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Bookmark or Share- Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham | British statesman | Britannica…politically powerful millionaire nobleman, Lord Cobham, who lived in splendour in a palatial mansion and vast park at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, to which William and his friends paid visits. Cobham sent William abroad on “The Grand Tour” of Europe (only France and Switzerland were visited, however) and later bought him…
- Visconte Cobham - WikipediaGli altri suoi titoli passarono ad eredi differenti: la baronettia Temple del 1611 passò a suo cugino, sir William Temple, V baronetto; la baronia e la vicecontea del 1718 passarono, secondo le regole stabilite, alla sorella di lord Cobham, Hester, vedova di Richard Grenville, ed ai suoi figli.
- Baron Cobham - WikipediaThe title Baron Cobham has been created numerous times in the Peerage of England; often multiple creations have been extant simultaneously, especially in the fourteenth century. The earliest creation was in 1313 for Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, lord of the manors of Cobham and of Cooling, both in the county of Kent.
- Historical Background: Sir John Falstaff and Sir John OldcastleThe lord Cobham [i.e., Oldcastle] not only thanked him [i.e., the king] for his most favorable clemency, but also declared first to him by mouth and afterwards by writing, the foundation of his faith and the ground of his belief, affirming his Grace to be his supreme head and competent judge, and none other person. . . .
- November 1 – A powerful baron who escaped charges of treasonOn this day in Tudor history, 1st November 1527, in the reign of King Henry VIII, courtier and diplomat William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham was born. Baron Cobham was close to William Cecil, Baron Burghley. who was Queen Elizabeth’s I’s chief advisor, so Cobham became powerful in Elizabeth's reign.
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