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In April 1842 Lord Stanley ( afterwards 14th earl of Derby ), then secretary for the colonies in the second Peel Administration, wrote to Sir George Napier that the establishment of a colony in Natal would be attended with little prospect of advantage, but at the same time stated that the pretensions of the emigrants to be regarded as an independent community could not be admitted.
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He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise ( November 1842 − April 1843 ) and left that ship in Honolulu.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst ( December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919 ) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist.
* April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal ( b. 1842 )
* April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )
* April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect ( b. 1842 )
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands, the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle ( 2 October 1840 – 13 March 1910 ) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen ( 21 April 1842 – 9 May 1891 ).
Now she had a sympathetic reader in Schücking, she began to write in earnest, producing about fifty poems between October 1841 and April 1842.
In April 1842, Schücking left Meersburg to take up a job as a tutor in an aristocratic family.
* 1842 April 20-Adelsverein Fisher-Miller Land Grant sets aside three million acres ( 12, 000 km² ) to settle 600 families and single men of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry in Texas.
Corp. Asbury F. Haynes of the 17th Maine Regiment, who was born in Edinburg in 1842, captured the Confederate battle flag at the Battle of Sailor's Creek in Virginia, April 6, 1865, an action which won him the Medal of Honor.
Hamilton was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1842, from portions of the now-defunct Nottingham Township.
First known as Pratt, the village adopted its present name when it was incorporated on April 18, 1842.
Pleasant Prairie had its beginnings as a political entity in April 1842 when the first town meeting was held and the first election of town officials took place.
The first town meeting, which took place on April 5, 1842, selected Ralph Frisbie as the first town clerk.
In April 1842, Nasmyth visited France with a view to supplying the French arsenals and dockyards with tools and while he was there took the opportunity to visit the Le Creusot works.
* April 26 – Josef Labor, pianist, organist and composer ( b. 1842 )
The second Chartist petition was presented to Parliament in April 1842.
Dr. William Ellery Channing ( April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842 ) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.
# Elizabeth Grenville ( 24 October 1756 – 21 December 1842 ), who married the 1st Earl of Carysfort ( 12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828 ) on 12 April 1787 and had three daughters.
1842 in Liberty Corner, New Jersey – April 9, 1926 in New York City, New York ), was an American freak show performer famous for his oddly tapered head.
Maurice Rouvier (; 17 April 1842 – 7 June 1911 ) was a French statesman of the " Opportunist " faction.
* April 30-Carl Rosa, opera impresario ( b. 1842 )
The Manor of Northstead was first used as a pretext for resignation on 6 April 1842, by Patrick Chalmers, Member for Montrose District of Burghs.
But the official book recording appointments to the various Stewardships ( lodged in the National Archives under catalogue reference E 197 / 1 ) indicates that Patrick Chalmers, MP for Montrose Burghs, was appointed to Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 6 April 1842.
April and Lord
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 21st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one and on Independence, the one hundred and eighty-fifth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 20th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-fifth.
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.
While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.
He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.
Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.
Mountbatten was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.
George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.
In April 1977 the Young Liberals ' annual conference unanimously passed a motion to call on the Liberal leader ( David Steel ) to move for the impeachment of Ronald King Murray QC, the Lord Advocate.
While attending the Norfolk circuit on 2 April, Lord Abinger was suddenly seized with apoplexy, and died in his lodgings at Bury.
After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers ' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit.
* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.
When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.
* April 18 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( b. 1714 )
* April 10 – UK: George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister.
* April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron ( b. 1817 )
* April 26 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England ( b. 1651 )
* April 12 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England ( d. 1604 )
* April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* April 13 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1792 )
April 9: Lord Lovat.
* April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason ( the last man to be executed in this way in Britain ).
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