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Henry Ripley
Sir Henry William Ripley, 1st Baronet (23 April 1813 – 9 November 1882), was a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who switched to the Conservative Party. Ripley became a principal partner in Edward Ripley and Son, an important dyeing company based at Bowling Dyeworks, Bowling, Bradford established by his grandfather in about 1806. In 1836 he married Susan Milligan of 'Acacia', Rawdon. West Yorkshire where he was living in 1881 with his family and a household of thirteen servants. In the late 1870s he bought an estate at Bedstone, Shropshire and in about 1882-4 he built a new mansion house Bedstone Court in Shropshire which became the family seat. He was active in local politics and sat as a town councilor for the Borough of Bradford. He was also a JP, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and took an active role in founding and running the Yorkshire Penny Bank. In 1866 he commenced construction of Ripley Ville an estate of "model houses" for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Henry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Henry (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters * Henry (surname) * Henry, a stage name of François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French baritone Arts and entertainment * ''Henry'' (2011 film), a Canadian short film * ''Henry'' (2015 film), a virtual reality film * '' Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'', a 1986 American crime film * ''Henry'' (comics), an American comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson * "Henry", a song by New Riders of the Purple Sage Places Antarctica * Henry Bay, Wilkes Land Australia *Henry River (New South Wales) *Henry River (Western Australia) Canada * Henry Lake (Vancouver Island), British Columbia * Henry Lake (Halifax County), Nova Scotia * Henry Lake (District of Chester), Nova Scotia New Zealand * Lake Henry (New Zealand) * Henry River (New Zealand) United States * Henry, Illinois * Henry, Indiana * Henry, Nebraska * Henry, South Dakota * Henry County (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 United Kingdom General Election
The 1880 United Kingdom general election was held from 31 March to 27 April 1880. It saw the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal opposition triumph with 352 seats. Its intense rhetoric was led by the Midlothian campaign of the Liberals, particularly the fierce oratory of Liberal Party (UK), Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone. He vehemently attacked the foreign policy of the government of Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, as utterly immoral. The endeavours of the Disraeli government in Anglo-Zulu War, Africa, Great Famine of 1876–1878#Relief, India, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghanistan and Treaty of Berlin (1878), Europe, which were only partially successful and often accompanied by early, humiliating defeats, gave a good deal of fodder to Gladstone for his attacks. Further, Disraeli's favoured dealing with the Turks, who were responsible for horrendous Batak massacre, atrocities against Balkan Christians also laid him open to religious a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from centre-right to far-right. Political parties by this name include: Europe Current * Croatian Conservative Party * Conservative Party (Czech Republic) * Conservative People's Party (Denmark) * Conservative Party of Georgia * Conservative Party (Norway) *Conservative Party (UK) * The Conservatives (Latvia) Historical * Conservative Party (Bulgaria), 1879–1884 * Conservative Party (Kingdom of Serbia), 1861-1895 * German Conservative Party, 1876–1918 * Conservative Party (Hungary), 1846–1849 * Conservative Party (Iceland), 1924–1927 * Conservative Party (Prussia), 1848–1876 * Vlad Țepeș League, in Romania 1929–1938 * Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) * Conservative Party (Romania), 1991–2015 * Conservative Party (Spain), 1876–1931 * Conservative Party (Sweden), 1995-1999 * Tories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK MPs 1868–1874
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems of Australia and Canada share many similarities, the Liberal Party of Australia is Australia's major party on the centre-right, while the Liberal Party of Canada is typically described as centre-left. __TOC__ Active liberal parties This is a list of existing and active Liberal Parties worldwide with a name similar to "Liberal party". Defunct liberal parties See also * * Liberalism by country, for a list of liberal parties, such as: ** Democratic Liberal Party (other) ** Liberal Democratic Party (other) ** Liberal People's Party (other) ** Liberal Reform Party (other) ** National Liberal Party (other) ** New Liberal Party (other) ** Progressive Liberal Party (disambigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronets In The Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th century; however, in its current usage it was created by James I of England in 1611 as a means of raising funds for the crown. Baronets rank below barons, but seemingly above all knights grand cross, knights commander and knights bachelor of the British chivalric orders, that are in turn below in chivalric precedence than the most senior British chivalric orders of the Garter and the Thistle. Like all British knights, baronets are addressed as "Sir" and baronetesses as "Dame". They are conventionally seen to belong to the lesser nobility, although William Thoms in 1844 wrote that: The precise quality of this dignity is not yet fully determined, some holding it to be the head of the , while others, again, rank Baronets as the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 Deaths
Events January * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust (business), Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada. * January 5 – Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an insanity defense raised by his lawyer. * January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation. February * February 3 – American showman P. T. Barnum acquires the elephant Jumbo from the London Zoo. March * March 2 – Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor. * March 18 (March 6 Old Style) – The Principality of Serbia becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1813 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – The Danish state bankruptcy of 1813 occurs. * January 18– 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance. * January 24 – The Philharmonic Society (later the Royal Philharmonic Society) is founded in London. * January 28 – Jane Austen's '' Pride and Prejudice'' is published anonymously in London. * January 31 – The Assembly of the Year XIII is inaugurated in Buenos Aires. * February – War of 1812 in North America: General William Henry Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Fort Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough, and the expedition returns. * February 3 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gain a largely symbolic victory agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Illingworth
Alfred Illingworth (25 September 1827 – 1907), was an English worsted spinner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1895. Illingworth was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of Daniel Illingworth and his wife Elizabeth Hill. He was educated at Huddersfield College and entered the family worsted spinning business of D Illingworth & Sons at the age of 16. In 1865, with his brother Henry, he established the Whetley Mills, one of the largest factories in Bradford. He was also a director of the Bradford District Bank. He had strong non-conformist and free trade views and entered into politics. At the 1868 general election, Illingworth was elected MP for Knaresborough, but lost the seat in 1874. He was then elected at Bradford at the 1880 general election until the constituency was reorganised under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. At the 1885 general election he was elected for Bradford West and held the seat until 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Miall
Edward Miall (8 May 1809 – 30 April 1881) was an English journalist, apostle of Disestablishmentarianism, disestablishment, founder of the Liberation Society (Society for the Liberation of the Church from State Patronage and Control), and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He founded and edited the weekly newspaper ''The Nonconformist''. Life and work Miall was born at Portsmouth to Moses Miall and his wife Sarah, daughter of George Rolph. He was educated at St. Saviour's grammar school for a while and then assisted his father in running a school. He then worked as an usher at a school in Bocking near Braintree and then in Nayland, Suffolk. He joined Wymondley Theological Institution in 1829 after which he became Congregational minister at Ware, Hertfordshire (1831) and Leicester (1834), and in, 1841 founded ''The Nonconformist'', a weekly newspaper in which he advocated the cause of disestablishment. Miall saw that if the programme of Nonconformity was to be carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew William Thompson
Sir Matthew William Thompson, 1st Baronet (1 February 1820 – 1 December 1891) was a British railway director and Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford in West Yorkshire at a by-election in 1867, but did not contest the 1868 general election. Early life Born at Manningham in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he was the son of Matthew Thompson of Manningham Lodge, Bradford, by Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of the Rev. William Atkinson of Thorparch. His father was co-owner, with his brother Benjamin, of Thompson's Mill on Sunbridge Road, Bradford, built 1803 by their uncle Benjamin Peile. It was later there where Titus Salt first went into business on his own account. Thompson was educated at West Riding Proprietary School and Giggleswick School. He matriculated in 1840 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1843 and M.A. in 1846. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1847, and for ten years practised as a conveyanci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
