Treaty of Union took effect on 1 May 1707. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland, last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, died without issue on 24 March 1603, and the throne fell at once (and uncontroversially) to her first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland, a member of House of Stuart and the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots. By the Union of the Crowns in 1603 he assumed the throne of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland as King James I. This personal union lessened the constant English fears of Scottish cooperation with France in a
Claud Tudor Claud Tudor Colonel Claud Lechmere St John Tudor (27 December 1888 – 3 August 1977) was a British Army officer and English cricketer active from 1910 to 1927 who played for Sussex. He was born in Willingdon, Sussex and died in Oxford. He appeared in 19 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who scored 640 runs with a highest score of 116. Tudor served with the Royal Army Service Corps. For his services in the First World War, Tudor was awarded the Military Cross, the Serbian Order of the White Eagle (4th class) and invested as an Officer of the