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Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet
Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (20 May 1834 – 11 November 1897) was a British Army officer from Scotland, Conservative politician and Victoria Cross recipient. Early life Montgomery-Cuninghame was born in Ayr to Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 8th Baronet of Corsehill and Charlotte Niven D. Hutcheson, the eldest of seven children. Between April 1849 and 1851 he was educated at Harrow School. Military service Montgomery-Cuninghame had a long and distinguished military career, which began in 1853 when, on 11 March 1853, he became ensign in the 1st Regiment (by purchase). By 29 April 1853 he had become a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. In October 1853, the Crimean War broke out and he was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the siege and fall of Sebastapol."Harrow School Register 1801–1893", published 1894 ionline database(subscription required), accessed 18 June 2014 Montgomery-Cuninghame served in the Crimean War as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybole
Maybole is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It had an estimated population of in . It is situated south of Ayr and southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The town is bypassed by the A77 road, A77. History Maybole has Middle Ages roots, receiving a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it remained under the suzerainty of the Kennedy clan, Kennedys, afterwards Earl of Cassillis, Earls of Cassillis and (later) Marquess of Ailsa, Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful family in Ayrshire. The Archibald Angus Charles Kennedy, 8th Marquess of Ailsa, Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole until its sale in 2007. In the late seventeenth century, a census recorded Maybole was home to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In former times, Maybole was the capital of the district of Carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Gazette
''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. ''The Gazette'' is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage. It does not have a large circulation. Other official newspapers of the UK government are ''The Edinburgh Gazette'' and ''The Belfast Gazette'', which, apart from reproducing certain materials of nationwide interest published in ''The London Gazette'', also contain publications specific to Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. In turn, ''The London Gazette'' carries not only notices of UK-wide interest, but also those relating specifically to entities or people in England and Wales. However, certain notices that are only of specific interest to Scotland or Northern Ireland are also required to be published in ''The London Gazette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Deaths
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1834 Births
Events January–March * January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. * January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states. * January 3 – The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City. * February 13 – Robert Owen organizes the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in the United Kingdom. * March 6 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto. * March 11 – The United States Survey of the Coast is transferred to the Department of the Navy. * March 14 – John Herschel discovers the open cluster of stars now known as NGC 3603, observing from the Cape of Good Hope. * March 28 – Andrew Jackson is censured by the United States Congress (expunged in 1837). April–June * April 10 – The LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans burns, and Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie flees to France. * April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Baronet
Sir Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Baronet DSO (30 March 1877 – 5 January 1945) was a British Army officer and Distinguished Service Order recipient. Family life Montgomery-Cuninghame was born on 30 March 1877 in London, the 6th child and eldest son of Elizabeth Hartopp, daughter and youngest child of Edward Bourchier Hartopp. His father was Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet V.C. He was educated at Sandroyd School, Eton College''Kent & Sussex Courier'' 12 January 1945, p. 8 (subscription required) accessed 19 June 2014 (where he served with the Eton Volunteers) and then entered Sandhurst although he had not expected to pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery-Cuninghame Baronets
The baronetcy of Cuninghame of Corsehill was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and conferred upon Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Glencairn. The fourth baronet's father added the name Montgomery before his own on inheriting the estate of Kirktonholm. Cuninghame, later Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill baronets, of Corsehill (1672) *Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Baronet (–1685) was the son of Alexander Cuningham and Anne Crawford. He married Mary Stewart. *Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 2nd Baronet (died 1730) married Margaret Boyle and had a daughter, Jean, and a son David. *Sir David Cuninghame, 3rd Baronet (died 1770) married Penelope Montgomery by whom he had three sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom, Alexander, who married Elizabeth Montgomery, was father of the 4th, 5th and 6th Baronets. *Sir Walter Montgomery-Cuninghame, 4th Baronet (died 1814), who, in 1790, sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Campbell (Liberal MP)
Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell (September 1831 – 27 May 1888) was a British army officer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1888. Campbell was the son of James Campbell of Craigie, Ayrshire and his wife Grace Elizabeth Hay, daughter of General Archibald Hay, K.C.B. His family was said to be descended from the Campbell of Auchinbreck. He was educated at Rugby School and served as a captain in the 8th Madras Cavalry. He was Vice-Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Lieutenant-colonel in the Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry. In the 1880 general election, Campbell was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayr Burghs. He was re-elected in 1885, but when the Liberals split over Irish Home Rule, he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Josep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Craufurd
Edward Henry John Craufurd (9 December 1816 – 29 August 1887) was a Scottish Radical politician. He was the eldest son of John Craufurd of Auchenames and Kerse in the counties of Renfrewshire and Ayr, Treasurer General of the Ionian Islands, and Sophia Marianne Churchill, daughter of Major General Churchill and great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in 1840 and graduated as 12th senior optime. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845 and practised on the Home Circuit and attended the Surrey Sessions. He was editor of ''The Legal Examiner'' In 1860 he married Frances, daughter of the Rev William Molesworth, Rector of St Breock, Cornwall, and sister of the Rev Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th Baronet of Pencarrow and niece of James Wentworth Buller, MP for North Devon. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Buteshire and a JP for Ayrshire. he was a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland's Forgotten Valour
''Scotland's Forgotten Valour'' is a 1995 book by Graham Ross, published by MacLean Press under . (The typography of the title on the book uses capitalisation to contrast emphasis ("SCOTLAND'S FORgotten VALOUR"), to communicate additional meaning, namely a reference to the ''For Valour'' inscription on the medal—and presumably the idea that valour is so much a part of the national character as to justify suggesting that "Scotland exists for the sake of valour".) The book ''... Valour'' presents the stories of the 158 Scottish-born Victoria Cross recipients prior to its going to press, out of the 1351 VCs that had then been awarded. It points out that five of the first ten Victoria Crosses awarded went to Scottish soldiers. See also *''Monuments to Courage'' (David Harvey, 1999) *''The Register of the Victoria Cross ''The Register of the Victoria Cross'' is a reference work that provides brief information on every Victoria Cross awarded until the publication date. Each entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monuments To Courage
David Charles Harvey (29 July 1946 – 4 March 2004) was a historian and author. He is notable for his seminal work, ''Monuments To Courage'', which documents the graves of almost all recipients of the Victoria Cross, a task that took him over 36 years to complete. Biography Harvey was born in East Ham, London, the son of a grocer, and worked as a salesman after he attended Hinchley Wood School in Surrey. He later joined the Metropolitan Police, where he started the mounted police magazine ''One One Ten'', before he moved to Denver, Colorado, to run an equestrian centre for over a decade. A chance meeting with Canon William Lummis led him to take over his life-work of researching and documenting the final resting places of all Victoria Cross recipients. This task took Harvey to 48 countries over the next four decades. However, an accident during a visit to the Somme in 1992 left Harvey in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life and he later had to have a leg amputated. ''Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tilley (diplomat)
Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley (January 1869 – 5 April 1952) /ref> was a British diplomat. He was from 1921 to 1925, and from 1926 to 1931. Early life Born on 21Birth Certificate of John Tilley, 1859 or 31Tilley, John Anthony Cecil, ''London to Tok ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bourchier Hartopp
Edward Bourchier Hartopp (1808–1884), was a British politician. He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire. He was the Conservative MP for North Leicestershire 1859–68. Hartopp was born 14 December 1808, the son of Edward Hartopp and Anna Eleanora Wrey. He was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford. In 1833 he was made High Sheriff of Leicestershire and was MP for North Leicestershire from 1859 - 1868. In 1834 he married Honoria Gent the daughter of Major-General William Gent. He owned the parishes of Burton Lazars, Scraptoft and Little Dalby. He died 31 December 1884 at his residence at 21 Thurloe Square in London. His son, William Hartopp William Wrey Hartopp (22 April 1836 – 20 July 1874) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Life Hartopp was the son of the politician Edward Bourchier Hartopp and his wife, Honoria Gent. He was educated at Eton College ..., was a first-class cricketer. References 1808 births 1884 deaths Conservative P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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