Many in the government felt that Townsend would be an unsuitable husband for the Queen's 22-year-old sister, and the Church of England refused to countenance the marriage to a divorced man.

The original purpose of Queen's College was to " educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences " and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church The college admitted its first students in 1771 — a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor — and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

Shortly after, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, founded in 1784, relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College ( and the Queen's College Grammar School, as all three institutions were then overseen by the Reformed Church in America ).

In 1971 the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Gurkha Rifles moved to Queen Elizabeth Barracks at Church Crookham, Hampshire, from where they became the first Gurkhas to mount the Queen's Guard.

He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, ordained in the Church of England in 1837, and became chaplain to a central London workhouse.

St. Thomas Church in Memramcook was the location of his State funerals in Canada | state funeral. After being released from the Queen's service, LeBlanc returned to New Brunswick.

The old St Edmund's Church School, a 19th century building near the town centre, was closed in 1970 on a merger with St John's Church School on Kates Hill, and later converted into a mosque for the town's growing Islamic community, which is mostly concentrated around Kates Hill, Queen's Cross, Eve Hill and The Buffery.

In the Church of Scotland, as the Established church in Scotland, this gives ruling elders in congregations the same status as Queen's chaplains, professors of theology and other highly qualified ministers.

The account of the Queen of Sheba is thereby interpreted by Christians as being both a metaphor and an analogy: the Queen's visit to Solomon has been compared to the metaphorical marriage of the Church to Christ where Solomon is the anointed one or the messiah and Sheba represents a Gentile population submitting to the messiah ; the Queen of Sheba's chastity has also been depicted as a foreshadowing of the Virgin Mary ; and the three gifts that she brought ( gold, spices and stones ) have been seen as analogous to the gifts of the Magi ( gold, frankincense and myrrh ).

The mature and very well maintained central public open spaces are noteworthy: Queen's Gardens, Martin's Hill, Church House Gardens, Library Gardens and College Green.

The Church of St. Saviour-on-the-Cliff, Shanklin is the biggest in the town and is in Queen's Road.

Located in Nassau, Queen's College operates under the auspices of The Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church and consists of three sections-The Early Learning Centre, The Primary School and The High school.

) Less commonly used terms include Gay & Wellesley and Queers Park ( a play on words with Queen's Park, the seat of Ontario's provincial government ); however, many of these " nicknames " are generic to gay villages across the English speaking world and are therefore not descriptive of Church and Wellesley specifically, but of gay villages in general.

I think he had the care of St. Botolph ’ s Church Cambridge, while he continued Fellow of Queen's College, where he was esteemed a very ingenious Man, and an excellent Philosopher.

the North Euston Hotel, Pharos Lighthouse and Beach Lighthouse, Queen's Terrace, St Peter's Church, the Town Hall and his own house on Dock Street ( where he lived until 1844 ).

The article also declared that the blonde, active four-year-old Margarita was " the star of the show " when she attended Christmas services with the royal family at St. Mary Magdalene Church near Sandringham House, The Queen's Norfolk estate.

The authority on the subject, Dr. John Blair of Queen's College, Oxford, believes that Christ Church Cathedral is built on the site of her Saxon church.

He was then appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in January 2008, to serve as the Queen's personal representative to the Church of Scotland.

* 1867: Queen's Park Church in Queen's Park, Glasgow.

church buildings in Glasgow at Caledonia Road ( 1865 ), St Vincent Street Church ( 1859 ), and Queen's Park ( 1867 ).

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.

It is important not to confuse the notion of Received Pronunciation, as a standard accent, with the standard variety of the English language used in England that is given names such as " Standard English ", " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " or " BBC English ".

The first medical use of cotton wool was by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee at the Queen's Hospital ( later the General Hospital ) in Birmingham, England.

* September 28 – The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.

In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent, Hastings, on the south coast of England and later rented a workshop in Queen's Arcade in the town.

He returned to England in 1913 and during World War I served as a Captain ( acting ) with the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, part of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment ( Queen's and Royal Hampshires ).

Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.

Four successful applicants in England have become cities, as well as two in Wales ; in 2000 for the Millennium Celebrations, the new cities were Brighton and Hove and Wolverhampton ; in 2002 for the Queen's Golden Jubilee it was Preston and Newport, and in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee it was Chelmsford and St Asaph.

For the 2002 applications, held to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the entrants included all of the above towns except Southwark, together with Greenwich and Wirral in England, Dumfries in Scotland and Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Craigavon and Newry in Northern Ireland.

The Provisional IRA escalated its bombing campaign on England, and Whitelaw was personally embarrassed by the incident wherein a purportedly mentally ill man breached security at Buckingham Palace, gaining access to the Queen's Bedchamber.

Wishing to continue his education, he gained £ 200 from the Cooper Graduate Scholarship in Classics, allowing him to afford the tuition fees at Queen's College, a part of the University of Oxford, England.

* The Queen's Division has the regiments from the east of England and the remaining regiment of Fusiliers.

This was particularly important in criminal cases, which are mostly brought in the name of the Crown, with the result that, until 1920 in England and Wales, King's and Queen's Counsel had to have a licence to appear in criminal cases for the defence.

In November 2004, after much public debate in favour of and against retaining the title ( see for example Sasha Wass QC ), it was announced that appointments of Queen's Counsel in England would be resumed but that future appointees would be chosen not by the government but by a nine-member panel, chaired by a lay person, which would include two barristers, two solicitors, one retired judge and three non-lawyers.

The following relates to the dress of Queen's Counsel at the Bar of England and Wales.

Queen's Counsel in England and Wales have two forms of official dress, depending on whether they are dressing for appearance in court before a judge, or a ceremonial occasion.

Owen entered the service of Queen Catherine of Valois as keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, ( essentially her major-domo ) after the death of her husband Henry V of England on 22 August 1422.

The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England.