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Lord Mayor Of Leicester
The position of Lord Mayor of Leicester is a mainly ceremonial post, being the title of the chairman of the Leicester City Council. The Mayor is elected annually by the members of the council. The role of Lord Mayor is in many ways similar to that carried out by the Speaker of the House of Commons. From the Middle Ages until 1928 the title was simply Mayor of Leicester. Until the 19th century, the mayors were usually elected annually by the Corporation of Leicester. Since the development of forms of local democracy, the mayors and Lord Mayors of the city have been elected indirectly from among elected councillors and aldermen, but since 1971 no unelected aldermen have been entitled to vote. History The first mayor of Leicester was the Norman knight "Peter fitz Roger" (Peter son of Roger) in 1251. The title was elevated to "Lord Mayor" by letters patent dated 10 July 1928. This was confirmed for the reorganised non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Leicester
The mayor of Leicester is responsible for the executive function of Leicester City Council in England. The incumbent is Peter Soulsby of the Labour Party. Background In December 2010 the Labour controlled Leicester City Council approved plans to give the city a directly elected mayor with responsibility for all council decisions during their four-year term and for selecting up to nine councillors as a supporting cabinet. The creation of the post was approved by Leicester City Council on 10 December 2010. A referendum on establishing a directly elected mayoralty was not held. The first election took place in May 2011. Elections 2011 The first mayoral election on 5 May 2011 saw Peter Soulsby elected as mayor in the first round. 2015 Soulsby won re-election in 2015, again polling more than half the first preference vote to win on the first round. 2019 Again, Soulsby won re-election in 2019, retaining his position as City Mayor for a third term, with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicestershire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leicestershire was a county constituency in Leicestershire, represented in the House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally called Knights of the Shire, by the bloc vote system of election, to the Parliament of England until 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 until 1800, and then to Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1832. History The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when it was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs. Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bosworth, Harborough, Loughborough Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Blackmore
Roger Brian Blackmore (born 1941) is a Liberal Democrat politician. He was leader of Leicester City Council from 2003 to 2004 and 2005 to 2007 and Lord Mayor of Leicester 2009/10. Education He was educated at Abingdon School from September 1954 until December 1956 and then studied Social Sciences at the University of Leicester. Career He stayed in the city after graduating in 1963 to work at Imperial Typewriters. He became a lecturer at Charles Keene College in 1968. He was elected to Leicestershire County Council for the Western Park division in 1993, and then to Leicester City Council for the same ward in 1995. In 2000 he became leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council. After the 2003 local elections, the Liberal Democrats became the largest party on the council, and Blackmore became leader in May 2003, leading a Liberal Democrat/Conservative coalition. From November 2004 to May 2005 Ross Willmott served as leader, in a minority Labour administration. He sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manjula Sood
Manjula Sood, MBE, is a British politician, community service participant and former educator. In 2008, Sood became the first Asian female Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom. Early life Sood immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1970. She became in 1973 the first female Asian primary school teacher in Leicester, England. She taught there for almost twenty years before retiring because of ill health. During her time as a teacher, she introduced multiculturalism in the education sector. Political career Manjula Sood was first elected after the death of her councillor husband. Paul Sood was one of the first Asians in Britain to become a councillor. He was elected as a Leicestershire County Councillor in 1982 and served Leicester for almost 14 years before his death in 1996. Manjula stood in the by-election for her husband's former seat and won. In May 2008, Sood became the first Asian female Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom, in over 800 years of the Lord Mayor title. Sood ceased to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Henig
Sir Mark Henig (11 February 1911 – 30 January 1979) was a British politician and businessman, Lord Mayor of Leicester and the first chairman of the English Tourist Board. Early life Mark Henig was born in Leicester on 11 February 1911. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. Career After leaving school, Henig went to work for his father's company, the Leicester wholesale textile distributors, Henig & Sons Limited, where he later became a director. Henig was elected as a Labour member to Leicester City Council in 1945, and remained one until 1970. From 1949 to 1962, he was secretary and whip of the Labour group. In 1965, he became the leader of the group. He was an alderman from 1958–70, and was High Bailiff in 1965. Henig was chairman of the Association of Municipal Corporations from 1966 to 1967, and of the East Midland Economic Council from 1968 to 1971. Henig was Lord Mayor of Leicester from 1967 to 1968, one of three Jewish men (the others being Sir Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Minto (UK Politician)
John Minto (18 November 1887 – c.1963Minto's death was recorded in the 1963 ''Annual Report of the Labour Party'') was a Scottish politician, active in England. Born in Kilmarnock, Minto left school at the age of 11, and completed an apprenticeship as an engineer, finding work in the shipyards. He joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1906, and worked closely with Jimmy Maxton. He was secretary of the Kilmarnock ILP in 1909, and president in 1910. During World War I, he served in the Royal Engineers, working on searchlights. Minto struggled to find work after the war, and relocated to Leicester in 1919, where he served as secretary of the city's unemployed workers' committee. He later found work with the Leicester Co-operative Society, and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In 1922, he was elected to Leicester City Council. He stood for the Labour Party in Bosworth at the 1924 general election, 1927 by-election and 1929 general election, coming only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Metal (silver) Silver Jubilee (1935) Medal Of George V And Queen Mary
