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Deputy Lieutenant For Wiltshire
This is a list of deputy lieutenants of Wiltshire, England. Unlike the appointment of High Sheriff, which is for one year, the term of office of a Deputy Lieutenant normally lasts until they reach the age of 75. The Wiltshire Lieutenancy has an establishment of up to 36 deputy lieutenants. They are chosen to reflect a wide range of interests and backgrounds, and can be appointed at any age but tend to be aged over 60; they are normally expected to serve for at least five years before they must retire on reaching the age of 75. Deputy lieutenants can be appointed for a set period of time, but this approach has never been adopted in Wiltshire. New deputy lieutenants are nominated by the Lord Lieutenant and follow a formal process to confirm their appointment. The Lord-Lieutenant is not obliged to appoint a new Deputy Lieutenant immediately after a current Deputy Lieutenant retires and thus may hold several vacancies. Retired deputy lieutenants can continue to use the post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Henry Frederick Thynne
Lord Henry "Harry" Frederick Thynne Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL (2 August 1832 – 28 January 1904) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household between 1875 and 1880. Background Thynne was the second son of Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath, and his wife the Honourable Harriet Baring, daughter of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton. John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, was his elder brother. Political career Thynne entered the British House of Commons, House of Commons in 1859 as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for South Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency), South Wiltshire, a seat he held until 1885, and served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household from 1875 to 1880. In 1876 he was admitted to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council. Apart from his political career he was also a Major in the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Parry Nisbet
Robert Parry Nisbet JP DL (1793 – 31 May 1882) was a British public man. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1849, from 1852 a Deputy Lieutenant for the county, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Chippenham from a by-election in 1856 to the 1859 general election. After an early career in the Indian Civil Service in Bengal, Nisbet settled at Southbroom House near Devizes, Wiltshire. In his Will, proved in 1882, he left the large fortune of £52,000, including property at Dinapore, India, to his family, £50 to be spent on coals and blankets for the poor of Southbroom, and £1 to each resident of the almshouses near the gates of his house. online at londonancestor.com (accessed 10 April 2008) Nisbet's grandson |
Salisbury
Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wiltshire, Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath, Somerset, Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. An ancient cathedral was north of the present city at Old Sarum Cathedral, Old Sarum. A Salisbury Cathedral, new cathedral was built near the meeting of the rivers and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009 structural changes to local government in England, 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England line, West of England Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is northwest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess Of Lansdowne
George John Charles Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, DL (27 November 1912 – 25 August 1999), was a British peer and Conservative politician. Background Petty-Fitzmaurice was the only son of Lord Charles Mercer Nairne, the second son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. His father was killed in action in 1914 while on active service in the First World War, and his mother, the former Lady Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, later married secondly John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever.”Lansdowne, 8th Marquess of, (George John Charles Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice) (27 Nov. 1912 – 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Long, 3rd Viscount Long
Richard Eric Onslow Long, 3rd Viscount Long, (22 August 1892 – 12 January 1967) was a British Conservative Party politician and Territorial Army officer. Background Long was a member of a long-established Wiltshire family. He was the younger son of Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, by Lady Dorothy Blanche, daughter of Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork. He was the younger brother of Brigadier-General Walter Long, and the nephew of Lord Gisborough. He was educated at Harrow School.''Burke's''. In 1922 Long was initiated into Freemasonry in the Chaloner Lodge No. 2644, meeting at Melksham. Later he also joined the Lodge of Assistance No. 2773, meeting in central London. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1923. Political career Long was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westbury at a by-election in 1927, following the death of the sitting Conservative MP Walter Shaw. He was re-elected at the 1929 general election, but stood down at the 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Caillard (financier)
