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1982 Birthday Honours
Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the ''London Gazette'' and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty. The 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours list for the United Kingdom was issued on 11 June 1982 and the lists for Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji were issued on 12 June 1982.Fiji: United Kingdom Life Barons and Baronesses * Miss Elizabeth Patricia Carnegy, Chairman, Manpower Services Commission, Committee for Scotland. * Joseph Gormley, O.B.E. Lately President, National Union of Mineworkers. *Sir Raymond William Pennock. Formerly President, Confederation of British Industry. Privy Counsellors * Robert Washington, The Earl Ferrers, Minister of State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Birthday Honours
The Birthday Honours, in some Commonwealth realms, mark the reigning British monarch's official birthday by granting various individuals appointment into national or dynastic orders or the award of decorations and medals. The honours are presented by the monarch or a viceregal representative. The Birthday Honours are one of two annual honours lists, along with the New Year Honours. All royal honours are published in the relevant gazette. History Honours have been awarded with few exceptions on the sovereign's birthday since at least 1860, during the reign of Queen Victoria. There was no Birthday Honours list issued in 1876, which brought "a good deal of disappointment" and even rebuke for the Ministry of Defence. A lengthy article in the ''Broad Arrow'' newspaper forgave the Queen and criticised Gathorne Hardy for neglecting to award worthy soldiers with the Order of the Bath: "With the War Minister all general patronage of this description rests, and if Mr. Hardy has not seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Gray, Baron Gray Of Contin
James Hector Northey "Hamish" Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, (28 June 1927 – 14 March 2006) was a Scottish Conservative politician and life peer. Gray was born in Inverness and educated at the Inverness Royal Academy. His father owned an Inverness roofing firm. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1945 and served in India, during partition. He married Judith Waite Brydon in 1953 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was elected as an Independent member of Inverness Council in 1965 and at the 1970 general election he was elected to Parliament as the Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross and Cromarty. He was appointed to the Whips' Office in 1971, and he served as a front bench Energy spokesman (1975–1979). Upon the Conservatives' return to government in 1979, he was appointed as the Minister of State for Energy under David Howell, where he remained until the 1983 general election, when he was defeated in the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's highest-circulated daily newspaper. Its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Ted Verity, who succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DMG Media
DMG Media (stylised in lowercase) is an intermediate holding company for Associated Newspapers, Northcliffe Media, Harmsworth Printing, Harmsworth Media and other subsidiaries of Daily Mail and General Trust. It is based at Northcliffe House in Kensington. Associated Newspapers Limited was established in 1905 and owns the ''Daily Mail'', MailOnline, ''The'' ''Mail on Sunday'', ''Metro'', Metro.co.uk, ''i newspaper'', inews.co.uk and New Scientist. Its portfolio of national newspapers, websites and mobile and tablet applications regularly reach 63%Published Audience Measurement Company (PAMCo) data released January 2022. of the GB adult population every month: it includes two major paid-for national newspaper titles as well as a free nationally available newspaper. The firm is also responsible for overseeing and developing the Group's online consumer businesses and for the group's UK newspaper printing operations. Harmsworth Printing Limited produces all of its London, South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David English (editor)
Sir David English (26 May 1931 – 10 June 1998) was a British journalist and newspaper editor, best known for his two-decade editorship of the ''Daily Mail''. Biography English was born in Oxford, and educated at Bournemouth School. His father having died in 1930, young David developed a close relationship with his grandfather, Alf, who instilled in him a love of newspapers. David's mother, Kitty, was a journalist who was keen to see her son attend university, and upon learning that he would rather work in journalism, emphasised the negative aspects of that profession, in an attempt to dissuade him. However, aged 16 and encouraged by Alf, he joined the local ''Christchurch Times'' and then had a brief period with the ''News'' in Portsmouth, moving to London before he was 20. English began his national newspaper career at the ''Daily Mirror'' in 1951. He made little impact there and left in 1953 due to his poor relationship with news editor Ken Hord. At one point he worked at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NHS Regional Health Authorities (before 1996)
From 1974 to 1996 the NHS in England was administered by regional health authorities. The regions closely followed the areas of the previous regional hospital boards established in 1947, but in many cases they were renamed. Each region was subdivided into area and district health authorities, whose disposition as at 1991 is listed below. In 1996 the regional health authorities were reorganised as NHS health authorities. An Order in 1994 re-organised these into eight regional health authorities, as follows *Northern and Yorkshire – Cleveland, north Cumbria, Durham, Humberside, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire *Trent – most of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire *Anglia and Oxford – Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk *North Thames – Essex, Hertfordshire, North London *South Thames (South East Thames & South West Thames) – Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Chetwynd
