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Thomas Henry Brooke-Hitching
Sir Thomas Henry Brooke-Hitching (1858 – 4 February 1926)"Brooke-Hitching, Sir Thomas Henry." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. December 01, 2007. Oxford University Press was a British businessman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician in London. Background and family Thomas Henry Hitching was born in 1858, the son of John Walter Hitching, of Halifax, Yorkshire. He married in 1878 Sarah Kussuth Brooke, daughter of David Brooke of Stannary, and later adopted the surname of Brooke-Hitching by Royal licence. They had two sons. He was Chairman of Hitchings Ltd., of Bond-street. Civic career Brooke-Hitching had a long career in the City of London Corporation, City of London. He was a Common council of the City of London, Common Councilman in the City of London from 1892, and was one of the prime movers in the creation of separate municipalities for London (which occurred in 1900 following the London Government Act 1899). He was later a Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of St M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
