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List Of Privy Counsellors (1910–1936)
This is a List of Privy Counsellors of the United Kingdom appointed during the reign of King George V, from 1910 to 1936. The first woman to serve on the council, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed during this period (1929). King George V 1910 * Sir Samuel Evans (1859–1918) *Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883–1938) * The Lord Knollys (1837–1924) * Hon. Sir William Carington (1845–1914) * Sir Arthur Bigge (1849–1931) * Sir William Robson (1852–1918) * The Lord Sheffield (1839–1925) *Sir George Murray (1849–1936) *Sir William Mather (1838–1920) *Ronald Munro-Ferguson (1860–1934) *James Caldwell (1839–1925) * Sir George Buchanan (1854–1924) 1911 * Sir Charles Swann, Bt (1844–1929) * Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett (1847–1919) * William Abraham (1842–1922) *John Frederick Cheetham (1835–1916) *Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) * The Master of Elibank (1870–1920) * The Lord Kinnear (1833–1917) * Sir Edward Morris (1859–1935) * Sir Vezey Strong (1857–1920) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privy Council Of The United Kingdom
The Privy Council (PC), officially His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. The Privy Council formally advises the sovereign on the exercise of the Royal Prerogative, and as a body corporate (as King-in-Council) it issues executive instruments known as Orders in Council which, among other powers, enact Acts of Parliament. The Council also holds the delegated authority to issue Orders of Council, mostly used to regulate certain public institutions. The Council advises the sovereign on the issuing of Royal Charters, which are used to grant special status to incorporated bodies, and city or borough status to local authorities. Otherwise, the Privy Council's powers have now been largely replaced by its executive committee, the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Certai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Abraham (Welsh Politician)
William Abraham (14 June 1842 – 14 May 1922), universally known by his bardic name, Mabon, was a Welsh trade unionist and Liberal-Labour (UK), Liberal/Labour politician, and a member of parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1920. Although an MP for 35 years, it was as a trade unionist that Abraham is most well known. Initially a pioneer of trade unionism, who fought to enshrine the principle of workers' representation against the opposition of the coal-owners, he was regarded in later life as a moderate voice believing that disputes should be solved through conciliation rather than industrial action. This drew him into conflict with younger and more militant leaders from the 1890s onwards. Although the defeat of the miners in the Welsh coal strike of 1898 was a clear defeat for Mabon's strategy, his prestige was sufficient to ensure that he became the first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation which was established in the wake of the dispute. Abraham was noted for his powerfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Whitley
John Henry Whitley (8 February 1866 – 3 February 1935), often known as J. H. Whitley, was a British politician and Georgist. He was the final Liberal to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons, a role he held from 1921 to 1928. Family and early career Whitley was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 8 February 1866 son of Nathan Whitley (1830–1889) from Ovenden. Nathan went on to serve as Mayor of Halifax (1876–1877), succeeding his cousin-in-law Edward Crossley, the son of Joseph Crossley (1813-1868), a partner in John Crossley & Sons carpet factory, Halifax. After an early education boarding at Wiseman's House, Clifton College, Whitley entered his uncle Samuel Whitley's cotton spinning business, S. Whitley & Co. at Hanson Lane Mills, Skircoat, Halifax. Nathan was a partner in the business and took over after Samuel's death in 1884. In 1892, Whitley married Margherita (Margaret) Virginia Marchetti. Margherita was born in Putney in 1872, a daughter of an Italian, Giulio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Macnamara
Thomas James Macnamara PC (23 August 1861 – 3 December 1931) was a British teacher, educationalist and radical Liberal politician. Biography Macnamara was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of a soldier originally from County Clare in Ireland.Robin Betts, ''Dr Macnamara, 1861-1931''; Liverpool University Press, 1999 His family returned to Britain in 1869. He was educated first at the Depot School in Pembroke Dock and then in Exeter. He qualified as a teacher in 1876 at the Borough Road Training College for Teachers. In 1886, he married Rachel Cameron. They had three sons and one daughter. Teaching He was active as a teacher until 1892 in Exeter, Huddersfield and Bristol, when he became editor of ''The Schoolmaster''. He was sometime chairman of the London School Board and in 1896 he was appointed president of the National Union of Teachers. Politics In 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons for Camberwell North, a seat he held until 1918, and then repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McKinnon Wood
Thomas McKinnon Wood Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (26 January 1855 – 26 March 1927) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. Regarded as a liberal with "sound Progressive credentials," he served as a member of H. H. Asquith's cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary for Scotland between 1912 and 1916 and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between July and December 1916. He was also involved in London politics and served as List of chairmen of the London County Council, Chairman of the London County Council between 1898 and 1899. Background and education Born in Stepney, Wood was the only son of Hugh Wood, a merchant and shipowner, by his second wife Jessie McKinnon, daughter of Reverend Thomas McKinnon. His father had been born in Orkney, where his father was a farmer, but had later settled in London. Wood was educated at the Aldenham School, Brewers' Company School, Aldenham, Hertfordshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess Of Reading
