Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 186919 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. After his death, the concerts were officially renamed in his honour as the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts", although they continued to be generally referred to as "the Proms". Born in modest circumstances to parents who encouraged his musical talent, Wood started his career as an organist. During his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, he came under the influence of the voice teacher Manuel Garcia and became his accompanist.
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It is an English-language oratorio, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the "Psalms" included with the "Book of Common Prayer".
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1741
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3 parts
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In 1926
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Sir Henry Wood
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He attended Queen Catharine on her voyage from Lisbon in 1661, and was subsequently a member of her Council. In 1661, he was elected one of the Members of Parliament for Hythe.
Sir Henry Wood, 1st Baronet | Introduction
John's Wood Chapel. He claimed to be a Knight of Malta, and was known as the Chevalier Lawrence.
James Henry Lawrence | Life
He was the brother of Thomas Wood, later Bishop of Lichfield. Wood attended the King's court at Oxford in 1643, during the First English Civil War, and was knighted there on 16 April 1644. In that year he accompanied the Queen, Henrietta Maria, to France, as Treasurer of her Household, an office he retained till his death. He compounded on 31 May 1649 and was fined £273 by Cromwell's authority on 15 June 1649. In about 1657 he was created a baronet by Charles II, when in exile. At the Restoration he was appointed as Clerk of the Green Cloth.
Sir Henry Wood, 1st Baronet | Introduction
Sir Robert Wood, then Esq. now Knight, Mayor of the same city, at one o'clock the same happy day, set forward to meet with her Majesty in this order: 1st. there rode before him well and seemly mounted, three score of the most comely young-men of the city, as batchelors, apparelled all in black satin doublets, black hose, black taffata hatts, and yellow bands; and their universall livery was a mandilion of purple taffata, laid about with silver lace: and so apparelled they marched forwards two and two in a rank. Then one which represented King Gurgunt, sometime King of England, which built the castle of Norwich called Blanche Flower, and laid the foundation of the city: he was mounted upon a brave courser, and was thus furnished; his body armed, his bases of green and white silk, on his head a black velvet hat, with a plume of white feathers: there attended upon him three henchmen in white and green, one of them did bear his helmet, the second his target, and the third his staff: after him a noble company of gentlemen and wealthy citizens, in velvet coats and other costly furniture, bravely mounted.
Sir Robert Wood | Introduction
In addition to the knighthood bestowed in 1911, Wood's state honours were his appointments as Companion of Honour in 1944, to the Order of the Crown (Belgium; 1920), and Officer of the Legion of Honour (France; 1926). He received honorary doctorates from five English universities and was a fellow of both the Royal Academy of Music (1920) and the Royal College of Music (1923). In March 1963, The Henry Wood Concert Society (in association with The Henry Wood Memorial Trust) presented The Henry Wood Memorial Concert. The concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall, London and conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in the presence of H.R.H.
Henry Wood | Honours, memorials and reputation
Then followed the officers of the city every one in his place; then the swordbearer with the sword and hat of maintenance; then the mayor and 24 aldermen, and recorder, all in scarlet gownes, whereof so many as had been mayors of the city, and were justices, did wear their scarlet cloaks; then followed so many as had been sheriffs and not aldermen, in violet gowns and sattin tippets; then followed divers others to keep the people from disturbing the array aforesaid.
Sir Robert Wood | Introduction
Henry Wood (1869–1944) was a British conductor. Henry Wood may also refer to:
Henry Wood (disambiguation) | Introduction
He had by then changed his name to Williams.
Knights of the Royal Oak | Introduction
Biographical information on Knighton mainly comes from his chronicle, in the first three books of which his name is shown as HENRICVS CNITTON. It is thought his name indicates that he came from Knighton, a village two miles south of Leicester. He was a canon at the "St Mary of the Meadows" abbey before 1363, since he was recorded as being present during a visit from King Edward III. He was at the abbey for a further 33 years and in his writings included considerable detail on the abbey's economic well being. The Augustinian abbey, where Henry Knighton was made a canon, was one of the wealthiest in England and stood on the northern edge of Leicester, in what is now Abbey Park.
