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Giffard twice contested Cardiff in the Conservative interest, in 1868 and 1874, but he was still without a seat in the House of Commons when he was appointed Solicitor General by Disraeli in 1875 and received the honour of knighthood.
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Giffard and Conservative
It was created in 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury.
Giffard and was
The newspaper was founded by barrister Stanley Lees Giffard on 21 May 1827, as the Standard.
The 1717 revival was especially successful, starring John Mills as Titus, Mrs. Giffard as Tamora, James Quin as Aaron and John Thurmond as Saturninus.
De Dion's behavior was savagely criticised by Le Vélo and its Dreyfusard editor, Pierre Giffard.
The first Lord of the Manor was Walter Giffard ; it passed to Hugh, Earl of Chester, who then left it to the De Vaux family.
Waverley Abbey, the first Cistercian abbey in England, was founded in 1128 by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of the town centre.
Due to the damage from the stroke, Ralph was unable to perform the ceremony but, when Roger made an attempt to do so, Ralph successfully insisted on choosing the officiant and William Giffard the Bishop of Winchester performed the marriage.
Within a year he was appearing professionally playing small parts at the Goodman's Fields Theatre under the management of Henry Giffard.
But, while he was successful under Giffard, the managers of Drury Lane and Covent Garden rejected him.
Walter de Clare, of the powerful family of Clare, was related by marriage to William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, who had introduced the first colony of Cistercians to Waverley, Surrey in 1128.
Great Kimble ( Chenebelle in Domseday Book ) was given to Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville in Normandy and a cousin of William the Conqueror, who received a total of 107 lordships of land in England, 48 of them in Buckinghamshire.
It was first created in 1097 for Walter Giffard, but became extinct in 1164 with the death of the second earl.
" Crendon " was the caput of the feudal honour held by Walter Giffard ( died 1102 ), created Earl of Buckingham by William the Conqueror.
Initially, Charles was led to White Ladies Priory by Charles Giffard, a cousin of the owner, and his servant Francis Yates, the only man subsequently executed for his part in the escape.
The King was disguised as a woodman by Charles Giffard and the Penderel family.
In the 12th century it was held by Walter Giffard, the 2nd Earl of Buckingham, but reverted to the Crown on his death in 1164.
Its commander was General George Giffard, who had formerly been Commander-in-Chief West Africa Command and Commander of Eastern Army ( part of GHQ India ).
In the Domesday Book, it is listed as owned by a Walter Giffard and the tenant was a Hugh de Bolbec.
He was descended from Richard Talbot, a tenant in 1086 of Walter Giffard at Woburn and Battledsen in Bedfordshire.
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC ( 3 September 1823-11 December 1921 ) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister.
Born in London, Halsbury was the third son of Stanley Lees Giffard, editor of the Standard newspaper, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Francis Moran.
Giffard had already been created Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury in the County of Devon, in 1885, and was made Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon, at the same time he was given the earldom.
Giffard and still
The only major landowning dynasty to survive in Brewood through all these transitions of the medieval and modern periods were the Giffard family, whose main local seat was, and still is, Chillington Hall, about three miles south-west of the village centre.
In 1727, while Catholics were still prohibited from opening public places of worship, the building of Giffard House was commenced in the centre of Wolverhampton.
Giffard and without
In the Domesday Book three lords were associated with Swaffham: Walter Giffard, with the largest manor ; his tenant Hugh Bolebec, who held all of the Giffard land there ; and Aubrey de Vere I, who held a smaller manor at Swaffham which the Domesday jurors said Aubrey had seized without the king's permission.
Nicolas Giffard summarises the modern assessment of the Budapest Gambit: is an old opening, seldom used by champions without having fallen in disgrace.
Giffard and seat
Graham Giffard, a then-sitting MLC, won Labor Party pre-selection for Swan Hills and lost the seat to the Liberal candidate Frank Alban in the 2008 election.
Giffard and House
Boscobel House was created around 1632, when landowner John Giffard of White Ladies Priory converted a timber-framed farmhouse, built some time in the 16th century on the lands of White Ladies Priory, into a hunting lodge.
Giffard called the new hunting lodge Boscobel House.
It is the site of Boscobel House, home to the Giffard family, owners of the Boscobel Royal Oak, where Charles II hid in an oak tree after losing the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
Giffard and when
However, Stilwell often broke the chain of command and communicated directly with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on operational matters, when all such communications were supposed to go to Admiral Lord Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia and also on taking operational control of NCAC through General George Giffard commander of 11th Army Group.
Conclusive evidence appears in 1291 when an argument was settled by Bishop Godfrey Giffard regarding who owned the wax from the candles used at the feast of St Swithun.
The manor remained in the Giffard family until 1337, when it was granted to Maurice de Berkeley ( died 1347 ), 2nd son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley ( 1271 – 1326 ).
Sir John Giffard, who died in 1556, during the reign of Mary I of England | Queen Mary, when Catholicism was temporarily restored.
Sir Thomas Giffard ( died 1560 ), who died in 1560, only four years after his father, Sir John, but when the Reformation had already been renewed under Elizabeth I of England | Queen Elizabeth.
Giffard and appointed
After the death of Montfort at the Battle of Evesham, Giffard was appointed Chancellor.
On 15 October 1266 Giffard was appointed by Pope Clement IV to the Archbishopric of York — as part of this elevation he resigned the chancellorship and was enthroned on 1 November 1266, receiving his temporalities on Boxing day.
* Bonaventure Giffard ( appointed on 25 November 1687 – translated to the London District on 14 March 1703 )
In September 1944 he was appointed to succeed George Giffard as the Commander-in-Chief of Eleventh Army Group and assumed command in November, by which time the Army Group had been renamed Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia.
Giffard and General
* Iven Giffard Mackay ( 7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966 ), Lieutenant General
* General Sir George Giffard
Browning held a series of meetings with General Sir Claude Auchinleck, the Commander-in-Chief, India ; Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, the Air Officer Commander-in-Chief ; and Lieutenant-General Sir George Giffard, the General Officer Commanding Eastern Army.
General Sir Oliver Leese succeeded Giffard in command.
Stilwell clashed frequently with the commander of the 11th Army Group, General Giffard, and would not accept being under his command, instead insisting that NCAC came directly under the Supreme Commander.
Gen. Stilwell, who also had operational command of the Northern Combat Area Command ( NCAC ), a US-Chinese formation, was to report in theory to Gen. George Giffard — commander of Eleventh Army Group — so that NCAC and the British Fourteenth Army, under the command of General William Slim, could be co-ordinated.
As the fall of Dimapur would have been disastrous for the Allies, Slim asked his superior, General George Giffard ( commanding Eleventh Army Group ), for more troops to protect Dimapur and to prepare to relieve Imphal.
Giffard and General Claude Auchinleck, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian Army, also prepared to send the British 2nd Division and Indian XXXIII Corps HQ under Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford from reserve in southern and central India to Dimapur, by road and rail .< ref >
General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC ( 1889-1958 ), familiarly known as " Q Martel ", was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II.
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