They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, Edward VI, to the English throne.

Alfred of Wessex died in 899 and was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder.

It seems Edward had his son Æthelstan brought up in the Mercian court, and on Edward's death Athelstan succeeded to the Mercian kingdom, and, after some uncertainty, Wessex.

Canute was succeeded by his sons, but in 1042 the native dynasty was restored with the accession of Edward the Confessor.

His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.

He died in January 1547 at the age of 55 and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.

Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547.

In 1547, Henry died and Edward succeeded as Edward VI.

On the death of Edward IV, on 9 April 1483, the late king's twelve-year-old son, Edward V, succeeded him.

Henry Tudor succeeded Richard to become Henry VII and sought to cement the succession by marrying the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece.

Nelson-Williams succeeded the retiring Major General Edward Sam M ’ boma on 12 September 2008.

Edward, his nine-year old son by Jane Seymour, succeeded as Edward VI of England.

Edward died in 1910, to be succeeded by George V, who reigned 1910-36.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

George V died when Margaret was five, and her uncle succeeded as King Edward VIII.

When Æthelflæd died in 918, Ælfwynn, her daughter by Æthelred, succeeded as ' Second Lady of the Mercians ', but within six months Edward had deprived her of all authority in Mercia and taken her into Wessex.

Harold later succeeded Edward the Confessor and became King of England in his own right in 1066.

When Edward died in 1066 he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.

Following Harthacnut's death on 8 June 1042, Godwin, the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne.

Harthacnut died suddenly in 1042, and was succeeded by Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England.

in 1956-57, later succeeded, in a daytime edition, by Johnny Carson.

" Bertha Harris put roses in her mailbox, but never succeeded in meeting her ; Carson McCullers camped on her doorstep, but Barnes only called down, " Whoever is ringing this bell, please go the hell away.

He soon after ( in October 1915 ) succeeded his friend Sir Edward Carson as Attorney General, with the right to attend Cabinet.

In the general election, he faced Brad Carson, a Democrat who had succeeded him in the 2nd District and was giving up his seat after only two terms.

He also served as leader of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party before being succeeded by his archrival Edward Carson.

Carson succeeded in repelling the attacks only through his clever use of supporting fire from the twin howitzers.

Rayburn and Henderson did not return to this version ( Rayburn was by this time hosting The Match Game on NBC and Henderson opted to rejoin Tonight under Carson ), instead being replaced by Johnny Jacobs as announcer and Donn Trenner as bandleader, respectively ( in early 1964, Bill Daily succeeded Jacobs as Steve's announcer ).

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

He formally resigned as Liberal leader and was succeeded by the Marquess of Hartington, but he soon changed his mind and returned to active politics.

Vladko Maček, who had succeeded Radić as leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, the largest political party in Croatia, was imprisoned, and members of a newly emerging insurgent movement, the Ustaše, went into exile.

He retired as leader of the party on 14 December 1955, having led Labour for twenty years, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell.

A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.

Chiang then succeeded Chen as leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Shanghai.

Chiang was succeeded as President by Vice President Yen Chia-kan and as Kuomintang party leader by his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who retired Chiang Kai-shek's title of Director-General and instead assumed the position of Chairman.

On 14 October 1964 the Central Committee, alongside the Presidium, made it clear that Khrushchev himself did not fit the model of a " Leninist leader ", and he was forced to resign from all his post, and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Chernenko never succeeded in becoming a " real " leader during his tenure in office because of his declining health

Proponents of a formalized leadership and succession suggest that Clement succeeded Pantaenus as leader of the school, and was succeeded himself by Origen.

The foreign minister, Osborne Riviere immediately became prime minister, but the education minister, Roosevelt Skerrit succeeded him as prime minister and became the new leader of the Dominica Labour Party.

In 2000, Dewar died of a brain hemorrhage and was succeeded as First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Labour leader by Henry McLeish.

In early 1967, Arthur Calwell retired as ALP leader and Gough Whitlam succeeded him.

Manley resigned for health reasons in 1992 and was succeeded as leader of the PNP by Percival Patterson.

After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague.

In 1964 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, and succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev.

St-Laurent was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958.

One of the first actions however of the Labour Party leader who succeeded them, Ed Miliband, was the rejection of the " New Labour " label.

When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.

Foot resigned days after the election and was succeeded as leader on 2 October by Neil Kinnock, who had been tipped from the outset to be Labour's choice of new leader.

Logically, the Liberals ' deputy leader, William McMahon, should have succeeded Holt.

He was succeeded by his deputy John Tabinaman, who continued to be re-elected as leader until the election of December 2008, which James Tanis won.