The Cottonian Library was the richest private collection of manuscripts ever amassed ; of secular libraries it outranked the Royal Library, the collections of the Inns of Court and the College of Arms ; Cotton's house near the Palace of Westminster became the meeting-place of the Society of Antiquaries and of all the eminent scholars of England ; the Library was eventually donated to the nation by Cotton's grandson and now resides at the British Library.

Officers of the College of Arms riding in procession to the Tournament ( medieval ) | Westminster Tournament, from a tourney roll, made during the reign of King Henry VIII in 1511.

On the 9 April 2002, Garter King of Arms Peter Gwynn-Jones read out the full styles and 437 titles of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother at the end of her funeral service at Westminster Abbey.

In a statement to Parliament on 3 December, Michael Martin Speaker of the House of Commons, responsible for the security of the Palace of Westminster, stated that, although the police undertaking the search had neither presented a search warrant nor given ( what Martin said was ) the requisite advice that such a warrant was necessary, the search of the Parliamentary office had been undertaken with express written consent from the Serjeant at Arms, who had signed a consent form without consulting the Clerk of the House.

The Statute of Westminster, 1931 effectively elevated the Royal Arms of Canada to the position of the Queen's Royal Arms for general purposes across Canada, which is why the Canadian Coat of Arms are now used by the court to represent the Canadian Crown.

He ended his days as King of Arms of the Order of the Bath and his funeral was held in Westminster Abbey.

Coat of Arms of New Westminster

In later years, the Garter King of Arms read out the challenge, and the Champion threw down the gauntlet at the entrance to Westminster Hall, then again in the middle of the Hall, and lastly at the foot of the Throne, each time repeating the challenge.

The Fast Fiction stall became the defacto social centre for small press publishers along with the adjoining pub, The Westminster Arms.

Other major cities include Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, and New Westminster in the Lower Mainland ; Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Langley in the Fraser Valley ; Nanaimo on Vancouver Island ; and Kelowna and Kamloops in the Interior.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.

The borough is divided between the East Belfast constituency ( the wards of Ballyhanwood, Carrowreagh, Cregagh, Downshire, Dundonald, Enler, Gilnahirk, Graham ’ s Bridge, Lisnasharragh, Lower Braniel, Tullycarnet and Upper Braniel ), the South Belfast constituency ( Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Galwally, Hillfoot, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, Newtownbreda and Wynchurch wards ) and the Strangford constituency ( Moneyreagh ward ) for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Lower was born in St Tudy, Cornwall and studied at Westminster School where he met John Locke, and Oxford, where he met Thomas Willis, founder of the Royal Society.

Lower studied at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned an M. A.

The British-type parliamentarism based on the Westminster system was introduced in the Province of Lower Canada in 1791.

He was organist at Barnet Parish Church, Lower Chapel, Eton College, Carlisle Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.

As population in the Lower Mainland continued to grow, the 1933 redistribution limited the riding to New Westminster and Burnaby, except those parts of Burnaby in extensions of the City of Vancouver ridings.

As part of the nation-wide Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which commenced in 2011, the Boundary Commission for England has recommended expanding the existing ' Morecambe and Lunesdale ' seat by adding the Lower Lune Valley electoral ward.

The location of her birth remains uncertain, but reputedly she was born either in her parents ' Westminster home at Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, or in a horse-drawn ambulance on the way to a hospital.

He was commissioned in 1824 by Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, to create a great swathe of building in Belgravia centred around Belgrave Square and Pimlico, in what was to become his greatest achievement in London.

The subsidiary titles are: Marquess of Westminster ( created 1831 ), Earl Grosvenor ( 1784 ), Viscount Belgrave, of Belgrave in the County of Chester ( 1784 ), and Baron Grosvenor, of Eaton in the County of Chester ( 1761 ).

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG, PC, JP ( 13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899 ), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.

Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster KG, PC ( 27 January 1795 – 31 October 1869 ), styled Viscount Belgrave from 1802 to 1831 and Earl Belgrave from 1831 to 1845, was an English politician, landowner, property developer and benefactor.

In 1874 Hugh Grosvenor was created Duke of Westminster ; other titles held by the Duke are: Marquess of Westminster, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave and Baron Grosvenor.

From 1983 to 1997 the following twelve wards of the City of Westminster were part of the constituency: Baker Street, Belgrave, Bryanston, Cavendish, Churchill, Hyde Park, Knightsbridge, Millbank, St George ’ s, St James ’ s, Victoria, and West End.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane Old Pye Street, Westminster.

* Simcoe Street in New Westminster and Simcoe Park was named by Colonel Moody in reference to the surveying of the area after the city of Toronto.

* December 9 – The world's first traffic signal lights are installed at the junction of Great George Street and Bridge Street in the London borough of Westminster.

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council between 10 pm and 4 am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area.

The borough is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster ; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street ; and the night time entertainment district of Soho.

* Southampton Street, Westminster, London

In 2007 The Spectator moved its offices from Doughty Street, which had been its home for 31 years, to 22 Old Queen Street in Westminster, leaving Bloomsbury for the first time since the paper ’ s founding in 1828.

The proposal was accepted by the trustees in February 1895 and LSE held its first classes in October of that year, in rooms at 9 John Street, Adelphi, in the City of Westminster.

LSE moved to its present day central London campus at Clare Market and Houghton Street in Westminster, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal Courts of Justice and Temple Bar in 1902.

It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street ( obviously fictional ) off Westminster Bridge Road ( real ) in Lambeth.

Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, England, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School, London, ( from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article in The Flagellant condemning flogging ) and Balliol College, Oxford.

Quintin Hogg ( 14 February 1845 – 17 January 1903 ) was an English philanthropist, remembered primarily as a benefactor of the Royal Polytechnic institution at Regent Street, London now known as the University of Westminster.

Regent Street Polytechnic was later part of London Polytechnic and is now the University of Westminster.

He was born at 42 Great Peter Street, Westminster, London.

Image: Westminster Street, Walpole, NH. jpg | Westminster St. in 1906