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John Dudley Leyton (born 17 February 1936) [1] is an English retired actor and singer. Leyton as a singer is best known for his hit song " Johnny Remember Me " (written by Geoff Goddard and produced by Joe Meek ), [ 2 ] which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961 despite being banned by the BBC for its death references. [ 3 ]
Leyton Jubilee Park is a park in Leyton, London, and the largest park managed by Waltham Forest Borough Council. It was formed out of the merger of two green spaces, Ive Farm and Marsh Lane Playing Fields in August 2012. [2] The park's ecology includes scrub woodland, meadow, wildflowers and mature trees including poplars and london planes.
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504 [1] – 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, KB (1527(?) [1] – 21 October 1554) was an English nobleman and the heir of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, leading minister and regent under King Edward VI from 1550–1553. As his father's career progressed, John Dudley respectively assumed his father's former titles, Viscount Lisle and Earl of ...
In 1532, another John Sutton inherited the castle but after having money problems, he was ousted by a relative, John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, in 1537. John Dudley was the great-grandson of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley and had risen to prominence during the reign of Henry VIII. Starting around 1540, a range of new buildings were ...
After Arthur Plantagenet's death in 1542, Henry VIII granted the viscountcy to Elizabeth Grey's eldest son by her first marriage, John Dudley, 1st Viscount Lisle, "by the right of his mother". [4] He was created Viscount Lisle on 12 March 1542, and was later created Duke of Northumberland .
Dudley House is a Grade II* listed house with 44,000 square feet (4,100 m 2) located at 100 Park Lane in the Mayfair area of London, England. [1] It is one of the few surviving aristocratic townhouses in London. Dudley House is named after the Ward family, holders of the titles of Baron Ward, Viscount Dudley and Ward, and Earl of Dudley.
The hall was built in 1825, in the grounds of Dudley Priory. The priory and its estate had been granted, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, to Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley in 1554. [2] John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, the later inheritor of the estate, built the hall on a site north-west of the remains of the priory. The ruins, which ...