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Jul 21, 2016 · The Eagle of the Ninth (1977– ) Drama set in 117 AD dealing with the search for the Roman army's Ninth legion gold Eagle standard. Stars: Anthony Higgins, Christian Rodska Peter Whitbread.
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Dec 7, 2010 · Storyline In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the...
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Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952) was a British nobleman and politician.
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Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952) was a British nobleman and politician.
Eric Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was the son of Captain the Hon. Sir William Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, fourth son of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, and Constance Anne Brocklehurst.
Fitzwilliam was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1909. In 1912, he married Jessica Gertrude Rowlands. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he gained a temporary commission in the Leicestershire Yeomanry as a lieutenant. His marriage was dissolved in 1917, with no children having been born.
In May 1948, Fitzwilliam's cousin Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, died without a son, and he inherited his peerages. Several of the estates which had descended with them went to the 8th Earl's thirteen-year-old daughter, Lady Juliet, but Fitzwilliam inherited half of the entailed Wentworth Woodhouse estate.
On Fitzwilliam's death in 1952 this line of the family came to an end, and the peerages were inherited by a second cousin, Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam. The 9th Earl Fitzwilliam was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth.
William Charles, whose son Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1883-1952) would become the 9th Earl Fitzwilliam when the immediate male line died out after the 7th Earl’s son. Among their other children was Mabel Florence Harriet (1870 to 1951).
On his early death the line of the eldest son of the sixth Earl failed and titles passed to the late Earl's first cousin once removed, the ninth Earl. The ninth Earl was Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952).
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Oct 17, 2021 · In 1952, a scandal about legitimacy would rock the family again upon the death of Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the 9th Earl Fitzwilliam, who died childless.
