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BARNARD CASTLE : Dominic CUMMINGS, GSK, IDOX, BOWES MUSEUM (BOWES-LYON), DUKE OF YORK... the co-incidences so far...
NORMAN CONQUEST : Further rebellion in 1095 caused the king William II to break up the Earldom of NORTHUMBERLAND into smaller baronies. The Lordship of Gainford was given to Guy de BALLIOL (see OXFORD UNIVERSITY)
Mary WAKEFIELD'S father (BARONET) Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrel WAKEFIELD, a baronet who owns CHILLINGHAM CASTLE in Northumberland. see GREY family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Wakefield
BARNARD CASTLE is part of the BISHOP AUCKLAND parliamentary constituency, which as of 2019 is represented in parliament by Dehenna DAVISON of The CONSERVATIVE PARTY. https://twitter.com/AnthJ_F/status/1250462007452749827?s=09
During time at the university, Dehenna DAVISON spent a year working as a parliamentary aide for Jacob REES-MOGG, the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset. (see PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehenna_Davison
RISING OF THE NORTH: Nov 1569, 100s of rebels assembled in this Market Place with the aim of re-establishing CATHOLIC worship in the North. They captured BARNARD CASTLE and widely reinstated the Mass. The rebellion failed + great numbers hanged as traitors http://openplaques.org/plaques/10221
Mary WAKEFIELD'S recent conversion to CATHOLICISM (see also Tony BLAIR) https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-catholicism
Mary WAKEFIELD mentions her conversion to CATHOLICISM during a special slot on COVID19 on BBC RADIO 4'S TODAY PROGRAMME https://twitter.com/scarlettpeach/status/1264231874358116352?s=19
BARNARD CASTLE : The first Norman Bishop of DURHAM, Bishop Walcher, was murdered in 1080. This led to the surrounding country being attacked and laid waste by the NORMAN overlords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_Castle
Further rebellion in 1095 caused the King William II to break up the Earldom of NORTHUMBERLAND into smaller baronies. The Lordship of Gainford was given to Guy de BALLIOL.
The BOWES MUSEUM, housed in a chateau-like building, was founded by John BOWES and his wife Josephine, and is of national status.
John BOWES (19 June 1811 London – 9 October 1885 Streatlam, co. DURHAM) was an English art collector and thoroughbred racehorse owner who founded the BOWES MUSEUM in BARNARD CASTLE, Teesdale.
Educated at ETON and Trinity College, Cambridge, John Bowes pursued an interest in theatre, art, and horse racing. A member of the JOCKEY CLUB, he owned Streatlam Stud that bred and raised racehorses at Streatlam and Gibside
As one of the largest landowners in England, he developed a number of business interests, initially concerning his extensive COAL mine holdings. Charles Mark Palmer managed his collieries at Marley Hill and later opened the Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at JARROW.
BOWES left England for France... While in Paris, France, John Bowes met the actress Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier (1825–1874), daughter of a clockmaker, a woman passionate about painting and collecting.
They shared a passion for art and acquired a large collection that would ultimately be housed in the BOWES MUSEUM. In 1868, she became Countess of Montalbo, SAN MARINO.
BOWES's will left his wife Alphonsine an annuity of £3000 for life, as well as £20,000... The remainder of his estate, not entailed, was largely devised to the trustees of his first wife's will (registered 1875) for the purposes of setting up the Museum.
STREATLAM CASTLE was eventually sold by the family in 1922 on the eve of the wedding of Lady Elizabeth BOWES-LYON [QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER] to the DUKE OF YORK, allegedly to pay for the costs of the wedding.
Mary Eleanor BOWES, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (24 February 1749 – 28 April 1800) known as "The Unhappy Countess" was an 18th-century British heiress was married at one time to the 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne She and the Earl are ancestors of QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Mary's childhood home was at Gibside, in County DURHAM. BOWES died when Mary was 11 years old, and left her a vast fortune (estimated at between £600,000 and £1,040,000), which he had built up through control of a CARTEL OF COAL-MINE OWNERS
Mary married the 9th Earl of Strathmore on her 18th birthday, 24 February 1767. Since her father's will stipulated that her husband should assume his family name, the Earl addressed Parliament with a request to change his name from John LYON to John BOWES, which was granted.
However, some of the couple's children chose to use a surname that hyphenated their parents' names, styling themselves BOWES-LYON. see QUEEN MOTHER + QUEEN ELIZABETH II
MASSIVE SEX SCANDAL : Pretending to be mortally wounded, Stoney begged the dowager countess to grant his dying wish: to marry her. Taken in by the ruse, she agreed... * read separately as this is very involved...
Mary Eleanor BOWES was the great great great grandmother of Lady Elizabeth BOWES-LYON, the late QUEEN MOTHER
