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* Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, a 19th-century British politician
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Russell & Gladstone ( now the senior Liberal in the House of Commons ) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons because of the refusal of the " Adullamite " Whigs, led by Robert Lowe, to support it.
A previous Chancellor, Robert Lowe, described the office in the following terms in the House of Commons, on 11 April 1870: " The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine.
Robert Tychkowski of the Edmonton Sun reports that many, including Edmonton Oilers president Kevin Lowe, believe the induction ceremony should be held on a night when there are no NHL games scheduled.
The film also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick ( spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day ), Chris Farley, Ed O ' Neill, Ione Skye, Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.
In 1973 Sykes had a small role as a police sergeant in the Douglas Hickox thriller Theatre of Blood, starring Vincent Price with an all-star supporting cast including Jack Hawkins, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley, Diana Dors, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Dennis Price and Milo O ' Shea.
* Comedy writer / performers who also wrote on the show include Alex Lowe, Robert Webb, Rhys Thomas, Tony Way, James Bachman, David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker.
He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his " miserable mutilation "
In 1870, by an arrangement which he attributed to his friend Robert Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke ( at that time a member of Gladstone's ministry ), Scott was promoted to the deanery of Rochester and Jowett was elected to the vacant mastership by the fellows of Balliol.
Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke PC ( 4 December 1811 – 27 July 1892 ), British and Australian statesman, was a pivotal but often forgotten figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the 19th century.
Lowe was born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, the second son of Reverend Robert Lowe ( rector of Bingham ).
" One hundred and fifty years ago, my predecessor Robert Lowe, later First Viscount Sherbrooke, brought forward the Bill that created the joint stock limited liability company.
Being a man of company law, Robert Lowe saw unions as a threat to the order, which as he drafted, allowed only for social participation through investment of capital, not investment of labour.
In spite of the fact that his appeals did not prevent the passing of the Second Reform Act, Robert Lowe beat Walter Bagehot in the next election to become the first Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the London University, a new constituency created by the very Act he opposed.
* AP Martin, Life and Letters of the Rt Hon Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke ( London, 1892 ) 2 Vols
When Robert Lowe ( Lord Sherbrooke ) became, as vice-president of the council, his parliamentary chief, Lingen worked congenially with him in producing the Revised Code of 1862 which incorporated " payment by results "; but the education department encountered adverse criticism, and in 1864 the vote of censure in parliament which caused Lowe's resignation, founded ( but erroneously ) on an alleged " editing " of the school inspectors ' reports, was inspired by a certain antagonism to Lingen's as well as to Lowe's methods.
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Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).
Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.
In England, the clerks of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, made a practice of using the Latin word consul rather than the more common comes when translating his title of ' Earl '.
Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.
In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.
They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).
As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.
Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style.
* 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant ( b. 1893 )
These were Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Leighton.
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