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Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Earl Of Minto
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, (; 16 November 178231 July 1859), styled as Viscount Melgund between 1813 and 1814, was a British diplomat and Whig politician. Background and education Minto was the eldest son of the Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, and Anna Maria, daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton, St John's College, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh. Diplomatic and political career Minto was returned to Parliament for Ashburton in Devon in 1806, a seat he held until 1807, and then represented Roxburghshire between 1812 and 1814. He took a dim view of the Prince Regent and his government. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was admitted to Privy Council in 1832. From 1832 to 1834 he was Minister to Prussia. In 1835 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Melbourne, a post he held until 1841, and later served as Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxburghshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Roxburghshire was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Roxburghshire. Boundaries The name relates the constituency to the county of Roxburgh. History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ... system until the seat was abolished in 1918. When the constituency was abolished in 1918, the Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency was created, covering th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Elliot (1818–1895)
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot (12 December 1818 – 21 May 1895) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he was involved in the bombardment of Acre, Israel, Acre during the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41), Egyptian–Ottoman War. During the Second Opium War Eliott led a unit of 300 sailors and marines that successfully breached the walls of Guangzhou, Canton and then led another unit that destroyed 23 Chinese Junk (ship), war-junks in the estuary South of the city. After that, he led a small squadron of British ships which pursued a fleet of 41 Chinese war-junks at the Battle of Escape Creek: his squadron chased the war-junks upriver and then, once the British ships were grounded as the river narrowed, they chased them in the ships' boats until all the war-junks had been overhauled. He also took part in the larger action, under Commodore Henry Keppel, involving around 100 war-junks at the Battle of Fatshan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Elliot
Sir Henry George Elliot (30 June 1817 – 30 March 1907) was a British diplomat. He was the second son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto. He was most noted for his period as ambassador at Constantinople, and his participation in the 1876-77 Constantinople Conference. Elliot took a pro-Turkish line despite the ‘ Bulgarian atrocities’. He argued in a dispatch he made on 4 September 1876 "that British interests in preventing change in the Turkish empire were 'not affected by the question whether it was 10,000 or 20,000 persons who perished in the suppression'. As a result of the unpopularity in Britain of his pragmatism in the face of atrocities he was relocated to Vienna in 1877. He died at home (Ardington House near Wantage) in 1907.http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33002?docPos=1 H. C. G. Matthew, 'Elliot, Sir Henry George (1817–1907)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004;The Times, Monday, 1 April 1907; pg. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coutts Trotter (writer)
Coutts Trotter (April 1831 – 5 February 1906) was a Scottish author. The late Mr. Coutts Trotter was the eldest son of Mr. Archibald Trotter, of Dreghorn, Midlothian, and by his death, the Royal Geographical Society has lost a Fellow of thirty years' standing, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society one of its earliest and most zealous supporters. He was born in April 1831, in Edinburgh, and was educated at Rugby and Haileybury, being destined for the service of the East India Company. Here he gave evidence of future distinction, and carried off the gold medal for political economy. But, unfortunately, he was constitutionally delicate, and was soon to find that his bad health was sufficient to debar him from any public career of usefulness. Although appointed to a post in Bengal, he got no further than Bombay, and had to return home invalided almost immediately. When sufficiently recovered he made another attempt to join his post, but with equal unsuccess; the climate was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline
Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline (6 April 1803 – 2 July 1868) was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat, styled The Honourable from 1839 to 1858. Life Ralph Abercromby was the son and heir of James Abercromby, a barrister and Whig politician, and Lady Mary Anne (Marianne) Leigh. Abercromby was educated at Eton and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He entered the Diplomatic Service, becoming an attaché at Frankfurt in 1821 and a précis writer in the Foreign Office in 1827. He was Secretary of Legation at Berlin from 1831 to 1835, and Minister at Florence from 1835 to 1838. On 18 September 1838 he married Lady Mary Elizabeth Gilberta Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, daughter of the Earl of Minto. From 1838 to 1840 he was Minister to the German Confederation, from 1840 to 1851 Minister at Turin, and from 1851 to 1858 Minister at The Hague. In 1851 he was awarded a Knight Commander of the Bath ( KCB). Upon his father's death in 1858 he succeeded to the Barony, as 2nd Baron Dunfermline, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Portal
