James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 - May 21, 1650), became 5th earl of Montrose by his father's death in 1626. He was educated at St. Andrews, and at the age of seventeen married Magdalene Carnegie, daughter of Lord Carnegie (afterwards earl of Southesk). Not long after the outbreak of the Scottish troubles in 1637 he joined the party of resistance, and was for some time one of its most energetic champions. He had nothing puritanical in his nature, but he shared in the ill-feeling aroused in the Scottish nobility by the political authority given by Charles to the bishops, and by Hamilton's influence with the king, and also in the general indignation at the scheme of imposing upon.
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (June 19, 1606 - March 9, 1649), Scottish nobleman, son of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, and of the Lady Anne Cunningham, daughter of the earl of Glencairn, was born on 19 June 1606. As the descendant and representative of James Hamilton, 1st earl of Arran, he was the heir to the throne of Scotland after the descendants of James VI. He married in his fourteenth year May Feilding, aged seven, daughter of Sir William Feilding, later 1st Earl of Denbigh, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 14 December 1621. He succeeded to his father's titles on the latter's death in 1625. In 1628 he became master of.
Duke of Montrose - Duke of Montrose The title of Duke of Montrose was created in the peerage of Scotland in 1488 for David Lindsay. It was forefited, and then returned but only for the period of the holder's lifetime. Thus, it was not inherited. The title was bestowed anew in 1707, again in the peerage of Scotland, on the fourth Marquess of Montrose, and has since been in the Graham family. The Duke's subsidiary titles are: Marquess of Montrose (created 1644), Marquess of Graham and Buchanan (1707), Earl of Montrose (1505), Earl of Kincardine (1707), Earl Graham of Belford (1722), Viscount Dundaff (1707), Lord Graham (1445), Lord Aberruthven, Mugdock and Fintrie (1707) and Baron Graham of Belford (1722). The titles Earl and Baron Graham of Belford are in the peerage.
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - or, where that is unknown or not applicable, of appointment (app). Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, Lord High Admiral, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1700 Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle (1700) Elector George Louis of Hanover, later King George I (1703) James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Lord Privy Seal (1701) Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1702) John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1703) Meinhard de Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg and 1st Duke of Leinster (1703) Sidney Godolphin1st Earl of Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Baron Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer (1704) Electoral Prince George Augustus of Hanover, Duke of Cambridge (1710) William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council (1710) John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1710) Henry Somerset,.
Knights of the Garter (1349-1699) - highest order of chivalry in the British honours system. Dates of installation/investiture, or, where that is unknown or not applicable, of appointment (app). Sir William FitzWaryne (app c.1359) Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk (c.1348) William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1349) Reginald Cobham, 1st Lord Cobham of Sterborough (app c.1352) Sir Richard de la Vache (app c.1356) Thomas Ughtred, Lord Ughtred (1358) Sir Walter Manny (1359) Sir Frank van Hale (app c.1359) Sir Thomas Ufford (1360) Lionel of Antwerp, later Duke of Clarence, 3rd son of King Edward III (1360) John of Gaunt, later Duke of Lancaster, 4th son of King Edward III (1360) Edmund of Langley, later Duke of York, 5th son of King Edward III (app c.1360) Edward le Despencer, 5th Lord le Despencer (1361) Sir John.
United Kingdom Postmaster General - 1969. A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office." The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with "Minister of Posts and Telecommunications". Former holders of this post: Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester 1823-1826 Lord Frederick Montagu 1826-1827 William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester 1827-1830 Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond 1830-1834 Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham 1834 Lord Maryborough 1834-1835 Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham 1835 Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield 1835-1841 William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale 1841-1845 Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans 1845-1846 Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde 1846-1852 Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 1852 Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning 1853-1855 George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke.
Duchy of Lancaster - showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1413-1803 2 1803-1902 3 1902 to present Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1413-1803 John Wodehouse 1413-1431 Walter Shiryngton 1431-1449 William Tresham 1449-1450 Sir John Say 1450-1471 Sir Richard Fowler 1471-1477 Sir John Say 1477-1478 Thomas Thwaites 1478-1483 Thomas Metcalfe 1483-1485 Sir Reynold Bray 1485-1503 Sir John Mordaunt 1504 Sir Richard Empson 1505-1509 Sir Henry Marny 1509-1523 Sir Richard Wingfield 1523-1525 Sir Thomas More 1525-1529 Sir William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton (1537) 1529-1542 Sir John Gage 1542-1547 Sir William Paget, 1st Lord Paget (1549) 1547-1552 Sir John Gates 1552-1553 Sir Robert Rochester 1553-1557 Sir Edward Waldegrave 1558-1559 Sir Ambrose Cave 1559-1568 Sir Ralph Sadler 1568-1587 Sir Francis Walsingham 1587-1590 Sir Thomas Heneage 1590-1595 in commission 1595-1597 Sir Robert Cecil 1597-1599 in commission.
