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Southborough Franchise Committee
The Southborough Committee, referred to at the time as the Franchise Committee, was one of three British committees which sat in India from 1918 to 1919, including also the Committee on Home Administration and the Feetham Function Committee. The committee was chaired by Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough, (2 December 1860 – 17 January 1947) was a British civil servant and solicitor. Hopwood was born in Bayswater, London, the son of a barrister. He was educated at King Edward VI School, ..., and recommended: References {{reflist Government agencies established in 1918 1919 disestablishments 1918 in India 1919 in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee On Home Administration
The Committee on Home Administration was one of three British committees which sat in India from 1918 to 1919, including also the Southborough Franchise Committee and the Feetham Function Committee. The Home Administration committee was headed by Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, (12 January 185820 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British L ..., and recommended "the reorganistion of the Council of India, the appointment of High Commissioner for India in London, and placing of charges on account of political and administrative work of Indian office on the British exchequer." References {{reflist British Indian history 1918 in India 1919 in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feetham Function Committee
The Feetham Function Committee was one of three British committees which sat in Indian from 1918 to 1919, including also the Southborough Franchise Committee and the Committee on Home Administration. The Feetham committee was headed by Richard Feetham Richard Feetham CMG (1874–1965) was a lawyer, politician and judge in South Africa. He was also the chairman of a number of high-profile international and domestic commissions. Early life Feetham was born on 22 November 1874 in Penrho ..., and recommended "the allocation of subjects between the centre and the provinces", as well as "the division of provincial subjects into the Reserved and Transferred categories." References {{reflist British Indian history 1918 in India 1919 in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough
Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough, (2 December 1860 – 17 January 1947) was a British civil servant and solicitor. Hopwood was born in Bayswater, London, the son of a barrister. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Louth, Lincolnshire, of which his uncle was headmaster, and was admitted solicitor in 1882. In 1885 he became an assistant law clerk to the Board of Trade, and was appointed Assistant Solicitor to the Board in 1888 and private secretary to the President of the Board of Trade in 1892. In 1893 he became Secretary to the Railway Department and in 1901 Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade. In 1906 he went to South Africa as a member of the committee to determine the constitutions of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. In 1907 he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and in 1910 vice-chairman of the Development Commission. In 1912 he was appointed to the Privy Council and appointed Additional Civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Established In 1918
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Disestablishments
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Faisal I of Iraq, Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionism, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (region), Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In India
Events in the year 1918 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford Events * National income - 26,105 million * Oct 15 - Shirdi Sai Baba's death * 1918 flu pandemic in India * Kheda Satyagraha Law *Usurious Loans Act Births *19 August – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th president of India (died 1999) Deaths *22 July – Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action (born 1898). *15 October – Sai Baba of Shirdi, guru, yogi and fakir (born 1835). References India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ... Years of the 20th century in India {{India-year-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
