Smithson was the inheritor of the fortune and lands of the Percy family of Northumberland, whose ancestor, Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as ‘Harry Hotspur’, inspired Tottenham Hotspur’s name and its ...

Sir Ian - who plays John Falstaff - had been circling a battle scene involving the Prince of Wales and Henry Percy when I saw him fall off the front of the stage. It happened so quickly that at ...

when Henry IV fought a rebel army from Northumberland led by Sir Henry Percy. Last year's event was the festival's largest reenactment for the battle's 620th anniversary, with 300 people taking part.

Anne's father was the courtier and diplomat, Sir Thomas Boleyn and her mother ... at court and by 1523 she was betrothed to Lord Henry Percy. However this relationship was cut short by Cardinal ...

Famous English crusaders in Lithuania included Thomas Beauchamp (11 th Earl of Warwick), Henry Percy of Northumberland (also known ... since this was their way of securing their borders. In 1331, Sir ...

Harry Hotspur, an ancestor of the present Duke of Northumberland, was the nickname of Sir Henry Percy, an English knight who ...

The Porters of Hellsgate have announced their upcoming production of HENRY IV, PARTS 1 AND 2, by William Shakespeare, ...

On the floor of the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a memorial stone to six soldiers, including General Sir Henry Barnard, who served and died in the Indian Mutiny. The brass letters have been ...

The Newbury House is a large Victorian-era inn that has been hosting guests since the 1880s. The Percy Cottage, built in 1884 by Rugby financial backer Sir Henry Kimber, was reconstructed on its ...

Ronald Reagan’s legacy has largely turned to ashes, writes Bruce Fein in a review of Max Boot’s latest biography.