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935) was a British Liberal politician and judge, who served as Lord Chief Justice of England, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary, the last Liberal to hold that post. The second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet (the first being Herbert Samuel, who was also a member of H. H. Asquith's government), Isaacs was the first Jew to be Lord Chief Justice, and the first, and as yet, only British Jew to be raised to a marquessate. Biography Rufus Isaacs was born at 3 Bury Street, in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, the son of a Jewish fruit importer at Spitalfields. He was educated at University College School and then entered the family business at the age of 15. In 1876–77 he served as a ship's boy and later worked as a jobber on the stock-exchange from 1880 to 1884. In 1887 he married Alice Edith Cohen, who suffered from a chronic physical disability and died of cancer in 1930, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rhys
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC, FBA (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937) was an English jurist best known for his ''History of English Law before the Time of Edward I'', written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a Cambridge Apostle. Life Pollock was the eldest son of William Frederick Pollock, Master of the Court of Exchequer, and Juliet Creed, daughter of the Rev, Harry Creed. He was the grandson of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, and the first cousin of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, Master of the Rolls. He was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow in 1868 (later Honorable Fellow in 1920).''For My Grandson'' (1933) John Murray, Note B: ''Personal Dates'' In 1871 he was admitted to the Bar. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet, (14 November 18434 June 1914) was a British jurist and Liberal Unionist turned Conservative politician from the Anson family. Background and education Anson was born at Walberton, Sussex, the eldest son of Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Catherine (née Pack). Educated at Eton, 1857–62, and Balliol College, Oxford, 1862–66, he took a first class in both Classical Moderations, 1863, and Literae Humaniores ('Greats', a combination of philosophy and ancient history), 1866. He was elected to a fellowship of All Souls in the following year. Legal and political career In 1869, he was called to the Bar, and went on the home circuit until 1873, when he succeeded to the baronetcy. In 1874, he became Vinerian reader in English law at Oxford, a post attached to a Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until he became, in 1881, Warden of All Souls. Anson identified himself both with local and univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vezey Strong
Sir Thomas Vezey Strong (5 October 1857 – 3 October 1920) was an English businessman who was Lord Mayor of London and a Privy Counsellor. He was born in St Andrew Holborn parish, London, the third son of John Strong. He made his career as a wholesale paper merchant.''London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1930'' Strong would say that not only was he born in the City of London, he never left the city. He became Alderman of Queenhithe in 1897, served as a Sheriff of London in 1904–05 and as Lord Mayor of London in 1910–11. He was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 1905 and made KCVO in 1911. He was Chairman H.M. Prison Commissioners, Holloway and until 1911 Honorary Colonel of the 1st London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was also Chairman of the London Temperance Hospital from 1899 to his death. He was made a KBE in the 1918 New Year Honours. In 1911, he was made a Privy Counsellor. In 1900, Strong married Elizabeth "Lillie" Mary, daughter of Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris
Edward Patrick Morris, 1st Baron Morris (May 8, 1859 – October 24, 1935) was a Newfoundlander lawyer and Prime Minister of Newfoundland. Born in St. John's, the son of Edward Morris and Catherine Fitzgerald, he was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College and the University of Ottawa, was admitted to the bar in 1885 and went into practice with his brother Francis. In 1901, he married Isabel Langrishe. Morris was a counsel for the British government during the North American fisheries arbitration in 1910 receiving a knighthood in 1904. Morris served as governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank from 1889 to 1913 and was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1885 as an independent. He joined the Liberal government of Sir William Whiteway as Attorney-General from 1889 to 1895. Morris was the most senior Roman Catholic politician in Newfoundland and had enormous influence as a result. He had a strained relationship with Whiteway's successor as Liberal leader, Sir Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kinnear, 1st Baron Kinnear
Alexander Smith Kinnear, 1st Baron Kinnear, (3 November 1833, Edinburgh – 20 December 1917, Edinburgh) was a Scottish advocate and judge. He served as Lord of Council and Session (1882–1913), and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1911. Life He was born in Glasgow the son of John Gardner Kinnear FRSE, a businessman and founder of John G. Kinnear & Co, commission merchants based at 17 St Vincent Place in the city centre. The family lived at 137 Clarence Place in Glasgow. His eldest sister became the headmistress Georgina Kinnear and his uncle was James Kinnear FRSE (1810–1849). All were descended from the Edinburgh banking firm of Thomas Kinnear and Sons. He was educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh universities, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1856. For some years he acted as a law reporter, but in 1878 he was chosen leading counsel in the Court of Session for the liquidators in the case arising out of the failure of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
