Lord proprietor information

A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the...

acquired the lease from the Duchy for £20,000, and created the title Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly. The lease remained in his family until it expired...

The Lord of Mann (Manx: Çhiarn Vannin) is the lord proprietor and head of state of the Isle of Man, currently King Charles III. Before 1504 the title...

young heir to the title and future third Baron Baltimore, / Lord Baltimore, and Lord Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, before she died at the early...

and renamed Nassau in 1695 by Nicholas Trott, the most successful Lord Proprietor, in honour of the Prince of Orange-Nassau who became William III of...

the trading island of New Providence. Lord Thomas Hamilton was the son of Lord Alfred Hamilton, lord proprietor of the Bahama Islands. McGraw adopted...

Carteret and Berkeley subsequently sold their interests to two groups of proprietors, thus creating two provinces: East Jersey and the West Jersey. The exact...

confidant. (seasons 1–3) Rupert Penry-Jones as Thomas Hamilton: Son of Lord Proprietor Alfred Hamilton, from London. (seasons 2, 4) Luke Roberts as Woodes...

Crown colonies. Proprietary colonies in America were governed by a lord proprietor, who, holding authority by virtue of a royal charter, usually exercised...

Carolina were named for the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who was the Chief Lord Proprietor of the Carolina Colony. Charleston was founded on the western bank...

the forces of Puritan settlers against forces aligned with Lord Baltimore, then Lord Proprietor of the colony of Maryland. It has been suggested by Radmila...

administrator in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He was the first Donatario (Lord Proprietor) of the captaincy of Pernambuco and founder of Olinda. The birth and...

Brazil by the Dutch West India Company, and death of the donatário (lord proprietor) without an heir, all of the proprietorships (captaincies) eventually...

that of the Lord proprietors of the colony; the document was a legal document written for and signed and sealed by the eight Lord proprietors to whom Charles...

Henry Harford (5 April 1758 – 8 December 1834), 5th Proprietor of Maryland, was the last proprietary owner of the British colony of Maryland. He was born...

named for Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and chief Lord Proprietor of the Carolina Colony by explorer Robert Sandford. In 1675 Cooper...

of which a Standing Committee is the court-baron and its chairman lord-proprietor. These petty barons, some of them not a little powerful, but none of...

George Carteret (b. 1610), royal statesman, slave trader and first lord proprietor of the British colony of New Jersey, born in St Helier Henry Cavill...

the rights and privileges of a Palatine lord, and the extensive authority that went with it. The Proprietor had the right and power to establish courts...