" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

Under the prodding of Governor-General Lord Gowrie, who wanted to avoid calling an election given the dangerous international situation, Coles and Wilson threw their support to Labor.

Wilson was reluctant to return to active duty, but Edward persuaded him to do so, and Wilson became First Sea Lord on 25 January 1910.

Order of the Garter | Garter Banner of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, Jesus College, Oxford | Jesus College Chapel, Oxford

" Some of those whom Wilson honoured included Lord Kagan, the inventor of Gannex, who was eventually imprisoned for fraud, and Sir Eric Miller, who later committed suicide while under police investigation for corruption.

A lifelong Gilbert and Sullivan fan, in 1975, Wilson joined the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Trust at the invitation of Sir Hugh Wontner, who was then the Lord Mayor of London.

Costing £ 70, 000, the statue designed by sculptor Ian Walters, is based on photographs taken in 1964 and depicts Lord Wilson in walking pose at the start of his first term as Prime Minister.

* The Right Honourable The Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC ( 16 September 1983 – 24 May 1995 )

* Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, ( 1842 – 1921 ), First Sea Lord

Former students include Harold Wilson ( who was twice British Prime Minister ), Norman Washington Manley ( Chief Minister of Jamaica ), T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), Angus Buchanan ( winner of the Victoria Cross ), and Viscount Sankey ( Lord Chancellor ).

When Labour returned to power in October 1964 under Harold Wilson, Longford was appointed Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.

He played PC Wilson in You Rang, M ' Lord?

Governor-General Lord Gowrie, reluctant to call an election given the international situation, summoned Coles and Wilson and made them promise that if he named Curtin Prime Minister, they would support him and end the instability in government.

In his infamous essay attacking detective fiction, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd, American critic Edmund Wilson decried this novel as dull, overlong and far too detailed ; describing how he skipped a lot of the prose about bell-ringing ( quote: " a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology "), and also large amounts of Sayers ' focal sleuth character, " the embarrassingly named " Lord Peter Wimsey.

The Open University was founded by the then serving Labour Party government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson, based on the vision of Michael Young ( later Lord Young of Dartington ).

Later they were to draw artistic influence from contemporary rock acts including The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Joe Brown, Cream, The Kinks, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Rufus Thomas, The Who, The Pretty Things, and Screaming Lord Sutch.

Never a wealthy man, when Field Marshal Lord Wilson died in 1964, his estate was probated at 2, 952 pounds sterling ( roughly ₤ 100, 000 today ).

Harold Wilson, during his second ministry from 1974 to 1976, lived in his home on Lord North Street because Lady Wilson wanted " a proper home ".

The sisters ’ father, Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, approved of the match between his eldest daughter Margaretta and Lord Arden, who was wealthy and already a Member of Parliament and a Lord of the Admiralty.

Between 1960 and 1963, Lord and Ashton both moved on to Red Bludd's Bluesicians ( also known as The Don Wilson Quartet ), the latter of which featured the singer Arthur " Art " Wood.

* Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx ( 1995 ) on Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson ( by then Lord Wilson of Rievaulx ), Honorary Fellow of University College since 1963, died only twelve days later on 24 May.

* 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, British financial analyst

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

* Haliotis rubiginosa Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis howensis, the Lord Howe abalone

* Wiguläus von Kreittmayr ( 1705 – 1790 ): by marriage Lord of Offenstetten and Hatzkofen

22: 39 – 40 ) to love your secular lord as you would love the Lord Christ himself underscores the importance that Alfred placed upon lordship, which he understood as a sacred bond instituted by God for the governance of man.

* Ferdinand ( 1329 – 1363 ), Marquis of Tortosa and Lord of Albarracín and Fraga.

* John ( 1331 – 1358 ), Lord of Elche, Biel and Bolsa, married in 1355 to Isabel Núñez de Lara and was killed by order of his cousin Pedro of Castile.

* Alfonso of Leon, Lord of Molina ( 1203 – 1272 ).

* Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonike ( 1403 – 1429 )

* 1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier ( b. 1275 )

# Héloise / Helvis of Lusignan ( c. 1190 – 1216 – 1219, 1216 / 1219 or c. 1217 ), married firstly c. 1205 Eudes de Dampierre sur Salon, Lord of Chargey-le-Grey, div.

* 1609 – Daimyo ( Lord ) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.

* 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord ( CSAL ) in Arkansas

* 900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander in chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

Lord George Bentinck, Conservative leader in the commons 1846 – 48

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.

– Lord Orkney.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.