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1936 Birthday Honours
The King's Birthday Honours 1936 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King Edward VIII to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 19 June 1936. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate. United Kingdom and Colonies Viscount * Bertrand Edward, Baron Dawson of Penn, . Baron * Sir Herbert Austin, , Chairman of Austin Motor Company Ltd. For public services. * Sir Henry Strother Cautley, , Member of Parliament for East Grinstead since January 1910, and for East Leeds, 1900-06. For political and public services. * Sir (William) Malcolm Hailey, , lately Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. * John William Beaumont P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state in the Commonwealth of Nations that has the same constitutional monarch and head of state as the other realms. The current monarch is King Charles III. Except for the United Kingdom, in each of the realms the monarch is represented by a governor-general. The phrase ''Commonwealth realm'' is an informal description not used in any law. , there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Realm of New Zealand, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom. While the Commonwealth of Nations has 56 member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, independent member states, only these 15 have Charles III as head of state. He is also Head of the Commonwealth, a non-constitutional role. The notion of these states sharing the same person as their monarch traces back to 1867 when Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Export Credits Guarantee Department
The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), branded as UK Export Finance (UKEF), is the export credit agency and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. In 1920, UKEF had a maximum total exposure of just £26 million. Today, its maximum commitment stands at £50 billion. Activities ECGD derives its powers from the (c. 67) and undertakes its activities in accordance with specific consent from HM Treasury. ECGD was established in 1919 to promote UK exports, lost during the submarine blockade of World War I. ECGD's aim is to benefit the UK economy by helping exporters of UK goods and services to win business, and UK firms to invest overseas by providing guarantees, insurance and reinsurance against loss, taking into account HM Government's wider international policy agenda. ECGD is required by the HM Government to operate slightly better than break even, by charging premiums from exporters at levels that match the perceived risks and costs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Cornwallis Peel
Colonel Sir Sidney Cornwallis Peel, 1st Baronet, (1870–1938), was a British Army officer, barrister and financier. He was also for the coalition government term 1918–1922, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). For the 19 years until death he was a celebrated chairman of the Export Credits Guarantee Department Advisory Committee. Background and marriage Peel was born on 3 June 1870, the third son of Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel,Obituary, ''The Times'' (London, England), Tuesday, 20 December 1938, Issue 48182, p. 16. Speaker of the House of Commons, the youngest son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. His mother was Adelaide, daughter of William Stratford Dugdale. Schooled at Eton College he was there a King's Scholar and Newcastle Scholar in 1889, winning a scholarship at New College, Oxford, where he won first-class honours in Greats and was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1893. Shortly after he became Secretary to the Licensing Committee (chaired by his father). Pee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament Constituency)
Westminster Abbey was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the first past the post system of election. It was created for the 1918 general election, and included all of the former Westminster constituency, as reduced in area in 1885, apart from its Knightsbridge exclave, plus all of the former Strand constituency. It continued to exist until the 1950 general election, when it was merged with the two-seat City of London constituency to form a single-member seat named Cities of London and Westminster. The seat was sometimes known as the Abbey Division of Westminster or simply Abbey. It was held by the Conservative Party for its entire existence. Boundaries The City of Westminster is a district of Inner London. Its southern boundary is on the north bank of the River Thames. In 1918 it was to the west of the City of London, to the south of Holborn and St. Pancras and to the east of Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarborough And Whitby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Scarborough and Whitby is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in North Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Alison Hume, a Labour Party (UK), Labour MP. History The constituency name has had two separate periods of existence. 1918–1974: A Scarborough and Whitby division of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 after the Boundary Commission for England, Boundary Commission of 1917 and first elected a Member of Parliament in the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election. This division took the entirety of the abolished Parliamentary borough of Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency), Scarborough together with the majority of the previous Whitby (UK Parliament constituency), Whitby division and a very small part of Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet (29 July 1890 – 22 March 1939) was a British Conservative politician. From 1919 to 1920, he was Private Secretary to Winston Churchill when he was Secretary of State for War, and served as a Member of Parliament from 1922 to 1931 and 1932 to 1939. Early life Herbert was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on 29 July 1890. He was the eldest son of Sir Michael Herbert (1857–1903), the British Ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1903, during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. His mother was the former Leila Belle Wilson (1864–1923), a New York heiress. He had a younger brother, Michael George Herbert, a banker with Morgan, Grenfell & Co., who died unmarried. Herbert’s paternal grandparents were the statesman Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, and Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea, a philanthropist and Roman Catholic writer.''Burke's Peerage'', 107th edition His great-grandfather was George Augustus Herbert, 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Of The Treasury
In the United Kingdom there are at least six Lords (or Ladies) Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, serving as a commission for the ancient office of Treasurer of the Exchequer. The board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury, the Second Lord of the Treasury, and four or more junior lords acting as whips in the House of Commons to whom this title is usually applied. It is commonly thought that the Lords Commissioners of HM Treasury serve as commissioners for exercising the office of Lord High Treasurer; however, this is not true. The confusion arises because both offices used to be held by the same individual at the same time. Strictly they are commissioners for exercising the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (similar to the status of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty exercising the office of Lord High Admiral until 1964, when Elizabeth II resumed the office). These offices (excluding Lord High Treasurer o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Lord Of The Admiralty
The Civil Lord of the Admiralty formally known as the Office of the Civil Lord of Admiralty also referred to as the Department of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty was a member of the Board of Admiralty who was responsible for managing the Royal Navy's supporting civilian staff, the works and buildings departments and naval lands from 1830 to 1964. History From 1709 the board of admiralty usually had a minimum of two Civil Lord Commissioners, however, there was not a settled arrangement for the distribution of duties amongst the members of the Board. In 1805 the First Lord of the Admiralty Charles Middleton, the Lord Barham, began a period of reform of the commissioners responsibilities during his tenure. He initially gave a new name to the Naval Lord Commissioners now referred to as "Professional Naval Lords", whilst the Civil Lords were given the duty of signing off all official documents. In 1830 when Sir James Graham was appointed First Lord he also underwent further re-orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under-Secretary Of State For The Home Department
This article lists past and present parliamentary under-secretaries of state serving the home secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office. Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782–present *April 1782: Evan Nepean *April 1782: Thomas Orde *July 1782: Henry Strachey *April 1783: George North *February 1784: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney *June 1789: Scrope Bernard *July 1794: Thomas Brodrick *March 1796: Charles Greville *March 1798: William Wickham *February 1801: Edward Finch Hatton *August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt *August 1803: Reginald Pole-Carew *July 1804: John Henry Smyth *February 1806: Charles Williams-Wynn *November 1807: Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool *February 1810: Henry Goulburn *August 1812: John Hiley Addington *April 1818: Henry Clive *January 1822: George Robert Dawson *April 1827: Spencer Perceval *July 1827: Thomas Spring Rice *January 1828: William Yates Peel *August 1830: Sir George Clerk *November 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rugby (referred to by local political parties as Rugby and Bulkington) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ... of the UK Parliament since 2024 by John Slinger, of the Labour Party. History Between 1950 and 1979, Rugby was a consistent Labour-Conservative marginal, often bucking the national swing (for example, William Price held the seat for Labour with an increased majority in 1970 while the Wilson government was defeated). Since its recreation in 2010, the seat produced solid Conservative majorities for Mark Pawsey until 2024, when it was won for Labour by John Slinger. Boundaries and boundary changes 1885–1918: When first created in 1885, the Rugby division consisted of the Petty Sessional Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
