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1904 St Albans By-election
The 1904 St Albans by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England in February 1904 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. It elected a new Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans, a county division of Hertfordshire. It was the first contested parliamentary election in St Albans since 1892. The two-way contest was dominated by the contemporary debate between free trade and tariff reform, and fought with the assistance of the major national organisations on both sides of that divide. It also reflected the wider national divide between high church Conservatism and Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist Liberalism. After a campaign marred by several incidents of unrest, the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party candidate narrowly won the seat from the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives, who had held the seat sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bamford Slack
Sir John Bamford Slack (11 July 1857 – 11 February 1909) was a British politician, member of the Liberal Party (United Kingdom), Liberal Party and Methodist lay preacher. Life Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 1857. His Classical liberalism, Liberal Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann (born Bamford) and Thomas Slack. His maternal grandfather made bricks and his younger sister was the temperance activist Agnes Elizabeth Slack. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons for the constituency of St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans at the 1904 St Albans by-election, replacing Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP), Vicary Gibbs. In 1905, he introduced a bill for women's suffrage, which was talked out. He received a knighthood. He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton (died 1932), who after his death; became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicary Gibbs MP
Vicary may refer to: Given name * Vicary Gibbs (1751–1820), English judge and politician * Vicary Gibbs, 6th Baron Aldenham (born 1948), British peer * Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP) (1853–1932), British barrister, merchant and Conservative politician Surname * James Vicary (born 1915), American mind-control theorist * Renee Lynn Vicary (1957–2002), American competitive bodybuilder * Richard Vicary Richard Vicary (8 July 1918 – 8 August 2006) was a British artist and printmaker. He was born in Sutton, Surrey, UK on 8 July 1918. His father was the clergyman W. W. Vicary who also wrote novels under the pseudonym Simon Jesty. He studied at ... (1918–2006), British artist and printmaker See also * Vicarage * Vicari, a commune in Palermo, Italy * Vicary House (other) {{disambiguation, surname English given names English masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Swiftsure (1903)
HMS ''Swiftsure'', originally known as ''Constitución'', was the lead ship of the pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship was ordered by the Chilean Navy, but she was purchased by the United Kingdom as part of ending the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. In British service, ''Swiftsure'' was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and Channel Fleets before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1909. She rejoined Home Fleet in 1912 and was transferred to the East Indies Station in 1913, to act as its flagship. After the beginning of World War I in August 1914, ''Swiftsure'' escorted troop convoys in the Indian Ocean until she was transferred to the Suez Canal Patrol in December. After defending the Canal in early 1915 from Ottoman attacks, the ship was then transferred to the Dardanelles in February and saw action in the Dardanelles Campaign bombarding Ottoman fortifications. ''Swiftsure'' was assigned to convoy escort duties in the Atlantic from early 1916 until she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Triumph (1903)
HMS ''Triumph'', originally known as ''Libertad'', was the second of the two pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered by the Chilean Navy, but she was purchased by the United Kingdom as part of ending the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. ''Triumph'' was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and Channel Fleets before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1909. The ship briefly rejoined the Home Fleet in 1912 before she was transferred abroad to the China Station in 1913. ''Triumph'' participated in the hunt for the German East Asia Squadron of Maximilian Graf von Spee and in the campaign against the German colony at Tsingtao, China early in World War I. The ship was transferred to the Mediterranean in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign against the Ottoman Empire. She was torpedoed and sunk off Gaba Tepe by the German submarine on 25 May 1915. Design and description ''Triumph'' was ordered by Chile, with the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy ( es, Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense. Its headquarters are at Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso. History Origins and the Wars of Independence (1817–1830) The origins of the Chilean Navy date back to 1817, when General Bernardo O'Higgins prophetically declared after the Chilean victory at the Battle of Chacabuco that a hundred such victories would count for nothing if Chile did not gain control of the sea. This led to the development of the Chilean Navy, and the first legal resolutions outlining the