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John Pender
Sir John Pender KCMG GCMG FSA FRSE (10 September 1816 – 7 July 1896) was a Scottish submarine communications cable pioneer and politician. Early life Pender was born in the Vale of Leven, Scotland, the son of James Pender and his wife, Marion Mason. He was educated at Glasgow High School. He became a successful merchant in textile fabrics, first in Glasgow, then in Manchester (where he had a warehouse in Peter Street near The Great Northern Warehouse). He lived at Middleton Hall, County Linlithgow, Foots Cray Place, Sidcup, Kent, and Arlington House, 18 Arlington Street London. Telegraph companies In London 1866, Pender was the leading financier/director and Chairman of the Companies involved who, with his colleagues, undertook the first successful laying of the transatlantic cable from Valentia Island off the coast of Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador. This cable was the most successful and commercially viable of all the transatlantic cables and was 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (British Magazine)
''Vanity Fair'' was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles in London, the magazine included articles on fashion, theatre, current events as well as word games and serial fiction. The cream of the period's "society magazines", it is best known for its witty prose and caricatures of famous people of Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian society, including artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, business people and scholars. Taking its title from Vanity Fair (novel), Thackeray's popular satire on early 19th-century British society, ''Vanity Fair'' was not immediately successful and struggled with competition from rival publications. Bowles then promised his readers "Some Pictorial Wares of an entirely novel character", and on 30 January 1869, a full-page caricature of Benjamin Disraeli appeared. This was the first of over 2,300 caricatures to be published. According to the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Telegraph Company
The Eastern Telegraph Company was a British telecommunication company that operated undersea telegraph cables between the United Kingdom and India and countries on-route as well as cables from the United Kingdom to North and South America. It was founded in 1872 and would become the largest cable operating company in the world during the 20th century. History The company was founded in 1872 through an amalgamation of several smaller telegraph companies. Its founding chairman was by John Pender, with Sir James Anderson filling the role of Managing Director. The company predecessors included; ''China Submarine Telegraph Company'', ''British-Indian Submarine Telegraph Company'', Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Telegraph Company, and the ''Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company''. Pender created multiple cable companies due to high risk of cable laying, once successful he would merge these companies together to eventually create Cable & Wireless plc. The company is now a dorman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidcup
Sidcup is an area of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, bordering the London Boroughs of London Borough of Bromley, Bromley and Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greenwich. It was part of Kent prior to the creation of Greater London in 1965. The name is thought to be derived from meaning "seat-shaped or flat-topped hill"; it had its earliest recorded use in 1254. According to the Office for National Statistics, ONS, as of 2021, the population of Sidcup is 15,400 (rounded to the nearest 100). History Origins Sidcup originated as a tiny hamlet on the road from Maidstone to London. According to Edward Hasted, "Thomas de Sedcopp was owner of this estate in the 35th year of king Henry VI of England, Henry VI. [i.e. in the 1450s] as appears by his deed." Hasted described Sidcup in the latter part of the 18th century as "a small street of houses, among which is an inn of much resort", referring to the former Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footscray Place
Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949. Of the three other houses in England, Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire was built 1757 and demolished in 1929; the other two survive: Mereworth Castle (completed 1725, also in Kent) and Chiswick House (completed 1729, in London), both now Grade I listed buildings. A modern fifth example, Henbury Hall, was built near Macclesfield in the 1980s. Another example of a similar structure in England is the Temple of the Four Winds at Castle Howard, which is a garden building not a house. Earlier houses The Kentish manor of Foots Cray is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Later, it was acquired by the Walsingham family and held for six generations until it was sold around 1676. An Elizabethan E-shaped house – also known as Pike Place – was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Denison-Pender (businessman, Died 1929)
Sir John Denison Denison-Pender (born John Denison Pender; 10 October 1855 – 6 March 1929) was chairman and managing director of the Eastern Telegraph Company (later absorbed by Cable & Wireless). Pender (he assumed the additional name of Denison, his mother's maiden name, in 1890) was the third son of Sir John Pender, the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company. His elder half-brother Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet (from Sir John Pender's first marriage) was the first chairman of Eastman Kodak (UK). John was educated at Eton College and in 1878 joined his father's company. He joined the board in 1881 and became managing director in 1893 and also deputy chairman in 1896. In June 1896 Guglielmo Marconi aged 22 applied for his first patent. The technological advances with electro-magnetic waves, that had no need for cables, that Marconi was to instigate would change the entire communications industry forever. In 1901 Eastern Telegraph and Anglo-American threatened Marconi with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northamptonshire Mid (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid Northamptonshire was a county constituency in Northamptonshire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Northampton, the Sessional Divisions of Little Bowden and Northampton, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Daventry (the parishes of Ashby St. Ledgers, Barby, Claycoton Crick, Elkington, Kilsby, Lilboume, Long Buckley, Stanford, Watford, West Haddon, Winwick, and Yelvertoft) and Kettering (the parishes of Draughton, Faxton, Glendon, Harrington, Loddington, Mawsley, Orton, Rothwell, and Thorpe Malsor). History The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1880s Spencer was appointed Groom in Waiting, requiring a by-election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet
Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet (28 September 1841 – 20 May 1921) was a British businessman, yachtsman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1900. Early life Pender was the eldest son from Sir John Pender's first marriage to Marion Cairn. His father was the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company, which later became Cable & Wireless. His younger half-brother was Sir John Denison-Pender, father of John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender. Career He was a Director of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon) taken over decades later by British Insulated Callender's Cables, Director Globe Telegraph Trust, Director Direct United States Cable Company Ltd, Director Eastman Kodak New Jersey, and the Chairman of Eastman Kodak (UK) from 1898 until 1913. He unsuccessfully contested Northamptonshire Mid at the 1892 general election. He was elected at the 1895 general election also sat as Member of Parliament for Mid Northampt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Govan By-election
The 1889 Govan by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 January 1889 for the British House of Commons, in the Govan constituency, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The seat became vacant following the death of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir William Pearce, who died at the age of 55 on 18 December 1888. A major shipbuilder and owner of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Pearce had held the seat since its creation for the 1885 general election. Candidates The Conservatives did not field a candidate, and the seat was contested only by the Liberal Party candidate, John Wilson, and John Pender of the Liberal Unionists. Pender had previously served as a Liberal MP for Totnes in Devon and later for Wick Burghs. Result The result was a victory for Wilson, who held the seat until he stepped down at the 1900 general election. Pender returned to Parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament Constituency)
Glasgow Govan was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for 120 years; from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system. It was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative-Liberal Party (UK), Liberal marginal seat for the first three decades of its existence, before breaking this trend when the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party won the seat in 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918. It remained a Labour-controlled seat for the next fifty-five years, except for a five-year Conservative interlude between 1950 and 1955, until being seized by the Scottish National Party at a by-election in 1973, only to be regained by Labour the following year. The SNP regained the seat at a 1988 by-elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Unionist Party
The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain, the party established a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule. The two parties formed the ten-year-long coalition Unionist Government 1895–1905 but kept separate political funds and their own party organisations until a complete merger between the Liberal Unionist and the Conservative parties was agreed to in May 1912.Ian Cawood, ''The Liberal Unionist Party: A History'' (2012) History Formation The Liberal Unionists owe their origins to the conversion of William Ewart Gladstone to the cause of Irish Home Rule (i.e. limited self-government for Ireland). The 1885 general election had left Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish Nationalists holding the balance of power, and had convinced Gladstone that the Irish wanted and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system. A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832. Boundaries The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs. In 1918 Dornoch and Wick were merged into Caithness and Sutherland, Kirkwall into Orkney and Shetland and Cromarty, Dingwall and Tain into Ross and Cromarty.Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule - Parliamentary Counties, Scotland The first election in Wick Burghs was in 1832. The franchise was extended to wider groups of the population than under the old system of burgh councillors electing a burgh commissioner to participate in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totnes (UK Parliament Constituency)
Totnes was a parliamentary constituency in Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the constituency name was abolished. With to minor boundary changes, it was renamed South Devon at the 2024 general election. History An original parliamentary borough of Totnes or Totness was created in 1295. It returned two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1867 with effect from the 1868 election. The constituency was reformed in 1885, in a much narrower form than previously. It was abolished again at the 1983, largely replaced by the South Hams constituency. In 1997, South Hams was abolished and largely replaced by the reformed Totnes. At the 2024 general election, the name Totnes disappeared once a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
