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Blue Cross Fund
Blue Cross is a registered animal welfare charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1897. The charity provides veterinary care, offers expert behavioural help, and finds homes for pets in need. Their pet bereavement service supports those who are struggling to cope with the loss of a much-loved pet. The charity works closely with a number of other organisations to help animal welfare and responsible pet ownership. History The organisation was founded on 10 May 1897 in London as Our Dumb Friends' League (ODFL) by a small group of men and women to care for working horses on the streets of the British capital. The objective of the league was to encourage kindness to animals. The League's headquarters were located at 164 Buckingham Palace Road, London. Janet Stuart-Dennison claimed to be the sole founder of the League. A granolithic trough from the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association with the words "Sole Founder and Originator of Our Dumb Friends' Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burford
Burford () is a town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hills, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is often referred to as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located west of Oxford and southeast of Cheltenham, about from the Gloucestershire boundary. The toponym derives from the Old English words ''burh'' meaning fortified town or hilltown and '' ford'', the crossing of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,422. Economic and social history The town began in the middle Saxon period with the founding of a village near the site of the modern priory building. This settlement continued in use until just after the Norman Conquest of England when the new town of Burford was built. On the site of the old village a hospital was founded which remained open until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII. The modern priory building was constructed some 40 years later, in around 1580. The town centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke Of Portland
William Arthur Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, (28 December 1857 – 26 April 1943) was a British landowner, courtier, and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1905. Background and education Portland was the son of Lt.-Gen. Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck (1819–1877) by his first wife Elizabeth Sophia Hawkins-Whitshed, granddaughter of Admiral James Hawkins-Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed. His paternal grandfather was Lord Charles Bentinck, third son of Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland by his wife Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. Portland's mother died only a few days after his birth. He was educated at Eton College, Eton. He inherited the Portland estates, based around Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, from his cousin William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke Of Westminster
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, (19 March 1879 – 19 July 1953), was a British landowner. He was also noted for his support of the Nazi ideology and his affair with French designer Coco Chanel. Early life Hugh was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1853–1884), the predeceased son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley (1855–1929), daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. His mother later remarried the politician George Wyndham. After completing his education at Eton, he briefly attended a French boarding school run by Count de Mauny at the age of nineteen. There were rumors suggesting that the count had made inappropriate advances toward some of his pupils. Grosvenor was known within family circles as "Bendor", which was also the name of the racehorse Bend Or, owned by his grandfather. Bend Or won The Derby in 1880, the year following Grosvenor's birth. The name is a reference to the ancient lost armorials of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl Of Kintore
Arthur George Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore, 12th Lord Falconer of Halkerton, 10th Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall (5 January 1879 – 26 May 1966) was a British soldier and aristocrat. Early life Arthur George Keith-Falconer was born on 5 January 1879 in Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was the second son, and youngest child, of Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore and the former Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu. His older brother was Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer, Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall, who died at age twenty in 1897, predeceasing their father. His father was a prominent politician who served in various roles, including Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Chief Whip in the House of Lords, Lords in the 1880s and Governor of South Australia in the 1890s. His mother was the second daughter of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester and the former Harriet Sydney Dobbs. His paternal grandparents were Earl of Kintore, Francis Falco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Erskine, Earl Of Mar And Kellie (1865–1955)
Walter John Francis Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar and 14th Earl of Kellie (29 August 1865 – 3 June 1955) was a Scottish nobleman. Biography The eldest son of Walter Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar and Mary Anne Forbes, he was educated at Eton and served as a 2nd lieutenant and then lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1887–92. He succeeded his father in 1888, and in 1892 married Lady Violet Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury. They had three children: * Elyne Violet Erskine (born-died 2 August 1893) * Major John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine (26 April 1895 – 3 May 1953) * Captain Hon. Francis Walter Erskine (9 January 1899 – 1972) He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1892–1950, and held office as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1898 and Lord Clerk Register and Keeper of the Signet from 1936–44. He was also Hereditary Keeper of Stirling Castle, and Honorary Colonel of the 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countryside Alliance
