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Luxborough is a
small village and
civil parish located some 6
miles (9.7 km)
south of Dunster,
lying amongst the
Brendon Hills and the
Exmoor National...
- The
Luxborough Galley was an
English ship
owned by the
South Sea
Company which in 1727 burnt,
exploded and sank in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Twelve of the crew...
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Henrietta Knight,
Baroness Luxborough (née St John; 15 July 1699 — 26
March 1756), was an
English poet and
letter writer, now
mainly remembered as a gardener...
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Luxborough Street,
formerly Northumberland Street, is a
street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from
Marylebone Road in the
north to Paddington...
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Peerage of Ireland. It was
created in 1763 for
Robert Knight, 1st
Baron Luxborough (1702–1772),
Member of
Parliament for
Great Grimsby,
Castle Rising and...
- (1747–54) and
Milborne Port,
Somerset (1770–72). He
became successively Baron Luxborough (1745),
Viscount Barrells and Earl of
Catherlough (both 1763), all titles...
- The
Anglican St Mary's
Church at
Luxborough within the
English county of
Somerset dates from the 13th century. It is a
Grade II
listed building. The chancel...
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Luxborough Road (sometimes
referred to as "Langham" or "Langham Hill") was an
intermediate station on the West
Somerset Mineral Railway (WSMR),
which was...
- The loss of the
slave ship
Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the
triangular trade,
between the
Caribbean and Britain....
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reportedly practised cannibalism. The
accounts of the
sinking of the
Luxborough Galley in 1727
reported cannibalism among the
survivors during their two...
