(Encyclopedia) Mortimer, Roger de, 4th earl of March and 2d earl of Ulster, 1374–98, English nobleman. He succeeded (1381) his father, Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March, and was brought up as a…
(Encyclopedia) Hamilton, James, 3d earl of Arran, 1530–1609, Scottish nobleman; son of James Hamilton, 2d earl of Arran. He spent some years (1550–58) as a soldier in France, but his espousal of…
(Encyclopedia) Langside, district of Glasgow, S central Scotland. At the battle of Langside (1568) the 1st earl of Murray defeated the forces of Mary Queen of Scots led by Archibald Campbell, 5th…
(Encyclopedia) Douglas, James, 9th earl of Douglas, 1426–88, Scottish nobleman, last earl of Douglas. Following the murder of his brother William, the 8th earl, by James II, he led a rebellion…
(Encyclopedia) Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl ofWestmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl ofnĕvˈĭl, wĕstˈmərlənd [key], 1543–1601, English nobleman. A Roman Catholic by birth and connected with…
Royal Biographies:Duke and Duchess of Kent by David Johnson RELATED LINKS Royal Family TreeQueen Elizabeth IIPrince Philip BORN ON OCTOBER 9, 1935, the Duke of Kent…
(Encyclopedia) Hufstedler, Shirley Mount, 1925–2016, American jurist and U.S. secretary of education (1980–81), b. Denver, as Shirley Ann Mount, grad. Univ. of New Mexico (B.B.A. 1945) and Stanford…
