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Old Harrovians
The following is a list of some notable Old Harrovians, former pupils of Harrow School in the United Kingdom. Politicians, civil servants, and royalty Civil servants, intelligence officers, and police *Sir Alex Allan (born 1951), Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee *Sir William A. Baillie-Hamilton (1844–1920), Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland and to the Secretary of State for the Colonies * Peter Brodie (1914–1989), Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (1964–1966) * Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (born 1938), Cabinet Secretary *Sir Jock Colville (1915–1987), civil servant and diarist *Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (1838–1903), Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1868; 1874–1880) *Sir Kenelm Edward Digby (1836–1916), Under Secretary of State at the Home Office * Frank Elliott (1874–1939), Metropolitan Police commissioner *Major Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot (1852–1920), Private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow School
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Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot
Major Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot (30 November 1852 – 5 December 1920) was a British soldier who served as Private Secretary to David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow while he was Governor of New Zealand in the 1890s. He twice played football for Scotland in the unofficial international matches in 1871 and 1872. Early life and education Elliot was born at Vizagapatam, India, the son of Walter Elliot (1803–1887), the Scottish naturalist, and Maria Dorothea Hunter Blair (c.1816–1890). His mother was the daughter of Sir David Hunter-Blair, 3rd Baronet. Elliot was educated at Windlesham House School, near Washington, West Sussex and Harrow from January 1867 to Easter 1870. Football career Elliot played football for Harrow Chequers, before joining the Wanderers club, making his debut for them in a 5–0 victory over Forest School on 28 November 1871. He continued to appear regularly for the Wanderers over the next two years, with his final game coming on 22 March 1873. In the 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Director General Of MI5
__NOTOC__ The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General and an Assistant Director General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office. List of directors general Directors General have been: # Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940 # Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, ''Acting'', June 1940 – April 1941 # Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946 # Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953 # Sir Dick White, 1953–1956 # Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965 # Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972 # Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1978 # Sir Howard Smith, 1978–1981 # Sir John Jones, 1981–1985 # Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988 # Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1992 # Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996 # Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002 # Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, 2002–2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson
Brigadier-General Sir Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson (26 August 1875 – 26 March 1950) was a British Army officer who left the army to join the nascent British Security Service (MI5), which developed in time to deal with espionage during World War I. He became the Service's deputy to Sir Vernon Kell, serving through to the beginning of World War II. Family life Born in Norwich, Norfolk, in 1875, Holt-Wilson was the son of Reverend Thomas Holt-Wilson and his wife Helen Emily Greene, daughter of Edward Greene. He was educated at Harrow School from 1887 to 1892. He was married twice, firstly to Susannah Mary Shaw in 1903 and secondly Audrey Stirling in 1931. Military service Holt-Wilson took a commission in the Royal Engineers and then attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1893-95). On being commissioned after his time at Woolwich he joined 7 Field Regiment, Royal Engineers and was posted to South Africa 1899–1902. On returning from overseas service he became an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham
Stuart Lund Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham (25 October 1876 – 24 January 1950) was a British Army officer and politician. Career Holland was born on 25 October 1876, the son of industrialist and Liberal politician William Henry Holland and Mary Lund. His father was in 1910 created Baron Rotherham, when young Stuart received the prefix ''the Honourable''. He was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford. Holland was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons on 23 May 1900, and joined his regiment in South Africa, where they took part in the Second Boer War. He was promoted lieutenant on 10 July 1901, and stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended with the Peace of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902. Following the end of the war, he left Cape Town with other men of his regiment on the SS ''Orissa'', which arrived at Southampton in late October 1902, and was then stationed at Curragh. He gained the rank of capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge Of Penshurst
Major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, (17 May 189429 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War. Background and earlier life Hardinge was born in 1894, the son of Charles Hardinge (who was created Baron Hardinge of Penshurst in 1910 and served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916). Hardinge was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and fought in the First World War and became a Lieutenant and received the Military Cross. He was ''Aide-de-Camp'' to the Viceroy of India between 1915 and 1916. In 1920, he became Assistant Private Secretary to George V and was promoted Captain. On 8 February 1921, he married Helen Gascoyne-Cecil (a daughter of Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil) and they had three children. In 1929 he was promoted Major. Hardinge served as Assistant Private Secretary up until George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia Police
