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LCCI
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is a business organization based in London, founded in 1882. It provides support for its members’ businesses through services and advocates on behalf of London’s business community. The Chamber has interest groups designed to provide targeted support, including the Asian Business Association (ABA), Black Business Association (BBA), and Business Owners Club. LCCI introduced a free B2B digital networking app in 2021. On the LCCI Community App, users can chat with peers, join sector and common interest groups, and see LCCI member product and service offers. History There have been various chambers of commerce in London over the years. John Weskett ran a London chamber from 1782 to 1800. A larger chamber ran in 1823 and 1824, with support from MP and Bank of England director William Haldimand. Several other short-lived attempts were made until the current chamber was founded in 1882. The LCC was a supporter of calls for an Imper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weskett
John Weskett was an English people, English underwriter and merchant who contributed to the understanding of insurance law in the eighteenth century. Weskett was probably born in Leeds. It is believed to have lived between 1730 and 1800. Marine insurance average Weskett offered a definition of the term Maritime insurance, average in ''A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws, and Practice of Insurance'', (1781): :"Average means the accidents and misfortunes which happen to ships and their cargoes, from the time of their lading and sailing till their return and unlading. It is divided into three kinds : first, the simple, or particular, average, which consists in the extraordinary expenses incurred, either for the ship alone, or for the merchandize alone. Such is the loss of anchors, masts, and rigging, occasioned by the common accidents at sea ; the damages which happen to merchandize by storms, capture, shipwrecks, wet, or rotting: all which must be paid by the thing that suffered th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Haldimand
William Haldimand (9 September 1784 – 20 September 1862) was an English philanthropist, director of the Bank of England, and Member of Parliament. He was the brother of Jane Marcet, a popular writer on science and economics. Life He was the son of Anthony Francis Haldimand (1741–1817), a London merchant, nephew and heir of Sir Frederick Haldimand. He was one of twelve children, most of whom died young, and was born in London 9 September 1784. At sixteen he entered his father's counting-house, showed talent for business, and at twenty-five became a director of the Bank of England. Haldimand was an advocate of the resumption of specie payments, and gave evidence in the parliamentary inquiry which led to the Resumption of Cash Payments, etc. Act 1819 ( 59 Geo. 3. c. 49). In 1820 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ipswich, and was re-elected in 1826, but when the return was disputed he gave up the seat. In 1828 Haldimand settled permanently at his summer villa, Denantou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Federation
The Imperial Federation was a series of proposals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to create a federal union to replace the existing British Empire, presenting it as an alternative to colonial imperialism. No such proposal was ever adopted, but various schemes were popular in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and other colonial territories. The project was championed by Unionists such as Joseph Chamberlain as an alternative to William Gladstone's proposals for home rule in Ireland. Many proposals were put forward, but none commanded majority support. The Imperial Federation League, the main advocacy group, split into two factions in 1893, with one group promoting imperial defence and the other encouraging imperial trade. Various proposals were put forward, with most of them calling for a single state with an imperial parliament headquartered in London. Such proposals were never put into effect, and decolonisation would eventually happen to a vast majority of Britain's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude ( ; 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of ''Fraser's Magazine''. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel '' The Nemesis of Faith'', drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best-known historians of his time for his ''History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada''. Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical, earning him a number of outspoken opponents. Froude continued to be controversial until his death for his ''Life of Carlyle'', which he published along with personal writings of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. These publications led to persistent gossip and discussion of the couple's marital problems. Life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawson W
Rawson may refer to: Places ;Argentina * Rawson, Chubut, the capital of Chubut Province * Rawson Department, Chubut *Rawson Department, San Juan ** Villa Krause, also named Rawson, the capital city of the department ;Australia * Rawson, Victoria ;United States * Rawson, North Dakota * Rawson, Ohio Other uses * Rawson (surname) * Rawson Stakes, a horse race in Australia * a barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ... variety * a boarding house at Cranbrook School in Sydney, Australia {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Seeley
Sir John Robert Seeley, Order of St. Michael and St. George, KCMG (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English Liberal Party (UK), Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Greater Britain. This he expounded in his most widely known book ''The Expansion of England'' (1883). While he was an early advocate of the establishment of political science as a distinct academic discipline, he retained a theological approach in which this was embedded. Early life Seeley was born in London. His father was Robert Benton Seeley, a publisher who issued books under the name of Seeley, Service, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, was a strong advocate of Evangelical Anglicanism, and was the author of several religious books and of ''The Life and Times of Edward I of England, Edward I''. His mother was Mary Ann Jackson (1809–1868), who shared her husband's religious views. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Studies
Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics may also include as secondary subjects Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, art, mythology, and society. In Western civilization, the study of the Ancient Greek and Roman classics was considered the foundation of the humanities, and they traditionally have been the cornerstone of an elite higher education. Etymology The word ''classics'' is derived from the Latin adjective '' classicus'', meaning "belonging to the highest class of citizens." The word was originally used to describe the members of the Patricians, the highest class in ancient Rome. By the 2nd century AD the word was used in literary criticism to describe writers of the highest quality. For exampl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape University
The University of the Cape of Good Hope (), renamed the University of South Africa in 1916, was created when the Molteno government passed Act 16 of 1873 in the Cape of Good Hope Parliament. Modelled on the University of London, it offered examinations but not tuition, and had the power to confer degrees upon successful examination candidates. Today, this function still exists within the Department of Music where, for over 100 years, music pupils have been examined. List of chancellors *1874-1876: *1876–1880: William Porter *1880–1884: Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere *1884–1890: The Earl of Carnarvon *1890–1898: Sir Langham Dale *1898–1901: Justice Charles Thomas Smith *1901–1912: the Duke of Cornwall and York (the future George V) *1912-1918: Field-Marshal Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was granted on 24 May 1874 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mainelli
Michael Raymond Mainelli (born 19 December 1958) is an American-born British scientist, economist, and accountant, known for being Chairman of Z/Yen, Sheriff of the City of London for 2019–21, and the 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2023/24. An Emeritus Professor of Commerce of Gresham College, and founder of the Long Finance initiative, Mainelli has been Alderman for Broad Street Ward in the City of London since 4 July 2013, and was elected Sheriff on 24 June 2019, serving for two terms. Early life and education His mother, Katherine ( Smith), and father, Michael Mainelli, are Irish American and Italian American respectively, and his paternal grandmother is of German descent. His father worked as a mechanical engineer, and at one time was a project manager on the Apollo capsule for Boeing. From 1973 to 1977, Mainelli attended Bishop Moore High School in Orlando, Florida, where he was first introduced to computing, and spent three summers working as a prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 Establishments In England
Events January * January 1–January 24, 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkmen people, Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. Note that Coercion Act#Ireland, Coercion bills had been passed almost annually in the 19th century, with a total of 105 such bills passed from 1801 to 1921. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In London
Events January * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. Note that Coercion bills had been passed almost annually in the 19th century, with a total of 105 such bills passed from 1801 to 1921. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. February * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
