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John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl Of Cranbrook
John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook, (22 March 1839 – 13 July 1911) was a British hereditary peer, Conservative politician, and military officer. Early life Born John Stewart Hardy, Lord Cranbrook was the eldest son of the Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Stewart Orr. He assumed the additional surname of Gathorne by Royal licence in 1878 and when his father was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Cranbrook in 1892, he gained the courtesy title of Lord Medway. Cranbrook was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.Burke's Peerage (2003). p. 941. Career Cranbrook was elected to the House of Commons for Rye in 1868, a seat he held until 1880, and later represented Mid Kent from 1884 to 1885 and Medway from 1885 to 1892. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. He was made an honorary Colonel in the 5th Weald of Kent Battalion, The Buffs. He was Deputy lieutenant and Justice of the peace, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medway (UK Parliament Constituency)
Medway was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1983 and 2010. A previous constituency of the same name existed from 1885 to 1918. Boundaries 1885–1918 The Mid or Medway Division of Kent was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It comprised a rural area consisting of the petty sessional divisions of Bearstead, Rochester and part of List of Rural Districts in England and Wales 1894 - 1930#Kent, Malling PSD, but did not include the Medway Towns which were comprised in the parliamentary boroughs of Chatham (UK Parliament constituency), Chatham and Rochester (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester. It also surrounded, but did not include the town of Maidstone. It comprised these parishes: * Addington, Kent, Addington * Allhallows * Allington, Kent, Allington * Aylesford * Bearsted * Bicknor * Birling, Kent, Birling * Boughton Malherbe * Boughton Monchelsea * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1892 for Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook. The title is named after Cranbrook, Kent, Cranbrook in the county of Kent. The Gathorne-Hardy family seat is Great Glemham, Great Glemham House, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. History It was created in 1892 for the prominent Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, son of John Hardy (MP for Bradford), John Hardy. He notably held office as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for India. Gathorne-Hardy gained the warm-personal regard of Queen Victoria, and had already been created Viscount Cranbrook, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, in 1878, and was made Baron Medway, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, at the same time he was given the earldom. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Warde, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Edward Warde, 1st Baronet (20 December 1845 – 12 April 1937) was a Conservative Party politician in England who served as a member of parliament (MP) from 1892 to 1918. He was born in Ireland, the son of General Sir Edward Warde and his wife Jane Lane. He was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt, at the 1892 general election, for the Medway constituency, and held that seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election. He did not stand for Parliament again. He was an officer in the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars, and on 13 September 1899 was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in command of the West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own). He was granted the honorary rank of colonel on 31 January 1900. In 1908, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent. He was made a baronet on 11 September 1919, of Barham Court Barham Court is an English country house in the village of Teston, Kent. History It was once the home of Reginald Fitz Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet
Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (11 July 1835 – 17 December 1886) was an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1859 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for West Kent. The seat had previously been held by his father, the 8th Baronet from 1838 until his death in 1857, but that 9th Baronet's tenure was shorter since he did not defend his seat at the next general election, 1865. He was appointed Sheriff of Kent for 1870. Fifteen years later, Filmer returned to Parliament when he was elected at the 1880 general election as MP for Mid Kent.Craig, op. cit., page 406 However he resigned his seat in 1884, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. Sir Edmund was married to Mary Georgina Filmer (née Cecil, 1838–1903), an early proponent of photomontage Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet PC, DL, JP (7 August 1837 – 3 July 1931) was an English Conservative politician and tennis pioneer. Background and education The second son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 6th Baronet and Elizabeth Wells, Hart Dyke was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated M.A. in 1864.E. I. Carlyle, ‘Dyke, Sir William Hart, seventh baronet (1837–1931)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 12 July 2017/ref> He was described as "one of the best amateur rackets players of his day". In 1862, won the Rackets World Championships from a professional player ( Francis Erwood) at the Prince's Club, which was the former headquarters of rackets. In 1873 he played lawn tennis in a significant early match with John Moyer Heathcote and Julian Marshall at his home of Lullingstone Castle. In 1875 with Heathcote he was a member of the Marylebone Cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Andrew Inderwick
