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Lord Mayor Of Nottingham
The Lord Mayor of Nottingham is a largely ceremonial role for the city of Nottingham, England. The position was historically Mayor of Nottingham; this was changed to Lord Mayor in 1928. The position is elected every May by Nottingham city councillors at their annual council meeting. History The post of Mayor of Nottingham was created in the Charter of Edward I approved on 12 February 1284. The title was changed to Lord Mayor of Nottingham by Letters Patent, announced by King George V on 10 July 1928, at the opening of the new University College at Highfields. The first holder of the title was the Mayor for the current year, Alderman Edmund Huntsman. Contrary to popular belief, the Mayoral status was unaffected when Nottingham achieved city status during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in June 1897. The bestowing of City status is normally a separate issue to the rank of the Mayor concerned. In fact, there is only one case of a Borough being given City status and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Tobacco industry, tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger De Crophill
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Contemporary - Frances Stark, Alex Farquharson And Gary Smerdon-White
Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Charlesworth
Brent Charlesworth (born 1942) is a British local councillor who has served as Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Nottingham, and later as Mayor of Lincoln. Biography Born in Sheffield in 1942 to Ronald and Sarah Charlesworth, Brent grew up on the Shirecliffe estate in Sheffield. His father worked 45 years in the steelworks in Templeborough (Rotherham) until the steel industry was wiped out during the Thatcher years. Educated at Nether Edge (which became) Abbeydale Boys’ Grammar School, he trained as a teacher in Birmingham and taught in that city in the 1960s. Later he studied for a BA at the University of Wales, subsequently becoming a part-time university tutor. He also studied at the University of Leicester for a higher degree. He moved to Nottingham in 1971, becoming a Lecturer in Education at the former Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). He became Senior Lecturer in the Social Studies Department, working on the Clifton Campus from 1976 until taking early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Halls
Walter Halls (16 June 1871 – 20 October 1953) was a British trade unionist and politician. Born in Gaulby in Leicestershire, Halls was educated locally before finding work on the railways. He became an active trade unionist, and was elected as an organiser of the National Union of Railwaymen in 1909. He was also active in the Labour Party, standing unsuccessfully for it in Northampton at the 1918 general election. He stood again in the 1921 Heywood and Radcliffe by-election, winning the seat, but lost it at the 1922 general election and again failed to win it in 1923. In 1931, he stood instead in Derby, but was once more unsuccessful.Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British MPs'', vol.3, p.147 Halls also served on Nottingham City Council Nottingham City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 wards, elected every four years. The counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Reuben Atkey
Sir Albert Reuben Atkey (1 July 1867 – 9 November 1947) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Biography At the 1918 general election, standing as a Coalition Conservative, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the new Nottingham Central constituency. At the 1922 election, he lost the seat by a majority of only 22 votes to the Liberal Party candidate, Reginald Berkeley. He stood again in 1923, but Berkeley was returned with a majority of 1,805, and Atkey did not stand for Parliament again. Instead he concentrated on local politics and became Sheriff of Nottingham in 1910 and Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1928. His term of office as Lord Mayor is best remembered for the opening of Nottingham Council House Nottingham Council House is the city hall of Nottingham, England. The high dome that rises above the city is the centrepiece of the skyline and presides over the Old Market Square which is also referred to as the "City Centre". It is a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ball
