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Portrait of the Rt Hon Lieutenant General #2391069

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Portrait of the Rt Hon Lieutenant General #2391069
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Portrait of the Rt Hon Lieutenant General Percey Kirke, MP Governor of Tangiers by John Riley 1646-1691</em></td>
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Field of Interest: Military
Occupation Lieutenant-general, colonel of ?Kirke's Lambs,?
Place of Death Brussels
Spouse Lady Mary Howard

Kirke, Percy 1646?-1691, lieutenant-general, colonel of ?Kirke's Lambs,? is usually described as belonging to the ancient family of Kyrke or Kirke of Whitehaigh, Chapel-le-Frith, Derbyshire, now represented by Kirke of ?The Eaves? (see BURKES, Landed Gentry, 1886 edit. vol. i.; also the Reliquary, vi. 213 et seq.). The relationship is not established (CHESTER, Westminster Register, p. 295). His father, George Kirke d. 1675?, was gentleman of the robes to Charles I, and under Charles II groom of the bedchamber and keeper of Whitehall Palace. His first wife was Mistress Anne Killigrew, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew [q.v.], and sister of William [q.v.], Thomas [q.v.], and Henry Killigrew D.D. [q.v.] (ib. p. 135 n. 6). A memorandum of the arms displayed by George Kirke on the occasion of her funeral in 1641, preserved at Heralds' College, shows that they are not the arms of Kirke of Chapel-le-Frith (ib. p. 295 n. 1). Chester supposes Lucy Hamilton Sands, an associate of Nell Gwyn, to have been one of Anne Killigrew's children (ib. p. 218 n. 6). George Kirke married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Aurelian Townshend, the successor to Ben Jonson as writer of masques for the court. She was ?an admired beauty of the tyme,? and given away by Charles I at Oxford on 26 Feb. 1646. This lady and her daughters Mary, afterwards wife of Sir Thomas Vernor, ...
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#: 2947</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:17th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Riley 1646-1691</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of the Rt Hon Lieutenant General</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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