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Sir Herbert Croft, 9th Baronet
Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, 9th Baronet, DL (25 July 1838 – 11 February 1902), was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Biography Croft was the son of Sir Archer Denman Croft (1801–1865), 8th Baronet and his wife Julia Barbara Corbet (1802–1864), widow of Athelstan Corbet and daughter of Major General John Garstin (1756–1820). He was educated at Eton College and at Merton College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1860 and MA in 1864. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1861 and went the Oxford Circuit. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1865. Throughout his life he evinced considerable interest in local affairs, and was a member of the county council, chairman of the Hereford county bench of magistrates, and deputy-chairman of the Court of quarter sessions. He was a J.P. and deputy lieutenant for Herefordshire and a lieutenant in the Herefordshire Militia. At the 1868 general ele ...
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Carl Hartmann (1818-1857) - Sir Herbert George Denman Croft (1838–1902), 9th Bt, As A Boy - 537606 - National Trust
Carl Hartmann may refer to: * Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann (1796-1863), German mineralogist and mining engineer * Carl Hartmann (footballer) (1894–1943), German footballer * Carl Hartmann (sculptor) (1837–1901), Danish sculptor * Carl Wilhelm Hartmann Carl Wilhelm Hartmann (3 July 1880 – 25 June 1957) was a Norwegian public prosecutor, judge and politician. Hartmann was born in Kongsberg to physician Carl Christian Andreas Hartmann and Marie Sophie Sylow Thorne, and was a brother of Pau ... (1880–1957), Norwegian public prosecutor, judge and politician See also * Carl Hartman (other) {{hndis, Hartmann, Carl ...
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Inspector Of Constabulary
His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), formerly Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), has statutory responsibility for the inspection of the police forces of England and Wales, and since July 2017 the fire and rescue services of England. HMICFRS is headed by the Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Chief Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services. It has taken over the responsibilities of His Majesty's Fire Service Inspectorate. Inspections may also be made, by invitation only, and on a non-statutory basis, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and other organisations with policing responsibility. England and Wales In England and Wales, HMICFRS is responsible to the UK Parliament. The first inspectors were appointed under the County and Borough Police Act 1856; current statutory functions are contained in the Police Act 1996 and related legislation. However, the body's principal statutory functions are unchanged since its e ...
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1838 Births
Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration of Morse's new invention, the telegraph. * January 11 - A 7.5 earthquake strikes the Romanian district of Vrancea causing damage in Moldavia and Wallachia, killing 73 people. * January 21 – The first known report about the lowest temperature on Earth is made, indicating in Yakutsk. * February 6 – Boer explorer Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith. * February 17 – Weenen massacre: Zulu impis massacre about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi and Basuto around the site of Weenen in South Africa. * February 24 – U.S. Representatives William J. Gra ...
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Daniel Peploe
Daniel Peploe Peploe (15 February 1829 – 4 November 1887) was a Conservative Party politician. He was elected Conservative MP for Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ... constituency in 1874 but lost the seat at the next election in 1880. References External links * Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 1829 births 1887 deaths People from Weobley Politicians from Herefordshire {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub ...
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Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph
Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph JP DL (17 February 1834 – 6 April 1923), was a British banker and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist, Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Biddulph was the eldest son of Robert Biddulph and his wife Elizabeth (née Palmer), daughter of George Palmer MP, of Nazeing Park in Essex. Among his siblings was Sir Robert Biddulph, a General in the Army, Colonel John Biddulph, who served in India, and George Tournay Biddulph, who also worked for the family banking firm. After his mother's death, his father married his second cousin, Lady Sarah Wilfreda Palmer, daughter of Earl Selborne and they lived at Douglas House, Petersham. Biddulph was educated at Harrow. Career He was a partner in the London banking firm of Cocks, Biddulph and Co. In 1865 he was elected to the House of Commons for Herefordshire, a seat he held until 1885, and then represented Ross between 1886 and 1900. At first a Liberal, he disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone o ...
