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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 23rd March 1854 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner was born.
On 18th June 1894 Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil (age 26) and [his future wife] Violet Milner (age 22) were married. He the son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 64) and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury (age 67).
The London Gazette 27318. Whitehall, May 27, 1901. THE King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Sir Alfred Milner (age 47), G.C.B., G.C.M.G., His Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa and Administrator of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Milner, of St. James's in the county of London, and of Cape Town in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
The London Gazette 27455. 15th July 1902. Whitehall, July 15, 1902.
The King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Alfred, Lord Milner (age 48), GCB, GCMG, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Saint James's, in the county, of London, and of Cape Town, in the Cape Colony.
In 1921 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 66) was appointed 862nd Knight of the Garter.
On 26th February 1921 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 66) and Violet Milner (age 49) were married.
On 13th May 1925 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 71) died. Viscount Milner of Saint James's in London, and of Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, Baron Milner of St James' in London and Cape Town in the Cape of Good Hope extinct.
On 10th October 1958 [his former wife] Violet Georgina Maxse Viscountess Milner (age 86) died.