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William Killigrew Wait
William Killigrew Wait (26 December 1826 – 13 December 1902) was a British politician and merchant in Bristol. Wait was born in 1826, the son of W. K. Wait, an Alderman and Sheriff of Bristol. He was educated at Bristol College and worked as a grain merchant. He first became a town councillor at the age of 41 in 1867, and was appointed Mayor of Bristol in 1869. He became an Alderman in the city in 1886 but resigned in 1891. He was prominent in the movement which led to the building of a nave at the Cathedral in Bristol, and active in local causes throughout his life. Wait was the Conservative Party member of Parliament for Gloucester elected in the 1873 Gloucester by-election. His opponent was Thomas Robinson of the Liberal Party who was subsequently elected in 1880. The 1873 by-election was marred by accusations of corruption but an enquiry by the Electoral Commission upheld Wait's victory. Wait was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the forced resignation of El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Killigrew Wait
William Killigrew Wait (26 December 1826 – 13 December 1902) was a British politician and merchant in Bristol. Wait was born in 1826, the son of W. K. Wait, an Alderman and Sheriff of Bristol. He was educated at Bristol College and worked as a grain merchant. He first became a town councillor at the age of 41 in 1867, and was appointed Mayor of Bristol in 1869. He became an Alderman in the city in 1886 but resigned in 1891. He was prominent in the movement which led to the building of a nave at the Cathedral in Bristol, and active in local causes throughout his life. Wait was the Conservative Party member of Parliament for Gloucester elected in the 1873 Gloucester by-election. His opponent was Thomas Robinson of the Liberal Party who was subsequently elected in 1880. The 1873 by-election was marred by accusations of corruption but an enquiry by the Electoral Commission upheld Wait's victory. Wait was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the forced resignation of El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Walker Dunbar
Eliza Walker Dunbar (4 November 1845 – 25 August 1925) was a Scottish physician and the first woman from the UK to qualify and work as a doctor. Early life and education Eliza Louisa Walker was born in Bolarum, Hyderabad, in 1845. Her father, Alexander Walker, was a doctor from Aberdeenshire who worked for the Bombay Military Department. Her younger brother, Archibald Dunbar Walker, also trained in the medical profession. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, she was fluent in German, and had a keen interest in medicine. As she was unable to enrol in any British medical schools, she instead received training and tuition from St. Mary's Dispensary for Women under Elizabeth Garrett. She joined the Society of Apothecaries when it revised its regulations to include those who did not attend medical schools. Walker travelled to Switzerland and was one of the " Zurich 7" who were the first women to gain a medical degree from the University of Zurich. Registration but no subscript ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 Births
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Mayors Of Bristol
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English Merchants
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
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Members Of Parliament For Gloucester
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Charles Chadwyck-Healey
Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet (26 August 1845 – 5 October 1919) was a British lawyer and baronet. Background He was born Charles Healey, the only son of Edward Charles Healey. After his father's death, he succeeded him in the control of the magazine The Engineer. Chadwyck-Healey was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1872, was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1891 and became a bencher four years later. Career In 1903, Chadwyck-Healey was nominated chairman of the Admiralty Volunteers Committee, an office he held until 1914. Subsequently, he was member of the Admiralty Transport Arbitration Board, for which he was created a baronet, of Wyphurst, in the County of Surrey on 6 May 1919. Chadwyck-Healey served as High Sheriff of Somerset in 1911 and served in the county as a Deputy Lieutenant as well as Justice of the Peace, exercising the latter post also in the county of Surrey. He was a county alderman for Somerset and sat in its Quarter Sessions. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission is the national election commission, created in 2001 as a result of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. It is an independent agency that regulates party and election finance and sets standards for how elections should be run. History The Electoral Commission was created following a recommendation by the fifth report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The Commission's mandate was set out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA), and ranges from the regulation of political donations and expenditure by political and third parties through to promoting greater participation in the electoral process. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 required local authorities to review all polling stations, and to provide a report on the reviews to the Electoral Commission. The Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 granted the Electoral Commission a variety of new supervisory a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol
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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] |
Thomas Robinson (Gloucester MP)
Sir Thomas Robinson (January 1827 – 26 Oct 1897) was an English corn merchant and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1880 and 1895. Robinson was born at Weston. He became a corn merchant of Gloucester and was an Alderman and mayor of the city four times. He was also a J.P. In 1873 Robinson stood in a by-election Gloucester after out manoeuvering former Liberal member John Joseph Powell for the candidature, but was defeated. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester in 1880 after the Liberals had established a party caucus chosen by ward meetings, resulting in improved organisation. However bribery and corruption were on a major scale in Gloucester and Robinson was unseated in the same year. His willingness to stand down and the unwillingness of the Conservatives to take matters further led to suspicions of collusion between the parties and a Royal Commission was set up to examine electoral practices. The Royal Commission concluded th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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