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High Sheriff Of Greater London
The office of high sheriff, as the monarch's representative in a county, is over 1,000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The office of high sheriff remained first in precedence in each county until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the lord-lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the sovereign's personal representative. The high sheriff remains the sovereign's representative in the county for all matters relating to the judiciary and the maintenance of law and order. The office of High Sheriff of Greater London was created in 1965 and covers the ceremonial county of Greater London. It does not cover the City of London, which has its own two sheriffs. It replaced the offices of High Sheriff of the County of London and High Sheriff of Middlesex which were abolished in 1965. Coat of arms The office of Sheriff of Greater London was granted armorial bearings by letters patent issued by the College of Arms dated 5 Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Greater London to the south and south-west. There are three cities in Essex: Southend, Colchester and Chelmsford, in order of population. For the purposes of government statistics, Essex is placed in the East of England region. There are four definitions of the extent of Essex, the widest being the ancient county. Next, the largest is the former postal county, followed by the ceremonial county, with the smallest being the administrative county—the area administered by the County Council, which excludes the two unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea. The ceremonial county occupies the eastern part of what was, during the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. As well as rural areas and urban areas, it forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Vallance
Elizabeth Vallance, Baroness Vallance of Tummel, (née MacGonnigal; 8 April 1945 – 9 July 2020) was a British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker. She held non-executive roles on various boards, and was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2009. Early life and education Vallance was born to William Henderson MacGonnigal and Jean Brown Kirkwood. She studied philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She moved to the London School of Economics for her graduate studies, where she specialised in political philosophy and graduated in 1968. She was a Sloan Fellow at the London Business School. Her early research considered the role of women in society and the impact of women politicians on equality. Career Vallance started her career as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of London. She moved to Queen Mary University of London, where she was promoted to Assistant Professor in Government and Politics from 1968. In 1985 she was promoted to Head of the Department of Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed
Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, CBE, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (born 1 July 1941) is the chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, and chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London. He hails from Lucknow, India. He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a board member of the British Muslim Research Centre, and also the Ethnic Minorities Foundation. He is an executive member of the Maimonides Foundation and a trustee of The Little Foundation. He received a Order of the British Empire, CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours. Dr Hameed supports various charities and was awarded the Sternberg Award for 2005 for his contribution to further Christian - Muslim - Jewish Relations. He has received several national and international honours from various countries including the United Kingdom. He is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Cairncross
Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, (born 30 August 1944 in Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a senior fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA. She formerly chaired the executive committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. From 2004 to 2014, she was the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. Since 2015, she has been chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University. Education and personal life Cairncross was born on 30 August 1944 to Mary Frances (''née'' Glynn) and the economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross. She attended Laurel Bank School in Glasgow and studied for an MA in history at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1965. She went on to study for a postgraduate MA in economics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, City University, and the universities of Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Loughborough and Kingston. She became a Fellow of St Anne's College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Julian Hebden Taylor
Sir Cyril Julian Hebden Taylor (14 May 193529 January 2018) was a British educator and social entrepreneur, who founded the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) in 1964. He served as an education reformer and special adviser to successive elected British Governments from 1987 to 2007 and founded the City Technology Colleges Trust, subsequently the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT). Taylor founded Richmond University the American International University in London in 1971. The University is accredited in the United States and designated by the Department of Education of HM Government in the UK. Taylor was Chancellor of the university which has 1,200 students from 100 countries. Taylor was appointed a director of Margaret Thatcher’s Think Tank, the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and began his political career on the Greater London Council (GLC) as the member for Ruislip-Northwood. Following the abolition of the GLC in 1986, Taylor was called upon by That ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Hearne