Henry Knighton | Biography
Just over five years later in June 1922, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Later returning to England, he died in February 1933 at Virginia Water, Surrey.
Sir John Wood (civil servant) | Introduction
He fought at the siege of Loja, where he helped to defeat the Moorish forces by leading an attack to scale the city walls. In the fight, Edward was hit in the face by a rock thrown by a defender. He was knocked unconscious and his front teeth were smashed, a disfigurement he considered a badge of honour. He was visited in hospital by the king and queen, who sympathised with him over the loss of his teeth. According to the chronicler Andrés Bernáldes he replied, "Our Lord, who reared this fabric, has only opened a window to discern more readily what lies within".
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales | Under Henry VII
Edward Henry Knight (1 June 1824, London - 22 January 1883, Bellefontaine, Ohio) was a United States mechanical expert.
Edward H. Knight | Introduction
Henry Knighton (or Knyghton) (died c. 1396, in England) was an Augustinian canon at the abbey of St Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, England, and an ecclesiastical historian (chronicler). who wrote a history of England from the Norman conquest until 1396, thought to be the year he died.
Henry Knighton | Introduction
He was appointed Grand Sword Bearer of the United Grand Lodge of England, and he held high rank in many Orders, including the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine.
William Robert Woodman | Early years
He later achieved the rank of captain in the Manchester Regiment. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the King's Regiment, Liverpool, England.
Henry James Knight | Further information
Sir Henry Wood, 1st Baronet (1597 - 25 May 1671) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. Wood was the son of Thomas Wood, of Hackney, Middlesex, and his wife Susanna Cranmer, daughter of a merchant of London, and was baptised at Hackney on 17 October 1597. His father was Sergeant of the Pastry and died on 18 May 1649. Wood was Clerk of the Spicery in the Royal Household. He purchased the estate of Loudham Park in Ufford and other lands in Suffolk, producing "a rental of nearly £4,500 a year".
Sir Henry Wood, 1st Baronet | Introduction
Henry Wood was a 19th-century New York City minstrel show manager, known for creating Wood's Minstrels. The group performed at Mechanics' Hall (New York City), among other locales. Wood's brother Fernando Wood was a mayor of New York City and served in the United States House of Representatives. Another brother, Benjamin Wood, also served in Congress and the New York State Senate.
Henry Wood (minstrel) | Introduction
Knight's name is first on the list. (The 16th name on the list is Anthony Knight, perhaps a relative.)
Edward Knight (King's Men) | Introduction
He was heir of his elder brother Thomas and inherited the estate at Tyttenhanger in 1654. He replaced the old manor house with a new mansion Tyttenhanger House in about 1654. He served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1661.
Henry Blount (knight) | Life
In retirement, Wood was a resident of New York City. He was active in several fraternal and civic organizations, including the Freemasons, Royal Arch Masons, Knights Templar, and Society of Mayflower Descendants. He moved to Farmington, Maine in 1909.
Henry Clay Wood | Retirement
He was engaged in the iron trade at the time of the Commonwealth and acquired great wealth by the ironworks of Shropshire.
Richard Knight (1659–1745) | Career
Wood's recordings did not remain in the catalogues long after his death. "The Record Guide", 1956, lists none of his records. A few of his recordings have subsequently been reissued on compact disc, including the Decca and Columbia Vaughan Williams recordings from 1936 and 1938.
Henry Wood | Recordings
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1910 and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) in the 1920 Birthday Honours.
Henry Legge (courtier) | Introduction
Born in Yeovil, Somerset (Born James Huntley Knight, Enlisted Henry James Knight) he was 21 years old, and a corporal in the 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. The full citation was published in the London Gazette of 4 January 1901 and reads:
Henry James Knight | Details
Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682) was a 17th-century English landowner, traveller and author.
Henry Blount (knight) | Introduction
He was the first wicketkeeper to score a Test century.
Henry Wood (cricketer, born 1853) | Introduction
He was the country's first Knight Bachelor (posthumous).
Charles Henry de Soysa | Introduction
He was born in 1659, the son of Richard Knight of Madeley, Shropshire.
