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David Duncan (UK Politician)
David Duncan (1831 – 30 December 1886) was a British merchant and shipper and a Liberal Party politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness. Duncan was born at Alyth, Perthshire, the fourth son of James Duncan, a manufacturer and merchant, and was educated at the High School of Dundee. He and his elder brother James went to South America where they became very successful traders. In 1851 he went into partnership with Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson in the shipping business of Balfour Williamson. He and Williamson were based in Valparaiso while Balfour looked after the Liverpool end of the business. After the partnership ran into personal difficulties, Duncan left Balfour Williamson in 1863, and formed his own company, Duncan Fox & Co., which became a great commercial rival of Balfour Williamson in Chile, with interests in mining as well as shipping. He returned to England and lived at Gayton Hall in Cheshire where he was a J. P. and was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Duncan (gcf06997)
David or Dave Duncan may refer to: Arts and entertainment *David Duncan (writer) (1913–1999), American screenwriter and novelist; wrote the screenplay for ''The Time Machine'' *David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018), American photographer * Dave Duncan (writer) (1933–2018), Scottish-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer *David James Duncan (born 1952), American novelist, essayist, and fly-fisher Sports * Davie Duncan (1921–1991), Scottish footballer *Dave Duncan (baseball) (born 1945), American Major League Baseball player and pitching coach *David Duncan (footballer) (born 1963), Ghanaian football player and manager * David Duncan (ski cross) (born 1982), Canadian ski cross racer Others * David Duncan (minister) (1789–1829), Scottish Presbyterian minister * David Duncan (politician) (1830–1886), British merchant and Liberal politician *David Duncan (diplomat) (1923–2007), British diplomat *David F. Duncan (born 1947), American epidemiologist and expert on drug abuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Duncan, 1st Baronet
Captain Sir James Alexander Lawson Duncan, 1st Baronet (1899 – 30 September 1974) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative and National Liberal Party (UK, 1931), National Liberal politician. Born in Danville, United Kingdom, Danville, Sir James served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party in Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency), Kensington North from 1931 to 1945 when he was defeated in the Labour landslide of 1945. He was returned to Parliament as a National Liberal as the first Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for the newly created South Angus (UK Parliament constituency), South Angus constituency in 1950, and served until his retirement in 1964. He later became the parliamentary chairman of the National Liberals between 1956 and 1959. He was married to Adrienne St. Quinton. After the death of his first wife Sir James remarried in 1966 to Beatrice Mary Moore Oliphant (1910â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK MPs 1885–1886
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Liberal Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
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People Educated At The High School Of Dundee
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People From Angus, Scotland
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British Businesspeople In Shipping
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1886 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 Births
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Ralph Neville (MP)
Sir Ralph Neville (13 September 1848 – 13 October 1918) was an English barrister, politician and judge of the Chancery Court. Life Neville was the son of Henry Neville, a surgeon, of Esher, and was educated at Tonbridge School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1871. At the university he was known as a good oarsman. He rowed in the Emmanuel May boat in 1868, when it was fourth on the river. He stroked the college boat in the CUBC fours, and it was beaten only in the final heat. In the same year he got his trial cap. though he did not succeed in getting into the University boat. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1872, but had little work in London, and, after a few years' waiting, he went to Liverpool as a "local," it is said upon the advice of Sir Henry Jackson, whose pupil he had been. There he practised in the Chancery Court of the County Palatine of Lancaster and in the Court of Passage. As a junior both in these Courts and on the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Richardson Baily
Laurence Richardson Baily (9 July 1815 – 18 April 1887) was an English marine insurance specialist, director of transport companies and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Baily was born at Tottenham, the son of John Baily of Gartley House, Kent and his wife Sarah Head. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and in Paris. He became a marine insurance average adjuster (a claims specialist) based in Liverpool. Progressing to directing transport companies, he became a director of the Great Northern Railway, of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway, and of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. He was chairman of British Continental African Company and of Reliance Marine Insurance Company, and a government nominee on the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. He was president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and was a J.P. for Liverpool Baily stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Sunderland in the 1874 general election. In the 1885 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Liverpool Exchange By-election
The 1887 Liverpool Exchange by-election was held on 26 January 1887 after the death of the incumbent Liberal MP David Duncan. It was retained by the Liberal candidate Ralph Neville Ralph Neville (or Ralf NevillClanchy ''From Memory to Written Record'' p. 90 or Ralph de Neville; died 1244) was a medieval clergyman and politician who served as Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor of England. Neville first appears in t ..., with a narrow majority of 7 votes. References 1887 elections in the United Kingdom Exchange, 1887 1887 in England 1880s in Liverpool {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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