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... Anniversaries Births: 1767 “Old Hickory” Andrew Jackson, 7th US President; 1779 Viscount Melbourne, Whig statesman and Prime Minister; 1904 George Brent, actor; 1916 Harry James, bandleader. Deaths: 459 Attila the Hun; 1898 Sir Henry Bessemer, metallurgist; ...
... Wilfred Owen, poet; 1909 Henry Longhurst, golf writer and commentator. Deaths: 1584 Ivan the Terrible; 1745 Sir Robert Walpole, Whig statesman; 1768 Laurence Sterne, novelist; 1939 Sir Henry Lunn, travel agency founder, 1988 Percy Thrower, horticultunist and ...
... rapidly as the present. History these days is not just dynasties and dates but people and preoccupations, not just Waterloo and Whigs but homosexuality and hunger marches. Modern without being modish, The History Today Companion to British History provides ...
... royal father’s auspicious reigns. This city has always distinguished herself by a firm and steady attachment to revolution and whig principles, and a hearty abhorrence of all popish and arbitrary governments; and in the mlfls. when a most unnatural rebellion ...
... the public with what it wanted. Above all, documents demonstrating that Shakespeare was a true-blue Protestant, an ancestral Whig and fit to dine at the best gentlemanly tables, were in great demand. Stanson's Ireland, ...
... Sutcliffe, Yorkshire and England cricketer. Deaths: 1572 John Knox, founder of Scottish Presbyterianism; 1848 Lord Melbourne, twice Whig Prime Minister; 1916 Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of automatic machine gun; 1991 Freddie Mercury, rock singer. e “vv Roy Aitken: ...
... American assassin. Deaths: 1417 Pope Gregory XII 1503 Pope Pius lil; 1541 Margaret, Queen of Scotland,; 1865 Lord Palmerston, Whig statesman and twice Prime Minister; 1871 Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer inventor;, 1893 Lucy Stone, leader in ...
... Cnemlalofiu_r;i‘h Penti C hapel, on ursday, January 4, at 10.45 am, interment thereafter in Mortonhall Cemetery, at 11.15 ‘am, to whig‘ all friends are invited. No letters please and family flowers only. McLEVY . Harry Suddenly, at home, on Christmas Eve, Harry ...
... model wife Yasmin was at home looking after their two Quaghises. ) e. 'i;cttlcmcnt — against the Italian | i Novella ‘2% ) whig,has a small circulation in Egehnd - ‘followed pay-outs by the Daily M,ail,rToig' and, jointly, the Da{_lge‘ Express and D;u‘ ...
... meant it was difficult to register with GP practices. “Itis a shocking indictment of what has happened with the health service, whig: was set up to give access to the r for hefilth;' he said. - “Recent research showed that homeless people were much more likely ...
... contemporary world. “How brave, how foolish, how sad.” Pittock sees this as a consequence of the dominance in the past of the Whig view of history. They wanted to incorporate Scotland in their notion of an Anglo-Germanic progress from Saxon custom to the ...
... Viscount Montgomery, Second World War general; 1925 Rock Hudson, US actor. Deaths: 1558 Queen Mary Tudor; 1823 Thomas Erskine, Whig politician and Lord Chancellor; 1858 Robert Owen social reformer and early trade unionist; 1917 Auguste Rodin, sculptor. ...