Sir Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard (23 October 1856 – 18 March 1930) was a British intelligence officer, diplomat, financier, industrialist and company director, principally for Vickers. After being commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in the early 1880s Caillard was engaged in intelligence duties in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean. In 1883, he was appointed to a senior position on the Ottoman Public Debt Council in Constantinople, where he lived with his family. After returning to England in 1898 Caillard entered private business, taking up positions as a director in a diversity of companies engaged in areas such as in banking, agricultural development and railways. In 1898, Caillard joined the board of directors of the armaments manufacturers, Vickers, where he remained for the next 29 years. In 1906 he was appointed financial director of Vickers, a position he held during the massive pre-war build-up of armaments in Europe and the Near East, and World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty. He is also remembered for his links with Irish Unionism, and served as Leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. Background and education Long was born at Bath, the eldest son of Richard Penruddocke Long and his wife Charlotte Anna, daughter of William Wentworth FitzWilliam Dick (originally Hume). The 1st Baron Gisborough was Walter's younger brother. On his father's side he was descended from an old family of Wiltshire gentry, and on his mother's side from Anglo-Irish gentry in County Wicklow. When young, Walter lived at Dolforgan Hall, Montgomeryshire, a property owned by his grandfath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Arthur Somerset (1851–1926)
Major Lord Henry Arthur George Somerset, DL (17 November 1851 – 26 May 1926) was the third son of the 8th Duke of Beaufort and his wife, the former Lady Georgiana Curzon. Biography Somerset joined the Royal Horse Guards with the purchase of a commission as cornet in 1869. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1871, captain in 1877 and major in 1883. In 1885 he was appointed to succeed Nigel Kingscote as superintendent of the stables and an extra equerry-in-waiting to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Lord Arthur Somerset was linked with the Cleveland Street scandal, in which he was identified and named by several male prostitutes as a customer of their services. He was interviewed by the police on 7 August 1889, and although the record of the interview has not survived, it resulted in a report being made by the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General and Director of Prosecutions urging that proceedings should be taken against him under section 11 of the Criminal Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Caillard
Camille Felix Désiré Caillard (12 September 1822 – 1 May 1898) was a British barrister and County Court judge from 1859 until 1897. Biography The only son of Camille Timothée Caillard, a French cavalry officer, Caillard was educated privately before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845. He was appointed to the county court bench in 1859 by Lord Chelmsford, which provoked accusations of favouritism as Caillard was "a man nobody knew". Succeeding Joseph Grace Smith, he sat for Circuit No. 52, which included Bath and Swindon. On his retirement in 1897, he was the longest serving county court judge. Caillard was a JP for Wiltshire and Somerset, and from May 1878 a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Personal life Caillard married Emma Louisa (1827–1865), daughter of Vincent Stuckey Reynolds of Taunton, in 1850. She was a first cousin of Benjamin Disraeli. By her he had at least four sons and five daughters. In 1861 he bought Wingfield Manor, a large house fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roger Brown
Sir William Roger Brown (1831 – 14 May 1902), known as Roger Brown, was an English mill-owner and philanthropist, lord of the manor of Beckington in Somerset. Early life He was born in 1831, the son of James Brown, a tea merchant, of Highfield, Hilperton (near Trowbridge, Wiltshire), and Bath, Somerset, Bath. On leaving school Brown was taken into the business of his uncle, Samuel Elms Brown, at the Pole Barn cloth mills, Trowbridge. In 1857 he married his uncle’s daughter Sarah."SIR WILLIAM ROGER BROWN, Knight Bachelor, Justice of the Peace for the county of Wiltshire, Lord of the Manor of Beckington" in Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour'' (1895)p. xxxiv/ref> In 1859, Brown began to build for himself and his wife a new English country house, country house called Highfield at Hilperton. This continued to grow for many years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wither Awdry
Sir John Wither Awdry DL (21 October 1795 – 31 May 1878) was an English judge who worked in India. Early life Born at Swindon, he was the second and oldest surviving son of John Awdry and his wife Jane, the second daughter of Lovelace Bigg. Awdry was educated at Westminster School and then at Christ Church, Oxford. He was first in classics in 1816 and graduated with a Master of Arts ten years later. In 1844, Awdry received a Doctorate of Civil Law by the University of Oxford. Career Awdry was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1822 and became a bencher in 1830, on whose occasion he was created a Knight Bachelor. He was puisne judge and commissioner of the Insolvent Debtor's Court in Bombay. In 1839, he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay, resigning from this post after three years. After his return to England, Awdry served as chairman of the Quarter Sessions in Wiltshire and represented the county as Deputy Lieutenant from 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Henry Thynne
Lord Henry "Harry" Frederick Thynne PC DL (2 August 1832 – 28 January 1904) was a British Conservative politician. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household between 1875 and 1880. Background Thynne was the second son of Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath, and his wife the Honourable Harriet Baring, daughter of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton. John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, was his elder brother. Political career Thynne entered the House of Commons in 1859 as Member of Parliament for South Wiltshire, a seat he held until 1885, and served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household from 1875 to 1880. In 1876 he was admitted to the Privy Council. Apart from his political career he was also a Major in the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry and a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire. Family Thynne married on 1 June 1858 Lady Ulrica Frederica Jane Seymour, daughter of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset. They had four sons and two daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