organization of the institution were created. Chile's First National Fleet and the Academy for Young Midshipmen, which was the predecessor of the current Naval Academy, were founded, as well as the Marine Corps and the Supply Commissary. The first commander of the Chilean Navy was Manuel Blanco Encalada. Famous British naval commander Lord Cochrane, who former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pre-dreadnought Battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late- 1880s and 1905, before the launch of in 1906. The pre-dreadnought ships replaced the ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, protected by case-hardened steel armour, and powered by coal-fired triple-expansion steam engines, pre-dreadnought battleships carried a main battery of very heavy guns in fully enclosed rotating turrets supported by one or more secondary batteries of lighter weapons. In contrast to the multifarious development of ironclad warships in preceding decades, the 1890s saw navies worldwide start to build battleships to a common design as dozens of ships essentially followed the design of the Royal Navy's . The similarity in appearance of battleships in the 1890s was underlined by the increasing number of ships being built. New naval powers such as Germany, Japan, the United States, and to a lesser extent Italy and Austria-Hungary, began to establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Admiralty
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and the absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Gibbs & Sons
Antony Gibbs & Sons was a British trading company, established in London in 1802, whose interests spanned trading in cloth, guano, wine and fruit, and led to it becoming involved in banking, shipping and insurance. Having been family-owned via a partnership from its foundation, by the turn of the 20th century it was focused on banking and insurance. Floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1973, it was bought by HSBC in 1981 and formed the basis of its insurance broking arm, now part of global insurance company Marsh & McLennan. Background Antony Gibbs (1756–1816) from Clyst St Mary, Devon, was the fourth son of Dr. George Abraham Gibbs (1718–1794), who rose to be Chief Surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. After leaving Exeter Grammar School, Antony was apprenticed to merchant Nicholas Brooke, whose firm traded with Spain exporting locally made woollen cloth. Brooke sent Anthony to Madrid, where he developed Spanish language skills, and an extensive personal network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of London (UK Parliament Constituency)
The City of London was a United Kingdom Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary constituency. It was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the British House of Commons, House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950. Boundaries and boundary changes This borough constituency (or 'parliamentary borough/burgh') consisted of the City of London, which is at the very centre of Greater London. The only change by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 was to include Temple, London, The Temple. Bounded south by the River Thames, Thames, the City adjoins City of Westminster, Westminster westward, enfranchised in 1545.[The House of Commons 1509–1558, by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982)] In other directions a web of tiny liberties and parishes of diverse size adjoined from medieval times until the 20th century. Most of the population of Middlesex wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alban Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham
Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham (23 April 1846 – 9 May 1936), was a British Conservative Party politician and peer, the son of Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham. He was elected at the 1892 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London, and held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons on 14 February 1906 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He succeeded to the title Baron Aldenham on 13 September 1907. He married Bridget Beresford-Hope, daughter of Alexander Beresford-Hope Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and Co ..., on 18 February 1873. They had three children: *Catherine Louisa Gibbs (1875–1967) *Mildred Dorothea Gibbs (1876–1961) *Gerald Henry Beresf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Triumph (1903) As Completed January 1904
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Triumph''. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched: * English ship ''Triumph'' (1562) was a 68-gun galleon built in 1561. She was rebuilt in 1596, and sold in 1618. * was a 44-gun ship launched in 1623 and broken up in 1687. * was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1698. She was renamed HMS ''Prince'' in 1714, rebuilt in 1750 and broken up in 1773. * was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the Spanish ''San Cristóbal'' (1735), (alias ''Triunfo''). She was captured in 1739 and foundered in 1740. * was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1764. She was used for harbour service from 1813 and was broken up in 1850. * HMS ''Triumph'' was to have been a 91-gun screw propelled ''Bulwark''-class second rate. She was renamed before her launch in 1862 as a armoured frigate. * was a ''Swiftsure''-class battleship launched in 1870. She was renamed HMS ''Tenedos'' in 1904, being used as a depot ship, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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