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Chancellor Of Bangor University
The Chancellor is the titular head of Bangor University. Their duties include conferring degrees, acting as an ambassador for the university, and promoting the university and its achievements. Prior to the university's independence in 2007, the titular head of the institution was the President. The current chancellor since 2022 is Professor Sir Robin Williams. Deputies The University allows for the appointment of up to two pro-chancellors, who act as functional deputies for the chancellor. The vice-chancellor, whilst officially acting on behalf of the chancellor, is the chief executive of the university. List of chancellors Presidents * 1884–1891 Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, * 1891–1900 William Rathbone * 1900–1927 Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon * 1927–1935 Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone * 1935–1940 Lord Howard de Walden * 1940–1945 William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech * 1940–1945 Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Williams (physicist)
Sir Robert Hughes Williams, (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors, and Chancellor of Bangor University. He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from 1994 to 2003, and taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales, College of Cardiff before then. Honours In 1990, Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences. In 2010, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to education and to the community in Swansea and knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours The 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (11 April 1885 – 14 February 1964), was a British Conservative politician and banker. Background Harlech, the son of George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, and Lady Margaret Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, was born at Eaton Square, London. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. Article by K. E. Robinson. Military service and First World War Ormsby-Gore served in the Territorial Army, being commissioned a second lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry in 1907 and promoted lieutenant in 1911. He was mobilized at the outbreak of the First World War and accompanied his regiment to Egypt, where he was promoted captain in 1915 and went onto the general staff. In 1916 he joined the Arab Bureau as an intelligence officer, attached to the British High Commissioner Sir Henry A. McMahon. He strongly opposed the secret Sykes-Picot Treaty, arguing "we make professions of defending and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick Baronets
The Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick Baronetcy, of Hinton Admiral in the County of Hampshire, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 28 July 1791 for the landowner and developer George Tapps. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for New Romney and Christchurch. He assumed in 1835 the additional surname of Gervis. The third Baronet was high sheriff of Anglesey in 1878. He assumed in 1876 by Royal licence the additional surname of Meyrick according to the will of Owen Fuller Meyrick, a relative on his mother's side, from whom he inherited the Bodorgan estate on the Isle of Anglesey. The fourth Baronet was high sheriff of Hampshire in 1900. The fifth Baronet was high sheriff of Anglesey in 1939. The family seats are Bodorgan Hall, Anglesey, Hinton Admiral, near Bransgore, Hampshire. The Tapps Coat of Arms: Azure on a fess or between three rhinoceroses argent three escallops gules. Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas, (; 18 October 1946 – 7 February 2025) was a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1984 to 1991 and represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the Senedd from 1999 to 2021. Born in Carmarthen, Wales, he was raised in Ceredigion and the Conwy Valley. He represented Merioneth and later Meirionnydd Nant Conwy as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1992, and was Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales from the office's inception in 1999 to 2011. Elis-Thomas was a member of the House of Lords and a privy counsellor from 1992 and 2004, respectively, until his death. From 2007 to 2017 he was the Chancellor of Bangor University. In 2016, he left Plaid Cymru to support Carwyn Jones's government in the Senedd, sitting as an independent. He joined the Welsh government in November 2017 and was Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism until May 2021. Elis-Thomas applied to rejoin P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, (14 September 1916 – 22 February 2001) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, usually associated with the moderate wing of the party. He was also regarded, particularly in later years, as a non-political figure of stature in Wales having held posts of importance in bodies such as the University of Wales. Early life Cledwyn Hughes was born at 13 Plashyfryd Terrace, Holyhead, the elder son of Henry David Hughes and Emma Davies (née Hughes), who was a young widow with a son, Emlyn, when she remarried in 1915. His father, widely known as Harri Hughes, had left school at the age of twelve to work in the Dinorwic quarry, as several generations of his family had done. Aged 21, he resumed his education and entered the Calvinistic Methodist ministry, serving as the minister of Disgwylfa Chapel in Holyhead from 1915 until his death in 1947. Harri Hughes was a prominent local Liberal and a strong supporter of Lady Megan Lloyd George, who se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mars-Jones
