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Alan Stewart, 10th Earl Of Galloway
Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, Order of the Thistle, KT, Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (21 October 1835 – 7 February 1901), styled Lord Garlies until 1873, was a British peer and politician. Background Galloway was the eldest son of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and Lady Harriet Stewart, Countess of Galloway, Harriett Blanche, daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. Cricket He played first-class cricket, first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1858 and 1864. Public life Galloway sat as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency), Wigtownshire between 1868 and 1873. The latter year he succeeded to his father's earldom and estates, including the family seats of Galloway House and Cumloden House, and entered the House of Lords. He was also Lord High Commissioner to the General Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (UK Magazine)
''Vanity Fair'' was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles in London, the magazine included articles on fashion, theatre, current events as well as word games and serial fiction. The cream of the period's "society magazines", it is best known for its witty prose and caricatures of famous people of Victorian and Edwardian society, including artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, business people and scholars. Taking its title from Thackeray's popular satire on early 19th-century British society, ''Vanity Fair'' was not immediately successful and struggled with competition from rival publications. Bowles then promised his readers "Some Pictorial Wares of an entirely novel character", and on 30 January 1869, a full-page caricature of Benjamin Disraeli appeared. This was the first of over 2,300 caricatures to be published. According to the National Portrait Gallery in London, "''Vanity Fairs illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marylebone Cricket Club
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's, Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England. The club was the governing body of cricket from 1788 to 1989 and retains considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC. When the ICC was established in 1909, it was administered by the secretary of the MCC, and the president of the MCC automatically assumed the chairmanship of the ICC until 1989. For much of the 20th century, commencing with the English cricket team in Australia in 1903–04, 1903–04 tour of Australia and ending with the English cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 1976–77, 1976–77 tour of India, MCC organised international tours on behalf of the England cricket team for playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Sophia Somerset, Duchess Of Beaufort
Charlotte Sophia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (11 January 1771 – 12 August 1854), formerly Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower, was the wife of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. Early life She was the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, and his wife, the former Lady Susanna Stewart. Personal life She married the future duke, then Marquess of Worcester, on 16 May 1791 at Garden Museum, Lambeth Church, London. They had four sons and eight daughters: * Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort (1792–1853) * Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset (1792–1848), who married Hon. Emily Smith and had children * Lord William George Henry Somerset (1793-1794) * Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset (1795–1865), who married Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe, and had children. * Lady Elizabeth Susan Somerset (1798-1876), who married twice (first, Captain Lord Edward O'Brien; second, Maj-Gen. James Orde), and had children. * Lady Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Stewart, Countess Of Galloway
Jane Stewart, Countess of Galloway (''née'' Hon. Jane Bayly Paget; 1 September 1774 – 30 June 1842) was a British noblewoman and the wife of George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway. Biography Lady Jane was the daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife, Jane Champagné. Her mother was born in Ireland of French Huguenot descent, the daughter of Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise and Lady Jane Forbes (daughter of the Earl of Granard). Her uncles were Gen. Josiah Champagné, Lt. Gen Forbes Champagné, and Rev. George Champagné. Her brother Henry was created Marquess of Anglesey. She married Stewart on 18 April 1797. They had eight children, three of whom died in infancy: *Lady Jane Stewart (1798–1844), who married her first cousin, George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, and had children *Lady Caroline Stewart (1799–1857) *Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway (1800–1873) *Lady Louisa Stewart (1804–1889), who married William Duncombe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stewart, 8th Earl Of Galloway
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries Sheriff Court
Dumfries Sheriff Court is a judicial building on Buccleuch Street in Dumfries in Scotland. The building, which still operates as the local courthouse, is a Category B listed building. History The first judicial building in the town was the old courthouse on the north side of Buccleuch Street which was originally commissioned as a chapel by the theologian, Robert Haldane, in 1799. It was remodelled at a cost of around £4,000, to a design by a Mr Gillespie in the neoclassical style for use as a courthouse in 1814. In the mid-19th century, court officials decided to commission a purpose-built courthouse. The site they selected was on the south side of Buccleuch Street. The new building was designed by David Rhind in the Scottish baronial style, built in red sandstone from Locharbriggs Quarry and was officially opened in time for the spring assizes on 17 April 1866. The original design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of four bays facing onto Buccleuch Street. The third bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Clifford Mellor
