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Chevening House (/ ˈ tʃ iː v n ɪ ŋ /) is a large country house in the parish of Chevening in Kent, England. Built between 1617 and 1630 to a design reputedly by Inigo Jones and greatly extended after 1717, it is a Grade I listed building . [ 1 ]
The Chevening Scholarship is an international scholarship, funded by the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and partner organizations, [1] that enables foreign students to study at universities in the United Kingdom.
Fort Thomas may refer to a place in the United States: Fort Thomas, Arizona, an unincorporated community; Fort Thomas, Kentucky, a city and former army post; See also
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Colonel Thomas Cresap (c.1702 – c.1790) was an English-born settler and trader in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Cresap served Lord Baltimore as an agent in the Maryland–Pennsylvania boundary dispute that became known as Cresap's War .
The Dutch occupied the fort for several years. In 1795, the British East India Company took possession of the fort. In 1823 Fort St. Thomas accepted a lease by Travancore from the British government for a period of twenty years. [2] [3] Fort St. Thomas was originally around 20 feet (6.1 m) tall. Today, the little remains of the fort, popularly ...
On December 26, 1981, a group of parishioners of St. Patrick Cathedral in Fort Worth founded the Saint Thomas More Institute in order to establish "in Fort Worth a Roman Catholic liberal arts college devoted to teaching and learning within the tradition of Catholic arts and letters".
François-Thomas Galbaud du Fort (or Dufort; 25 September 1743 – 21 April 1801) was a French general who was briefly governor-general of Saint-Domingue.He arrived at a time when the planters were hostile to the new French First Republic with its ideals of equality of all men, when many slaves had left the plantations and were fighting for freedom, and when the Spanish in neighboring Santo ...