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Barran Baronets
The Barran Baronetcy, of Chapel Allerton Hall in Chapel Allerton in the West Riding of the County of York and Queen's Gate, St Mary's Abbot, in Kensington in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 February 1895 for the merchant and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet, John Barran. He represented Leeds (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds and Otley (UK Parliament constituency), Otley in the British House of Commons, House of Commons. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet. He sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Hawick (UK Parliament constituency), Hawick and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Two other members of the Barran family have also gained distinction. Rowland Barran, Sir Rowland Barran (1858–1949), sixth and youngest son of the first Baronet, represented Leeds North (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds North in Parliament. David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of England, King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of Pound sterling, £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union 1707, Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the #Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706), Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the #Baronetage of Great Britain, Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule Movement, Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet
Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet (3 August 1821 – 3 May 1905) was a British clothing manufacturer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Public life Barran was the son of John Barran and his wife Elizabeth (née Fletcher), and founded the firm of John Barran and Sons, clothing manufacturers, of Leeds. He was a justice of the peace for Leeds and the West Riding of Yorkshire and served as Mayor of Leeds from 1870 to 1871. In 1876 he was returned to Parliament as one of three representatives for Leeds (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds, a seat he held until 1885, and later sat for Otley (UK Parliament constituency), Otley from 1886 to 1895. The latter year he was created a baronet, of Chapel Allerton Hall in Chapel Allerton in the West Riding of the County of York and Queen's Gate, St Mary Abbots parish, in Kensington in the County of London. Family life Barran married Ann Hirst (died 1874) in 1842. He married secondly, to Eliza Bilton, née Brown, in 1878. He had six so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds was a parliamentary borough covering the town of Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885. The borough returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) until 1868, and then three MPs from 1868 until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 split the borough into five divisions at the 1885 general election. Boundaries and History Representation before 1832 Until the 1832 United Kingdom general election the major town of Leeds was represented in Parliament solely as a part of the county constituency of Yorkshire. The only exceptions had been that the town was represented as a single member borough in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments from 1654 to 1658. Before 1832 no new English Parliamentary borough had been enfranchised since the 1670s, but Leeds came close to being represented from 1826. Stooks Smith, in ''The Parliaments of England'', explained what happened. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Otley was a parliamentary constituency between 1885 and 1918 centred on the town of Otley, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire and now in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. History The constituency was created when the two-member Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election in six new single-member constituencies. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Pudsey & Otley constituency. Boundaries The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of- *the Sessional Division of Otley and *the Parishes of Beamsley in Addingham, Beamsley in Skipton, Bingley and Micklethwaite, Hazlewood with Storiths, Morton, and Nesfield with Langbar Nesfield is a small village, north-west of Ilkley on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England started to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1800 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawick (UK Parliament Constituency)
Hawick Burghs was a district of burghs United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It consisted of the Roxburghshire burgh of Hawick and the Selkirkshire burghs of Galashiels and Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Selkirk. Members of Parliament Election results George Otto Trevelyan was returned without opposition at the 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 general election and again after acceptance of office at a by-election on 14 January 1869.Debrett's House of Commons, 1870 Elections in the 1860s Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Royal Navy), Civil Lord of the Admiralty. Elections in the 1870s Elections in the 1880s Trevelyan was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, requiring a by-election. Trevelyan was appointed Secretary of State for Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Private Secretary
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom who acts as an unpaid assistant to a minister or shadow minister. They are selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the House of Commons. PPSs are junior to Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State, a ministerial post salaried by one or more departments. Duties and powers of a PPS Although not paid other than their salary as an MP, PPSs help the government to track backbench opinion in Parliament. They are subject to some restrictions as outlined in the Ministerial Code of the British government but are not members of the Government. A PPS can sit on select committees but must avoid "associating themselves with recommendations critical of, or embarrassing to the Government", and must not make statements or ask questions on matters affecting the minister's department. In particular, the PPS in the Department for Communities and Local Government may not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Barran
Sir Rowland Hirst Barran (7 August 1858 – 6 August 1949) was a British Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament. Biography Rowland Barran was born in 1858, the youngest son of Sir John Barran, a pioneer in clothing manufacture and Member of Parliament for Leeds and Otley. Following the death of Frances Lupton in 1892, Rowland lived near Leeds at Frances's Beechwood Estate which had been entailed to her eldest son and fellow Liberal politician, Francis Martineau Lupton. Barran remained at Beechwood until Francis Martineau's death in 1921. Lupton and his family also owned the Newton Park Estate (North Leeds), the constituency of which Barran was M.P. from 1902–1918. Barran bred Shorthorn livestock during his residency at Beechwood. Barran became chairman of the family firm in 1918, succeeding his brother, Charles, who had succeeded their father in this post in 1903. He was a member of the Leeds City Council alongside Alderman Francis Martineau Lupton, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds North was a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leeds wards of Headingley and North West, and parts of the wards of Brunswick, North, and North East. 1918–1950: Parts of the County Borough of Leeds wards of Brunswick, Headingley, North, and North West. 1950–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of North, Roundhay, and Woodhouse. History The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was first used in the general election of that year. Leeds had previously been represented by two MPs (1832–1868) and three MPs (1868–1885). From 1885 it was represented by five single-member constituencies: Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds North, Leeds South and Leeds West. The constituencies of Morley, Otley and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Barran
Sir David Haven Barran (23 May 1912 – 1 June 2002) was an English oilman who was a senior executive with Shell. Barran served from 1967 to 1972 as the chairman of Shell Transport and Trading and from 1970 to 1972 as the chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Shell Oil He joined Shell after his graduation via its subsidiary the Asiatic Petroleum Company. He was posted in 1935 to Egypt and later to Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, and the Middle East. At the beginning of World War II he wanted to enlist, but was told his greatest contribution would be to continue his work in the petroleum industry to ensure fuel for the British Eighth Army. At the end of war Barran was posted to India, but returned to London in 1947. Through the 1950s he held positions in trade relations, marketing, and economics. In 1954 he negotiated a production agreement with the Venezuelan government, and in 1956 an agreement with the Kuwait government. In 1958 he became president of the Asiatic Petroleum Corporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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