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List Of Mayors Of Birmingham
This is a list of the Mayors in England, mayors and lord mayors of Birmingham in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Birmingham has had a mayor (and elected council) since 1838. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor when Queen Victoria issued letters patent on 3 June 1896. By modern convention, the Lord Mayor stands for a year, and is installed into office at the Annual Meeting of the City Council. Lord Mayors are non-political and non-executive during their term of office and act as chair of the council. As the First Citizen of Birmingham, the Lord Mayor represents not only the city but also the people of Birmingham. The honour of being Lord Mayor is now usually alternated between the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative, Labour Party (UK), Labour and Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Groups. In normal circumstances the Lord Mayor becomes Deputy Lord Mayor for the following year. Mayors of Birmingham 1838–1895 Lord Mayors of Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the List of English districts by population, largest local authority district in England by population and the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of million people in the city proper in . Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. The urban area has a population of 2.65million. Located in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Beale
Samuel Beale (4 June 1803 – 11 September 1874) was a British Liberal Party politician, banker and industrialist. Early life Beale was born in Birmingham in 1803 to William and Sarah and, in 1823, married Emma Butcher, daughter of Unitarian minister Edmund Butcher. At some point this marriage ended, and he remarried to a Mary. He had at least two sons, William Lansdowne (born 1828–29) and Arthur, and two daughters. He was also the uncle of William Beale, a barrister and fellow Liberal politician.Andrew Rowley, Beale family in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', OUP online, 2004–12 In early life he was a glass and lead merchant before, in 1836, founded the Birmingham and Midland Bank. He also became Director of Union Bank UK. In 1844, he became Chairman of the Midland Railway, a post he held for 20 years, and in 1849 a Justice of the Peace for Birmingham. In 1853, he was an ironmaster and partner in the Park Gate Iron and Steel Company. Political career Beale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Ratcliff
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men who are knights and belong to certain orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the ''suo jure'' female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms, or Miss. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T P T Hodgson
T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''tee'' (pronounced ), plural ''tees''. It is derived from the Semitic Taw 𐤕 of the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw ת/𐡕/, Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ) via the Greek letter τ (tau). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the voiceless alveolar plosive, a sound it also denotes in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second-most commonly used letter in English-language texts. History ''Taw'' was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ''Taw'', the Greek alphabet Tαυ (''Tau''), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these, and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. Us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Baldwin (politician)
James Arthur Baldwin (Birth name, né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel ''Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel), Go Tell It on the Mountain'' has been ranked by ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine as one of the top 100 Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, English-language novels. His 1955 essay collection ''Notes of a Native Son'' helped establish his reputation as a voice for human equality. Baldwin was an influential public figure and orator, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States. Baldwin's fiction posed fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures. Themes of masculinity, sexuality, Race (human categorization), race, and Social class, class intertwine to create intricate narratives that influenced both the civil rights movement and the gay liberation movement in mid-twentiet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hawkes (Birmingham Mayor)
Henry Hawkes B.A., FLS. (1805–1886) was an English unitarian clergyman and author, born at Dukinfield, now part of Greater Manchester. He is best known for his memoir of the ragged schools originator John Pounds (1766—1839), to whom he was introduced in 1833, soon after arriving in Portsmouth to serve as a minister. His published works include sermons and ''The Passover Moon'' (1878) a study of the divinity of Christ. He was christened on 28 April 1805 at the Old Chapel-Presbyterian, in Dukinfield. He befriended John Pounds while serving as the Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in High Street.King, AlanPortsmouth Encyclopaedia: A History of Places and People in Portsmouth. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2013 In 1881 he was retired and lodging in Elm Grove Marston Lodge in Portsea, Portsmouth Portsea Island is a flat and low-lying natural island in area, just off the southern coast of Hampshire in England. The island contains the majority of the city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lucy (Birmingham Mayor)
