A Pedigree of Power: Establishing Heritage at Pentrehobyn In the 16th century, the Lloyds of Pentrehobyn carved the crest of Edwin Tegeingl above the fireplaces in the great hall and the dining room. The carving tied the Lloyds to a […]
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A Pedigree of Power: Establishing Heritage at Pentrehobyn In the 16th century, the Lloyds of Pentrehobyn carved the crest of Edwin Tegeingl above the fireplaces in the great hall and the dining room. The carving tied the Lloyds to a […]
Collecting the Jewels of Power: James Maxwell and Fenton Tower When King James I ascended to the throne, the Scottish nobility had unprecedented access to power in England. James was king of both England and Scotland. Although Elizabeth I and […]
Anthony Woodville of Middleton Towers, Part II: Bloodshed and Diplomacy Queen Elizabeth of York was an unlikely bride for Edward IV: She was a widow from an obscure family with ties to the king’s political enemies. Yet she caught the […]
Eoin MacNeill: Taking Refuge at Orlagh House Eoin MacNeill was a scholar and a rebel who ignited a national fascination with Ireland’s past. He championed the Irish language, and as historian Francis John Byrne put it, “dragged Celtic Ireland practically […]
Jackie Gordon: A Woman Who Would Not Be Wronged Jackie Gordon, the lively, spirited daughter of Charles Gordon of Cluny Castle, was not one to give up what she believed to be hers by right. Despite another young woman’s snide […]
The Knights Templar: The Monkish Knights of Sligo On the ground of Temple House, you will find the ruins of a thousand-year-old fortress order belonging to the warrior monks who once presided over the green, abundant fields of County Sligo. […]
Anthony Woodville of Middleton Castle, Part I: An Upstart and a Model of Chivalry The high nobility dismissed the Woodvilles as a provincial family of little consequence. The Woodville matriarch, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, had blood of the bluest blue; yet […]
An English Lady in the Roaring Twenties: The Honorable Mrs. Richard Norton Jean Mary Kinloch made her debut in London in 1916 while World War I was still raging across the channel. She was the daughter of Sir David Kinloch, […]
Young Dunksy and Oscar Wilde: Friendship and Conversion From an early age, Oswald Hunter Blair had an earnest, spiritual inclination. He read the romantic adventure stories of Sir Walter Scott for hours on end, forever fascinated by Scott’s descriptions of […]
Shipwreck: Disaster Strikes off the Coast of Dunskey Castle Sir Edward Oswald Hunter Blair and his young wife, Elizabeth Wauchope, married at a small church in Edinburgh on June 1, 1850. Edward and Elizabeth eagerly escaped to his family home […]
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