Gilbert George Reginald Sackville. Viscount Cantelupe / 8th Earl De La Warr. Gilbert Sackville was born on the 22nd of March 1869. He was second in line to the earldom but his elder brother died in a sailing accident in 1890 leaving Gilbert as the heir and with the title Viscount Cantelupe. In 1891 Gilbert […]
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The first Baron Buckhurst and first Earl of Dorset. Sir Thomas Sackville, son of Richard, was born in 1536 and died on the 19th April 1608. Queen Elizabeth I in 1566 granted him the great estate of Knole near Sevenoaks in Kent, in 1567 created him 1st Baron Buckhurst and in 1570 granted him the
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Rector of St. Peter’s Church from 1589-1609. Dr Pye was born at Darleston in Staffordshire and educated at Merton College Oxford. He became rector of Bexhill parish in 1589 aged 28 years. He restored the Chantry Chapel in St. Peter’s Church and opened it as a ‘schole house’ in 1597 and so founded Bexhill’s first
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“The Builder of Bexhill”. A builder by trade, John William Webb, or Johnny Webb as he was affectionately known, owned a thriving business at Brockley in South London. His connection with the town lasted some 40 years. As the caption to his obituary indicated, he was for the greater part “the maker of Bexhill” as
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One of the eight smugglers captured during the famous Battle of Sidley Green in 1828. They were Spencer Whiteman, Thomas Miller, Henry Miller, John Spray, Edward Shoesmith, William Bennett, John Ford and Stephen Stubberfield. Edward Shoesmith died at the age of 86 in New South Wales, Australia, where he had been transported for smuggling. The
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Samuel Scrivens is remembered for his land holdings in Bexhill. These holdings passed to him from his wife’s family. Thomas and Joshua Moorman were Iron Founders and Saw Makers of Old Street, London. Ann Moorman was married to Samuel Scrivens and after the death of the Moorman brothers their property, which covered a large acreage,
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Reginald Windsor Sackville. 1817 – 1896. 7th Earl De La Warr. Reginald Windsor Sackville, third son of the 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Dorset, was born in London on the 21 February 1817. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford (BA 1838 and MA 1840). He entered the Church
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Lord of the Rape of Hastings. Following the conquest, Sussex was divided into six rapes. William granted his cousin, Robert, Count of Eu, the Rape of Hastings, which included the Bexhill Hundred consisting of 60 hides (1,200 acres and Church land). The adjoining Rape of Pevensey was granted to his half-brother Robert, Earl of Mortain.
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Colonel Christian, Baron von Ompteda, Brigade Commander. Four Line Battalions of the K.G.L. On disbandment of the Hanoverian Army in July 1803, following the Convention of Artlenberg, Ompteda joined his friend Charles von Alten in England in the October to reconstitute Hanoverian forces here. On the 5th November, 1803 Ompteda’s former Foot Guards became the
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The Bexhill Charter of 772AD The Anglo-Saxons were eventually conquered by King Offa of Mercia who made a grant of 8 hides (approximately 500 acres) to Bishop Oswald of Selsey with instructions to build a church at the existing manor of Bixlea – the Charter was dated 17th August 772AD. A Saxon village, seen today
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