The pub itself is named after a famous vessel. The small boat of that name in which Sir Francis Chichester sailed single-handedly around the world used to be moored on the riverside here ...

Michael Ellison, 89, a prominent member of the World Sailing Speed Record Council, passed away on April 14, 2025. He ...

Sir Arthur Chichester, the principal architect of the ... poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; and Henry Francis Lyte, the hymn writer and author of ‘Abide with me’.

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to $6 million at auction ...

Sir Keir Starmer will be among world leaders and dignitaries to attend the funeral of Pope Francis this weekend. The late pontiff will be buried on Saturday, following his death on Easter Monday ...

Pope Francis used his last will and testament to detail his wishes for where he would like to be interred following his death. Those wishes were carried out in the plans for his funeral Saturday ...

Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for Saturday morning at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT) at St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican announced Tuesday after a meeting of the College of Cardinals.

Sir Keir said the “outpouring of grief” following Francis’s death reflects the “high esteem” in which the Pope was held “not just by millions and millions of Catholics, but by many ...

Pope Francis waving to attendees before a Mass in Cuba in 2015.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin ...