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Charles Pelham Villiers ( 3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898 ) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament ( MP ).
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They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.
* January 16 – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons ( b. 1802 )
Charles Trollope Swan gave the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence ( the Old Hall, see below ) and of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882.
However the Liberal Whig MP Charles Pelham Villiers proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to 1845.
* Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1920 – 1988 ), great-grandson of Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton, second son of the 4th Duke.
Copley was about fourteen and his stepfather had recently died, when he made the earliest of his portraits now preserved, a likeness of his half-brother Charles Pelham, good in color and characterization though it has in its background accessories which are somewhat out of drawing.
He was raised to the rank of an Earl's son in 1839 and thus entitled to be styled the Honourable Charles Pelham Villiers.
The interval of Sir Robert Peel's administration ( 1841 – 1846 ) was to the leaders of the Whig party a period of repose ; but Lord Clarendon took a strong interest in the triumph of the principles of free trade and in the repeal of the corn laws, of which his brother, Charles Pelham Villiers, had been one of the earliest champions.
Their grandson Charles Anderson assumed the additional surname of Pelham and represented Beverley and Lincolnshire in the House of Commons.
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Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ) used symphonic techniques to produce a more concise and unified structure.
Similar compositions in the English language are called anthems, but some later English composers, such as Charles Villiers Stanford, wrote motets in Latin.
Examples include works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Finnissy.
He attended the Royal College of Music on a scholarship, where he studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford and where in 1895 he met fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, who became a lifelong friend.
* Charles Villiers Stanford wrote an opera titled Savonarola, which had its premiere in Hamburg on 18 April 1884.
During 1853, when Villiers was made a privy counsellor the Times stated " it was Mr Charles Villiers who practically originated the Free Trade movement ".
Through Farrar and Vaughan Williams, Finzi belongs to the firm tradition of Elgar, Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, which made his music seem unfashionable in his lifetime.
He cultivated connections with most of the prominent British composers of the day including Edward Elgar, Hamilton Harty, Alexander Mackenzie, Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ethel Smyth, Gustav Holst and the Australian Percy Grainger.
The orchestra has also recorded for Naxos a complete series of the symphonies of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.
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