William Lucy (1594–1677) was an English clergyman. He was Bishop of St David's after the English Restoration of 1660. Life Lucy was a student at Trinity College, Oxford. He belonged to the Arminian party, and became Rector of Burghclere in 1619, Highclere in 1621. He became Bishop of St Davids upon the Restoration in 1660 — he was elected to the See on 11 October 1660, confirmed 17 November, and consecrated a bishop on 2 December 1660. In the mid-1660s, Lucy clashed with William Nicholson, Bishop of Gloucester, over Nicholson's visiting rights as Archdeacon of Brecon. Lucy won the resulting court case. William Lucy's tomb and wall monument are at Christ College, Brecon. The tomb is by William Stanton. He rebuilt the church there, demolished in the Civil War period. Opponent of Hobbes In 1657, William Lucy published an attack on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular on ''Leviathan'' (1651), using the pseudonym ''William Pyke, Christophilus'', and cir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Bank
Midland Bank plc was one of the Big Four (banks)#United Kingdom, Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It expanded in the English Midlands, Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London in 1891, becoming the London City and Midland Bank. After a period of nationwide expansion, including the acquisition of many smaller banks, the name Midland Bank Ltd was adopted in 1923. By 1934, it was the largest deposit bank in the world. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but in June 1992, it was taken over by HSBC, HSBC Holdings plc, which phased out the Midland Bank name by June 1999 in favour of HSBC Bank. On 10 June 2015, HSBC announced that it would be rebranding its branches in the United Kingdom. HSBC chairman Douglas Flint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Geach
Charles Geach (1808 – 1 November 1854) was an English businessman, industrialist, banker and politician of the early to mid-19th century, strongly associated with banking and manufacturing interests. He was a co-founder and the first general manager of the Midland Bank, the first treasurer of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a prominent investor in several major engineering businesses, and MP for Coventry from 1851 to his premature death, aged 46, in 1854. Banking career Geach was born in St Austell, Cornwall, and through family connections in Penryn secured a junior position at the Bank of England. A diligent employee, he was selected to establish a branch of the bank in Birmingham in 1826. He became well-known and trusted in the city, helping establish two new banks, but despite his efforts to establish the first, the Town and District Bank, founded on 1 July 1836, he was not appointed manager. Almost simultaneously, however, when local businessmen believed the Birm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martineau Family
The Martineau family is an intellectual, business (banking, breweries, textile manufacturing) and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later also London and Birmingham, England. Many members of the family have been knighted. Many family members were prominent Unitarianism, Unitarians; a room in London's Essex Hall, the headquarters building of the British Unitarians, was named after them. Martineau Place in Birmingham's central business district was named in their honour. Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), the sociologist and abolitionist, is the family's most celebrity, celebrated member. In Birmingham, several of its members have been List of mayors of Birmingham, Lord Mayor. They worshipped at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, Church of the Messiah. As Unitarian, they married into families of the same denomination, such as the Wilfred Byng Kenrick, Kenricks and the Joseph Chamberlain, Chamberlains, though Harriet eventually became an atheist in contras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Phillips (politician)
Thomas Phillips (18 October 1770 – 20 April 1845) was a leading English portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ... and subject painter. He painted many of the notable men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers. Life and work Phillips was born at Dudley, England, Dudley, then in Worcestershire. Having learnt glass-painting in Birmingham under Francis Eginton, he visited London in 1790 with an introduction to Benjamin West, who found him employment on the painted-glass windows of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, St George's Chapel at Windsor. In 1791 he became a student at the Royal Academy, where, in 1792 he exhibited a view of Windsor Castle, followed in the next two years by the ''Death of Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James James (Birmingham Mayor)
James James (also known by the bardic name ''Iago ap Ieuan'') (1832–1902) was a Welsh harpist and musician from Hollybush, Blackwood, Wales. He composed the tune of the Welsh national anthem ''Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'' (also known as ''Land of my Fathers''). Today, the same tune is also used for the Breton anthem, ''Bro Gozh ma Zadoù'', and the Cornish anthem, ''Bro Goth agan Tasow''. Life James was born on 4 November 1832, at the 'Ancient Druid Inn', Hollybush, in the parish of Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. He was the son of Evan James (1809–1878) and Elizabeth Stradling of Caerphilly. His father, a Welsh poet who wrote under the pen-name of ''leuan ab lago'', moved with his family to Pontypridd, where he carried on the business of weaver and wool merchant, in about 1844. His son James assisted him in the business. James James composed the melody which was later to be known as ''Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'' in January 1856. Its initial title was ''Glan Rhondda'' (The banks of the Rhon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