Richard Knight (1659–1745) | Origins
Henry Knight (born "Henry Austen", 27 May 1797 – 31 May 1843) was a nephew of Jane Austen and an English cricketer who played for Sussex. He was born in Rowling, Kent and died in Kent. He was the third son of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight, who had added the additional surname of Knight in 1812 when he inherited the Chawton House estate from Thomas Knight. He joined the Army in 1818 as a cornet, was promoted lieutenant in 1821, captain in 1823 and half-pay major in 1826. He retired in 1837.
Henry Knight (cricketer) | Introduction
On his return to England he became one of the first fellows of the Durham College founded by Oliver Cromwell. He was a prominent supporter of the Commonwealth, and a frequenter of the Rota Club formed by James Harrington.
Robert Wood (mathematician) | Life
At the LCC he was a member of the council committees on insurance, pensions and housing. He was knighted in 1918 at the unusually early age of 36. It was not then, as it later became, the practice to state in Honours Lists the reason for the conferring of an honour, but Jenkins writes that Wood's knighthood was essentially for his work in the insurance field.
Kingsley Wood | Early years
Henry Woodlock was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Winchester. He is sometimes referred to as Henry de Merewell, from the place of his birth, a manor near Winchester belonging to the bishop. Before his election as bishop, he had been Prior of the Priory of St. Swithun (1295–1305), the Benedictine monastery which provided the clergy of the Cathedral of Winchester. He was the first Prior to have been elected bishop. In his correspondence as bishop, Henry Woodlock therefore calls himself Frater Henricus. King Edward I granted permission for an election to take place at Winchester on 23 December 1304, and Henry Woodlock was elected on 23 January 1305.
Henry Woodlock | Introduction
William Henry Knight (26 September 1823 – 31 July 1863) was an English portrait and genre painter.
William Henry Knight | Introduction
Henry Walter Wood (ca. 1825 - 3 September 1869) was an English architect based in Nottingham.
Henry Walter Wood | Introduction
Early next year they had both returned, and received the same honour at the hands of their own king at the prorogation of the parliament on 30 March 1512. Hitherto he had been only squire of the body, a position he seems still to have retained along with the honour of knighthood. He was also a ‘spear’ in the king's service, and of as 29 March 1510 he had a grant of the wardship of Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir John Langforde.
Henry Guildford | Early life
Woods was born on 16 June 1842 in Woodend, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Lancing College, an Anglican public school in Lancing, West Sussex. As an exhibitioner and later a scholar, he studied classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He gained a first in "Mods" in 1863 and a first in "Greats" in 1865.
Henry George Woods | Early life
1567 – c. 1637) as follows: The brass depicts a knight and a lady, both kneeling under a double canopy, with a son and two daughters. The bare headed knight is fully dressed in armour, over which he wears a tabard showing the arms of Huddesfield with a crescent for difference, with sword and spurs. in front of him is a prie dieu, on which is an open book, and his gauntlets are on the floor by his side, with his helmet on top of which is his crest, a boar rampant. The lady wears a pedimental head-dress and lappets, with gown, ornamented girdle with pomander hanging therefrom.
William Huddesfield | Monumental brass
Wood was born on in Quebec City. he was the son of George Augustus Leslie Wood, merchant, and Charlotte Feodore Louisa Augusta Guérout.
William Charles Henry Wood | Background
The name Harold Wood was recorded in about 1237, when it was shown as "Horalds Wood". It was named after King Harold Godwinson, who was defeated by William the Conqueror in 1066. He held the surrounding manor of Havering-atte-Bower. Some of the original roads are named after Anglo-Saxon kings such as Æthelstan and Alfred the Great.
Harold Wood | Toponymy
He served Henry V while the latter was Prince of Wales, and in 1415 fought at the Battle of Agincourt as the king's standard-bearer. He was elected a knight of the Garter two years later, and, acting again as standard-bearer at the siege of Rouen in 1419, he was badly wounded.
William Harrington (knight) | War in France
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Henry Woodhouse (colonial administrator) | References
William Henry Wood was a British trade union leader.
William Henry Wood | Introduction
For his services he received brevet promotion, and was made an "aide-de-camp" to King George IV.
George Adam Wood | Biography
To him the king imparted his last letter to the prince.
Henry Seymour (Langley) | Biography
In his memoirs, Wood mentioned neither his second marriage nor his subsequent relationship.
Henry Wood | BBC and the Proms
Wood, from his experience as a singing teacher, agreed. As members of Wood's brass and woodwind sections were unwilling to buy new low-pitched instruments, Cathcart imported a set from Belgium and lent them to the players. After a season, the players recognised that the low pitch would be permanently adopted, and they bought the instruments from him.
Henry Wood | Early years of the Proms
Henry Carpenter D.D. (1606–1662) was a Canon of Windsor for a short period in 1662.
Henry Carpenter (priest) | Introduction
He died in 1440.
William Harrington (knight) | Family
They had two children:
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood | Family
Henry Moses Wood (1788–28 September 1867) was an architect based in Nottingham.
Henry Moses Wood | Introduction
The Earl sustained a fractured skull and other injuries while fox hunting and died four weeks later in 1857, aged 59 years.
Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood | Death
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Henry du Toit | References
He held the post for only one year, after which he was replaced by George Potter.
William Henry Wood | Biography
Casalengo maintained that the other man had accidentally impaled himself on the knife. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York. He was released in 1909.
Henry Woodhouse (forger) | Earlier life
The Wood, later Page Wood Baronetcy, of Hatherley House in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 December 1837 for Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817 and Whig Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1817 to 1843. The fifth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Page. Two other members of the family have also gained distinction. William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1868 to 1872, was the second son of the first Baronet while Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood was the fifth son of the second Baronet.
Page Wood baronets | Introduction
Richard Knight (1659-1745), of Downton Hall, in the parish of Downton on the Rock in Herefordshire, England (situated about west of Ludlow), was a wealthy ironmaster who operated the Bringewood Ironworks, on the Downton estate, and founded a large fortune and family dynasty.
Richard Knight (1659–1745) | Introduction
Sir Henry de Raleigh (died 1301) was a knight from Devonshire, England, whose effigy in the form of a cross-legged crusader knight survives in Exeter Cathedral.
Henry de Raleigh (died 1301) | Introduction
With the exception of a season at the Opera Comique in 1896, Wood's subsequent conducting career was in the concert hall.
Henry Wood | Opera
He was knighted in 1899.
Henry Morton Stanley | Introduction
Prior to his service with the King's Men, he functioned as prompter for a competing company, Prince Charles's Men; he witnessed a contract between Philip Henslowe and the actors in March 1616. After some years with the King's Men, he was apparently regarded as a key member of the company's supporting staff: on 27 December 1624, Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, issued a roster of 21 "musicians and other necessary attendants" of the King's Men who could not be arrested or "pressed for soldiers" without the permission of either Herbert or the Lord Chamberlain, then William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.
Edward Knight (King's Men) | Introduction
S. Dentatus". This was probably the then most ambitious woodblock which had been cut in England.
William Harvey (artist) | Introduction
The Duchess of Gloucester. Jacobs lists 26 compositions dedicated to Wood, including, in addition to the Vaughan Williams "Serenade to Music", works by Elgar, Delius, Bax, Marcel Dupré and Walton. The Poet Laureate, John Masefield, composed a poem of six verses in his honour, entitled "Sir Henry Wood", often referred to by its first line, "Where does the uttered music go?". Walton set it to music as an anthem for mixed choir; it received its first performance on 26 April 1946 at St Sepulchre's, on the occasion of a ceremony unveiling a memorial stained-glass window in Wood's honour. Wood is commemorated in the name of the Henry Wood Hall, the deconsecrated Holy Trinity Church in Southwark, which was converted to a rehearsal and recording venue in 1975.