South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. SAPOL is an independent statutory agency of the Government of South Australia directed by the Commissioner of Police, who reports to the Minister for Police. SAPOL provides general duties policing, highway patrol, criminal investigation and emergency coordination services throughout the state. SAPOL is also responsible for road safety advocacy and education, and maintains the South Australian Road Safety Centre. the commissioner of police is Grant Stevens, who has been in the role since July 2015. History Early years Formally established on 28 April 1838 under the command of Inspector Henry Inman, the force is the oldest in Australasia and is the third oldest organised police force in the world. The first force in the colony of South Australia consisted of 10 mounted constables and 10 foot constables. In 1840, Major Thomas Shouldham O'Halloran was appointed as the first offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hamilton (Australian Police Officer)
George Hamilton (12 March 1812 – 2 August 1883), was a pioneer overlander, artist, settler, and police officer in the Colony of South Australia, serving as Commissioner of Police for fifteen years. Origins Hamilton came from an old Herefordshire family and as a youth was educated at Harrow School before serving as midshipman in the Royal Navy. Farming was his major interest when he emigrated to Australia, firstly to Sydney, before overlanding sheep to Port Phillip, Victoria in March, 1837. He was the first European to settle on the future townsite of Gisborne, Victoria on about 24 March 1837. He then participated in overlanding a herd of cattle for Lt Alfred Mundy and Captain George Brunswick Smyth from Pyalong, Victoria to Adelaide in October 1839, along with close friend E.B. Scott. For the next few years he combined mixed farming along with his artistic talents, both visual arts and authorship, all of which had considerable merit, but none of which were a resounding succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerk Of The Parliaments
The Clerk of the Parliaments is the chief Clerk (legislature), clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The position has existed since at least 1315, and duties include preparing the minutes of Lords proceedings, advising on proper parliamentary procedure and pronouncing the Royal Assent. Many of the Clerk's duties are now fulfilled by his deputies and the Clerk of the Parliaments' Office. The ''Under Clerk of the Parliaments'' is the formal name for the Clerk of the House of Commons. The term ''Clerk of the Parliaments'' is also used as a formal alternative title by the Clerk of the Senate, Clerk of the Senate of Canada and the Clerks of the Legislative Councils of New South Wales Legislative Council, New South Wales and Western Australian Legislative Council, Western Australia. In the Australian state of Victoria the title is given to the longer-serving of the Clerks of the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council and Victorian Legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Graham (parliamentary Clerk)
Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, (15 January 1842 – 5 December 1930) was a Scottish public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments from 1885 to 1917."Graham, Sir Henry (John Lowndes)" ''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 2 January 2019. Biography Graham was born on 15 January 1842, the only son of William Graham of Burntsheilds, Renfrewshire, and his wife Anna, ''née'' Lowndes; his sisters included Lady Barrington (wife of Sir Eric Barrington) and his half-brother was the Glasgow MP William Graham (Glasgow MP), William Graham, whose own children included Dame Agnes Jekyll, Frances Horner (wife of Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner, John Horner), and the wives of Quintin Hogg (merchant), Quintin Hogg and Kenn ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Phillip District
The Port Phillip District was an administrative division of the Colony of New South Wales from 9 September 1836 until 1 July 1851, when it was separated from New South Wales and became the Colony of Victoria. In September 1836, NSW Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay declared Captain William Lonsdale the "Police Magistrate" of "the location of Settlers on the vacant Crown Lands adjacent to the shores of Port Phillip." This position was someone "of which all persons concerned are hereby required to take notice." In May 1839, Governor George Gipps defined the "Port Phillip District" as "The whole of the Lands comprised in the District lying to the south of the main range, between the Rivers Ovens and Goulburn, and adjacent to Port Phillip." In July that year, Colonial Secretary E Deas Thomson announced that Charles La Trobe was the District's "Superintendent", (which was later said by Governor Gipps "to have the powers of a Lieutenant Governor"). On September 10, the Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fyshe Gisborne
Henry Fyshe Gisborne (1813–1841) was the first Commissioner for Crown Lands of the Port Phillip District, founder of Flemington Racecourse and petitioner for Victoria's separation from New South Wales. Early career Henry Fyshe Gisborne was the son of Thomas Gisborne the Younger and Elizabeth Fysche Palmer, daughter of John Palmer. He was educated at Harrow, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he left without obtaining a degree. He left England due to ill health and travelled to Australia, landing in Sydney in 1834. In 1837 Gisborne was dispatched by Governor Bourke as police magistrate to Wellington, in the recently colonised Australian hinterland beyond the Blue Mountains where he attempted to keep the peace among early settlers and the native Wiradjuri. In Victoria In 1839 Governor Gipps appointed Gisborne Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Port Phillip District. Gisborne's official activities included scouting the hitherto little explored areas of central Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