The white metals are a series of often decorative bright metal alloys used as a base for plated silverware, ornaments or novelties, as well as any of several lead-based or tin-based alloys used for things like bearings, jewellery, miniature figures, fusible plugs, some medals and metal type. The term is also used in the antiques trade for an item suspected of being silver, but not hallmarked. A white metal alloy may include antimony, tin, lead, cadmium, bismuth, and zinc (some of which are quite toxic). Not all of these metals are found in all white metal alloys. Metals are mixed to achieve a desired goal or need. As an example, a base metal for jewellery needs to be castable, polishable, have good flow characteristics, have the ability to cast fine detail without an excessive amount of porosity and cast at between . Silver In compliance with British law, the British fine art trade uses the term "white metal" in auction catalogues to describe foreign silver items which d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Smith (trade Unionist)
Thomas Smith (1847 – December 1919) was a British trade union leader and politician. Born in Stone, Staffordshire, Smith was taught bootmaking by his father, and the two moved first to Worcester, then to Stafford, to find work. In Stafford, Smith became involved with the trade union movement, and in time became leader of the Staffordshire Riveters.Ned Newitt,Thomas Smith, ''The Who's Who of Radical Leicester'' In 1873, Smith organised a conference which successfully persuaded various local bootmakers' unions to merge. They formed the National Union of Boot and Shoe Rivetters and Finishers, and Smith easily elected as its first general secretary. He moved to Leicester to set up headquarters there, and became active in the local Liberal Party.Ned Newitt, ''A People's History of Leicester'', p.18 Running the union proved difficult, with opposition from some employers, various factions vying for influence, and finances precarious, but it survived. In 1877, when the Trades Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wakerley
Arthur Wakerley (May 15, 1862 – 4 April 1931) was a British architect, businessman and politician. Life Born in Melton Mowbray, he was articled to James Bird. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and sometime President of the Leicester Society of Architects. He was President of the Leicester Liberal Association and in 1886 was elected as a councillor for Middle St Margaret's Ward and was Mayor of Leicester in 1897, the youngest mayor since the reforms of 1835. He used the role of mayor to support a wide range of charitable and religious works and attempted to position the role of mayor as a non-party political one. His year of office was marred by two local disasters – the railway accident at Wellingborough and the Whitwick Colliery explosion that claimed 35 lives. He twice (unsuccessfully) contested the Melton Division for a seat in Parliament. He stood as a Liberal candidate in 1895 and 1900. Outside work and politics Arthur Wakerley was an enthusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Herbert Marshall
Sir Joseph Herbert Marshall (1851-1918) was a concert impresario and Mayor of Leicester. Life Joseph Herbert Marshall was born at Zouch Mills, near Hathern, Leicestershire. Marshall was elected to Leicester town council in 1888, for East St. Mary's Ward, becoming Mayor in 1896 and an alderman in 1909. While Mayor he commemorated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria by raising £10,000 for the Jubilee Endowment Fund of the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was knighted in 1905. Herbert Marshall founded the Leicester Philharmonic Choir and for this choir commissioned the opera ''King Arthur'' from composer Colin McAlpin. It was performed in the Temperance Hall, Leicester on 4 November 1897. He died at his home, Ratcliffe Lodge, Stoneygate Stoneygate is part of the City of Leicester, England. Situated on the south-east side of the city some two miles from the centre, Stoneygate is a mainly residential suburb characterised by its large Victorian houses. It straddles the London Roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Israel Hart
Sir Israel Hart (16 February 1835 – 24 March 1911) was a British merchant and Liberal Party politician. Background In 1875, he married Charlotte Victoria Moses of Bayswater, London. They had one daughter, Vera Charlotte Hart, who married the son of Emanuel Raphael Belilios and three sons; Edward Samuel, Arthur Charles and Leycester Israel George who died in infancy. Hart was knighted in 1895. Professional career He was Chairman of Hart & Levy, wholesale merchants and garment manufacturers of Leicester. Political career Hart first became active in municipal politics, being elected to Leicester Town Council. On 29 October 1878 he presented to the council "a handsome ornamental fountain to be placed in the centre of the land fronting the Town Hall Buildings" for the purpose of keeping open a public square for all time. In 1885 he was appointed High Bailiff of the borough of Leicester. He served as a councillor for 25 years and was Mayor of Leicester from 1884-6 and 1893-94. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leicester was a parliamentary borough in Leicestershire, which elected two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1918, when it was split into three single-member divisions. History Leicester sent burgesses to Parliament for the first time in 1295. Originally both Members were chosen by the whole 'commons' of the borough until at least 1407, when Thomas Denton and John Tonge were stated to have been chosen 'per totam communitatem tocius burgi'. At some unknown date before the middle of the 15th century, however, the 'commons', lost power within the borough and were restricted to the election of just one of the Members, the other being chosen by the mayor and 24 jurats (or aldermen). This situation was reversed by the middle of the sixteenth century. Although most Members were citizens, usually officials, of the borough there was considerable influence and involvement by the two leading families, the Hastings and the Greys during the 16th and 17th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
