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Mayor Of Paddington
This is a list of people who held the office of mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington. The office was created in 1900 and abolished in 1965. List of mayors of Paddington from 1900-1965 1900s * 1900-1901 John Aird MP. Created a baronet, March 1901. * 1901-1902 Sir John Aird MP (second term) * 1902-1903 Henry Andrade Harben * 1903-1904 John Williams * 1904-1905 William Urquhart * 1905-1906 Herbert Lidiard * 1906-1907 Herbert Lidiard (second term) * 1907-1908 Lieutenant-General John Wimburn Laurie * 1908-1909 Herbert Henry Fuller * 1909-1910 Herbert Henry Fuller (second term) 1910s * 1910-1911 Herbert Lidiard (third term) * 1911-1912 William George Perring * 1912-1913 Harry George Handover * 1913-1914 Harry George Handover (second term) * 1914-1915 Harry George Handover (third term) * 1915-1916 Harry George Handover (fourth term) * 1916-1917 Harry George Handover (fifth term) * 1917-1918 Harry George Handover (sixth term) * 1918-1919 Harry George Handove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Borough Of Paddington
Paddington was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of Paddington became a metropolitan borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council. In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area became part of the City of Westminster in Greater London. History Its area covered that part of the current City of Westminster west of Edgware Road and Maida Vale, and north of Bayswater Road. Places in the borough included Paddington, Westbourne Green, Bayswater, Maida Hill, Queens Park, Kensal Green, West Kilburn, Maida Vale. To the south it bordered the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster, to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone. The borough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet
Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet (3 December 1833 – 6 January 1911) was an English civil engineering contractor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North from 1887 to 1906, was the first Mayor of Paddington in 1900, and became an enthusiastic collector of British art. Early life Aird was the son of a former mason – also called John Aird (1806–1876) – who was superintendent of the Phoenix Gas Company's gasworks in Greenwich, south-east London before setting up his own contracting business, John Aird & Co., in 1848. On his 18th birthday in 1851, Aird junior joined the family firm – which subsequently traded as ''John Aird & Sons'' for a while. The business had initially focused on gas and water network installations, but soon expanded into more general building work. Engineering career John Aird's first significant scheme was the dismantling, transportation and re-erection of The Crystal Palace bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Andrade Harben
Henry Andrade Harben FSA (12 August 1849 - 18 August 1910) was a barrister, insurance company director, politician, and historian of London. His highly regarded book, ''A Dictionary of London'', was published posthumously in 1917. Early life and family Henry Harben was born at Hounslow, Middlesex, on 12 August 1849 to Sir Henry Harben (1823-1911), chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company, and his wife Ann, née Such. He graduated from the University College London in 1868."Mr. H. A. Harben", ''The Times'', 19 August 1910, p. 9. He married Mary Frances James in 1873. Their son was the politician and supporter of women's suffrage, Henry Devenish Harben. They had five other children. Career Harben was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1871. In 1879, he followed his father into the Prudential as a director and was chairman of the company from 1907 until his death. Public positions In 1878, Harben became a freeman of the City of London. Harben entered local politics as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Perring
Sir William George Perring (17 March 1866 – 24 August 1937) was a British Conservative politician. A member of Paddington Borough Council, he served as mayor of Paddington from 1911 to 1912. He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North, when he stood as a Coalition Conservative (a holder of the "coalition coupon" issued to supporters of the coalition government led by David Lloyd George"). He was re-elected at the next three elections, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election. Perring laid the foundation stone for the Porchester Centre in Bayswater in 1923, and opened the building in 1925. He also bequeathed a sculpture, ''The Reading Girl'', which remains part of the entrance hall in this Grade II* In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norris Kenyon
Norris Vaughan Kenyon (5 June 1903 – 28 April 1958) was a British Conservative Party politician, who became leader of the opposition on London County Council. Biography Educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and the University of London, Kenyon began working for his family's company, the undertakers J. H. Kenyon. He also followed his father, Sir Harold Kenyon, into Conservative Party politics. When he was 24 years old, Kenyon was elected to Paddington Borough Council, becoming an alderman in 1938. At the 1946 London County Council election, he succeeded his father as a Conservative Party councillor for Paddington South. From 1950 until 1952, he was Mayor of Paddington. In 1952, he became leader of the Conservative Party group on the London County Council, and as such, leader of the opposition, remaining in the post until his death. Kenyon never stood for Parliament, but spent his spare time serving on various committees: the Bracknell Bracknell () is a large tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansard
''Hansard'' is the traditional name of the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, who was the first official printer to the Parliament at Westminster. Origins Though the history of the ''Hansard'' began in the British parliament, each of Britain's colonies developed a separate and distinctive history. Before 1771, the British Parliament had long been a highly secretive body. The official record of the actions of the House was publicly available but there was no record of the debates. The publication of remarks made in the House became a breach of parliamentary privilege, punishable by the two Houses of Parliament. As the populace became interested in parliamentary debates, more independent newspapers began publishing unofficial accounts of them. The many penalties implemented by the government, including fines, dismissal, imprisonment, and investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Mayors Of London Boroughs
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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