Frederick Ball LRIBA (1861 – 26 July 1915) was an architect based in Nottingham. He was Sheriff of Nottingham from 1906–07, and Mayor of Nottingham from 1913–1914. History He was born in 1861 in Lenton, the third son of George Ball (1823–1887) and Lois Attenborough (1826–1913). His brother, Sir Albert Ball was Lord Mayor of Nottingham. He studied under Richard Charles Sutton and became his assistant until 1880 when he established himself in independent practice in Nottingham. Later he worked in partnership with John Lamb (1859–1949), trading as ''Ball & Lamb'' at 5 Houndsgate, until John Lamb established himself in private practice around 1907. He was appointed Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1911. He was elected to Nottingham City Council in 1902 as representative for Castle Ward. In 1914 his residency was Clumber House, Lenton Avenue, The Park, Nottingham. According to his probate record of 14 December 1914, he died at the Clifton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Albert Ball
Sir Albert Ball (20 July 1863 – 27 March 1946) was Mayor of Nottingham and Lord Mayor of Nottingham, and the father of the famous Great War air ace Captain Albert Ball (1896–1917), a recipient of the Victoria Cross. Ball started life as a plumber, and in 1896 was living at 301 Lenton Boulevard (now Castle Boulevard), Nottingham. By the end of the nineteenth century he had risen to become an estate agent, with an office in Nottingham and had moved to Sedgley House, 43 Lenton Avenue, The Park, Nottingham. He was a councillor for the Castle ward of the city and later appointed a justice of the peace. In 1908, he purchased Bulwell Hall with 575 acres and mineral rights for £35,000 (equivalent to £) . In 1914, he retired as a director of the Austin Motor Company. In April 1919 he purchased Papplewick Hall for £136,410 (equivalent to £ in ) . In 1936 he also bought Upton Hall. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1924 and was Lord of the Manors of Bunny, Bradmore and Tollerto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Black (Liberal Politician)
Sir Arthur William Black (28 February 1863 – 13 July 1947) was an English lace manufacturer from Nottingham and a Liberal Party politician who served in local government in Nottingham before holding a seat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918. Career Black was born in Nottingham, the son of William Edward Black. He was educated there before entering into business as a lace manufacturer in 1888, and later became a director Turney Brothers and of the Sceptre Life Association. He was elected in 1895 to the Nottingham Town Council, becoming Sheriff from 1898 to 1899 and Mayor of Nottingham from 1902 to 1903, a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the Nottingham education committee. As Chairman of the Nottingham Free Church Council in 1902 he shared a platform in a demonstration in Nottingham against the Education Bill which was addressed by the future Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. He was a member of Alfred Mosely's Commission of Inquiry into the educational systems of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward H Fraser - Mayor Of Nottingham
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Patchitt
Edwin Patchitt (JP) Justice of the peace (1808 – 6 February 1888) was a lawyer, Mayor of Nottingham (1852), and a first-class cricketer active 1840–45 who played for Nottinghamshire. He was born in Nottingham and died in Hastings. Biography He was educated at Nottingham Bluecoat School Bluecoat Aspley Academy is a Church of England secondary school and sixth form located in the Aspley area of Nottingham, England, dating back to 1706. In 2007, the school had 1550 students aged six to eighteen, including 250 Sixth form stu ... and on leaving entered into the office of Messrs. William and Thomas Sculthorpe solicitors, St Peter’s Gate, Nottingham. In due course he became a qualified solicitor practising on his own account. He was also a justice of the peace for Nottingham, during which time he read the Riot Act when Nottingham Castle was set on fire during the protests over the Reform Act 1832. In 1840 he was elected clerk to the Court of Requests, a tribunal for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Birkin
Richard Birkin (6 July 1805 – 10 October 1870) was a Nottingham lace manufacturer. Early life Richard Birkin was born in Belper, Nottinghamshire, on 6 July 1805, the eldest son of Richard Birkin, a calico handloom weaver, and started working in Strutt's Mill aged 7. Career In 1824, Birkin formed a partnership with Thomas Biddle in Hyson Green, having worked for him for two years. By 1832, they had 50 employees, including Birkin's parents and two sisters. In 1850, his sons Richard and Thomas joined the partnership. In 1855, he had built the four-storey Birkin Building, a grade II listed warehouse in Nottingham's Broadway, by Garland & Holland, with Thomas Chambers Hine as the architect. He retired in 1856. Personal life Birkin married had two sons, Richard and Thomas. He was a magistrate, and a director of the Midland Railway Company. He was Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1849/50, 1855/56, and 1861/63. He bought Aspley Hall, Nottingham, for £60,000. He died on 10 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
