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* The Governor General pub – where Harold finds Billy ( Nick Stringer ) – is the Waterman's Arms, a Thames-side pub at 1 Glenaffric Avenue on the Isle of Dogs.
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Governor and General
Governor Notte said last night he plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations for possible changes in time for the next session of the General Assembly.
William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.
The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).
1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.
When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.
Mackenzie formed a government and asked the Governor General to call an election for January 1874.
Lord Dufferin, the current Governor General, expressed early misgivings about a stonemason taking over government.
Mackenzie chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the Governor General:
* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
General Loganathan, of the Indian National Army, was Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had been annexed to the Provisional Government.
* 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
* 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1991 )
* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
Upon arrival there, Phillip was to assume the powers of Captain General and Governor in Chief of the new colony.
* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.
The Bank's governing bodies are the General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors, the Governor, the Director General and three Deputy Directors General ; the last five constitute the Directorate.
The messenger was a staff officer sent by the Governor of Alexandria General Jean Baptiste Kléber, and the report had been hastily written by Admiral Ganteaume, who had subsequently rejoined Villeneuve's ships at sea.
An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.
On June 20, 1868, Governor General the Viscount Monck issued a royal proclamation asking for Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.
Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.
The French Territory of Afars and Issas also differed from French Somaliland in terms of government structure, as the position of Governor General changed to that of High Commissioner.
The college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.
Governor and pub
The show is set in a run-down pub whose xenophobic landlord, ' Guv ' ( short for ' The Governor '), has some very old-fashioned views on how a pub, and Britain, should be run.
The former Penllwyn House on the outskirts of the town — now a pub — was originally part of the Lord Tredegar Estates and is believed to be the original home of the family of Henry Morgan, privateer and Governor of Jamaica.
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* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )
* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )
* 1943 – Bob Kerrey, American politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska
* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )
* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )
* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
* 1925 – Dale Bumpers, American politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas
* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
* 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, American politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )
* 1942 – Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia
* 1933 – Pete Wilson, American politician, 36th Governor of California
* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )
* 1939 – Lise Thibault, Canadian civil servant, 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
* 1843 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York ( d. 1910 )
* 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1895 )
* 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union ( UDT ) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
* 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
* 1905 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California ( d. 1996 )
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