Henry Wood | Honours, memorials and reputation
The estate of Wood was held by the Whiting family between the reigns of King Edward III (1327-1377) and King Henry VIII (1509-1547). The last in the male line was John Whitinge (d.1529), a member of the Merchant Venturers, whose elaborately panelled chest tomb survives in Kentisbeare Church, in the chapel at the east end of the south aisle, which he built. The two monumental brasses which were originally affixed to the monument are now lost, but his armorials survive sculpted on the wooden screen. John Whiting left four daughters and co-heiresses: In 1810 Wood belonged to Samuel Southwood, Esq.
Kentisbeare | Wood
There is no record of Harliston being knighted, by either Edward IV, Richard III, (late-Duke of York), by the Duchess Margaret, while in exile in Flanders, or by any other European sovereign. William Arthur Shaw's "Knights of England" (1906) is an irrefutable reference source – and Harliston is not listed therein. Since Shaw's listings even mention foreign knighthoods bestowed upon English citizens with the sovereign's consent [i.e. Davy Phillipe is mentioned as being dubbed a knight of the Sicilian "Order of The Sword" by Henry VII in 1504], one could, not unreasonably, assume that Shaw's listing is complete. Furthermore, "Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII from Original Documents preserved in the Public Record Office" several times shows transcripts of Crown documents mentioning Harliston, but never once according to him the dignity of knighthood.
Richard Harliston | Knighthood
His bust stands upstage centre in the Royal Albert Hall during the whole of each Prom season, decorated by a chaplet on the Last Night of the Proms. His collection of 2,800 orchestral scores and 1,920 sets of parts is now in the library of the Royal Academy of Music. For the Academy he also established the Henry Wood Fund, giving financial aid to students. The University of Strathclyde named a building at its Jordanhill campus after him. His best-known memorial is the Proms, officially "the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts", but universally referred to by the informal short version. His biographer Arthur Jacobs wrote of Wood:
Henry Wood | Honours, memorials and reputation
He married Frances Felton, a daughter of Humphry Felton of Woodhall in Shropshire, by whom he had progeny as follows:
Thomas Andrew Knight | Marriage and progeny
She died in Florence, Italy.
Mary Knight Wood | Introduction
He was knighted in 1895.
Henry Hicks Hocking | Biography
It is not known whether this was Edward's or Henry's wish. Wilkins believes that Edward chose not to pursue his claim. Edward nevertheless is consistently called "Conde d'Escalas" by the Spanish during and after his expedition there, and is called "Le Seigneur d'Escales" by the French chronicler Jean Molinet. However, when Edward defied Henry's instructions not to become involved in the Franco-Breton war of 1488, Henry wrote to the French king referring to him as "Sir Edward Woodville, knight, calling himself Lord of Scales".
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales | Scales title
Northampton Engineering College, and Imperial College. He received a knighthood in 1968.
Harold Harding | Introduction
He was also awarded the title of Canon.
Henry Neville (Rector) | Introduction
On leaving the Royal Academy of Music in 1888, Wood taught singing privately and was soon very successful, attracting "more singing pupils than I could comfortably deal with" at half a guinea an hour. He also worked as a répétiteur. According to his memoirs, he worked in that capacity for Richard D'Oyly Carte during the rehearsals for the first production of "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the Savoy Theatre in 1888. His biographer Arthur Jacobs doubts this and discounts exchanges Wood purported to have had with Sir Arthur Sullivan about the score. Jacobs describes Wood's memoirs as "vivacious in style but factually unreliable".
Henry Wood | Opera
An eccentric polymath, Knight was well known for his striking appearance, his ramshackle Broad Bay cottage crammed with his collections and his self-proclaimed exploits, most notably his claim to have found timbers on Mount Ararat that might have been Noah's Ark.
Hardwicke Knight | Introduction
Wood was born in Oxford Street, London, the only child of Henry Joseph Wood and his wife Martha, "née" Morris. Wood senior had started in his family's pawnbroking business, but by the time of his son's birth he was trading as a jeweller, optician and engineering modeller, much sought-after for his model engines. It was a musical household: Wood senior was an amateur cellist and sang as principal tenor in the choir of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, known as "the musicians' church". His wife played the piano and sang songs from her native Wales. They encouraged their son's interest in music, buying him a Broadwood piano, on which his mother gave him lessons.
