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The house was again closed indefinitely in 1977 when its new owners, Camden Council, discovered dry rot in the building. Threatened with proposals to turn the house over to a commercial use, local residents formed a charitable trust and launched a "Keep Burgh House" appeal, as a result of which Camden Council granted them a lease for the house ...
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 ...
William de Burgh (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR, French:; Latin: de Burgo; c. 1160 –winter 1205/06) [1] was the founder of the House of Burgh (later surnamed Burke or Bourke) in Ireland [2] and elder brother of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely.
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 house in the square. Entrance to Burgh House on New End Square. The New End Hospital.. New End Square is a square in Hampstead, in the London Borough of Camden.It dates back to the early eighteenth century when it was located close to the Hampstead Wells spa on the adjacent Well Walk. [1]
Burghley House (/ ˈ b ɜːr l i / [1]) is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house , built and still lived in by the senior ( Exeter ) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed .
Clanricarde (English: / k l æ n ˈ r ɪ k ɑːr d / klan-RIK-ard), also known as Mac William Uachtar (Upper Mac William) or the Galway Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh who were important landowners in Ireland from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
The priory dates back to the late 12th century [2] when it was founded by the Augustinians under the patronage of William de Burgh (founder of Ireland's Burke Dynasty). William's grandson Hubert de Burgh, (or Burgo) later the Bishop of Limerick, was prior at Athassel c. 1221. The original buildings were altered and renovated over the next 300 ...