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1891 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1891 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the United Kingdom, British India and in the British Empire. They were announced in ''The Times'' on 1 January 1891, and the various honours were gazetted in ''The London Gazette'' on 1 January 1891, 7 January 1891, and 13 January 1891. The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil). Peerages Baron * Sir Francis Sandford, KCB. * Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, Bart. Baronet * The Right Honourable Sir Hercules George Robinson, GCMG. * Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, GCB. * Thomas Brooks, Esq., Rawtenstall. * Richard Quain, Esq., M.D., FRS. Knight Bachelor * Colonel James Godfray, ADC. * Francis Ringler Drummond Hay, Esq., late Consul-General in Tripoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Quain (Irish Physician)
Sir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet, (30 October 1816 – 13 March 1898) was an Irish people, Irish physician. Life He was born at Mallow, County Cork, Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, County Cork, and died in Harley Street, London. Quain was the eldest child of John Quain of Carraig Dhúin (Carrigoon), Cork (city), Cork and Mary, daughter of Michael Burke of Mallow, County Cork, Mallow, Cork. He was sent to the Diocesan School at Cloyne for his early education and then, aged 15, apprenticed to the surgeon-apothecary Fraser in Limerick for five years. In 1837 he enrolled in medicine at the University College London, where his cousins, Jones Quain (1796–1865), the anatomist, and Richard Quain, FRCS, held teaching posts. He graduated M.B. with honours in 1840. Family He was a cousin of Jones Quain (1796–1865), the author of ''Quain's Elements of Anatomy'' and of Richard Quain (surgeon), Richard Quain, who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, Royal College of Surgeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Loughlin O'Malley
Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley (17 February 1842 – 16 August 1932) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as Attorney General and Chief Justice of a number of British colonies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His last position before retirement was as Chief Justice of the British Supreme consular court in the Ottoman Empire. Early life O'Malley was born into an Anglo-Irish family on 17 February 1842, the son of Peter Frederick O'Malley, QC. The O'Malley family were originally from County Mayo in the west of Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1864, M.A. 1868) and called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1866 and practised on the Norfolk and South Eastern Circuits. He ran unsuccessfully for the seat of Bedford as a Conservative candidate in 1868. Family In 1869, he married Emma Winifred Hardcastle, daughter of Joseph Hardcastle, MP. Emma was a botanist and collected plants in Hong Kong and Jamaica. Her plants are in the British Museum (Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of Bermuda
The Chief Justice of Bermuda is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Bermuda. Chief Justices *2018–present Narinder Hargun *2012–2018 Ian Kawaley *2004–2012 Richard Ground *1993-2004 Sir Austin Ward *1977-1993 Sir James Rufus Astwood *1973–1977 Sir John Crampton Summerfield (later Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, 1978) *1968–1973 Sir George Oswald Ratteray *1961–1968 Sir Myles John Abbott *''1960–1961 Sir Allen C. Smith (acting)'' *1958–1960 Sir Newnham Arthur Worley *1952–1958 Joseph Trounsell Gilbert *1941–1952 Sir Cyril Gerard Brooke Francis *''1939–1941 R. C. Hollis Hallett (acting)'' *1927–1939 Sydney Orme Rowan-Hamilton *1924–1927 Sir Kenneth James Beatty *1917–1923 Sir Colin Rees-Davies *1912–1917 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff *1904–1911 Sir Henry Cowper Gollan (afterwards Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, 1911) *1900–1904 Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray *1878–1899 Sir Josiah Rees *1872–1877 Thomas Lett Wood *1856–187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lord Mayors Of Plymouth
This is a list of some notable mayors and all the later lord mayors of the city of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. Plymouth had elected a mayor annually since 1439. The city was awarded the dignity of a lord mayoralty by letters patent Letters patent ( la, litterae patentes) ( always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, titl ... dated 6 May 1935. The dignity was granted as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of George V.J V Beckett, ''City Status in the British Isles, 1830-2002'', Aldershot, 2005 When the city became a non-metropolitan borough in 1974 the honour was confirmed by letters patent dated 1 April 1974. Mayors of Plymouth Source: https://new.plymouth.gov.uk/list-past-lord-mayors Lord Mayors of Plymouth References {{Lists of mayors in the United Kingdom Plymouth, Lord Mayors of the City of Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare. The RSPCA is funded primarily by voluntary donations. Founded in 1824, it is the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the world and is one of the largest charities in the UK. The organisation also does international outreach work across Europe, Africa and Asia. The charity's work has inspired the creation of similar groups in other jurisdictions, starting with the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (founded in 1836), and including the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1839), the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1840), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866), the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1882), the Singapore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1959) and various groups which eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Samuel Measom
Sir George Samuel Measom (3 December 1818 – 1 March 1901) was a British engraver and publisher who compiled guides to railway travel in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. In later life he became involved in charitable works, and was knighted in 1891. Biography Measom was born in Blackheath, Kent, the son of Daniel Measom, a carver and gilder. In 1842, he married Sarah Hillman. During the 1840s, he developed his skills as an engraver and in 1849 published ''The Bible: its Elevating Influence on Man'', a moral tale in illustrated form. From the 1850s onwards much of Measom's work related to descriptions of railways; first railway work was the 1852 ''Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway''. His railway works described the railways from the practical standpoint of a traveller, and all publications after the first took a title of the form ''The Official Illustrated Guide to ... ''. By 1867 his book covered the entire British network. Sarah died in 1867, after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is most famous as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel, Cavendish Laboratory, and the Cambridge University Library, one of the largest legal deposit libraries in the world. The city's skyline is dominated by several college buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Murray Humphry
Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS (18 July 1820 – 24 September 1896) was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer. Life He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, a barrister. He was educated at the grammar schools of Sudbury and Dedham, and in 1836 he was apprenticed to John Green Crosse, surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In 1839 he left Norwich and entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he came under the influence of Peter Mere Latham, William Lawrence, and James Paget. He passed the first M.B. examination at the London University in 1840, obtaining the gold medal in anatomy and physiology; but did not present himself for the final examination. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 19 November 1841, and on 12 May 1842 he became a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. In the same year three of the surg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunians". Historically part of Staffordshire, the city grew initially as a market town specialising in the wool trade. In the Industrial Revolution, it became a major centre for coal mining, steel production, lock making, and the manufacture of cars and motorcycles. The economy of the city is still based on engineering, including a large aerospace industry, as well as the service sector. Toponym The city is named after Wulfrun, who founded the town in 985, from the Anglo-Saxon ''Wulfrūnehēantūn'' ("Wulfrūn's high or principal enclosure or farm"). Before the Norman Conquest, the area's name appears only as variants of ''Heantune'' or ''Hamtun'', the prefix ''Wulfrun'' or similar appearing in 1070 and thereafter. Alternatively, the city ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet
Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet (3 July 1830 – 11 March 1910) was a British industrialist and Conservative party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) between 1885 and 1906. Hickman was the son of George Rushbury Hickman of Tipton, Staffordshire and his wife Mary Haden. His father was the owner of the Moat Colliery in Tipton. Hickman was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He became a colliery proprietor and ironmaster, as the family acquired Springvale Furnace in 1866. He was a director of Lloyd's Staffordshire Proving House, a Member of Council of the Mining Association of Great Britain, and chairman of Staffordshire Railway and Canal Freighter's Association. In 1882 he formed the Staffordshire Steel Ingot & Iron Company Ltd to produce steel using the Bessemer process. Hickman stood for parliament for the Conservatives at Wolverhampton in 1880 but was defeated. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the Wolverhampton constituency was divided and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
