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As Secretary of the Monday Club Northern Ireland Policy Committee, he backed calls from Ulster Unionist MPs for Mrs Thatcher to implement her 1979 Conservative General Manifesto commitment to " establish one or more elected regional councils in Northern Ireland with a wide range of powers over local services " in place of the 1982-86 Northern Ireland Assembly, and opposed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which earned him the admiration and support of the then Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jim ( now Lord ) Molyneaux and the then Ulster Unionist Chief Whip and MP for East Londonderry, Willie Ross.
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Secretary and Monday
It was decided to postpone action until after Easter Monday, and in the meantime Nathan telegraphed the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, in London seeking his approval.
Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.
On Whit Monday 1916 Bonar Law discussed the succession to the job of Secretary of State for War ( Kitchener had just drowned on a trip to Russia ); he was irritated not only at having to travel to Asquith's home – the Wharf, at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire – but also, he claimed, finding Asquith playing bridge with three ladies.
* Gregory Lauder-Frost, former Political Secretary, and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, of the Monday Club.
A third motion, asking the Club to call for the sacking of John Bercow, then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and former Monday Club member, for his " hypocrisy ", was defeated.
When Secretary of State Colin Powell called Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday to discuss the capture of Saddam, whom Washington had named a tyrant, Sinha is said to have reacted in a manner that did not echo the effusion flowing from the rest of the world.
" As a young activist, Bercow was a member of the right-wing Conservative Monday Club, becoming Secretary of its Immigration and Repatriation Committee.
On Monday, July 23, 2012, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, who until then had been the Secretary, or second-highest official, of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and Titular Archbishop of Duklja, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló as the new Vice-Camerlengo ( Chamberlain ) of the Holy Roman Church, to serve under Cardinal Bertone.
Howarth was General Secretary of the pressure group, the Society for Individual Freedom 1969-1971, and was once an active member of the Conservative Monday Club.
In this she was supported by other Monday Club MPs John Biggs-Davison, who made representations under the Public Order Act to the Home Secretary, and John Stokes.
Conservative Monday Club member Lady Jane Birdwood was General Secretary.
The situation eventually got so bad, that on Monday 24 July 2006, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton MP, announced that the CSA was not working and as a result would be axed and replaced by a " smaller, more focused " body.
" An Order in Council was then issued on 20 November the following year, establishing the Journée des patriotes – thenceforth known as National Patriots ' Day – as the Monday preceding 25 May, thereby replacing the Fête de Dollard ; the moving from November to May was motivated by the will to highlight the starting point of the numerous public meetings organized by citizens throughout Lower Canada from May to November 1837 in reaction to the passing of British Home Secretary Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions by the House of Commons
The General Assembly's first official working day is the second Monday of January each year, with the Secretary of State convening the House, and the Governor convening the Senate.
In the weekend that followed, the Kiss team roamed London building up an enormous petition that was delivered on the Monday morning to then Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd.
The Chief Secretary ’ s office in Dublin Castle, on the Monday night, released the following communiqué:
On Monday 11 January 2005, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that the four Britons in Guantanamo Bay: Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga, Richard Belmar and Feroz Abbasi, will be returned to Britain " within weeks " after " intensive and complex discussions " with the US government.
On Monday 5 February Ouko met with President Moi, the Japanese Ambassador, the Canadian High Commissioner, Bethuel Kiplagat ( Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ), and Hezekiah Oyugi ( Permanent Secretary, Internal Security ).
Secretary and Club
Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).
* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971
Also included were William Lowndes Secretary of the Treasury who had been significantly responsibility for re-minting the entire debased British coinage in 1696 and John Aislabie who represented the October Club, a group of around 200 MPs who had agreed to vote together.
At Oxford he was President of the Union and Secretary of the Oxford Canning Club.
During his time there, he was Secretary of the University Labour Club.
Paul Whitehead, a close friend of Sir Francis Dashwood, had been the Secretary and Steward to the Hellfire Club.
The club was founded on 1 January 1961, by four young Conservative Party members, Paul Bristol ( a 24 year-old shipbroker and the Club's first Chairman, who left the Club in 1968 ), Ian Greig ( Membership Secretary until 1969 ), Cedric Gunnery ( Treasurer until 1992 ) and Anthony Maclaren.
