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Walford Davis Green
Walford Davis Green (24 August 1869 – 17 November 1941) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1906. Green was born in Blackheath, the son of Rev. Walford Green, a Wesleyan Minister and sometime president of the Wesleyan Methodist conference. He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an honours B.A. in modern history in 1891. He won the Members' Prize in 1892 for his short book ''The political career of George Canning''. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1895. He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough Wednesbury in Staffordshire. He was re-elected in 1900, and held the seat until he stood down from Parliament at the 1906 general election. After he had announced his intention to retire on health grounds, the local Unionist Association selected as its candidate F. E. Muntz, who had c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walford Davis Green
Walford Davis Green (24 August 1869 – 17 November 1941) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1906. Green was born in Blackheath, the son of Rev. Walford Green, a Wesleyan Minister and sometime president of the Wesleyan Methodist conference. He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an honours B.A. in modern history in 1891. He won the Members' Prize in 1892 for his short book ''The political career of George Canning''. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1895. He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough Wednesbury in Staffordshire. He was re-elected in 1900, and held the seat until he stood down from Parliament at the 1906 general election. After he had announced his intention to retire on health grounds, the local Unionist Association selected as its candidate F. E. Muntz, who had c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands County and Worcestershire to the south and Shropshire to the west. The largest settlement in Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent, which is administered as an independent unitary authority, separately from the rest of the county. Lichfield is a cathedral city. Other major settlements include Stafford, Burton upon Trent, Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Rugeley, Leek, and Tamworth. Other towns include Stone, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Hednesford, Brewood, Burntwood/Chasetown, Kidsgrove, Eccleshall, Biddulph and the large villages of Penkridge, Wombourne, Perton, Kinver, Codsall, Tutbury, Alrewas, Barton-under-Needwood, Shenstone, Featherstone, Essington, Stretton and Abbots Bromley. Cannock Chase AONB is within the county as well as parts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative Party include: Europe Current * Croatian Conservative Party, * Conservative Party (Czech Republic) *Conservative People's Party (Denmark) *Conservative Party of Georgia *Conservative Party (Norway) *Conservative Party (UK) * The Conservatives (Latvia) Historical * Conservative Party (Bulgaria), 1879–1884 * Conservative Party (Kingdom of Serbia), 1861-1895 *German Conservative Party, 1876–1918 *Conservative Party (Hungary), 1846–1849 * Conservative Party (Iceland), 1924–1927 *Conservative Party (Prussia), 1848–1876 * Vlad Țepeș League, in Romania 1929–1938 *Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) * Conservative Party (Romania), 1991–2015 * Conservative Party (Spain), 1876–1931 *Tories, Britain and Ireland 1678–1834; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1869 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first woman to testify before the United States Congress. * January 21 – The P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization for women, is founded at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. * January 27 – The Republic of Ezo is proclaimed on the northern Japanese island of Ezo (which will be renamed Hokkaidō on September 20) by remaining adherents to the Tokugawa shogunate. * February 5 – Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discover the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger". * February 20 – Ranavalona II, the Merina Queen of Madagascar, is baptized. * February 25 – The Iron and Steel Institute is formed in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarendon Golding Hyde
Sir Clarendon Golding Hyde (5 February 1858 – 24 June 1934) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910, but his most significant public service was his participation in numerous government committees. Early life Hyde was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool and at King's College London, and was called to the bar in 1881 at the Middle Temple. He joined the Oxford Circuit, but soon gave up his law practice. Career Hyde unsuccessfully contested Southampton at the 1900 general election. He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough Wednesbury in Staffordshire. He had been nursing the Unionist-held constituency for some time, and won the seat with a majority of 944, 8.4% of the votes. However, he was defeated at the January 1910 general election. He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours in June 1910, and contested Cardiff Boroughs at the De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Lloyd
Wilson Lloyd (3 September 1835 – 4 September 1908) was an English iron founder and a Conservative Party politician who twice sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895. Lloyd was the son of Samuel Lloyd (1795-1862), known as "Quaker Lloyd", and his wife Mary Honychurch. His father had developed the Old Park Ironworks at Wednesbury and by the mid-19th century, Messrs. Lloyds Foster and Co. was the town's leading ironworks, employing 1200 men. The family sold the Ironworks in 1867, Lloyd became a J.P. and an Alderman. He was elected as the Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... (MP) for Wednesbury at the 1885 general election, but lost the seat in the 1886 election. He was Wednesbury's second Mayor from 1888 to 1890. At the 1892 g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the Weald, High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. The town was a spa in the Restoration (England), Restoration and a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Richard (Beau) Nash, Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town still derives much of its income from tourism. The town has a population of around 56,500, and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells (borough), Tunbridge Wells Borough and in the parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells (UK Parliament constituency), Tunbridge Wells. History Iron Age Evidence suggests that Iron Age people farmed the fields and mined the iron-rich rocks in the Tunbridge Wells area, and excava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alfred Bird, 1st Baronet
Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, 1st Baronet (27 July 1849 – 7 February 1922) was an English chemist, food manufacturer and Conservative Party politician. He is best remembered as the proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons, a company founded by his father Alfred Bird, the inventor of baking powder and the powdered custard that bears his name. Early life and career Bird was born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. In 1867 he joined his father's company. In 1878 he took full control of the company following the death of his father, and began an ambitious programme of modernisation and expansion. Bird also continued to innovate with new products such as a powdered egg substitute, jelly crystals and tablet jellies. In 1900 Alfred Bird & Sons Ltd became a public limited company. Bird retired as chairman and managing director of the company in 1905. He stood unsuccessfully as the Unionist candidate on Wednesbury at the 1906 general election, and at the January 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarendon Hyde
Sir Clarendon Golding Hyde (5 February 1858 – 24 June 1934) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910, but his most significant public service was his participation in numerous government committees. Early life Hyde was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool and at King's College London, and was called to the bar in 1881 at the Middle Temple. He joined the Oxford Circuit, but soon gave up his law practice. Career Hyde unsuccessfully contested Southampton at the 1900 general election. He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough Wednesbury in Staffordshire. He had been nursing the Unionist-held constituency for some time, and won the seat with a majority of 944, 8.4% of the votes. However, he was defeated at the January 1910 general election. He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours in June 1910, and contested Cardiff Boroughs at the Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule Movement, Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rugby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Mark Pawsey, a Conservative. History 1885–1918: The Petty Sessional Divisions of Rugby, Southam, Burton Dassett and Kingston, and Kenilworth (except the parishes of Lillington and Milverton). 1918–1945: The Rural Districts of Farnborough, Monks Kirby, Rugby and Southam, the Rural District of Brailes (except the parishes of Ilmington and Stretton-on-Fosse), the parishes of Charlcote, Combrook, Compton Verney, Eatington, Kineton, Loxley, Moreton Morrell, Newbold Pacey, Wellesbourne Hastings and Wellesbourne Mountford in the Rural District of Stratford-on-Avon, and the Urban District of Rugby. 1945–1950: 1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Rugby and the Rural District of Rugby. 1974–1983: The borough of Rugby and the rural district of Rugby as altered by The West Midlands Order 1965 and The Coventry Order 1965. 2010-: The Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth ward o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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