Hugh Speke information

Hugh Speke (1656 – c. 1724) was an English writer and agitator. He was a son of George and Mary Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset. His father was a member...

Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and military officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa...

The Speke Baronetcy, of Hamilbury in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 June 1660 for Hugh Speke, later...

young age and five became political followers of their parents, including Hugh Speke. Mary appears to have made a particular enemy of Peter Mews who was the...

1475) 1539 – Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502) 1661 – Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet 1666 – Albert VI, German nobleman (b. 1584) 1676 – Carl Gustaf...

main home in the 17th century of the Speke family, including George Speke, Mary Speke and their son Hugh Speke. Rev. F. C. Johnson was vicar from 1825...

around 1500. It was acquired by Sir Geoffrey Pole in the 16th century, by Hugh Speke in 1609 and then by Sir John Fenner in 1623. It was then bought by Phillip...

Edward Hungerford Henry Bayntun Hungerford replaced briefly in 1661 by Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet Bayntun replaced 1673 by Francis Gwyn Cricklade John Ernle...

even in this neighbourhood" as the source of the rumours. The agitator Hugh Speke claimed twenty years later to have been responsible, but this seems unlikely...

species was first described by the English explorer John Hanning Speke in 1863. Speke first observed the sitatunga at a lake named "Little Windermere"...

Petherick returned to England in 1859 where he made the acquaintance of JH Speke, then arranging for his expedition to discover the source of the Nile. While...

Hugh Oldham (c. 1452 – 25 June 1519) was an English cleric who was Bishop of Exeter (1505–19) and a notable patron of education as a founder and patron...

September 1936, while preparing for the race, he was killed at Liverpool, Speke Airport, in a ground collision. A RAF bomber that had landed ran into Black's...

time he was let out on bail, but on 7 February 1683/4 he was tried with Hugh Speke at the king's bench on the accusation of conspiring to spread the belief...

formerly considered the source of the river Nile. In 1862–63 John Hanning Speke was the first European to follow the course of the Nile downstream after...