Colonel John James Mellor (12 August 1830 – 12 January 1916) was a British industrialist and Conservative politician. Early life Mellor was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and was educated privately.''New Members of Parliament'', The Times, 19 July 1895, p. 15 Business and military He entered business as a cotton manufacturer and became chairman of J & J J Mellor Limited of Bury and Brook Mills Limited of Heywood. He was also involved in railway administration, and was a director of the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway. For twenty-seven years he held a commission in the Volunteer Force, retiring as honorary colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers.''An Old Volunteer Colonel'', The Times, 14 January 1916, p. 5 Politics In 1892 he stood as Conservative candidate for the Radcliffe cum Farnworth constituency, but failed to be elected. Robert Leake, the sitting Liberal MP stood down at the next general election in 1895. Mellor w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo-Jacobite Revival
The Neo-Jacobite Revival was a political movement active during the 25 years before the First World War in the United Kingdom. The movement was monarchist, and had the specific aim of replacing British parliamentary democracy with a restored monarch from the deposed House of Stuart. The reign of the House of Stuart The House of Stuart was a European royal house that originated in Scotland. Nine Stuart monarchs ruled Scotland alone from 1371 until 1603. The last of these, King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England and Ireland after the death of Elizabeth I in the Union of the Crowns. The Stuarts ruled the United Kingdom until 1714, when Queen Anne died. Parliament had passed the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Act of Security 1704, which transferred the Crown to the House of Hanover, ending the line of Stuart monarchs. James claimed the Divine right of kings – meaning that he believed his authority to rule was divinely inspired. He considered his decisions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years. He was also Foreign Secretary before and during most of his tenure. He avoided international alignments or alliances, maintaining the policy of " splendid isolation". Lord Robert Cecil, later known as Lord Salisbury, was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government 1866–1867. In 1874, under Disraeli, Salisbury returned as Secretary of State for India, and, in 1878, was appointed foreign secretary, and played a leading part in the Congress of Berlin. After Disraeli's death in 1881, Salisbury emerged as the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, with Sir Stafford Northcote leading the party in the Commons. He succee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess Of Salisbury
James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, (born James Brownlow William Cecil, 17 April 1791 – 12 April 1868), styled Viscount Cranborne from birth until 1823, was a British Conservative politician. He held office under the Earl of Derby as Lord Privy Seal in 1852 and Lord President of the Council between 1858 and 1859. He was the father of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and grandfather of Arthur Balfour, who also served as Prime Minister. Background Salisbury was the son of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, and Lady Emily Mary Hill, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. Political career Salisbury entered the House of Commons in 1813 as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, a seat he held until 1817, and then sat for Hertford between 1817 and 1823. In the latter year, he succeeded his father in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigtownshire
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown (, ) is one of the Counties of Scotland, historic counties of Scotland, covering an area in the south-west of the country. Until 1975, Wigtownshire was an counties of Scotland, administrative county used for local government in Scotland, local government. Since 1975 the area has formed part of Dumfries and Galloway for local government purposes. Wigtownshire continues to be used as a territory for land registration, being a registration county. The historic county is all within the slightly larger Wigtown Area, which is one of the lieutenancy areas of Scotland and was used in local government as the Wigtown Districts of Scotland, District from 1975 to 1996. Wigtownshire forms the western part of the medieval lordship of Galloway, which retained a degree of autonomy until it was fully absorbed by Scotland in the 13th century. In 1369, the part of Galloway east of the River Cree was placed under the control of a steward and so became known as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcudbrightshire ( ) or the County of Kirkcudbright or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright is one of the Counties of Scotland, historic counties of Scotland, covering an area in the south-west of the country. Until 1975, Kirkcudbrightshire was an counties of Scotland, administrative county used for local government in Scotland, local government. Since 1975, the area has formed part of Dumfries and Galloway for local government purposes. Kirkcudbrightshire continues to be used as a registration county for land registration. A lower-tier districts of Scotland, district called Stewartry covered the majority of the historic county from 1975 to 1996. The area of Stewartry district is still used as a lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. Dumfries and Galloway Council also has a Stewartry area committee. Kirkcudbrightshire forms the eastern part of the medieval lordship of Galloway, which retained a degree of autonomy until it was fully absorbed by Scotland in the 13th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
