Edward Rawson, the first secretary to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born in Gillingham.

* Edward Rawson ( disambiguation ), multiple people

The ninth child of Edward Rawson, Rebecca was considered " one of the most beautiful, polite and accomplished young ladies in Boston ".

Bangor International Airport began as " Godfrey Field " in the 1920s, on land owned by local attorney Edward Rawson Godfrey ( 1877 – 1958 ).

M ' Naghten was a Scottish woodcutter who killed the secretary to the prime minister, Edward Drummond, in a botched attempt to assassinate the prime minister himself.

In fact, M ' Naghten fired a pistol at the back of Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, who died five days later.

At a dinner with in November with Edward Hamilton, his former private secretary, Hamilton noted that " What is now uppermost in his mind is what he calls the spirit of jingoism under the name of Imperialism which is now so prevalent ".

Those present were Lady Gladstone of Hawarden ( Gladstone's daughter-in-law ), Sir George Leveson-Gower ( Gladstone's secretary ), William Wickham ( Gladstone's eldest grandson ), and Canon Edward Lyttleton.

* January 24 – William Edward Forster, the chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspended habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence could be detained without trial ; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2.

** Thomas Churchyard, English author, secretary to Edward de Vere ( b. 1520 )

Huels was president and a director, and Council Finance Committee Chairman Alderman Edward M. Burke ( 14th ) was secretary.

In 1843 Peel was the target of a failed assassination attempt ; a criminally-insane Scottish woodsman named Daniel M ' Naghten stalked him for several days before accidentally killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond instead.

Although the public didn't seem to care much about Thorpe's past, the Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ), and especially its secretary James Edward Sullivan, took the case very seriously.

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, also has a Canadian private secretary and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, a lady-in-waiting.

Joseph W. Randall ( Edward G. Robinson ), the city editor of a tabloid newspaper, reluctantly agrees when publisher Bernard Hinchecliffe ( Oscar Apfel ) plans to boost circulation with a restrospective series on a 20-year-old murder and scandal, involving a secretary, Nancy Voorhees ( Frances Starr ), who shot the man who got her pregnant and then refused to marry her.

Edward Doheny was preparing for his criminal trial for bribery in the Teapot Dome Scandal, and on February 16, 1929, Ned Doheny and, Hugh Plunkett, his friend and secretary, who were to testify in the trial, were killed in a murder that still remains unsolved.

She has married and reveals to Edward that his secretary was one of her bridesmaids.

Despite the increase in tensions due to the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, Bethmann Hollweg did improve relations with Britain to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912-1913, and negotiating treaties over an eventual partition of the Portuguese colonies and the Berlin-Baghdad railway.

Reading were formed on 25 December 1871, following a public meeting at the Bridge Street Rooms organised by the future club secretary Joseph Edward Sydenham.

In 1866 six months after the end of the American Civil War, leaders of the northern American Missionary Association ( AMA ): John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, field secretary ; and Reverend Edward Parmelee Smith founded the Fisk Free Colored School, for education of freedmen.

This battle was a turning point in the war and the kings secretary Sir Edward Walker said that after Cheriton, instead of an offensive war they were forced to make a defensive war.

William Edward Colby, the first secretary of the Sierra Club, called the finished trail " a most appropriate memorial to John Muir, who spent many of the best years of his life exploring the region which it will make accessible.

* Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the council of war and joins the catastrophic Cadiz expedition under Sir Edward Cecil.

On the 19th of February, Hall showed the Telegram to Edward Bell, secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Britain.

In 1953, soon after his appointment as United Nations secretary general, Hammarskjöld was interviewed on radio by Edward R. Murrow.

Even French ’ s trusted secretary Edward Fitzgerald recorded ( 5 October 1915 ) that French ’ s “ sudden moods are weird and marvellous but we never now even have explanations ”.

He was the father of 1 ) Frederick Anson, Canon of Windsor, and 2 ) George Edward Anson, private secretary to Prince Albert.

Adelaide was established as a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).

In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

Of the Maritime provinces, only Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were initially party to the BNA Act, Prince Edward Island's reluctance, combined with a booming agricultural and fishing export economy having led to that colony opting not to sign on.

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

During the 19th century the colony of Prince Edward Island began to attract " adventurous Victorian families looking for elegance on the sea.

Prince Edward Island did not find the terms of union favourable and balked at joining in 1867, choosing to remain a colony of the United Kingdom.

In the late 1860s, the colony examined various options, including the possibility of becoming a discrete dominion unto itself, as well as entertaining delegations from the United States, who were interested in Prince Edward Island joining the United States of America.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

In 1848, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a Briton, and John Robert Godley, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, founded the Canterbury Association to establish an Anglican colony in New Zealand's South Island.

When Edward the Confessor ascended the throne of a united Dano-Saxon England, a Norse army was raised from every Norwegian colony in the British Isles and attacked Edward's England in support of Magnus ', and after his death, his brother Harald Hardråde's, claim to the English throne.

However, in 1769 the present-day Prince Edward Island, which had been part of Acadia, was renamed " St John ’ s Island " and organized as a separate colony.

The name of the parish is derived from the former French colony of Acadia in Canada ( which consisted of the modern provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and much of Maine ) many of whose French-speaking inhabitants were deported to France and then migrated to Louisiana in the Great Upheaval ( see Cajuns ).

In 1733, when General James Edward Ogelthorpe founded the Georgia colony, a surveyor named Noble Jones was granted a tract on the island that was eventually named Wormsloe, possibly after an English estate but more probably due to the mulberry trees that were grown there, the worms of which, it was hoped, would form the basis for a silk industry.

Watkinsville first appeared in Clarke County records in 1791 ; only fifty-eight years after James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was home to the Peconic School, an artist colony initially led by painters Benjamin Rutherfurd Fitz and Edward August Bell.

* Edward Lamson Henry N. A., the painter of historical themes, lived in Cragsmoor and helped found an artist's colony.

The search for a suitable site ended on 14 May 1607, when Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, president of the council, chose the Jamestown site as the location for the colony.

A rookery was established during the 18th century by Edward Northey, who brought a colony of crows from his estates in Epsom to fill it.

The west-coast British colony north of the 49th parallel, British Columbia, joined Confederation in 1871, and Prince Edward Island joined in 1873.

Edward Jerningham Wakefield had intended to stay in New Zealand for only a few months but he found the growth of the new colony so fascinating that it was four years before he returned to England in 1844.

James Edward Oglethorpe ( 22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785 ) was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.