Secretary of State for Scotland - post of Secretary for Scotland (which had been created in 1885) was upgraded to a full cabinet position. Secretaries of State for Scotland 1707-1746 (incomplete) Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun and John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar (23 June 1707 - May 1708) John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar (May 1708 - 3 February 1709) James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (3 February 1709 - 6 July 1711 John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar (30 September 1713 - September 1714 James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose (24 September 1714 - August 1715) John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (13 December 1716 - August 1725) John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweedale (16 February 1742 - 3 January 1746 Secretaries of State for Scotland from 1926 Sir John Gilmour (26 Jul 1926.
President of the Board of Trade - title during his time in office in the mid-1990s. The office is currently held by Patricia Hewitt. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Presidents of the First Board of Trade, 1696-1782 2 Presidents of the Board of Trade, 1784-Present 2.1 Secretary of State for Trade & Industry and President of the Board of Trade (1970-1974) 2.2 Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (1974-1983) 2.3 Secretary of State for Trade & Industry and President of the Board of Trade (1983-) Presidents of the First Board of Trade, 1696-1782 John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater 1696-1699 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford 1699-1702 Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth 1702-1707 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford 1707-1711 Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea 1711-1713 Francis North, 3rd Lord Guildford.
Lord Steward - Board of Green Cloth under him. First, the lord steward’s court, superseded in 1541 by - second - the Marshalsea court, a court of record having jurisdiction, both civil and criminal within the verge (the area within 1 radius of 12 m. from where the sovereign is resident), and originally held for the purpose of administering justice between the domestic servants of the sovereign, "that they might not be drawn into other courts and their service lost." Its criminal jurisdiction had long fallen into disuse and its civil jurisdiction was abolished in 1849. Third, the palace court, created by letters patent in 1612 and renewed in 1665 with jurisdiction over all personal matters arising between parties within 12 miles of Whitehall (the jurisdiction of the Marshalsea court, the City of London,.
Lord Chamberlain - Lord Chamberlain is the chief functionary of the court, and is generally responsible for organizing all court functions. Until recently, the Lord Chamberlain also had the role of licenser of plays in the City of London, Westminster, and certain other areas. Lord Chamberlains, 1485-present Sir William Stanley 1485-1508 Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester 1508-1526 William Fitzalan, 17th Earl of Arundel 1526-1530 William Sandys, Lord Sandys 1530-1535 William Paulet, 1st Lord St John of Basing 1535-1550 Thomas Wentworth, Lord Wentworth 1550-1551 Thomas d'Arcy, Lord d'Arcy 1551-1553 John Williams, Lord Williams 1553-1557 William Howard, 1st Lord Howard of Effingham 1557-1572 Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex 1572-1585 Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon 1585-1596 George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon 1596-1603 Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk 1603-1613 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset.
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650), was born in 1612, and became 5th earl of Montrose by his fathers death in 1626. He was educated at St. Andrews, and at the age of seventeen married Magdalene Carnegie, daughter of Lord Carnegie (afterwards earl of Southesk). Not long after the outbreak of the Scottish troubles in 1637 he joined the party of resistance, and was for some time one of its most energetic champions. He had nothing puritanical in his nature, but he shared in the ill-feeling aroused in the Scottish nobility by the political authority given by Charles to the bishops, and by Hamiltons influence with the king, and also in the general indignation at the scheme of imposing upon Scotland.
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe - Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (12 January 1858 - 1945) was an English statesman and writer. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Family 2 Literary work 3 Political service 4 References Family The son of Lord Houghton, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1880 he married Sibyl Marcia Graham, who died in 1887, leaving him with three daughters: Annabel, Celia and Cynthia (a son, Richard, died in infancy). (In 1903, Lady Annabel married Arthur Edward Bruce O’Neill (1876-1914), later Unionist MP for Mid Antrim from 1910; their third son, Terence O'Neill served as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 to 1969). In 1895 he was created 1st Earl of Crewe, his maternal grandfather, the 2nd Baron.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen - ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Vienna, where he signed the Treaty of Toplitz between Great Britain and Austria in October 1813. He was one of the British representatives at the Congress of Chatillon in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in the following May. Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen (1814), and made a member of the privy council. In July 1815 he married Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James, Viscount Hamilton. During the ensuing thirteen years Aberdeen took a less prominent part in public affairs. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1828) and Foreign Secretary (1829-30) under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He resigned with.