Melville Portal Justice of the Peace, JP, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (31 July 1819 – 24 January 1904) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician from Hampshire. Career Portal was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1842, and Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), M.A. in 1844. In 1841 he was treasurer and in 1842 President of the Oxford Union. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for North Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Hampshire at a 1849 North Hampshire by-election, by-election in April 1849, following the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir William Heathcote, 5th Baronet, Sir William Heathcote. He was re-elected unopposed in 1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 at a sparsely attended hustings in Winchester, and retired from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons at the 1857 United Kingdom general election, 1857 general election. Portal was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl Of Minto
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto (; 19 March 1814 – 17 March 1891), was a British Whig (British political party), Whig politician. Early life He was the eldest son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto. From his birth in 1814 until his accession in 1859, he was styled Viscount Melgund. He was educated at Eton College, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Career He was elected as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Hythe (UK Parliament constituency), Hythe at a by-election in May 1837, and held the seat until the 1841 United Kingdom general election, 1841 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in Rochester (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester. At the 1847 United Kingdom general election, 1847 general election, he was returned as MP for Greenock (UK Parliament constituency), Greenock. He held that seat until the 1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 general election, when he contested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Brydone
Patrick Brydone, FRSE, FRS, FSAScot, FSA (5 January 1736 – 19 June 1818) was a Scottish traveller and author who served as Comptroller of the Stamp Office. Life Brydone was born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, on 5 January 1736, the son of Robert Brydone (1687–1761), the local Church of Scotland minister, and Elizabeth Dysart. After attending St. Andrews University, he went abroad as travelling tutor or companion (colloquially known as a bearleader), with William Beckford and some other gentlemen. In 1767 or 1768, soon after his return from Switzerland, he went abroad again with Beckford and two others as travelling preceptor. In 1770, he made a tour with these gentlemen through Sicily and Malta, the former island being but little known to travellers of that time. This tour forms the subject of his book, ''A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq., of Somerly in Suffolk,'' published in 1773. His work became popular for its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. The third son of the John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was educated first by private tutors due to his fragile health and later at Westminster School and Edinburgh University before entering Parliament in 1813. In 1828 he took a leading role in the repeal of the Test Acts which discriminated against Catholics and Protestant dissenters. He was one of the principal architects of the Reform Act 1832, which was the first major reform of Parliament since the Stuart Restoration, Restoration, and a significant early step on the road to democracy and away from rule by the aristocracy and landed gentry. He favoured expanding the right to vote to the middle classes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State (United Kingdom), Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. Originally, its holder was responsible for the monarch's Privy Seal of England, personal (privy) seal (as opposed to the Great Seal of the Realm, which is in the care of the lord chancellor) until the use of such a seal became obsolete. Though one of the oldest offices in European governments, it has no particular function today because the use of a privy seal has been obsolete for centuries; it may be regarded as a traditional sinecure, but today, the holder of the office is invariably given a seat in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, and is sometimes referred to as a Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom), minister without portfolio. Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Diplomats From The United Kingdom To Prussia
Below is an ''incomplete'' list of diplomats from the United Kingdom to Prussia, specifically Heads of Missions sent to the Elector of Brandenburg and to the Kingdom of Prussia from its formation of in 1701. From 1868, the ambassadors were attributed to the North German Confederation. Heads of Mission Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Elector of Brandenburg *1680: Sir Robert Southwell *1689: Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, ''Envoy Extraordinary''D. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) *1690–1692: James Johnson *1692: George Stepney ''in charge'' *1692–1698: ''apparently no representation'' *1698–c.1700: George Stepney ''Envoy Extraordinary'' *1699–1703: Philip Plantamour ''in charge'' **1700: James Cressett ''Envoy Extraordinary'' Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia **1701: Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Baron Raby ''Special Mission'' *1703–1711: Thomas We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
