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Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald
Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald, (19 September 1916 – 19 December 1984), was a British soldier and Conservative politician. Biography St Oswald was the eldest son of Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald, and his wife Eve Carew, daughter of Charles Greene. He was a major in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars and served in the Middle East from 1940 to 1944 and South-East Asia from 1944 to 1945 in the Second World War, where he was wounded and mentioned in dispatches. He later fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952 where he was awarded the Military Cross (MC). St Oswald succeeded his father in the barony in 1957 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. He served under Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1959 to 1962 and as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1962 to 1964. From 1973 to 1979 he was an appointed Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Officers
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barons In The Peerage Of The United Kingdom
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a ''coronet''. The term originates from the Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Italy. It later spread to Scandinavia and Slavic lands. Etymology The word ''baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic law; Alemannic law has in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in the 7th century thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hoy, Baron Hoy
James Hutchison Hoy, Baron Hoy (21 January 1909 – 7 August 1976) was a Scottish Labour politician and life peer. Educated at Causewayside and Sciennes Public Schools, Edinburgh, he initially worked as an interior decorator. He was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Leith at the 1945 general election, holding the seat until 1970. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1947 to 1950, and was joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1964 to 1970. He was appointed vice-president of the Trustee Savings Bank Association in 1957. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1969. On 4 July 1970 following his retirement from the House of Commons, he was created a life peer as Baron Hoy, of Leith in the County of the City of Edinburgh. He died in 1976 aged 67. See also *Who Was Who ''Who's Who'' is a reference work. It is a book, and also a CD-ROM and a website, giving informati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie
John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie (24 November 1909 – 25 May 1994) was a British Labour MP. Born on a farm in Scotland, Mackie was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the North Scotland College of Agriculture before himself becoming a farmer. He joined the Labour Party, and stood unsuccessfully in North Angus and Mearns at the 1951 United Kingdom general election, and Lanark at the 1955 United Kingdom general election. He finally won election in Enfield East at the 1959 United Kingdom general election. Mackie was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the Labour Government 1964-1970. He stood down in 1974, and in 1976 he was appointed as chair of the Forestry Commission. On 18 May 1981, he was created a life peer with the title Baron John-Mackie, of Nazeing in the County of Essex. His younger brothers were Sir Maitland Mackie and the Liberal MP George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie George Yull Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood
William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, TD (12 April 1909 – 22 June 1989), was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Inglewood was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Lyonel Vane, a descendant of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard. His uncle Henry de Vere Vane had succeeded as ninth Baron Barnard in 1891 on the death of his distant relative Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland and 8th Baron Barnard. Inglewood's mother was Lady Katherine Louisa Pakenham, daughter of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford (hence Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, was his first cousin). On 9 April 1931, shortly before his 22nd birthday, he assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Fletcher, and subsequently inherited the estates of Hutton that were then in the possession of the Fletcher-Vane baronets under the control of trustees.Hutton in the Forest Guide Book, no date Inglewood was a distant cousin of the Fletcher-Vane baronets ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave
Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, (21 November 1905 – 23 May 1995), known as Viscount Chewton from 1933 to 1936, was a British peer and agriculturist. Background and education Waldegrave was the only son of Rev. Henry Waldegrave, 11th Earl Waldegrave and was educated at Winchester and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1928. Political career In 1936, he succeeded to his father's titles and became a member of Somerset County Council in 1937. During World War II, he served with the Royal Artillery ( Territorial Army) and was afterwards awarded the Legion of Merit and the Territorial Decoration. Lord Waldegrave's career thereafter was as: chairman of the Agricultural Executive Council 1948–51; a member of the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall 1951–58; and 1965–76; a Liaison Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire 1952–57; a Parliamentary Secretary to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Scott-Hopkins
Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins (29 November 1921 – 11 March 1995) was a British Conservative politician. Born in Croydon, Scott-Hopkins was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford. He joined the British Army in 1939. He was commissioned in the 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles in 1942 and served on the North-West Frontier, commanding C Company of the 4th Battalion, and in Burma until 1946, having taken a regular commission in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He retired from the Army in 1950 and became a farmer. He married Geraldine Hargreaves in Eton in 1946 (three sons, one daughter). Scott-Hopkins contested Bedwellty in 1955. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cornwall from 1959 until he lost the seat to the Liberal John Pardoe in 1966. He had served as joint Parliamentary Secretary at MAFF 1962–64. He was re-elected as MP for West Derbyshire at a 1967 by-election, and served until 1979. His successor was Matthew Parris. He had se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Moss
Sophie Moss (Zofia Roza Maria Jadwiga Elzbieta Katarzyna Aniela Tarnowska, 16 March 1917 - 22 November 2009) was a Polish noblewoman and World War II organiser. At the request of General Władysław Sikorski, Poland's wartime leader, she ended up at the Cairo branch of the Polish Red Cross. Early life Moss was born during the First World War, near Tarnobrzeg, a town in South-eastern Poland which her Tarnowski family founded in 1593. She was the daughter of Hieronim, a politician and a writer. Her grandfather was Count Stanislaw Tarnowski (1837–1917), who was a professor and rector at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His home, also known as the Szlak, had been the resting place of deceased Polish kings on the night before the kings' burial at Wawel. Moss was also a possible direct descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia and her family had held some of the highest offices in Poland. In 1937, she married Andrew Tarnowski, a member of the senior branch of the family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
