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In November 1893, he was approached to see if he would accept a Baronetcy on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the following February he legally changed his name to Burne-Jones He was formally created a baronet of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London in the baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1894, but remained unhappy about accepting the honour, which disgusted his socialist friend Morris and was scorned by his equally socialist wife Georgiana.
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Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice.
However the river is no longer subject to the local ordinance of 9 November 1893, when the Town Council decided that bathing in the river was to be banned after 8. 00 am, except at Dobs Hole, where screens had been erected.
On November 25, 1893, the original school was destroyed by fire.
The final quarter jointly owned by two Bloomington brothers, Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 25 February 1878 ) and Kersey H. Fell ( 1 May 1815 – 1 May 1893 ) The five were a distinguished group of men and all had links to the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad.
Supercentenarian Minnie Kearby, once the oldest resident of Indiana, was also one of Jasper's best-known residents ; born in Ireland, Indiana, on April 14, 1893, she moved to a Jasper care facility in November 2004.
A post office operated from June 8, 1874, until November 18, 1879 and again from May 18, 1882 until October 14, 1893.
Kellyville was named for James E. Kelly, who established a trading post here about 1892 and opened a post office on November 27, 1893.
Meanwhile, the railroad station at Kirk had been closed and so the name “ Newkirk .” was chosen on November 8, 1893.
In November 1891 the town site was platted, and incorporated in 1893.
* Birthplace of Admiral Joseph J. Clark ( November 12, 1893 ).
Lemati office ran from November 1893 to September 1894, but in March 1898 the Cottage Grove office was renamed Lemati and it ran that way until being permanently renamed Cottage Grove in May 1898.
West Grove was separated from London Grove Township and became an incorporated borough on November 29, 1893.
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By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.
The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.
But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.
The controlling pattern was first displayed in the Hungary-Suez crisis of November 1956.
`` You know what she likes, Winston '', he had said wearily, one evening in November when Winston was pulling off his overshoes.
On November 13, 1952, he was classified in Class 1-a.
This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.
He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.
On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.
Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.
In November 1887 a line connecting several dwelling houses in Dorset was extended to Manchester Depot.
In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.
During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.
The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.
Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.
Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.
But as November 1924 drew close the Democratic hierarchy was sorely troubled by grapevine reports that O'Banion was being wooed by the opposition, and was meeting and conferring with important Republicans.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.
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