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2 unusual facts about Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt


Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt

Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt (1881–1958), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1931–1935

Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt (1801–1876), British Conservative Party politician and Home Secretary


Arthur Estcourt

The son of the Reverend E. W. S. Estcourt, of Swindon, Wiltshire, and a nephew of George Sotheron-Estcourt, 1st Baron Estcourt, Estcourt began his education at Mr C. E. F. Stanford's School, Rottingdean, from where in 1907 he won a Fishmongers' Company Open Scholarship of £50 a year to Gresham's School, Holt, where he remained from 1907 to 1912.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

They became established as well in South Africa, where communities were founded at Estcourt, Natal, Durban, Ladysmith, and Pietermaritzburg.

Charles Henry Goode

Goode was a great supporter of the Industrial School for the Blind, the Adelaide Young Men's Christian Association, the James Brown Memorial Trust (managing Kalyra Home for Consumptives and Estcourt House), and the Children's Hospital.

Frederick Estcourt Bucknall

He was a member of the Estcourts of Estcourt, an influential old family, in the counties of Gloucester and Wilts, but born in London, where his father, William Bucknall of Crutched Friars, was Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

The two chief staff officers, Generals Estcourt and Airey, were held by the public to be especially responsible for the sufferings of the English army during the first winter in the Crimea; but Lord Raglan defended them in the strongest terms in his despatches of 15 January and 3 March 1855.

Lepidochrysops hypopolia

Reports of a single putative female specimen, supposedly collected by C. W. Morrison near Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal are unconfirmed.

Oxhey Chapel

In 1852 it was restored for T. Estcourt to be used again for worship by those living in the nearby hamlet.

Thomas Estcourt Cresswell

The son of Richard Cresswell and his wife Elizabeth Estcourt, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Estcourt Knt; of Pinkney Park; Cresswell gained a degree of notoriety as a bigamist after his marriage in February 1744 to a wealthy heiress, Miss Anne Warneford, granddaughter and eventual heir of Sir Edmund Warneford of Sevenhampton and Bibury, Gloucestershire.

Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt

Sotheron-Estcourt was the eldest son of Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt, Member of Parliament (MP) for Devizes and Oxford University, son of Thomas Estcourt, Member of Parliament for Cricklade.


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