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Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
Joseph Russell Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (7 April 1840 – 6 January 1906), known as Sir Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baronet, from 1858 to 1899, was a Welsh Conservative Member of Parliament. Life Born at Leamington Spa, he was the son of Joseph Bailey, eldest son of the ironmaster Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, and his wife, the eldest daughter of William Congreve Russell. He succeeded his grandfather as second Baronet, of Glanusk Park, in 1858. In 1864, he served as High Sheriff of Brecknockshire. In 1865 he was elected to the British House of Commons for Herefordshire, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a populatio ... between 1886 and 1892. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknocksh ...
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James King King
James King King (6 November 1806 – 17 June 1881) was a British Conservative Party politician. King King was the eldest son of James Simpkinson King (1767–1842) and Emma, daughter of Edward Vaux. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1829. In 1835, he married Mary Cochrane Mackenzie, daughter of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie. She was a sister of Colin MacKenzie. Together they had three sons and seven daughters. He was elected MP for Herefordshire in 1852 and held the seat until 1868. King King was also a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy Lieutenant and, in 1845, High Sheriff of Herefordshire. His family seat was Stanton Park at Staunton on Arrow, where he was a major landowner and lord of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as s ... ...
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Underskiddaw
Underskiddaw is a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in the English county of Cumbria. The parish lies immediately to the north of the town of Keswick, and includes the southern and eastern flanks of Skiddaw as well as part of the valley of the rivers Greta and Derwent, and a small part of Bassenthwaite Lake. The parish includes the settlements of Applethwaite, Millbeck and Ormathwaite, all of which lie along the line where the southern slopes of Skiddaw meet the valley. The parish has a population of 282 in 122 households, reducing at the 2011 Census to a population of 264 in 128 households. It is within the Workington constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament. Prior to Brexit in 2020 it was part of the North West England constituency of the European Parliament. Millbeck Hall belonged to the Williamson family. Edward Williamson of Millbeck died before 1577 owing money to the German copper miners at Keswick and Caldbeck. There is a carved stone doorway lintel ...
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Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only ...
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John Rumney Nicholson
Sir John Rumney Nicholson (25 March 1866 – 22 November 1939) was a British engineer. Nicholson was born at Langwathby in 1866, the son of Isaac Nicholson, and was educated at St Bees School. His family was stated to be from Bolton, Cumbria. He entered the works of Black, Hawthorn and Co. in Gateshead in 1883. He was resident engineer in charge of the erection of the first generating station of the Newcastle Electric Supply Company at Pandon Dene in 1889. He then went to Venezuela, and returned to London in 1894 to join P. W. and C. S. Meek consulting engineers, and was engaged on dock and railway undertakings, including at the Port Talbot docks. From there he went to Ellesmere Works at Worsley, near Manchester. After his marriage in 1902, he moved with his wife to Singapore, where he was engaged as managing director of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and on its nationalization by the government in 1905 became chairman and chief engineer of the new Singapore Harbour Board. For ...
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William Denman Croft
Brigadier General William Denman Croft, (15 March 1879 – 14 July 1968) was a British Army officer. He served as a brigadier general in the British Army in the First World War, and afterwards in India. He was one of seven British officers to be awarded the Distinguished Service Order four times in the First World War. He was Home Guard commander in Cornwall during the Second World War. Early life Croft was the third son of Conservative MP Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, 9th Baronet and his wife, Georgiana Eliza Lucy Marsh. He was educated at Oxford Military College. He joined the 4th (Militia) battalion of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) as a second lieutenant on 23 February 1898, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 28 June 1899. He received a commission in the regular army when he transferred to the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) as a second lieutenant on 7 March 1900, to replace an officer killed in the Second Boer War. After being seconded to the Colonia ...
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Sir Archer Croft, 10th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English language, English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of Order of chivalry, orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifi ...
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