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Cransford
St Peter's parish church Cransford is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. The civil parish had a population at the 2011 Census of 162. It is near the small town of Framlingham. Cransford has 2 places of worship. The mediaeval parish church of St Peter was restored in 1864 and 1874 and is a Grade II* listed building. Notable residents *Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1877-1947), electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician including Member of Parliament for Altrincham and for Ilford. * Sir George Leman Tuthill (1772–1835), physician, fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians. * Peter Hartley (1909-1994), clergyman and Archdeacon of Suffolk The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry. History Originally in the Dioceses of No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cransford (Suffolk) St Peter's Church - Geograph
St Peter's parish church Cransford is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. The civil parish had a population at the 2011 Census of 162. It is near the small town of Framlingham. Cransford has 2 places of worship. The mediaeval parish church of St Peter was restored in 1864 and 1874 and is a Grade II* listed building. Notable residents *Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1877-1947), electrical engineer and Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ... politician including Member of Parliament for Altrincham and for Ilford. * Sir George Leman Tuthill (1772–1835), physician, fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians. * Peter Hartley (1909-1994), clergyman and Archdeacon of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
Sir (Collingwood) George Clements Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1 November 1877 – 12 January 1947) was an English electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician. Born in Northumberland, he was the son of a prominent Church of England cleric, the Venerable George Hans Hamilton, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne then Northumberland, Canon of Durham and his wife Lady Louisa Hamilton. Early career and family Following education at Aysgarth School and Charterhouse School, he was apprenticed to the firm of Scott & Mountain Ltd, a Newcastle-based electrical and general engineering company. He represented the company in various countries including India, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia and Egypt. He subsequently became the managing director of the Manchester branch of Drake & Gorham, electrical engineers. He married Eleanor Simon of Didsbury in 1906, and they had one son and one daughter. War service During World War I he was commissioned as an officer in the Queen's Westminster Rifles, the 16t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Leman Tuthill
Sir George Leman Tuthill (1772–1835) was an English physician. Life Born at Halesworth in Suffolk on 16 February 1772, he was the only son of John Tuthill, an attorney there, by his wife Sarah, only daughter of James Jermyn of the same town. He received his education at Bungay under Mr. Reeve, and on 3 June 1790 was admitted sizar at Caius College, Cambridge. He was scholar of the college from Michaelmas 1790 to Michaelmas 1796. He graduated B.A. in 1794, and was subsequently elected to present a university address to the king. Visiting Paris with his wife, Tuthill was one of the British subjects detained by the French government because of the French Revolutionary Wars. After several years they were released when his wife appealed to the first consul. Tuthill then returned to Cambridge, proceeded M.A. in 1809, had a licence ad practicandum from the university dated 25 November 1812, and graduated M.D. in 1816. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1810, and was admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hartley (priest)
Peter Harold Trahair Hartley (11 July 1909 – 3 February 1994) was Archdeacon of Suffolk from 1970 to 1975. Hartley was educated at The Leys School, The Queen's College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1954. He was a curate at Dennington then Badingham where he succeeded to the title of Rector. He also served at Bruisyard and, Cransford; and was Rural Dean of Loes Loes may refer to: Places *Loes Hundred, a Suffolk county division *Loes River, a river in East Timor Given name A Dutch language, Dutch feminine given name (pronounced ), a short form of Louise (given name), Louise. [Baidu] |
East Suffolk (district)
East Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England, which was established on 1 April 2019, following the merger of the existing Suffolk Coastal and Waveney districts. At the 2011 census, the two districts had a combined population of 239,552. The main towns and villages in the district include Aldeburgh, Beccles, Bungay, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Halesworth, Leiston, Lowestoft, Saxmundham and Southwold as well parts of the wider Ipswich built-up area including Kesgrave, Martlesham and Woodbridge. The district covers a smaller area compared to the former administrative county of East Suffolk, which was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972. Governance As of the 2019 elections on 2 May, the composition of East Suffolk Council is as follows: See also *2019 structural changes to local government in England *West Suffolk West Suffolk may refer to the following places in Suffolk, England: * West Suffolk (county), a county until 1974 * West Suffolk District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, and Felixstowe which has one of the largest container ports in Europe. The county is low-lying but can be quite hilly, especially towards the west. It is also known for its extensive farming and has largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the north. The Suffolk Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale are both nationally designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History Administration The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Suffolk, and East Anglia generally, occurred on a large scale, possibly following a period of depopulation by the previous inhabitants, the Romanised descendants of the Iceni. By the fifth century, they had established control of the region. The Anglo-Saxon inhabitants later b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Framlingham
Framlingham is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Suffolk, England. Of Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book. The parish had a population of 3,342 at the 2011 Census and an estimated 4,016 in 2019. Nearby villages include Earl Soham, Kettleburgh, Parham, Suffolk, Parham, Saxtead and Sweffling. Governance An Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward of the same name exists. The parish stretches north-east to Brundish with a total ward population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,744. Features Framlingham's history can be traced to an entry in the Domesday Book (1086) when it then consisted of several manors. The medieval Framlingham Castle is a major feature and tourist attraction for the area, managed by English Heritage. Mary I of England, Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon) was proclaimed the first Queen of England there in 1553. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electrical power generation, distribution, and use. Electrical engineering is now divided into a wide range of different fields, including computer engineering, systems engineering, power engineering, telecommunications, radio-frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, photovoltaic cells, electronics, and optics and photonics. Many of these disciplines overlap with other engineering branches, spanning a huge number of specializations including hardware engineering, power electronics, electromagnetics and waves, microwave engineering, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, renewable energies, mechatronics/control, and electrical m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (UK)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set out that ordinary general elections are held on the first Thursday in May, every five years. The Act was repealed in 2022. With approval from Parliament, both the 2017 and 2019 general elections were held earlier than the schedule set by the Act. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Under the Representation of the People Act 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altrincham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Altrincham was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 to 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History and boundaries Altrincham was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 from the much larger two-member constituencies of Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Cheshire and East Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency), East Cheshire, as one of eight new single-member divisions of the county of Cheshire. Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, it was redefined to cover the urban districts of Municipal Borough of Altrincham, Altrincham, Ashton upon Mersey, Bowdon Urban District, Bowdon, Cheadle and Gatley Urban District, Cheadle and Gatley, Hale, Greater Manchester, Hale, Handforth, Lymm U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilford (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ilford was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge in eastern Greater London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies. Boundaries Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1920s *endorsed by Coalition Government Elections in the 1930s General Election 1939–40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; *Conservative: Geoffrey Hutchinson *Labour: James RangerReport of the Annual Conference of the Lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
