Baron Biddulph
Baron Biddulph, of Ledbury in the County of Hereford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 August 1903 for the banker and politician Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph, Michael Biddulph. He was a partner in the London banking firm of Cocks Biddulph, Cocks, Biddulph and Co and also sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons for Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Herefordshire as a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal from 1868 to 1885 and for Ross (UK Parliament constituency), Ross from 1885 to 1900 as a Liberal Unionist. His father Robert Biddulph (MP), Robert Biddulph had previously represented Hereford (UK Parliament constituency), Hereford in Parliament while his younger brother Robert Biddulph (governor), Sir Robert Biddulph was Governor of Gibraltar. the title is held by the first Baron's great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1988. In 1978 he assumed the additional surname of Maitland, which is the mai ...
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Biddulph is a town in Staffordshire, England, north of Stoke-on-Trent and south-east of Congleton, Cheshire. Origin of the name Biddulph's name may come from Old English language, Anglo-Saxon/Old English ''bī dylfe'' = "beside the pit or quarry". It may also stem from a corruption of the Saxon/Old English Bidulfe, meaning "wolf slayer", and the Biddulph family crest is a wolf Attitude (heraldry), rampant. In the days of coal and iron, Biddulph was called Bradley Green, with the original site of Biddulph being the area in which the parish church, Grange House and the ruins of Biddulph Old Hall stand. It was not until 1930 that the town was marked on Ordnance Survey maps as Biddulph. Geography Biddulph is in a valley between the ridges of Mow Cop to the east and Biddulph Moor to the west. It encompasses the hamlets of Gillow Heath, Knypersley and Brown Lees. Education In common with other parts of the area administered by Staffordshire LEA, the Middle school#United King ...
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