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In 1784, he accompanied his lifelong friend George, Lord McCartney, whom he first met in the West Indies, to Madras to negotiate peace with Tipu Sultan, for which service Staunton was created a baronet of Ireland, of Cargins in the County of Galway on 31 October 1785.
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1784 and accompanied
The Rancho San Pedro ( Dominguez Rancho ) land grant exceeded as granted to a soldier, Juan Jose Dominguez, who accompanied Junipero Serra, by Governor Fages through authority of King Carlos III of Spain in 1784.
In this year ( 1784 ), he embarked for India accompanied by William Daniell, and found at Calcutta ample encouragement.
In 1784 William accompanied his uncle to India, who worked there as an engraver, acting as his assistant in preparing drawings and sketches.
1784 and friend
To this period also belongs a Clarinet Quintet written for the virtuoso Heinrich Baermann ( 1784 – 1847 ) who remained a close friend of the composer.
In 1784 he took over the publication of the textbook Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (" Foundations of the Natural Sciences ") from his friend and colleague Johann Christian Erxleben upon his premature death in 1777.
Shortly before his death Jago revised his poems, and they were published in 1784 by his friend, John Scott Hylton, as Poems Moral and Descriptive.
He was made a knight of the Bath at the end of 1778, but in 1782 he returned home owing to ill-health, and was appointed by his friend Fox to be minister at The Hague, an appointment confirmed after some delay by Pitt ( 1784 ).
The college is named for Jonathan Trumbull, the last governor of the Colony of Connecticut and first governor of the State of Connecticut, serving from 1769 until 1784, and a friend and advisor to General George Washington throughout the revolutionary period who dedicated the resources of Connecticut to the fight for independence.
This was enough to make him unpopular with many of the Welsh clergy, and being denied the privilege of preaching for nothing at two churches, he helped his old Oxford friend John Mayor, now vicar of Shawbury, Shropshire, from October until January 11, 1784.
Dying without issue in 1784, he left his property to a family friend, the Reverend Thomas Shaw, on condition he change his name to Hellier.
The most telling of the three examples, however, was a letter that Brown wrote to a friend on April 29, 1784.
1784 and George
David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.
* George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 )
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.
Notable acts as president included George Washington resigning his commission and the signing of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 ( Ratification Day ) along with Charles Thomson, who served as Secretary.
* December 14 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1784 )
* October 3 – George Onslow, French composer ( b. 1784 )
* George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
York and Albany featured one last time as a dukedom in 1784, when George III granted it to his second son.
Sir Edward Walpole ( c. 1706 – 1784 ); he had an illegitimate daughter, Maria Walpole, who later married into the British Royal Family, becoming the wife of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, King George III's brother.
In 1784, the name " Charlotte County " was changed to honor George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United States of America.
In 1784, the name " Charlotte County " was changed to Washington County to honor George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United States of America.
In 1784, the name " Charlotte County " was changed to Washington County to honor George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United States of America.
In 1784, the name " Charlotte County " was changed to Washington County to honor George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United States of America.
* George Onslow ( 27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853 ) composer
George was basically already living in Kentucky in 1784 when the Clark family left Virginia and settled there.
In 1784, following the peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War, the name " Charlotte County " was changed to Washington County to honor George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United States of America.
The town was known by several different names, including Greenoch, Watsontown and Hartville, before being renamed in 1784 for George Washington.
* George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland ( 1784 – 1849 ), politician and Governor-General of India
The 1784 ordinance was criticized by George Washington in 1785 and James Monroe in 1786.
However, a fashion for large-scale performances began in 1784, in a series of commemorative concerts of Handel's music given in Westminster Abbey under the patronage of King George III.
The first fort ( Fort George ) was built from 1760 – 1763, the second ( Fort Wilhelm ) and third were built 1774 and 1784, the last fort ( called Fort Luise ) was built 1806.
* Sir George Elliot ( 1784 – 1863 ), naval officer ( not to be confused with George Eliot )
1784 and Lord
After his return to England from India in April 1784, Phillip remained in close contact with Townshend, now Lord Sydney, and the Home Office Under Secretary, Evan Nepean.
The English-educated Scottish peer Lord Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 ) led a coalition government from 1852-5, but in general very few Scots held office in the government.
When the town was restored to the Dutch in 1784, it was renamed Stabroek after Nicolaas Geelvinck, Lord of Stabroek, and President of the Dutch West India Company.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC ( 20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865 ), known popularly as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.
This changed from 1784 when it passed to Francis Higgins ( better known as the " Sham Squire ", and the informer who gave away the whereabouts of Lord Edward Fitzgerald ) and took a more pro-British and pro-administration view.
Somers never married, but left two sisters, of whom the eldest, Mary, married Charles Cocks, whose grandson, Sir Charles Cocks, Bt., became the second Lord Somers in 1784, the title subsequently descending in this line.
Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, KG, GCB, GCH, PC ( 17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854 ), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as The Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British military leader and politician, now chiefly remembered for leading the charge of the heavy cavalry against d ' Erlon's column during the Battle of Waterloo.
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS ( 2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863 ), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.
In 1784 Beckford was accused by Courtenay's uncle, Alexander Wedderburn Loughborough, 1st Lord ( later Earl of Rosslyn ) of having had a homosexual affair with William Courtenay.
* 1784 John Scott, created Lord Earlsfort, afterwards Viscount and Earl of Clonmell ; Apr 29
Known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, he was one of the most influential Whig politicians of the first half of the 19th century.
His son from his first marriage, the third Earl, served as Lord Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1794 to 1816 and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1784 to 1794.
** Charles Finch, Lord Guernsey ( d. 1784 )
In 1784 Lord Mulgrave was elected to the House of Commons for Totnes.
* Robert Hamilton, 6th Lord Belhaven and Stenton ( 1731 – 1784 )
On Lord Lonsdale's death in 1802, the baronetcy and the peerages of 1784 became extinct.
* James Rollo, 7th Lord Rollo ( 1738 – 1784 )
On Lord Annaly's death in 1784 the title became extinct.
Lord William George Henry Somerset ( 2 September 1784 – 14 January 1861 ), Prebendary of Bristol, who was married twice ; on 29 June 1813 to Elizabeth Molyneux ( d. 1843 ), daughter of Lt .- Gen. Sir Thomas Molyneux, 5th Baronet, with whom he had one son, and in 1844 to Frances Westby Brady ( d. 31 August 1854 ), with whom he had no issue
By the time Dickens came to Deal it had been largely forgotten how the government of 1784, under Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger ( who was staying at nearby Walmer Castle, and was later to be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1792 ), ensured that the Deal boats were all set ablaze, suspecting some of the Deal luggers of being engaged in smuggling.
In 1784, Lord Powis ’ s daughter, Lady Henrietta Herbert, married Edward Clive, the eldest son of Clive of India.
In 1784 Lord Mornington married Katherine Elizabeth Forbes, daughter of Admiral John Forbes and granddaughter of the George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard and of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
He was the author of several valuable works regarded as authoritative, viz., Sketch of the Sikh ( 1812 ) A History of Persia ( 1815 ), Memoir of Central India ( 1823 ), Political History of India from 1784 to 1823 ( 1826 ), Sketches of Persia ( 1827 by A Traveller ) and Life of Lord Clive ( 1836 ).
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