English Civil War - Great Rebellion". Prelude to the English Civil War Looking back on the events leading the to civil war, one would not imagine that it could have ever taken place. It was less than forty years since the death of Queen Elizabeth. After her, England in the era of Charles I was a fairly peaceful place, and had been so in living memory. Charles had real hope of fulfilling his father's, James I of England (James VI of Scotland), dream of uniting the entirety of the British Isles in a single United Kingdom. Charles also shared his father's feelings in regard to the power of the crown, which James had described as "little Gods on Earth", or "Divine Right of Kings". Although pious and with little personal ambition, Charles demanded outright loyalty.
Admiralty - and president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1831 the Navy Board was abolished as a separate entity and its duties and responsibilities were given over to the Board of Admiralty. In 1964 the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry. Within the expanded Ministry of Defence are a new Admiralty Board, Army Board and Air Force Board, each headed by the Secretary of State for Defence. (The new Admiralty Board was to have been called the Navy Board but for an amendment in the House of Lords). The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom is now vested in the Sovereign. However, there continues to be appointed a Vice-Admiral and a.
Secretary of State for the Home Department - Home Office, leaving in addition to law and order a variety of miscellaneous tasks that have no yet been allocated to a government minister. Consquently the Home Secretary can find themselves dealing with as matters as diverse as wild birds in Scotland, which towns in England and Wales are entitled to call themselves cities or taking part in formal ceremonies such as the annointment of bishops in the Church of England. However it is the law and order function of the department that predominates overwhelmingly. Home Secretaries since 1782 William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne: 27 March - 10 July 1782 Thomas Townshend: 10 July 1782 - 2 April 1783 Frederick North, Lord North: 2 April - 19 December 1783 George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple: 19 December - 23 December 1783.
Secretary for Scotland - Secretary for Scotland sat in cabinet, but the position was not officially recognised as a full cabinet member until the post of Secretary of State for Scotland was recreated in 1926. Secretaries for Scotland (1885-1926) Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1885-1886) Sir George Otto Trevelyan(1886) John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (1886) Arthur James Balfour (1886-1887) Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian (1887-1892) Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1892-1895) Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (1895-1903) Andrew Graham Murray (1903-1905) John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow (1905) John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1905-1912) Thomas MacKinnon-Wood (1912-1916) Harold John Tennant (1916) Robert Munro (1916-1922) Robert Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (1922-1924) William Adamson (1924) Sir John Gilmour (1924-1926).
Paymaster of the Forces - the Forces, 1661-1836 Stephen Fox 1661-1676 Sir Henry Puckering Newton 1676-1679 Sir Stephen Fox 1679-1680 Nicholas Johnson and William Fox 1680-1682 Charles Fox 1682-1685 Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh 1685-1702 John Howe 1702-1714 Robert Walpole 1714-1715 Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln 1715-1720 Robert Walpole 1720-1721 Charles Cornwallis, 4th Lord Cornwallis 1721-1722 Spencer Compton, 1st Lord Wilmington 1722-1730 Henry Pelham 1730-1743 Thomas Winnington 1743-1746 William Pitt the Elder 1746-1755 Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington and Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin 1755-1756 Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin and Thomas Potter 1756-1757 Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland 1757-1765 Charles Townshend 1765-1766 Frederick North, Lord North and George Cooke 1766-1767 George Cooke and Thomas Townshend 1767-1768 Richard Rigby 1768-1782 Edmund Burke 1782 Isaac Barré 1782-1783 Edmund Burke 1783-1784 William Wyndham Grenville 1784-1789 Constantine John.
Order of precedence in England and Wales - of Fiji (Laisenia Qarase) The Prime Minister of Dominica (Pierre Charles) The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Ralph Gonsalves) The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (Ranil Wickremasinghe) The Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (Sir Allan Kemakeza) The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (Patrick Manning) The Prime Minister of the Bahamas (Perry Christie) The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (Sir Michael Somare) The Prime Minister of Tuvalu (Saufatu Sopoanga) The Prime Minister of Vanuatu (Edward Natapei) The Prime Minister of Pakistan (Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali) The Prime Minister of Mauritius (Paul Bérenger) The Prime Minister of Malaysia (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) The Prime Minister of Swaziland (Themba Dlamini) The Lord High Treasurer (currently in commission) The Lord President of the Council (See Order of Precedence for Ladies).
