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John William Mellor
John William Mellor Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL Queen's Counsel, QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an England, English lawyer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of John Mellor (judge), Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget (politician), Charles Paget, MP. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder (judge), Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom), Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the James McNeill Whistler, Whistler v John Ruskin, Ruskin libel trial. He was Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham (UK Parliament co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Mellor
John William Mellor Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL Queen's Counsel, QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an England, English lawyer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of John Mellor (judge), Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget (politician), Charles Paget, MP. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder (judge), Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom), Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the James McNeill Whistler, Whistler v John Ruskin, Ruskin libel trial. He was Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham (UK Parliament co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sowerby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sowerby () was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. History The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Calder Valley constituency. Boundaries 1885–1918: 1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Todmorden, the Urban Districts of Barkisland, Hebden Bridge, Luddendenfoot, Midgley, Mytholmroyd, Rishworth, Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, and Soyland, the Rural District of Todmorden, and the civil parish of Norland in the Rural District of Halifax. 1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Todmorden, the Urban Districts of Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, and Sowerby Bridge, and the Rural District of Hepton. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1880s Elections in the 1890s *Some sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 John William Mellor
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St James's Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
