First The Life Of John Bright appeared and seven years later Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill.

First, `` the Lord is my light ''.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet.

After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of the navy came to be ( and is still today ) known as the First Sea Lord.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

* List of Lord High Admirals and First Lords of the Admiralty

He declares the pope to be: " his Lord and Father in Christ ", " The Chosen Watchman ", " The Prelate most dear to all the Faithful ", " The most beautiful Head of all the Churches of the whole of Europe ", " Pastor of Pastors ", " The Highest ", " The First ", " The First Pastor, set higher than all mortals ", " Raised near into all the Celestial Beings ", " Prince of the Leaders ", " His Father ", " His immediate Patron ", " The Steersman ", " The Pilot of the Spiritual Ship " ( Allnatt, " Cathedra Petri ", 106 ).

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

He was approaching two years on half pay ( which would trigger automatic retirement from the navy ) when on January 8, 1912 his career was saved by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.

" Unfazed, Beatty replied, " And you seem very young to be First Lord.

" 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.

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

Afterwards, he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord until 1927.

After 1924 Beatty, supported by the First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman, clashed with the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, over the number of cruisers required by the Royal Navy.

After the war a report of the battle was prepared by the Admiralty under First Sea Lord Wemyss.

Before the report was published, Beatty was himself appointed First Sea Lord, and immediately requested amendments to the report.

After Napoleon's successful coup d ' état in 1799, as First Consul he commissioned David to commemorate his daring crossing of the Alps.

This campaign also put a dent in the armour of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles.

The Imperial Navy was the first to operate submarines successfully on a large scale in wartime, with 375 submarines commissioned by the end of the First World War, and it also operated zeppelins.

In September 2006, Rem Koolhaas was commissioned to develop 111 First Street in Jersey City across the Hudson River from Manhattan, working with real estate developer Louis Dubin.

They fled to the First Bulgarian Empire, where they were welcomed and commissioned to establish theological schools.

At the British First Army headquarters, a large-scale plasticine model of the Vimy sector was constructed and used to show commissioned and senior non-commissioned officers the topographical features of the battlefield and details of the German trench system.

In 1844 he was commissioned into the British army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Before Woolf had even published his final report, Sir Geoffrey Bowman, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former First Parliamentary Counsel, was commissioned to write a report on the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal.

During the First World War, Dawes was commissioned Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Brigadier General of the Seventeenth Engineers.

Custer was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Cavalry and immediately joined his regiment at the First Battle of Bull Run, where Army commander Winfield Scott detailed him to carry messages to Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell.

Alsford's brother, William John Alsford, visited the island, and in gratitude for their hospitality, commissioned a totem pole from the Canadian First Nations artist Henry Hunt.

The submarine USS Holland ( SS-1 ), the first commissioned submarine in the U. S. Navy, along with six other Holland Torpedo Boat Company submarines were based in New Suffolk between 1899 and 1905 prompting the hamlet to claim to be the " First Submarine Base " in the United States.

He claims that, as King Charles the First commissioned the Duke of Buckingham (“ that insolent upstart ”) to bring the royal fiancée, Princess Henrietta Maria, from Paris to England, Buckingham — “ with his usual audacity ” — made love to the Queen of France, the Spanish Anne of Austria, thus creating an extremely serious diplomatic conflict to the advantage of Cardinal Richelieu.

When the Guard was called into the service for the Mexican Border War, 18 June 1916, he was commissioned First Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant.

In addition, that same year the RSC commissioned a completely new addition of Shakespeare's First Folio, titled " William Shakespeare Complete Works " and published by Modern Library.

Thirty-one-year-old Army Air Force Second Lieutenant Reagan was assigned to Culver City's First Motion Picture Unit ( 18th AAF Base Unit ) at this time, which was some three months after his voluntary transfer from the Army Cavalry, and five years after having been commissioned from the enlisted ranks of the U. S. Army Reserve in Iowa.

The first of his works on Francis was Vita Beati Francisci (" The Life of Blessed Francis ", often called the " First Life "), a work on the saint's early life, commissioned by Pope Gregory IX in 1228 at the time Francis's canonization.

First published in 1952, this classic recounts the story of Basil, a young silversmith, who is commissioned by the apostle Luke to fashion a holder for the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper.

First rates were typically kept out of commission (" in Ordinary ") during peacetime and only activated (" commissioned ") during times of conflict.

The collection originated during the First World War, when the museum acquired works that it had itself commissioned, as well as works commissioned by the Ministry of Information's British War Memorials Committee.

The art is part of the nearly $ 1. 75 million Stadium Art Program commissioned through First & Goal's lease of the facility.

* First Translation of Swedenborg's theological writings: 16th Chapter of Genesis as explained in the Arcana Cœlestia ( This translation from Latin into English was commissioned by Swedenborg himself and is a photocopy of a first edition copy: PDF-12MB ).

He was commissioned into the military in 1917 for the remainder of the First World War and, after a brief stint in the Canadian Cabinet, began his diplomatic career, serving in envoys to the United States and United Kingdom.

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