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Roderick Barclay
Sir Roderick Edward Barclay (2 February 1909 – 24 October 1996) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Denmark and Belgium. Career Roderick Edward Barclay was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1932 and served at British embassies at Brussels, Paris, Washington, D.C., and at the Foreign Office as head of the Personnel Department. He was then appointed Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, 1949–51. Barclay was a surprising choice as Bevin's Private Secretary since, at first sight, he and his intended master had nothing in common. ... But in the event he was probably the most successful of the exceptionally able men who served Bevin as Private Secretary. — Obituary, ''The Independent'', 1 November 1996 After Bevin moved on due to illness in March 1951 (he died shortly afterwards), Barclay served as Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1951–53, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelouse Des Anglais Plaque
Pelouse (; oc, Pelosa) is a commune in the Lozère département in southern France. Geography The Colagne forms part of the commune's northern border. See also *Communes of the Lozère department The following is a list of the 152 communes of the Lozère department of France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions a ... References Communes of Lozère {{Lozère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Roberts (diplomat)
Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts (27 October 1907 – 7 January 1998) was a British diplomat. He played a key role in British diplomacy in the early years of the Cold War, and in developing Anglo-German relations in the 1960s. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was educated at Bedales School, Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1930 with first-class honours in history. He entered the Foreign Office in 1930, having been first-placed in the entrance examination. His first overseas posting was to Paris, followed by Cairo where he married Celeste Leila Beatrix "Cella" Shoucair (died 1990). Roberts returned to London in 1937 to work in the central department of the Foreign Office, where, as a still relatively junior official, he was involved in much of the diplomacy with Nazi Germany in the lead-up to World War II. When war broke out, he was British joint secretary of the Anglo French Supreme War Council (SWC) from 1939 to 1940, and acted as interpreter d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns
Simon Dallas Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, (born 27 May 1939), styled Viscount Garmoyle between 1946 and 1989, is a British businessman. Background and education Cairns is the son of Rear-Admiral David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns, and Barbara Jeanne Harrison Burgess.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003) He was educated at Ludgrove, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Career Cairns was Managing Director of S. G. Warburg & Co. between 1979 and 1985, of Mercury Securities plc between 1981 and 1984, Chairman of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) between 1981 and 1992, Vice-Chairman of Mercury Securities plc between 1984 and 1986, and a Director of S. G. Warburg & Co. between 1985 and 1995. He succeeded his father in the earldom on 21 March 1989.Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, p. 641. He was Receiver-General of the Duchy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years. Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents. He first entered the House of Commons in 1832, beginning his political career as a High Tory, a grouping which became the Conservative Party under Robert Peel in 1834. Gladstone served as a minister in both of Peel's governments, and in 1846 joined the breakaway Peelite faction, which eventually merged into the new Liberal Party in 1859. He was chancellor under Lord Aberdeen (1852–1855), Lord Palmerston (1859–1865) and Lord Russell (1865–1866). Gladstone's own political doctrine—which emphasised equalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavus Arthur Talbot
Gustavus Arthur Talbot (24 December 1848 – 16 October 1920) was a British member of parliament and a Coalition Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead from 1918 until his death in 1920. Talbot was born on 24 December 1848 at Withington, Gloucestershire, the son of the Reverend George Chetwynd-Talbot and he was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire. He became a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Talbot was a justice of the peace and between 1914 and 1920 he was mayor of Hemel Hempstead. He married Susan Frances Talbot, the daughter of Robert Elwes. On 14 December 1918 he was elected as Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500. Developed after the Second World War as a ne ... as a Coalition Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot
Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, KG, PC, FRS (25 April 1777 – 10 January 1849), styled Viscount of Ingestre between 1784 and 1793, was a British politician and slave holder. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 and 1821. Background and education Born as Charles Talbot, he was the eldest son of John Talbot of Ingestre Hall and his wife, Lady Charlotte Hill, a daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. When John Talbot was created Earl Talbot and Viscount of Ingestre in 1784, Charles Talbot assumed the latter title as a courtesy title. His father also added Chetwynd to the family name in 1786. He inherited his father's earldom and the Ingestre estate in 1793, matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1794 and graduated as a Master of Arts in 1797. He commissioned the architect John Nash to renovate Ingestre around 1810. Early career After leaving Oxford, Lord Talbot joined the British embassy in Russia under Lord Whitworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Steuart Gladstone
Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch FRSE FSA FZS MBOU DL LL (1877-1949) was a Scottish ornithologist and landowner. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries 1946 to 1949. Life He was born on 30 April 1877 the son of Samuel Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch and his wife Sophia Musgrave. He lived his life at Capenoch House in Penpont in Dumfriesshire a major country house designed by David Bryce. He was sent to Eton College and then studied at Cambridge University graduating MA. In the Second Boer War (1900-1902) he served in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in South Africa as a Lieutenant winning two campaign medals and five clasps. On return to Britain he served as a County Councillor 1904 to 1946. He served numerous senior roles in the Dumfries Council. In 1909 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cossar Ewart, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, James Geikie and Cargill Gilston Knott. In the First World War he rejoined the KOSB as a Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Barclay
Oliver Rainsford Barclay (22 February 1919 – 12 September 2013) was a British academic and evangelical Christian. Originally a zoologist, he later turned his attentions to widening the influence of conservative evangelical Christianity within universities and theological colleges. He was General Secretary of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship from 1964 to 1980, and also Chair of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students from 1971 to 1979. In 1989, he co-founded the journal ''Science and Christian Belief''. Early life and education Barclay was born on 22 February 1919 in Kobe, Japan. He was a member of the Barclays family; his father was Joseph Gurney Barclay, a CMS missionary, and one of his great-great-grandfathers was Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a politician, reformer and brewer. His mother was his father's second wife, Gwendoline Watney, granddaughter of the brewer James Watney. Barclay was educated at Durnford School, a preparatory school in Dors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gurney Barclay (missionary)
Joseph Gurney Barclay (9 February 1879 – 15 April 1976) was a British banker and Evangelical Anglican missionary. Barclay was the fourth son of Robert Barclay of High Leigh and the grandson of Joseph Gurney Barclay, an astronomer. He was born on 9 February 1879 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. His mother was Elizabeth Ellen Buxton, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the family bank (Barclay's Bank), but left in 1908 to become a missionary to Japan. He returned to Britain in 1926 to work for the Church Missionary Society. Family He married twice. His first wife was Gillian Birbeck whom he married on 25 May 1905 in Freebridge Lynn, Norfolk. She died on 15 May 1909 in Kobe, Japan leaving an infant son Roderick Barclay KCMG (died 1996), who was only three months old, having been born on 22 February previously. His second wife was Gwendoline Rose Watney (1885-1976) who was already a missionary in Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banque De Bruxelles
Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, french: Banque Bruxelles Lambert) was a Belgian bank that was created through merger in 1975 and became part of ING Group in 1998. It provided retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgium, together with related financial products such as insurance and asset management. It was formed by the merger of two existing Belgian banks ''Banque de Bruxelles'' and ''Banque Lambert'' in 1975 making it at that time the second largest Belgian bank. It was sold to ING Group in 1998 who renamed the subsidiary in 2002 ING Belgium. History Banque de Bruxelles Banque de Bruxelles was founded in 1871 and grew steadily over the ensuing six decades, acquiring interests in other banks in Belgium's major cities. In 1931, these interests were combined in a single business which operated in traditional banking and in the management of industrial concerns based mainly in Belgium and Africa. Following the reform of the Belgian banking sector in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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