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THE HON. SIR JOHN W FORTESCUE
  LL.D. (Edinburgh), D.Litt. (Oxford), 
Hon. Fellow Trinity College (Cambridge),
K.C.V.O. (1926), C.V.O. (1917), M.V.O. (1907),
HISTORIAN OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
AUTHOR, LIBRARIAN & ARCHIVIST AT WINDSOR CASTLE,
 EDITOR OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF KING GEORGE III.

FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (1859-1938), military historian, was born in Madeira 28 December 1859, the fifth son of Hugh Fortescue, third Earl Fortescue, by his wife, Georgiana Augusta Charlotte Caroline, eldest daughter of Colonel George Lionel Dawson-Damer, third son of John Dawson-Damer, first Earl of Portarlington. He was descended from Chief Justice Sir John Fortescue [q.v.] Brought up in country surroundings at Castle Hill, near Barnstaple, he developed a great love of country life and pursuits with a countryman's eye for ground, which stood him in good stead in explaining the battlefields which he described. He was educated at Harrow under H. M. Butler [q.v.], to whose love of English literature he owed much. Short sight curtailed his athletic activities, besides debarring him from a military career; he therefore entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1878, intending to read for the bar, but, finding the law uncongenial, in 1880 he became private secretary to Sir William Robinson, governor of the Windward Islands; two years in the West Indies aroused his interest in their history and connection with the army.
After completing his degree at Cambridge Fortescue spent four years in New Zealand (1886-1890) as private secretary to the governor, Sir Williaim Jervois [q.v.], during which he began writing and had several articles accepted by Macmillan's Magazine. This led to his contributing a volume on Dundonald to Macmillan's 'English Men of Action' series (1896), which was preceded in 1895 by a history of his elder brother Lionel's regiment, the 17th Lancers. Messrs. Macmillan then commissioned him to write a popular one volume history of the British army. Finding it impossible to do justice to his subject in so brief a compass he obtained the publishers' assent to a more ambitious venture in four volumes. The first two (1899), which reached 1713 and 1763, were at once recognized as a really authori­tative contribution to the subject, but when a third (1903) and a fourth (1906) only reached 1792 and 1802 it became evident that the work must extend far beyond the limits contemplated. Finally thirteen volumes appeared, the last (continuing to 1870) in 1930. Few historians have ventured on so large a project, still less accomplished it single handed. 

A work on such a scale, copiously provided with elaborate maps, could not be remunerative and Fortescue would not have been able to complete it had not King Edward VII in 1905 appointed him librarian at Windsor Castle. This post, which he held until 1926, although it involved the rearrangement and care not only of the books but of the pictures and other collections, enabled him to carry on his history, which owed much to the encouragement of the King and his successor. As King's librarian he accompanied the King and Queen to India in 1911 for the coronation durbar, of which he wrote the official account (1912).

He was appointed C.V.0. in 1917 and K.C.V.0. in 1926. He was elected an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1920, received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and was awarded the Chesney gold medal of the Royal United Service Institution. He delivered the Ford lectures (1911), published the same year as British Statesmen of the Great War, 1793-1814, and the Romanes lecture (1929) at Oxford, and the Lees-Knowles lectures at Cambridge (1914).

C. T. Atkinson

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The House of Fortescue is said to date from the Battle of Hastings (1066),  where Richard le Fort saved the life of William the Conqueror by the shelter of his shield, thereafter to be known as Fort-Escu ("strong shield"). His descendants have taken for their motto, Forte scutem salus ducum - "A strong shield is the safety of leaders."

Monumental brass of John Fortescue, 1595, and his wife Owner, East Allington, Devon

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Sir John Fortescue
(ca. 1394-ca. 1476)
Lord Chancellor of England.
Artist unknown.
Engraving on paper.
18.9 x 14.8 cm.
No date.

John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae
London: In the Savoy, Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1737. Notes by John Selden.
This beautiful copy features an engraved frontispiece showing Fortescue with Prince Edward in France.
The frontispiece reads: "Chancellor Fortescue following King Henry's Fortune, and attending his Son Edward into France,
wrote this Book to recommend the Laws of England to the Esteem and Protection of that Young Prince."
The book is structured as a series of lessons, and begins with a dialog between Fortescue and
Prince Edward in which Fortescue convinces Edward of the importance of the English law.
Gift of Daniel R. Coquillette.

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Wikipedia

John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (7 March 1670 – 19 December 1746) was an English lawyer, judge and politician. He was also a writer on English legal and constitutional history, and was said to have influenced Thomas Jefferson.


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An 1800 stipple engraving of Fortescue Aland by Silvester Harding in the collection of The Royal Society. Fortescue Aland was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1712.




John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan - Wikiwand

John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (7 March 1670 – 19 December 1746), of Stapleford Abbots, Essex, was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons for two years from 1715 to 1717. He wrote on English legal and constitutional history, and was said to have influenced Thomas Jefferson. A member of both the Middle Temple and Inner Temple, he became a King's Counsel in 1714 and was then appointed Solicitor General, first to the Prince of Wales (later George II) and then to his father George I in 1715. After a short stint as a Member of Parliament, Fortescue Aland was knighted and elevated to the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer in 1717. He was subsequently a justice of the Court of King's Bench (1718–1727) and of the Court of Common Pleas (1728–1746), save for a brief hiatus between 1727 and 1728 which has been attributed to George II's displeasure with one of his legal opinions.
In 1714 Fortescue Aland produced a volume entitled The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Government based on a manuscript in the Bodleian Library by his distant ancestor Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480), to which he added an extended preface. It has been said that this is the earliest work in English on constitutional history. Jefferson referred to Fortescue Aland's views in the 1719 edition of this work, and in another preface by Fortescue Aland to a collection of judicial decisions which he edited, entitled Reports of Select Cases in All the Courts of Westminster-Hall (1748).

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(real name: John Henry Fortescue
January 24, 1923 - May 26, 1976)
Discography
 there's another 'Guitar Shorty' (currently active)
by the real name of David William Kearney

This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page.


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Voting List Darkness Ascending



Jasen Fortesque
History. 9.43
Std. Dev. 0.21
# of Votes. 3
Vote. 9.20

Voting List And All My Dreams

Jasen Fortesque
History. 9.43
Std. Dev. 0.21
# of Votes. 3
Vote. 9.60

BRAVO 30/1976 Cover Kenny




Poster:
Susan George, John Fortescue
Kenny - Star-Album

Berichte:
Egon Müller, Buster, Nils Lofgren, Susan George, Scorpions, Wishbone Ash, Marc Bolan, Bob Dylan, Mike Landon, Dennie Christian

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