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John A. Willox
Sir John Archibald Willox (9 June 1842 – 9 June 1905) was a British journalist, newspaper owner and Conservative Party politician from Liverpool. He rose through the ranks to become the owner of the ''Liverpool Courier'' newspaper and sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1905. Early life Willox was born in Edinburgh, the son of the journalist John Willox who also wrote several books related to shipping. His family moved to Liverpool, where he was educated at Liverpool College. Career Leaving school in his mid-teens, Willox was apprenticed to the journalists Lee and Nightingale. They seconded him to the ''Liverpool Courier'', which was then published twice each week. He became a sub-editor, then a partner in Tinling & Co which owned the paper. By 1863, aged only 21, he was the editor. Under Willox's editorship, the paper promptly became a daily, with a Saturday '' Weekly Courier''. The ''Evening Courier'' was established in 1870 and became the ''Evening Express''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, July 6, 1892; Issue 8515
''The Pall Mall Gazette'' was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, '' The Globe'' merged into ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', which itself was absorbed into ''The Evening Standard'' in 1923. Beginning late in 1868, at least through the 1880s, a selection or digest of its contents was published as the weekly ''Pall Mall Budget''. History ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by W. M. Thackeray. Pall Mall is a street in London where many gentlemen's clubs are located, hence Thackeray's description of this imaginary newspaper in his novel ''The History of Pendennis'' (1848–1850): We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it—''The Pall Mall Gazette'' is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-thinker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossley Hospital West
Crossley Hospital West, founded in 1905 as the Liverpool Sanatorium, was a tuberculosis sanatorium situated on the outer edge of Delamere Forest in Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t .... It closed in the 1960s and has since been demolished. History The facility was largely financed by Lady Willox and Sir William Hartley and opened as the Liverpool Sanatorium in 1901. Admission was restricted to residents of Liverpool. It joined the National Health Service as Crossley Hospital West in 1948 and closed in the 1960s. It was subsequently used as a private nursing home before being demolished. See also * Listed buildings in Manley, Cheshire References {{UK-hospital-stub Hospital buildings completed in 1901 Hospitals in Cheshire Tuberculosis sanatoria i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 United Kingdom General Election
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. This was the first general election after an Representation of the People Act 1884, extension of the franchise and Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, redistribution of seats. For the first time a majority of adult males could vote and most constituencies by law returned a single member to Parliament, fulfilling one of the ideals of Chartism to provide direct single-member, single-electorate accountability. It saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone, win the most seats, but not an overall majority. As the Irish Nationalists held the balance of power between them and the Conservatives who sat with an increasing number of allied Unionist MPs (referring to the Acts of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland), this exacerbated divisions within the Liberals over Irish Home Rule and led to a Liberal split and another 1886 United Kingdom general election, general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safe Seat
A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both. In such seats, there is very little chance of a seat changing hands because of the political leanings of the electorate in the constituency concerned and/or the popularity of the incumbent member. The opposite (i.e. more competitive) type of seat is a marginal seat. The phrase tantamount to election is often used to describe winning the dominant party's nomination for a safe seat. Definition There is a spectrum between safe and marginal seats. Safe seats can still change hands in a landslide election, such as Enfield Southgate being lost by the Conservatives (and potential future party leader Michael Portillo) to Labour at the 1997 UK general election, whilst other seats may remain marginal despite large national swings, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Liverpool Everton By-election
The 1892 Liverpool Everton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 15 February 1892 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Everton. Vacancy The vacancy was caused by the death on 14 January of the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Edward Whitley. The 67-year-old Whitley was a former Mayor of Liverpool who had held the seat since its creation at the 1885 general election, and had previously been one of the three MPs for Liverpool from 1880 to 1885. Candidates The Executive Committee of the Everton Conservatives met on 22 January to consider their choice of candidate for the by-election. They decided that three names should be proposed to a meeting of the party's Divisional Council: former Liverpool MP Lord Claud Hamilton, Councillor John Houlding, and former Birkenhead MP David MacIver. However, at the council meeting on 26 January Houlding declined the invitation to stand, and no other names were formally put to the meeting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool Everton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Liverpool Everton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election. Boundaries 1885–1918: Part of the civil parish of Everton. 1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Everton and Netherfield. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1880s Elections in the 1890s * Caused by Whitley's death. Elections in the 1900s Elections in the 1910s General Election 1914–15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
