At the same time, Balfour tried to balance the two factions by accepting the resignation of three free-trading ministers, including Chancellor Ritchie, but the almost simultaneous resignation of the free-trader Duke of Devonshire ( who as Lord Hartington had been the Liberal Unionist leader of the 1880s ) left Balfour's Cabinet looking weak.

Balfour's service as Foreign Secretary was most notable for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild promising the Jews a " national home " in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Of Balfour's appointment to Asquith's cabinet in 1916, Lord Rosebery, who had been Prime Minister in 1894 – 95, said that having an ex-premier in the cabinet was " a fleeting and dangerous luxury ".

Blanche Dugdale, Lord Balfour's niece, a fellow diner, prophetically said in an agonised voice-" What will happen to the millions fleeing from Hitler?

In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for Croydon ( 1895 – 1906 ), he was President of the Board of Trade ( 1895 – 1900 ) and Home Secretary ( 1900 – 1902 ); and when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach retired in 1902, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Balfour's cabinet.

From 1895 to 1902 he was a member of Lord Salisbury's and Arthur Balfour's Unionist ministries as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The workload was so small that future Prime Minister Terence O ' Neill later revealed that then Prime Minister Lord Brookeborough did not even have a desk in his de-facto residence, Stormont House.

At the moment Wemyss retired and was replaced as First Sea Lord by Beatty, the finished book had already reached the stage of proof copies awaiting approval on his desk.

Right before impact, he dove under his desk and exclaimed " Lord, I can't do this!

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Lord Kitchener, a possible inspiration for Big Brother

The entrance to Chiang's tombsite at Tzuhu ( Cihu ) uses the official posthumous rendering of Chiang Kai-shek ( Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts | from right to left ): The President ( space ) Lord Chiang Mausoleum.

The Lord Jesus Christ in a Coptic art | Coptic icon

Image: Lord Frederick Leighton FLL006. jpg | Daedalus and Icarus, by Frederick Leighton, ca 1869.

German language | German inscription of the text, " One Lord, One faith, One baptism ," ( Ephesians 4: 5 ).

Sketch of Whirlpool Galaxy | Messier 51 by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | Lord Rosse in 1845, later known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst | The Lord Wakehurst takes the oath of office upon his arrival in Sydney in 1937.

Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Siege of Yorktown | Yorktown to American and French allies.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ; Hugo Arnot ; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, by John Kay ( caricaturist ) | John Kay.

Augustus Keppel | Lord Keppel ( 1779 ).

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield | Lord Heathfield ( 1788 ).

File: Sir Joshua Reynolds-Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney-The Archers-Google Art Project. jpg | Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

Benjamin West's depiction of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | William Johnson sparing Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau | Lord Dieskau's life after the Battle of Lake George.

File: Zichy, Mihaly-Lucifer az urral szemben ( Madach ). jpg | Lucifer before the Lord, by Mihály Zichy ( 19th century )

A Movie poster # Lobby cards | lobby card for the film Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 film ) | Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1921

The King, represented by the War Secretary Lord Hobart, directed that it should be placed in the British Museum.

File: LordSeaforthByThomas Lawrence. jpg | Lord Seaforth, ( c. 1805 ), Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA

After Lord died in 2002, he bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich his huge collection of manuscripts, original letters and Titanic memorabilia, which he had gathered during his life and used to write A Night to Remember.

Between 1824 and 1826 he lived and worked in Scarborough, and was responsible for the building of the Rotunda, a geological museum devoted to the Yorkshire coast. The Rotunda was re-opened as ' Rotunda – The William Smith Museum of Geology ', on 9 May 2008 by Lord Oxburgh, however, the Prince of Wales visited the Rotunda as early as 14 September 2007 to view the progress of the refurbishment of this listed building.

* Summary and MP3 Audio of an April 1945 broadcast excerpt by Lord Haw-Haw, from an Imperial War Museum website

The National Motor Museum is one of several attractions on Lord Montagu's Beaulieu estate which are marketed jointly as " Beaulieu ".

A working replica can today be seen at the nearby Black Country Living Museum, which stands on another part of what was Lord Dudley's Conygree Park.

Lord Derby was also a natural historian and his zoological collections founded Liverpool Museum.

* Napier Museum, in Kerala, India, named for Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, governor of Madras

Recent controversies include the major part of the architectural sculptures adorning the Parthenon, often called the " Elgin Marbles ", removed by Lord Elgin, later sold to the British Museum, and claimed by Greece that they should be returned.

* 2000 – Lord Sheppard of Didgemere becomes Chancellor ; Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture on the Cat Hill campus opens to the public ; Middlesex awarded third Queen's Anniversary Prize ; Hendon campus redevelopment begins

The medals, along with others, are displayed in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum.

* Eastman Lord Museum

Lord Rodney published in his lifetime ( probably 1789 ) Letters to His Majesty's Ministers, etc., relative to St Eustatius, etc., of which there is a copy in the British Museum.

In 1801 one of the caryatids was removed by Lord Elgin in order to decorate his Scottish mansion, and was later sold to the British Museum ( along with the pedimental and frieze sculpture taken from the Parthenon ).

Lord Avebury speaking during the presentation of the first replica of Diplodocus carnegii to the trustees of the British Museum of Natural History, 12 May 1905

One of those original six figures, removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, is now in the British Museum in London.

The Lord Mayor's Coach, housed in the Museum of London

The Church that contains the Old Operating Theatre Museum was built at the end of the 17th century, when the hospital and church were largely rebuilt by Sir Robert Clayton, president of the hospital and a former Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Among historical landmarks in the town are a free-standing 17th-century clock tower, a grand town hall originally designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Collingwood House the Georgian home of Admiral Lord Collingwood, and a 13th-century chapel called The Chantry which is now the tourist information centre and houses such cultural institutions as the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.

Lord Cultural Resources, a cultural professional practice, was also commissioned to undertake a three-part sequence of planning studies for the relocation of the Museum.

Lord Waldegrave is also the Chairman of the Rhodes Trust and the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry.

Apart from his political career FitzGerald was Lord Lieutenant of County Clare from 1831 to 1843, a trustee of the British Museum, President of the Institute of Irish Architects and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Lord Norwich was appointed the CVO in 1992 by the Queen after acting as curator of a Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition entitled ' Sovereign ', which marked the 40th anniversary of the accession of the queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II.