aug 1927 Henry Monck 5th Viscount Monck (age 78) died.
On 18 Aug 1976 Roger Grey 10th Earl Stamford 6th Earl Warrington (age 79) died at Manchester, Lancashire. He was buried at St Mark's Church, Dunham Massey [Map].
Earl Stamford and Baron Grey of Groby extinct.
On 18 Aug 1977 George Jessel 2nd Baronet (age 86) died. His son Charles John Jessel 3rd Baronet (age 52) succeeded 3rd Baronet Jessel of Ladham House in Kent.
On 18 Aug 1982 David Godfrey Bewicke-Copley 6th Baron Cromwell (age 53) died. His son Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley 7th Baron Cromwell (age 22) succeeded 7th Baron Cromwell.
On 18 Aug 2015 Hugh Courtenay 18th Earl of Devon (age 73) died. His son Charles Courtenay 19th Earl of Devon (age 40) succeeded 19th Earl Devon.