Frederick Andrew Inderwick King's Counsel, KC (23 April 1836 – 16 August 1904) was an English lawyer, antiquarian, and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. As a barrister he mainly took divorce cases, which at the time was thought to have impeded his progress to judge. Early life Frederick Andrew Inderwick was born in London, the son of Capt. Andrew Inderwick R.N. and his wife Jane Hudson, daughter of Joseph Hudson. He was educated privately in Leicestershire and was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1851. Career Inderwick was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1855 and called to the Bar 26 January 1858. He went on the South Eastern Circuit and practised in the probate and divorce courts. Inderwick stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Cirencester (UK Parliament constituency), Cirencester in 1868 and at Dover (UK Parliament constituency), Dover in 1874. In 1874, he became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel located in the Strand in the City of Westminster in central London, England. Built by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan opera productions, it opened on 6 August 1889. It was the first in the Savoy group of hotels and restaurants owned by Carte's family for over a century. The Savoy was the first hotel in Britain to introduce electric lights throughout the building, electric lifts, bathrooms in most of the lavishly furnished rooms, constant hot and cold running water and many other innovations. Carte hired César Ritz as manager and Auguste Escoffier as '' chef de cuisine''; they established an unprecedented standard of quality in hotel service, entertainment and elegant dining, attracting royalty and other rich and powerful guests and diners. The hotel became Carte's most successful venture. Its bands, Savoy Orpheans and the Savoy Havana Band, became famous, and other entertainers (who were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert D'Oyly Carte
Rupert D'Oyly Carte (; 3 November 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948. Son of the impresario and hotelier Richard D'Oyly Carte, Rupert inherited the family businesses from his stepmother Helen Carte, Helen. After serving in the First World War, he took steps to revitalise the opera company, which had not appeared in central London since 1909, hiring new designers and conductors to present fresh productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in seasons in the West End theatre, West End. The new productions generally retained the original text and music of the operas. Carte launched international and provincial tours, as well as the London seasons, and he released the first complete recordings of the operas. He also rebuilt the half-century-old Savoy Theatre in 1929, opening the house with a season of Gilbert and Sullivan. As an hotelier, Cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Gathorne-Hardy
General Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, (14 January 1874 – 21 August 1949) was a British First World War General officer who served in Italy and the Western Front. Background and early life Gathorne-Hardy was born in 1874, a younger son of John Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook, and Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina Ridgway. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Military career Gathorne-Hardy joined the British Army as a commissioned second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 10 October 1894, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1898. In early February 1900 he was seconded for special service in South Africa, where he was involved with Army transport duties during the Second Boer War. He was promoted to captain on 2 May 1900. During later stages of the war he served with the Lovat Scouts, and only left South Africa after the war had ended, in July 1902. For his service in the war he received the brevet rank of major on 22 August 1902. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaxtol
Plaxtol is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The village is located around north of Tonbridge and the same distance east of Sevenoaks. In the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 1,117. The name Plaxtol is believed to be derived from Old English words meaning "play area"; there used to be a large green in the middle of the village where children would play after attending church on a Sunday. The current parish church building dates from 1648, in the Commonwealth period. The River Bourne flows through the parish, and formerly powered three watermills in Plaxtol – Winfield Mill (corn), Longmill (corn) and Roughway Paper Mill. The village has a primary school, a village shop, a pottery school and a pub; it also once had a bakery and a butcher. The 1,000-acre Fairlawne Estate adjoining the village of Shipbourne was owned by Sir Henry Vane the Elder, in the 17th century, and was owned by the Cazalet family in the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. One of the oldest extant institutions in the world, its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century. In contrast to the House of Commons, membership of the Lords is not generally acquired by Elections in the United Kingdom, election. Most members are Life peer, appointed for life, on either a political or non-political basis. House of Lords Act 1999, Hereditary membership was limited in 1999 to 92 List of excepted hereditary peers, excepted hereditary peers: 90 elected through By-elections to the House of Lords, internal by-elections, plus the Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain as members Ex officio member, ''ex officio''. No members directly inherit their seats any longer. The House of Lords also includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