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] |
Edward Whitley (politician)
Edward Ewart Whitley (1825 – 14 January 1892) was an English solicitor and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892. Biography Whitley was the son of John Whitley of Liverpool and his wife Isabella Greenall, and a nephew of the Conservative politician Gilbert Greenall. He was educated at Rugby School and admitted a solicitor in 1849. He became a senior partner in the legal firm of Whitley, Maddock, Hampson, & Castle, of Liverpool. He became a member of the Corporation of Liverpool in 1866, and was Mayor of Liverpool in 1868. He became a J. P. for Liverpool. In 1880 Whitley was elected as one of three Members of Parliament (MPs) for Liverpool and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then elected MP for Everton, which he held until his death aged 66. He was buried in Alvanley Churchyard, near Helsby in Cheshire. In 1878 Whitley married Elizabeth Eleanor Walker. His residences were The Grange, Halewo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Abercromby may refer to: * Abercromby (name) (includes a list of people with the surname Abercromby) * Abercromby (UK Parliament constituency), 1885–1918 * Abercromby (Liverpool ward), an electoral ward of the Liverpool City Council * Abercromby Square, Liverpool, England * ''Abercromby'' (1795 ship), a British East India Company ship, wrecked 1812 * ''Captain Abercromby'' a UK children's television show * Lord Abercromby (1745–1795), Scottish advocate, judge and essayist * Clan Abercromby, a Scottish lowland clan See also * Abercrombie (other) Abercrombie may refer to: People * Abercrombie Lawson (1870–1927), botanist and professor * Abercrombie (surname) (list of people with the family name Abercrombie) Places Americas * Abercrombie, North Dakota, United States, city in Richland C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Lancashire Electric Traction And Power Company
South Lancashire Tramways was a system of electric tramways in south Lancashire authorised by the South Lancashire Tramways Act of 1900. The ''South Lancashire Tramways Company'' was authorised by the act to build over of track to serve the towns between St Helens (now in Merseyside), Swinton, Westhoughton and Hulton Lane where the Bolton Corporation system ended. The system was the largest standard-gauge electric tramway outside London. The company had difficulty raising capital and at the end of November 1900 its shares were acquired by the ''South Lancashire Electric Traction and Power Company''. It also acquired the shares of the ''Lancashire Light Railways Company'' and the ''South Lancashire Electric Supply Company''. Construction began in late 1901 and in October 1902 the first section from Lowton through Leigh Leigh may refer to: Places In England Pronounced : * Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan ** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency) * Leigh-on- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New St Helens And District Tramway Company
New St Helens and District Tramways and St Helens Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in St Helens between 1897 and 1936.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis. History St Helens Corporation took over the St Helens and District Tramways Company on 1 April 1897. The operation of the tramway was leased back to the former company. New St Helens and District Tramways On 4 November 1898 the operating company changed its name to the New St Helens and District Tramways. The Corporation undertook a modernisation and electrification programme and the first electric services started on 20 July 1899. In 1902 extensions to the system included connections with the South Lancashire Tramways system at Haydock. and the Liverpool and Prescot Light Railway, at Brooks Bridge. St Helens Corporation Tramways The corporation took over operation of the services on 1 October 1919. Closure The tramway closed on 31 March 1936. See also * St Helens power sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackheath And Greenwich District Electric Light Company
Blackheath may refer to: Places England * Blackheath, London, England **Blackheath railway station ** Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England * Blackheath, Surrey, England **Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey **Blackheath SSSI, Surrey, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest * Blackheath, West Midlands, England Other places *Blackheath, New South Wales Blackheath (postcode: 2785) is an Australian town located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, between Katoomba and Mount Victoria in New South Wales. The town's altitude is about and it is located about west north-west of Sydney, ..., Australia * Black Heath, Virginia, USA, a late 18th and 19th century plantation and coal mine * Blackheath, Gauteng, in Johannesburg, South Africa Education * Blackheath College (other) * Blackheath High School, Blackheath Village in London, England * Blackheath Proprietary School, a former school in Greenwich, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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