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Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and a diplomat. He was an Irish, and later Briti...
derived fromhrod"fame" andheit"sort, kind, type." The are a few examples of the name in early Frankish nobility includingRuodhaid(775–810), abbess of Faremoutiers, and a daughter of the great king Charlemagne.
travelling under the names of Thomas and John Smith, and arriving unannounced, anonymous and in the middle of the night at the door of the house of the British Ambassador, Lord Bristol, in Madrid
It has turned a profane popular hit into a ballad presumably created by a real person who even happened to be a member of the nobility. We may not know the writer of this text but interestingly there is some evidence for its real historical background. Irish poet Gerald Griffin (1803-...
He turned into Powder-mill Street and walked down it to where a hanging sign said "Le Foc Brothers - Gun-makers to the Nobility". Before going up to his room he thought he would just glance in the workshop and check that everything was ready for the demonstrations in the morning. He...
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