Sir Graham James Hearne (born 23 November 1937) is a British businessman who was chairman of Enterprise Oil from 1991 until 2002, having joined Enterprise as chief executive in 1984. He practiced as a solicitor at Pinsent & Co and at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York. He served with the Industrial Reorganisation Congress before moving on to N M Rothschild & Sons, where he remained a non-executive director until June 2010. He was High Sheriff of Greater London in 1995-96. He was awarded the CBE in 1990, and knighted A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the Christian denomination, church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood ... in 1998. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hearne, Graham Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British businesspeople Businesspeople a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl's Court Square
Earl's Court Square is a garden square in Earl's Court, London, England. It was developed from 1872 or 1873 on agricultural land belonging to the Edwardes family. It is primarily made up of stuccoed terraced houses with Italianate dressings but also contains properties in the Jacobean and Second Empire styles as well as a number of purpose built apartment blocks. Notable former inhabitants include the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, and the ordnance inventor Sir William Palliser. At the Poetry Bookshop in the Square, conventional and modernist factions engaged in the "Battle of Earl's Court" in the 1970s. Location The Square lies between Warwick Road in the west and Earl's Court Road in the east, with the northern and southern sides extending to those roads beyond the square itself. Farnell Mews runs from the east side of the garden square. History and architecture The Square was developed from 1872 or 1873 on agricultural land originally belong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Godfrey Taylor
Sir (Arthur) Godfrey Taylor DL (usually known as Tag Taylor) (3 August 1925 - 31 May 2014) was a British local government leader best known for his work as Chairman of the London Residuary Body which disposed of the assets of the Greater London Council after its abolition. Taylor was educated at Stockport Secondary School. He was first elected as a Conservative councillor to Sutton and Cheam Borough Council in 1951. In 1962 he was elected an Alderman, and he was elected for Cheam South ward to Sutton Borough Council from the creation of the council in 1964 until 1968. He was an Alderman of Sutton from 1968 until the abolition of the Aldermanic system in 1978. He then returned to his old ward for a final term from 1978 to 1982. Having previously served as Leader of Sutton Borough Council and Chairman of the London Boroughs Association (1968-1971), from 1978 to 1980 Taylor was Chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, ending his term with a knighthood.‘TAYLOR, Sir ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Thomas Stewart Macpherson
Colonel Sir Ronald Thomas Stewart Macpherson (4 October 1920 – 6 November 2014) was a highly decorated British Army officer during and after the Second World War. He fought with the No. 11 Commando unit and French Resistance forces, becoming infamous among Axis forces as the "Kilted Killer". He caused so much damage to enemy military infrastructure, a bounty of 300,000 francs was placed upon his head. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre three times, and the Légion d'honneur. Origins and education Macpherson was born in Edinburgh. He was the youngest of seven children of Sir Thomas Stewart Macpherson CIE LLD and Helen, the daughter of the Reverend Archibald Borland Cameron. His father's brother was the first Baron Strathcarron and one of his own brothers, Niall, was also raised to the peerage as Baron Drumalbyn. Another brother was G. P. S. (Phil) Macpherson, captain of Scotland's first Grand Slam winning rugby side in 1925. The family originates from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Baring (hospital Administrator)
Sir Mark Baring, KCVO (1916–1988) was a British hospital administrator, financial services executive and public servant. Born on 9 June 1916, Baring was the younger son of the Hon. Windham Baring and his wife Lady Gweneth, ''née'' Ponsonby (later Cavendish), daughter of the 8th Earl of Bessborough."Baring, Sir Mark" '''' (online ed., , 2021). Retrieved 20 July 2021. His father, who died aged only 42 in 1922, was the son of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine Of Stanmore
Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore (15 March 1910 – 13 February 2004) was a British businessman and Conservative political activist who served as both the Chairman and the President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Born to a tobacco importer of Greek origin, Constantine was educated at Acton College. During World War II, he served with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force as a plotter at Fighter Command's headquarters at Bentley Priory; he was awarded the Air Efficiency Award in 1945. After he was demobilized, he founded a hearing aid company that counted Sir Winston Churchill among its clients. In 1965, Constantine was involved in a public controversy as Chairman of the Harrow East Conservative Association. The sitting Conservative MP, Anthony Courtney, had been entrapped in Moscow by the KGB in a honeypot operation. Constantine urged Courtney to step down, but the latter refused; when Courtney was re-adopted as the Conservative ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
