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Until the 1870s the house was known as Lewis House. In 1858 Burgh House was taken over by the Royal East Middlesex Militia, and served as the headquarters and officers' mess until 1881. The house returned to domestic use in 1884. [1] From 1906–24 the house was occupied by Dr. George Williamson, an international art expert.
The House of Burgh (English: / b ɜːr /; ber; French pronunciation:) or Burke (Irish: de Búrca; Latin: de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty which played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland, held the earldoms of Kent, Ulster, Clanricarde, and Mayo at various times, and provided queens consort of Scotland and Thomond and Kings of ...
A burgh (/ ˈ b ʌr ə / BURR-ə) is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Burgh by Sands is a civil parish in the Cumberland district in Cumbria, England.It contains 55 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) Thomas Burgh (1754–1832) Thomas Burgh (died 1759) Thomas Burgh (Lanesborough MP) Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough; Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh; Thomas de Burgh, Castellan of Norwich; Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) Thomas mac Edmond Albanach de Búrca; Tibbot na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo; Tibbot MacWalter ...
A burgage was a town ("borough" or "burgh") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord. The property ("burgage tenement") usually, and distinctly, consisted of a house on a long and narrow plot of land (Scots: toft), with a narrow street frontage. Rental payment ("tenure") was usually in the form of money, but each "burgage ...
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