The Benington Lordship
Sarah Naylor Fox (1938-) m. Charles Henry Arden Bott. Lloyd was the 3rd cousin of Sarah From Country Life Magazine The Benington Lordship in Hertfordshire started life as a medieval castle, but has been transformed over the centuries into a comfortable house with ambitious neo-Norman additions and continues to thrive under owners Richard and Susanna Bott. […]
Woosung Railway
Thomas Hanbury was a director of the Woosung railway From Wikipedia: The Shanghai–Woosung or Songhu railway was a standard-gauge railway in Shanghai, China. It was opened on September 1, AD 1898, and ran between the Old North Railway Station in the modern town’s Zhabei District and Woosung in the modern Baoshan District. It is sometimes conflated with the earlier Woosung Road whose route it principally shared. That railway […]
Meudon
From the hotel website: “Dating back to the 1800s, Meudon was once home to Falmouth’s famous Fox family. The Foxes were Quakers who owned many different properties in and around Falmouth, including nearby Glendurgan and Trebah. Their passion for the living splendour of exotic gardens led them to create a valley paradise here. Howard Fox – […]
William Backhouse II (1807 – 1869)
William Backhouse 1807 – National Portrait Gallery Lloyd was the 2nd cousin 2x removed of William Backhouse The tweet below caught our eye! Here, in James Bay, Victoria, BC, “Backhouse” daffodils have been planted. So, the internet search began and yielded the following …. Sources: The National Collection of Narcissus, Backhouse cultivarsand Botanists and Bankers Daffodils are […]
£348,000 grant to preserve Tone Works
From the County Gazette 27th January, 2012
Charles Waterhouse Howard – Killed by a tiger in Malapuram
Charles Waterhouse Howard was killed by a tiger here whilst hunting with his regiment. Lloyd was the 1st cousin 1x removed of Charles W Howard
Clouds – Videos & Stamps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjBjE4lys8&feature=youtu.be This video describes the types of clouds. Starting at 2m 37s Oliver Crewdson Howard talks about Luke Howard How did clouds get their names? – by Richard Hamblyn. “The study of clouds has always been a daydreamer’s science, aptly founded by a thoughtful young man whose favorite activity was staring out of the window at […]
Anna Maria Fox (1816-1897)
Anna Maria Fox was the eldest child of Robert Were Fox FRS (26 April 1789 – 25 July 1877) and Maria Barclay (1785–1858), his wife. Lloyd Howard Fox was the 3rd cousin twice removed of Anna Maria Fox.
Two Falmouth Foundation Stones
Seamen’s Bethal Interior of the Seamen’s Bethel and Institute, founded by the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society in 1849. Two men are pictured seated by a piano and an organ. There is a pulpit behind them backed by flags and a clock topped with a crown. Life rings from the ship Mohegan of Hull are […]