George duke of kent biography of abraham

AT least three generations of Ealeys worked for the Royal Household (see here). The earliest seems to be Abraham, who was Queen Charlotte's postillion for twenty-two years and whose son Richard worked for the Duke of Kent from boyhood. In a letter of 1837 Richard Ealey states that his brother "was twenty eight years with His R.H. the Duke of Sussex", while James Ealey (c1786-1854) affirms in court that until 1838 he "had lived a period of three-and-twenty years in the service of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex", and since then a further three years. The dates don't quite add up, but the two pieces of evidence are suggestive of a sibling link between Richard and James. This link seems to be confirmed by the daybooks of St-Martin-in-the-Fields Workhouse, which record the admittance of Elizabeth Ealey and her sons Richard, James and Abraham for a week in 1796. It makes sense that the family would be in difficulties after father Abraham's death, and the age of James (nine) tallies

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Duke of Kent House, Quebec

Duke of Kent House or Kent House (French: Maison du Duc-de-Kent) is situated on the corner of Rue Saint-Louis and Haldimand, behind the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, named after its most famous resident Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Though altered and transformed since its original construction, the most part of its foundations and of the first floor walls date back to about 1650, making it one of the oldest houses, if not the oldest house in Quebec City. In 1759, the Articles of Capitulation of Quebec were signed within the house. The present edifice has remained largely unchanged since 1819. It served as the French Consulate from 1980 to 2015.

Occupants during the French Regime (1650–1763)

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The first owners of the land on which Kent House stands were Louis d'Ailleboust dem Coulonge, 4th Governor of New France from 1648 to 1651, and his wife, Marie-Barbe de Boulogne. Shortly after 1650, they had a house built on this

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part of this folio contained early poems; the second part "The Mistress;" the third part "Pindaric Odes;" and the fourth and last his "Davideis."

In September of the following year, 1657, Cowley acted as best man to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, on his marriage at Bolton Percy, to Fairfax's daughter; Cowley wrote also a sonnet for the bride. In December he obtained, by influence of friends, the degree of M.D. from the University of Oxford, and retired into Kent to study botany. Such study caused him then to write a Latin poem upon Plants, in six books: the first two on Herbs, in elegiac verse; the next two on Flowers, in various measures; and the last two on Trees, in heroic numbers:—"Plantarum, Libri VI."

After the death of Cromwell, Cowley returned to France, but he came back to England in 1660, when he published an "Ode on His Majesty's Restoration and Return," and "A Discourse by way of Vision concerning the Governm