The Countryside Alliance (CA) is a British organisation promoting issues relating to the countryside such as farming, rural services, small businesses and field sports, aiming to "Give Rural Britain a voice". History The Countryside Alliance was formed on 10 July 1997 from three organisations: the British Field Sports Society, the Countryside Business Group, and the Countryside Movement. The Alliance was formed to help promote and defend the British countryside and rural life, both in the media and in Parliament. Since then, the Countryside Alliance has campaigned on a number of issues which they believe are important to rural Britain. In 2008 the organisation was named the 'most inspiring political personality' of the last ten years by ''Channel 4 News''. It broadly outlines its major campaigns through a Rural Charter which focuses on the following major themes: * 'Make Brexit work for the countryside' * 'Buy British by supporting our farmers and producers' * 'Recognise th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Hunting
Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "master of foxhounds" (or "master of hounds"), follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. Fox hunting with hounds, as a formalised activity, originated in England in the sixteenth century, in a form very similar to that practised until February 2005, when a law banning the activity in England and Wales came into force. A ban on hunting in Scotland had been passed in 2002, but it continues to be within the law in Northern Ireland and several other jurisdictions, including Australia, Canada, France, Republic of Ireland, Ireland and the United States. The sport is controversial, particularly in the United Kingdom. Proponents of fox hunting view it as an important part of rural culture and useful for reasons of Conservation movement, conservation and pest control, while opponents argue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Wain
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in 1884 but was widowed three years later. In 1890 he moved to the Kent coast with his mother and five sisters and, except for three years spent in New York, remained there until the family returned to London in 1917. In 1914, he suffered a severe head injury in a horse-drawn omnibus accident and ten years later was certified insane. He spent the remaining fifteen years of his life in mental hospitals, where he continued to draw and paint. Some of his later abstract paintings have been seen as precursors of psychedelic art. Wain produced hundreds of drawings and paintings a year for periodicals and books, including ''Louis Wain's Annual'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Bradshaw
Annie Cropper Bradshaw (born Annie Cropper; 1859 – 23 May 1938), who wrote under the names Anne M. Tree and Mrs. Albert S. Bradshaw, was an English novelist, elocutionist and animal welfare activist. She was active in Our Dumb Friends' League for many years and co-founded the Performing Animals' Defence League. Life Annie Cropper was born in 1859 and was raised in Nottingham. Her father was John Cropper a literacy man. She married Albert Septimus Bradshaw in 1881 and their son Vernon was born in 1883. Albert was the proprietor of the ''Nottingham Journal'' which his father had founded a century before. He died in 1914. Bradshaw's poem "Good-bye, Old Man" written during WW1 with a musical setting by Frederic Dale for the Blue Cross Fund sold well. All profits from the publisher Reynolds of Berners Street were given to the fund. Bradshaw used the pseudonym Anne M. Tree. She authored many novels. She died on 23 May 1938. Animal welfare Bradshaw was known for her work on promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Horniman
Roy Horniman (born Robert Horniman, 31 July 1868–11 October 1930) was a prolific British playwright and novelist, most prominently active during the Edwardian era. He published many short stories and novels and wrote original plays, as well as dramatic adaptations of novels and plays by other authors. After World War I he extended his writing to film screenplays. Horniman was a Vegetarianism, vegetarian and a Nature cure, nature curist. He was devoted to the cause of animal welfare, in particular the protection and care of working horses, and was opposed to vivisection. Horniman's 1907 novel, ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'', was used as the basis of the screenplay of the highly-regarded 1949 black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' and inspired the 2013 Broadway musical ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''. Biography Early years Robert Horniman was born on 31 July 1868 at Southsea, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, the eldest son of William Horni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl Of Lonsdale
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, (25 January 1857–13 April 1944) was an English peer and sportsman. He was president of Bertram Mills Olympia Circus and a vice-president of the RSPCA. Early life Born in 1857, he was the second son of Emily Susan (), daughter of St George Francis Caulfeild of Donamon Castle of Roscommon, Ireland and Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale. In 1882, he succeeded his brother, St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale, and was succeeded in turn by his brother, Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale upon his death in 1944. Career Lonsdale inherited enormous wealth derived from his father's Cumberland coalmines, and owned of land. He had residences at Lowther Castle, at Whitehaven Castle, Barleythorpe and Carlton House Terrace, London. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry on 3 March 1897''Army List'', various dates. and from February 1900 to 1901, he was Assistant Adjutant-Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Flower
Sir Ernest Francis Swan Flower (24 August 1865 – 30 April 1926) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. At the 1895 United Kingdom general election, 1895 general election Flower was elected as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency), Bradford West, winning the seat from the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party on his second attempt, after unsuccessfully contesting the seat in 1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892. He held the seat for 11 years, until his defeat at the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. He stood again at both the January 1910 United Kingdom general election, January 1910 and December 1910 United Kingdom general election, December 1910 general elections, but lost on both occasions by a large majority. Flower was a member of the Grand Council of the Primrose League and of the Executive Committee of the State Children's Aid Associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
