Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 (N.S.) – 12 May 1641), was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up...
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(created Earl of Strafford in 1640) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641) (forfeit 1641) William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1626–1695)...
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Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation), KG (baptised 17 September 1672 – 15 November 1739), also known as in...
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at Wentworth Woodhouse, the only surviving son of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (d.1641) by his second wife Arabella Holles, a daughter of John...
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Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford GCB, GCH, PC (Ire) (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior...
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distant relative of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, executed by Parliament in May 1641, his son Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, also served...
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Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732 – 7 August 1799) was a British peer. He was the eldest son of William Wentworth, a gentleman usher of the...
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and member of the House of Lords of Great Britain. Strafford was the only son of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672-1739). His paternal great-grandfather...
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53.94613; -1.05867 Wentworth College is a college of the University of York, named after Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. The College was founded...
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Lord Wentworth was created Earl of Strafford and Baron Raby. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1632 until 1640. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford...
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the home of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, whom Charles I sacrificed in 1641 to appease Parliament. The builder to whom Wentworth's grandson...
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wife Elizabeth Killigrew. The Great Earl's most famous enemy was Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Strafford arrived in Ireland in 1633 as Lord...
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Thorough (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from May 2015)
17th century England, Thorough was a name given by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to a scheme of his to establish absolute monarchy in England. Although...
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constituency) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War Thomas Wentworth...
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town Strafford County, New Hampshire Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), politician impeached and executed in 1641 Earl of Strafford, a...
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Bishops' Wars (category 17th-century military history of Scotland)
time since 1629. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, his most capable advisor and Lord Deputy of Ireland also asked the Parliament of Ireland for funds;...
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Wentworth Castle is a grade-I listed country house, the former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England...
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Baron Wentworth (1558–1593) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641) William Wentworth, 2nd...
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to royalist fugitives. His administration of the Isle imitated that of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford in Ireland. It was strong rather than just...
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the court of King Charles I. A contemporary scandal made her the mistress successively of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, and of John Pym, his...
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Roundhead (category Parliament of England)
made by Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, at the trial of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, earlier that year. Referring to John Pym...
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Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (1622–1629) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632–1640) Christopher Wandesford (1640) Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester...
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Hugh Kearney (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
of the University of Pittsburgh. He was the author of several articles on early modern economic history, a biography on Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of...
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collateral branch of the family of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, also of Wentworth Woodhouse. William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872) was an...
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Favourite (section Rises and falls of favourites)
of Parliament. After the "mushroom" Buckingham was assassinated by John Felton in 1628, Charles I turned to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford,...
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Piers Crosby (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
Political Analysis. Four Courts Press, 1999. Wedgwood, C.V. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1593-1641- a revaluation Phoenix Press reissue 2000...
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of favour; he incurred the enmity of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 and his powerful ally Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford,...
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Habeas Corpus Act 1640 (category Acts of the Parliament of England)
of the Parliament of England. The Act was passed by the Long Parliament shortly after the impeachment and execution of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford...
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– Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, former director of England's Council of the North, is publicly beheaded in London in front of a crowd of thousands...
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Rockingham was the second son of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham and Lady Mary Finch, daughter of 7th Earl of Winchilsea, he was brought...
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