Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

The Chancellor had as much business there as Ulbricht had in East Berlin -- and was certainly less provocative than the juvenile sound-truck taunts of Gerhard Eisler.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

The Lord Chancellor of England was almost always a bishop up until the dismissal of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey by Henry VIII.

This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state.

The leading Peelite was William Ewart Gladstone, who was a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer in most of these governments.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

The final straw for many in the Manifesto Group was the behaviour of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey at a meeting with them during the Labour leadership campaign to replace James Callaghan.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The Chancellor expressed great regret that he should have to spend so much on armaments, but said that it was absolutely necessary and was due only to the actions of other nations.

As Prime Minister, Attlee appointed Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary and Hugh Dalton was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer ( although it had widely been expected to be the other way around ).

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was ( Sir ) William Mulock, later Chancellor of the school.

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

The period between Henry's accession and the birth of Eleanor's youngest son was turbulent: Aquitaine, as was the norm, defied the authority of Henry as Eleanor's husband ; attempts to claim Toulouse, the rightful inheritance of Eleanor's grandmother and father, were made, ending in failure ; the news of Louis of France's widowhood and remarriage was followed by the marriage of Henry's son ( young Henry ) to Louis ' daughter Marguerite ; and, most climactically, the feud between the King and Thomas Becket, his Chancellor, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was a noted advocate and served as Lord President of the Court of Session and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

His ability to live without food and water was investigated by doctors at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2003 and 2010.

Humayun was made aware that the Sultan of Gujarat was planning an assault on the Mughal territories with Portuguese aid.

This Act was extended to Panchayats in the tribal areas of eight States, namely Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan from 24 December 1996.

Once he conducted an experiment to show that the soil in Mahmudabad was healthier than in Ahmedabad ( both in Gujarat ).

The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London.

This was highlighted by the famous Salt March to Dandi from 12 March to 6 April, where he marched from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt himself.

In 1907, the annual session of the Congress Party was held at Surat, Gujarat.

The Malwa Sultanate was conquered by the Sultanate of Gujarat in 1531.

This was put to practice in the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme ( AKRSP ) http :// www. akdn. org / AKF in the Gujarat province of India.

One of such was Timoji, who operated off Anjadip Island both as a privateer ( by seizing horse traders, that he rendered to the raja of Honavar ) and as a pirate who attacked the Kerala merchant fleets that traded pepper with Gujarat.

Inayat Khan was born in Vadodara, Gujarat to a noble Muslim Indian family ( his mother was a descendant of the uncle of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ruler of Mysore ).

He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat in a family of Gurjar Leva-Patidars Vallabhbhai Patel was employed in successful practice as a lawyer when he was first inspired by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel was born at his maternel uncle's house Desai Vago in Nadiad in Leva Patidar community of Gujarat.

In 1920, he was elected president of the newly formed Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee — he would serve as its president till 1945.

The revenue hike was steeper than it had been in Kheda even though the famine covered a large portion of Gujarat.

The revenue refusal was stronger than in Kheda and many sympathy satyagrahas were undertaken across Gujarat.

The province was bordered by the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to south and east, the princely states of Bahawalpur and Khairpur to the northeast and Karachi and the princely states of Kalat and Las Bela to the west.

Shantideva was a Brahmin in the southern country of Saurastra ( in modern Gujarat ), the son of the King Kalyanavarman and he went by the name Shantivarman.

In May 2012 it was in power in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka.

There was governmental and administrative support for the communal riots in Gujarat.

If the military was given powers to shoot at the perpetrators of violence, recurrence of tragedies in Gujarat could have been avoided.