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"Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, in Viborg, Denmark – 5 February 1664, in Ribe), was a Danish poet. He studied from 1635 to 1639 in Copenhagen. Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen. In 1651 he became rector and in 1658 lecturer in theology at Ribe, in Jutland and also preacher at Vester-Vedsted. Among other Latin poems, he wrote Threni Hyperborei, [Lamentations of the North] published, in folio, in 1648, on the death of Christian IV, King of Denmark. Several of his pieces are inserted in the first volume of Rostgaard's Deliciae Poëtarum Danorum (Copenhagen 1693). Further works * Laurus cimbrica, poema heroicum de Victoria Christiani IV adversum classem Sueco-Batavam die 16 maj 1664 (Copenhagen 1644) * De Homagio Frederici III, Daniae et Norvegiae regis (Copenhagen 1660) See also *Niels Aagaard, his brother References Category:1616 births Category:1664 deaths Category:Danish male poets Category:University of Copenhagen faculty Category:People from Viborg Municipality Category:17th-century Danish poets Category:17th-century male writers "
"Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS (20 October 1840 - 9 January 1903), known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician. Background and education Henry de Worms was born on 20 October 1840. His father, Solomon Benedict de Worms (1801–1882), owned large plantations in Ceylon and was made a Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire by Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916). His mother was Henrietta Samuel. His siblings were Anthony Mayer de Worms (1830–1864), Ellen Henrietta de Worms (born 1836), and George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms (1829–1902). His paternal grandmother was Schönche Jeannette Rothschild (1771–1859), thus his paternal great-grandfather was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. As a result, his paternal great-granduncles were Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868). His uncles, who owned plantations in Ceylon with his father, were Maurice Benedict de Worms (1805–1867) and Gabriel Benedict de Worms (1802–1881). He was educated at King's College London. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1863, and became a fellow of King's College in the same year. Political career de Worms served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Greenwich from 1880 to 1885 and for Liverpool East Toxteth from 1885 to 1895 and held office under Lord Salisbury as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1886 to 1888 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1888 to 1892. He was also the British Plenipotentiary and President of the Conference on Sugar Bounties in 1888, and later served as a Commissioner for the Patriotic Fund. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1888 and raised to the peerage as Baron Pirbright, of Pirbright in the County of Surrey, in 1895. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889. His publications include England's Policy in the East, The Earth and its Mechanism, The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Memoirs of Count Beust. Lord Pirbright died in January 1903, aged 62. Family Lord Pirbright's tomb at St Mark's Church, Wyke, Surrey In 1864, Lord Pirbright married Franziska ("Fanny", 1846–1922), eldest daughter of . They had three daughters: * Alice Henrietta Antoinette (1865–1952) * Dora Sophia Emily (1869–?) * Constance Valérie Sophie (1875–1963). She was the grandmother of Rupert Loewenstein,Prince Rupert Loewenstein, "A Prince among Stones", Bloomsbury, London 2013, p.253 the longtime manager of the rock band The Rolling Stones. In 1887, he married Sarah, daughter of Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips. They had one daughter. Born Jewish, he was an active member of the Jewish community until he married a Christian woman. He then dissociated himself entirely from Judaism, and was buried at the Christian cemetery of St. Mark's in Wyke, Surrey. The barony became extinct on his death as he had no sons. His second wife died in November 1914. References External links * thepeerage.com Henry de Worms, 1st and last Baron Pirbright * leighrayment.com House of Commons: Gorbals to Guildford * * The Pirbright Tomb Category:1840 births Category:1903 deaths Category:Alumni of King's College London Category:Fellows of King's College London Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:English Jews Category:Rothschild family Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Pirbright Category:UK MPs 1880–1885 Category:UK MPs 1885–1886 Category:UK MPs 1886–1892 Category:UK MPs 1892–1895 Category:UK MPs who were granted peerages Category:Jewish British politicians Category:Converts to Anglicanism from Judaism Category:English people of German-Jewish descent Category:Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Trade "
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