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David Duncan (UK Politician)
David Duncan (1831 – 30 December 1886) was a British merchant and shipper and a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness (UK Parliament constituency), Barrow-in-Furness. Duncan was born at Alyth, Perthshire, the fourth son of James Duncan, a manufacturer and merchant, and was educated at the High School of Dundee. He and his elder brother James went to South America where they became very successful traders. In 1851 he went into partnership with Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson in the shipping business of Balfour Williamson. He and Williamson were based in Valparaiso while Balfour looked after the Liverpool end of the business. After the partnership ran into personal difficulties, Duncan left Balfour Williamson in 1863, and formed his own company, Duncan Fox & Co., which became a great commercial rival of Balfour Williamson in Chile, with interests in mining as well as shipping. He returned to England and lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Duncan (gcf06997)
David or Dave Duncan may refer to: Arts and entertainment *David Duncan (writer) (1913–1999), American screenwriter and novelist; wrote the screenplay for ''The Time Machine'' *David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018), American photographer *Dave Duncan (writer) (1933–2018), Scottish-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer *David James Duncan (born 1952), American novelist, essayist, and fly-fisher Sports *Davie Duncan (1921–1991), Scottish footballer *Dave Duncan (baseball) (born 1945), American Major League Baseball player and pitching coach *David Duncan (footballer) (born 1963), Ghanaian football player and manager *David Duncan (ski cross) (born 1982), Canadian ski cross racer Others *David Duncan (minister) (1789–1829), Scottish Presbyterian minister *David Duncan (politician) (1830–1886), British merchant and Liberal politician *David Duncan (diplomat) (1923–2007), British diplomat *David F. Duncan (born 1947), American epidemiologist and expert on drug abuse *Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 United Kingdom General Election
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. The first general election after an Representation of the People Act 1884, extension of the franchise and Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, redistribution of seats, it saw the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals lose their majority. The election saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone, win the most seats, but not an overall majority, so a minority government was necessary. The Irish Nationalists held the balance of power between the Liberals and the Conservatives who sat with a large number of allied Unionist MPs (their name referred to their support for the Acts of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland). The pressure of minority government status exacerbated divisions within the Liberals over Irish Home Rule. This led to a Liberal split that caused another 1886 United Kingdom general election, general election the following year. The 1885 election saw the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
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19th-century Scottish Merchants
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Scottish Company Founders
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People Educated At The High School Of Dundee
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). February * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto established. * February–March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops. * February 2 – Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope. * February 5 – Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk blows up his own gunboat in Antwerp rather than strike his colours on the demand of supporters of the Belgian Revolution. * February 7 – The Belgian Constitution of 1831 is approved by the National Congress. *February 8 – French-born botanical explorer Aimé Bonpland leaves Paraguay for Argentina. * February 14 – Battle of Debre Abbay: Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray, and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis. * February 25 – Battle of Olsz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Neville (MP)
Sir Ralph Neville (13 September 1848 – 13 October 1918) was an English barrister, politician and judge of the Chancery Court. Life Neville was the son of Henry Neville, a surgeon, of Esher, and was educated at Tonbridge School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1871. At the university he was known as a good oarsman. He rowed in the Emmanuel May boat in 1868, when it was fourth on the river. He stroked the college boat in the CUBC fours, and it was beaten only in the final heat. In the same year he got his trial cap. though he did not succeed in getting into the University boat. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1872, but had little work in London, and, after a few years' waiting, he went to Liverpool as a "local," it is said upon the advice of Sir Henry Jackson, whose pupil he had been. There he practised in the Chancery Court of the County Palatine of Lancaster and in the Court of Passage. As a junior both in these Courts and on the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Richardson Baily
Laurence Richardson Baily (9 July 1815 – 18 April 1887) was an English marine insurance specialist, director of transport companies and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Baily was born at Tottenham, the son of John Baily of Gartley House, Kent and his wife Sarah Head. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and in Paris. He became a marine insurance average adjuster (a claims specialist) based in Liverpool. Progressing to directing transport companies, he became a director of the Great Northern Railway, of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway, and of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. He was chairman of British Continental African Company and of Reliance Marine Insurance Company, and a government nominee on the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. He was president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and was a J.P. for Liverpool Baily stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Sunderland in the 1874 general election. In the 1885 gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