Henry Wood | Early years
Henry Cunningham, was a Scottish noble who took part in the Hundred Years War. He captured Walter, Baron FitzWalter, during the battle of Baugé in 1421 in France.
Henry Cunningham (knight) | Introduction
Sir Henry Willoughby (1451 - 11 May 1528) was a Knight of the Body to Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII and MGO.
Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528) | Introduction
He also served as a royal justice in Kent during 1168–1169.
Henry fitzGerold | Introduction
Sir Henry Wyatt (1460–1537) was an English nobleman, knight, courtier, and politician.
Henry Wyatt (courtier) | Introduction
His long and faithful services to the Royal Family - and that of his wife Mary Gardiner (1627–1665) and his daughter Mary (1664–1680), were not forgotten. The settlement for his daughter's marriage was beneficial to both parties, and was executed on 23d May 1671. The next day Sir Henry made his Will and the day after that he died. When Mary was 16 she was to be at full liberty to break off altogether the marriage provided for her, but in that case she was to forfeit 20,000 "l." to the young Earl of Southampton (1662–1730) out of the savings of her minority.
Thomas Wood (bishop of Lichfield and Coventry) | His family
In his last years Bishop Wood defended his kinsman Anthony Wood against an attack by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. The Wood family came from Lancashire and the name Wood is common amongst the yeomanry. Anthony told us in his diaries that the family arrived in Oxfordshire in the household of the 6th Earl of Derby. The precise relationship between both branches of the family is not yet established, but it is known that the Bishop's grandfather Henry served in the household of Elizabeth I. At a very early age his father served there too, was Clerk of the Queen's Pastry in 1601 and was promoted Sergeant in the next reign.
Thomas Wood (bishop of Lichfield and Coventry) | His family
Henry George Woods (16 June 1842 – 19 July 1915) was an Anglican clergyman and academic. He was President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1887 to 1897 and Master of the Temple from 1904 to 1915.
Henry George Woods | Introduction
Witnessed as above (i.e. in the previous royal order of that day)). These three persons were household knights of Henry III. They were received cordially by Hugh, who delivered Joan into their custody, whilst excusing himself on account of illness from coming in person to England. The agreement excluded the delivery of Isabella's dower in Niort by Henry and the surrender by Hugh of Joan's maritagium of Oleron, which provided seeds of future conflict.
John Russell (knight) | Recovers Princess Joan
20 barons, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 12 horses. 4 knights of the order of St. George, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 48 horses. 70 knights, including Sir William Mathew, grandson of Sir David Ap Mathew of Wales. Each knight to have 12 servants, one to be a chaplain; 8 horses. Councillors of the long robe; viz., the King's secretary, the vice-chancellor, the dean of the Chapel, and the almoner, each to have 12 servants, one a chaplain, and 8 horses. 12 King's chaplains, each with 6 servants and 3 horses.
Field of the Cloth of Gold | For King Henry VIII
At Christmas 1217 Henry III gave robes to his military knights, which then numbered just 7, greatly reduced due to his lack of finance from the number in excess of 50 retained by his father King John. The supposition that John Russell was probably one of them is confirmed by the similar order of the next year 1218 by King Henry III to his chamberlain, recorded in the Close Rolls, commands to be given to 5 of the king's knights, including John Russell, "5 robes of green or burnet, namely a tunic and mantle with supertunics of fine linen"
John Russell (knight) | Appointed King's Knight of Henry III
Richard Heywood was a bishop. Richard Heywood may also refer to:
Richard Heywood (disambiguation) | Introduction
The King granted his assent on 29 January 1305. The Metropolitan, Archbishop Robert Winchelsey of Canterbury, conducted the usual investigation into the canonical validity of the election and the character and suitability of the Elect, and on 10 March notified the King that he had conducted the examination and confirmed Bishop-elect Woodlock. On 12 March, the King granted the Bishop the temporalities of the diocese. Woodlock was consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral on 30 May 1305. He was enthroned at Winchester Cathedral on 10 October 1305.
Henry Woodlock | Introduction
He was also one of the King's equerries.
