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By the 1880s the lathes and hundreds of Kent had become obsolete, with the civil parishes and other districts assuming modern governmental functions. Eltham was a civil parish of Kent until 1889 when it became part of the County of London [citation needed] and from 1900 formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. The metropolitan ...
Eltham Palace is a large house at Eltham (/ ˈ ɛ l t əm / EL-təm) in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The house consists of the medieval great hall of a former royal residence , to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s.
The James Baronetcy, of Park Farm Place in Eltham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 August 1778 for the naval commander William James. [2] The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1792.
The coat of arms of Fytche of Eltham, Baronets. [1] The Fytche Baronetcy, of Eltham in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 7 September 1688 for Thomas Fytche, of Mount Markfall, Eltham, Kent. He died nine days after his preferment. His son, the second Baronet, was High Sheriff of Kent in 1709. The ...
Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 – 1680) of Eltham Lodge, Kent was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1679. the rebuilt Eltham Palace. Shaw was the second son of London vintner Robert Shaw (d. 1678) and his wife Elizabeth Domilowe, daughter of John Domilowe of London.
John was born in 1316 at Eltham Palace, Kent, the second son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France. [1] On 6 October 1328, at the age of twelve, he was created Earl of Cornwall . [ 2 ] Caught in the throes of the war between his father, Edward II, and his mother, Isabella, his growing years were turbulent.
Sir William Roper. Margaret married William Roper in 1521 in Eltham, Kent, and they made their home at Well Hall in Eltham. [10] She, like the rest of her family, was a sincere adherent to the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church; having married William, a Lutheran, she is said to have converted him back to the religion of his fathers.
Kidbrooke is an area of south-east London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 km) south-east of Charing Cross and north west of Eltham. The district takes its name from the Kyd Brook, a watercourse which runs from Orpington to Lewisham, by which point it is part of the River Quaggy. It is a tributary to the River ...