As British Foreign Secretary, he signed the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance at his London home ( now the Lansdowne Club ) and negotiated the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale with the French foreign minister, Theophile Delcassé.
The Palazzo's design has been mimicked in several buildings outside Italy, including the Château Grimaldi near Aix-en-Provence, in England Charles Barry's great admiration for the building led him to use it as the model for London's Reform Club, France, the National Building Museum in Washington, D. C., USA, and the Chief Secretary ’ s Building in Sydney, Australia.
Club Secretary Gavin McCann regularly contributes to The East Kilbride News and also the East Kilbride Mail where readers can follow the team's fortunes.
Kmoch served as the Secretary and manager of the Manhattan Chess Club, and directed tournaments.
* Mr MacGregor: Deputy Commissioner and Secretary of the Club.
He was also the long-standing Honorary Secretary, and a trustee, of the Savage Club ( which earlier counted among its notable members W. S. Gilbert and George Grossmith ).
Former celebrated local artist, John Kynnersley Kirby, a painter of many local scenes and characters in the early 20th century, once used the interior of the Star for a painting entitled ‘ The Slate Club Secretary ’.
Club officers consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Immediate Past President, and 1st -, 2nd-and 3rd-Year Directors.
He was a member, with his brother Alan, of the College First XVIII Australian Rules football team, and was Secretary of the Student Club.
From 1888 to 1893, the Cape Florida lighthouse was leased by the United States Secretary of the Treasury for a total of US $ 1. 00 ( 20 cents per annum ) to the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club for use as its headquarters.
Not only that but as he had formed Albion less than 2 months previously its fair to assume that there could have been bad feeling even at that early stage of the rivalry, hence no thanks for Allan, who then became the first Secretary and Treasurer of the Sunderland Albion Club.
* Frankston North-The Pines is serviced by Neighbourhood Watch which is broken up by five separate areas each with its own Co-ordinator and their Zone Representatives within a Committee consisting of a Newsletter Editor, Secretary, Treasurer and an Overall Co-ordinator / President ( Stan Doric JP the initiator in 2004 ) current to 2010, liaison during this time with Victoria Police ( Frankston City ) Co-ordinator L / S / Const Sharron Coburn. The areas are known as FRK 22, FRK 23, FRK 24, FRK 25, FRK 26 and are bound by Frankston-Dandenong Road, Pines Flora & Fauna Reserve, Ballarto Rd, Peninsula Country Golf Club.
Secretary and Northern
For a year from 1767, Hume held the appointment of Under Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
In that year he became Organising Secretary of Northern Province's Northern Rhodesian African National Congress.
The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.
Its descendant position was Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
The new king successfully lobbied for his favourite Lord Bute to be given the post of Northern Secretary.
Bute soon joined the cabinet as a Northern Secretary and Pitt and he were quickly in dispute over a number of issues.
** U. K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
* February 12 – John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department in Great Britain.
* December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.
These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.
On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UDA / UFF ) including Johnny Adair, Sam McCrory and Michael Stone.
" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.
Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.
While Home Secretary, Peel helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as " bobbies " ( in England ) and " Peelers " ( in Northern Ireland ).
Godolphin, Marlborough, and Harley, who had replaced Nottingham as Secretary of State for the Northern Department, formed a ruling " triumvirate ".
In 1716 Townshend was removed from the important post of Northern Secretary and put in the lesser office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
In reality, however, Walpole shared power with his brother-in-law Lord Townshend, who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and controlled the nation's foreign affairs.
In July 1972, Heath permitted his Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, to hold unofficial talks in London with a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) delegation by Seán Mac Stiofáin.
Callaghan's tenure as Home Secretary was marked by the emerging conflict in Northern Ireland and it was as Home Secretary that he took the decision to deploy British Army troops in the province after a request from the Ulster Unionist Government of Northern Ireland.
The position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was created in the British governmental reorganisation of 1782, in which the Northern and Southern Departments became the Home and Foreign Offices respectively.
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