Sir William Lloyd Mars-Jones, MBE (4 September 1915 – 10 January 1999) was a Welsh barrister and High Court judge. He presided over several high-profile criminal trials. Early life and war service Mars-Jones was born in Llansannan, Denbighshire, the son of Henry Mars Jones, sometime chairman of the Denbighshire County Council, and Helen Mars Jones. His brother, David Mars-Jones, was Mayor of Colwyn in 1976 and High Sheriff of Clwyd in 1989. Mars-Jones was educated at Denbigh County School and University College Wales, Aberystwyth, where he took a First in Law and president of the Union. He then took a second degree at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights. He joined Gray's Inn, but the Second World War broke out before he could be called to the bar. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) in 1945. He conteste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, (13 September 1917 – 16 May 1993), was a British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords, and academic administrator. The only son of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, he succeeded to the title of Baron Kenyon on his father's death in 1927. Life Lord Kenyon was educated at Eton and then Magdalene College, Cambridge. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health. Lord Kenyon was president of the University College of North Wales in Bangor (part of the University of Wales), from 1947 to 1982. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcut illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978 to 1991. He was president of the National Museum of Wales from 1952 to 1957, trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1953 to 1988 and member of the Royal Commission on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Paget, 6th Marquess Of Anglesey
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, (14 April 1885 – 21 February 1947) was a British peer, farmer and soldier. Biography Paget was born in 1885 to Lord Alexander Paget, third son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, and to Hester Alice Stapleton-Cotton, daughter of Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1905, he succeeded as Marquess of Anglesey on the demise of his childless first cousin, the 5th Marquess. He was also Earl of Uxbridge, Baron Paget, and the 9th Baronet Paget, of Plas Newydd. Career Anglesey briefly served in the Royal Horse Guards before his election as Mayor of Burton upon Trent from 1911 to 1912. Within the first month of the First World War, he rejoined the Royal Horse Guards and was sent to France, but was invalided out. He returned to serve as '' aide-de-camp'' to Sir John Maxwell, the General Officer Commanding in Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard De Walden
Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, 4th Baron Seaford (9 May 1880 – 5 November 1946) was an English peer, landowner, writer and patron of the arts. Howard de Walden was also a powerboat racer who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Early life Thomas Ellis was born in London on 9 May 1880, the only son of the 7th Baron Howard de Walden and Blanche Ellis (née Holden), daughter of William Holden the co-heir of Palace house, Lancaster. He was baptised with the name of Thomas Evelyn Ellis, and was known within his family as "Tommy". Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1917 he assumed the surname Scott-Ellis by Royal Licence. Military career Commissioned into the 10th Hussars as a second-lieutenant on 19 April 1899, and honorary colonel of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he saw active military service in the Second Boer War and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1900. Following the end of that war, he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titular Head
A titular ruler, or titular head, is a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers. Sometimes a person may inhabit a position of titular leadership and yet exercise more power than would normally be expected, as a result of their personality or experience. A titular ruler is not confined to political leadership but can also reference any organization, such as a corporation. Etymology Titular is formed from a combination of the Latin ''titulus'' (title) and the English suffix ''-ar'', which means "of or belonging to." Usage In most parliamentary democracies nowdays, the head of state has either evolved into, or was created as, a position of titular leadership. In the former case, the leader may often have significant powers listed within the state's constitution but is no longer able to exercise them because of historical changes within that country. In the latter case, it is often made clear within the document that the leader is intended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. Appointed whip in 1899, Gladstone was an innovator who provided a long-term strategy, kept the party from splitting over the Second Boer War, introduced more modern constituency structures; and encouraged working-class candidates. In secret meetings with Labour leaders in 1903 he forged the Gladstone–MacDonald pact. In two-member constituencies, it arranged that Liberal and Labour candidates did not split the vote. Historians give him much of the credit for the Liberal triumph in 1906, with 397 MPs and a majority of 243. Rising to Home Secretary in 1906–1908, he was responsible for the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906, a Factory and Workshops Act, and in 1908 the eight hour working day underground in the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, KCVO, TD (5 July 1864 – 30 November 1927), was a British peer and Conservative politician. Family background and education Born in Wilmore Crescent, west London, Kenyon was the son of the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, son of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, and Fanny Bulkeley-Owen. He succeeded his father as fourth Baron Kenyon in 1869. He was educated at Eton College and entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1882. Political career Lord Kenyon took his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday in 1885. In December 1900 he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury, a post he retained until 1905, the last three years under the leadership of Arthur Balfour. He served the same post again, in the coalition Government of David Lloyd George, from 1916 to 1918. He also took part in local politics for a period as member of Flintshire County Council, was a D.L. and J.P. for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