Sir George Roland Chetwynd, (14 May 1916 – 2 September 1982) was a British lecturer, politician and public servant. He defeated Harold Macmillan to get elected as a member of parliament, but later left Parliament to become Director of the North East Development Council for five years in the 1960s. Education Chetwynd was the son of a miner, and was brought up in north Warwickshire. An academically gifted child, he passed the Eleven plus and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Atherstone; he then won a place at King's College London where he obtained a BA (Hons.) in History and a postgraduate scholarship in the same subject. He joined the Labour Party in 1936 and earned a living by being a lecturer for the Workers Educational Association. Wartime service In 1940, during the Second World War, Chetwynd enlisted in the Royal Artillery. Two years later he was commissioned into the Royal Army Educational Corps where he trained troops; by the end of the war he held the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Of Fair Trading
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was a non-ministerial government department of the United Kingdom, established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforced both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the United Kingdom's economic regulator. The OFT's goal was to make markets work well for consumers, ensuring vigorous competition between fair dealing businesses and prohibiting unfair practices such as rogue trading, scams, and cartels. Its role was modified and its powers changed with the Enterprise Act 2002. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced reforms to the consumer protection and competition regimes. Under the provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was established on 1 April 2014, combining many of the functions of the OFT and the Competition Commission and superseding both. Regulation for the consumer credit industry passed from the OFT to the new Financial Conduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Borrie
Gordon Johnson Borrie, Baron Borrie, (13 March 1931 – 30 September 2016) was an English lawyer and Labour Party life peer. Born in Croydon, he was educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, North Wales. A lawyer by training, he practised at the Bar before becoming a law lecturer. Knighted in 1982, he was professor of law and dean of the faculty of law at Birmingham University and became a Queen's Counsel in 1986. He was a bencher of the Middle Temple. As director general of fair trading, he was in charge of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992. He chaired the Labour Party's Commission on Social Justice from 1992 to 1994 and was created a life peer as Baron Borrie, ''of Abbots Morton in the County of Hereford and Worcester'' on 21 December 1995. He served on the Council of the Consumers' Association and has written on consumer law. He was also president of the Institute of Trading Standards from 1992 to 1996, and was chairman of the Direct Marketing Authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rye (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832. From the 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 general election, when the town of Rye itself was transferred to the redrawn Hastings constituency where it remained until 1955 when it returned to the re-created Rye seat. The constituency was re-created for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Hastings and Rye, the Sessional Divisions of Battle, Burwash, Frant, Hastings, and Rye, the ancient town of Winchelsea, and the Liberty of the Sluice and Petit Iham. 1918–1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Bexhill and Rye, the Urban District of Battle, the Rural Districts of Battle, Hastings, Rye, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Deputy Chairman Of Ways And Means
In the United Kingdom, the Chairman of Ways and Means is a senior member of the House of Commons who acts as one of the Speaker's three deputies. The incumbent is Dame Eleanor Laing, MP for Epping Forest, who was first elected to the office on 8 January 2020. History and functions The Chairman of Ways and Means is the principal Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, presiding over the House in the Speaker's absence. The chairman also takes the chair of the Committee of the Whole House. The chairman's title is derived from their role in the former Committee of Ways and Means, which was abolished in 1967. The chairman's connection with the financial responsibilities of this committee gave rise to the tradition that the chairman presides over the annual budget debate, although there is no reason why the Speaker cannot do so if he or she chooses. The chairman is always a senior Member of the House, often with experience of chairing standing committees, and sometimes also of being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godman Irvine
Sir Bryant Godman Irvine (25 July 1909 – 3 May 1992) was a Canadian-born British Conservative politician. Early life Irvine was born to William Henry and Ada Mary Irvine and raised in Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and then moved to Britain to attend St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1932, and was a farmer. During World War II Irvine was a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Political career Irvine contested Wood Green in 1951. He was Member of Parliament for Rye from 1955 to 1983. He was secretary of the 1922 Committee 1965–66, and from 1976 to 1982 he served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons under George Thomas. In the 1986 New Year Honours, Irvine was knighted A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