Henry Berkeley (British Army officer) | Introduction
After the Restoration the Bishop's generation became people of consequence. The eldest brother of Bishop Wood, Sir Henry Wood 1st Bt. (1597–1671) became a great landowner, who was not tempted by the bargains of the time, because his purchases were confined to voluntary sales by private owners. They include the manor and advowson of Whepsted, the manor and priory of Campsey, and the manors of Ufford, Syleham, Staverton, Eyke, Blyford, Hollesley-cum-Sutton, Dunningsworth, Elmeswell, Woolpit, and Drinkeston, all in Suffolk. He chose as his seat Loudham Park in the parish of Ufford, Suffulk. As Treasurer in the Royal Household he did not desert Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669) when fortunes were at their lowest ebb or because his salary had long been unpaid; he even advanced out money of his own resources for payment.
Thomas Wood (bishop of Lichfield and Coventry) | His family
Henry was the third son of William Cunningham of Kilmaurs and Margaret Danielston. As part of the Scottish division of the French army during the battle of Baugé on 22 March 1421, he captured Walter, Baron FitzWalter.
Henry Cunningham (knight) | Life
In June 1520 Denys was one of the 7 knights of the Gloucestershire contingent selected to form part of the 100 or so nobles and gentlemen appointed to attend King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, near Calais, where the King was to meet King Francis I of France. Each knight was expected to bring his own retinue, but limited to 10 persons and 4 horses. Edmund Tame (died 1534), the son of the business partner of John Twynyho, Denys's first father-in-law, was also on the Gloucestershire list, but his name was subsequently struck out and replaced, possibly due to ill-health.
William Denys | Attends Field of Cloth of Gold
Fragments of iron, two lance-heads (one six, the other eight inches long), a spur, buckles, 'other insignia of the fray' and several rings. These rings, some of which were gold, had inscriptions on them, and were thought to be pledges, which were 'given to the Knights by their fair Dames, on departing to the wars'. One ring is enamelled and on the outside has the words "pleine amitie" (roughly translated from French as 'solid friendship') and inside a flower like a rose, with 'belle' after it. It is thought this could create the name of a lady, Rosabelle. Another ring, made of brass, was found with a finger bone sticking in it.
John George Woodford | Archaeological work at Agincourt
According to his burial registration, Reinhold's name was 'Henry', but he was referred to as 'Theodore' by the Royal Society of Musicians, and as 'Thomas' by the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900).
Henry Reinhold | Various names
He was consecrated bishop on St James's Day (25 July), by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 27 November 1920. His brother, Arthur Mesac Knight, was the third Bishop of Rangoon.
Henry Knight (bishop) | Introduction
Coudrey, who contested his election.
Ernest E. Wood | Introduction
The firm started as Knight and Wood, having premises at the Victoria Foundry in Garside Street, Bolton. The name changed around 1860 to James and Edward Wood. J & E Wood engines were characterised by having a neat appearance, the valve gear was beneath the cylinders. From 1875 on, they only used Corliss valves.
J &amp; E Wood | History
Arthur Wodenoth or Woodnoth (1590?–1650?) was an English goldsmith and colonial pioneer, a member of the Virginia Company and Somers Islands Company.
Arthur Wodenoth | Introduction
According to Anthony à Wood Henry married 'a woman called the lady Carr,' and in his will he mentions one son and two daughters.
Henry Wilkinson (1610–1675) | Family
He wrote of the event:
King's Wood Symphony | Introduction
In 1756 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle | Introduction
He sends B (whom you don't mind) to the first rehearsal. B, without your knowledge or consent, sends C to the second rehearsal. Not being able to play at the concert, C sends D, whom you would have paid five shillings to stay away." After a rehearsal in which Wood was faced with a sea of entirely unfamiliar faces in his own orchestra, Newman came on the platform to announce: "Gentlemen, in future there will be no deputies; good morning." Forty players resigned en bloc and formed their own orchestra: the London Symphony Orchestra. Wood bore no grudge and attended their first concert, although it was 12 years before he agreed to conduct the orchestra.
Henry Wood | Early 20th century