* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club.

The mob broke into prisons and destroyed several buildings, including the palace of the Bishop of Bristol, the mansion of the Lord Mayor of Bristol, and several private homes.

For ceremonial purposes, the post of Lord Lieutenant of Avon was abolished and Bristol regained its own Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff, while the other authorities were returned to their traditional counties.

However the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, aware of growing opposition to wartime taxation and the demands of Liverpool and Bristol merchants to reopen trade with America, realized Britain had little to gain and much to lose from prolonged warfare.

* The Right Honourable — Lord Mayors of London, Cardiff, Belfast, York and Bristol ( England and Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom ); Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow ( Scotland in the United Kingdom ); and ( rarely used nowadays ) Lord Mayors of all state capital cities of Australia

Following this, a congress opened at Utrecht on 29 January 1712, with the British representatives being John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, and Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford.

In 1965, BBC screened a live performance of Val May's production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Bristol Old Vic, starring David Dodimead as the King of Navarre and Richard Pasco as Lord Berowne ( 1965 ), and in 1970, they screened The Tragedy of Richard II, sourced from Richard Cottrell's touring production, starring Ian McKellen as Richard and Timothy West as Bolingbroke ( 1970 ).

Before the Restoration he had attended mass with the king abroad, and in a position to Lord Bristol had urged Charles to declare publicly his conversion in order to obtain the long-expected succour from foreign powers.

** The Lord Mayor of Bristol uses the prefix without official sanction.

After twenty years in Yorkshire, Smith obtained preferment from a Tory minister, Lord Lyndhurst, who presented him with a prebend in Bristol Cathedral in 1828, and enabled him to exchange Foston for the living of Combe Florey, near Taunton, which he held conjointly with the living of Halberton attached to his prebend.

His wife Joan Wotton survived him and married secondly in about 1408 Thomas Young, twice mayor of Bristol, by whom she had two successful sons, John Young, Alderman of London, Grocer and Lord Mayor of London in 1466, and Thomas Young ( d. 1476 ) a lawyer of the Middle Temple, Recorder of Bristol from 1441 and MP for Bristol almost continuously, with one break in 1453, between 1435 to 1455.

His godparents were The Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( his paternal first cousin once-removed, for whom The Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain, stood proxy ), Duke George Augustus of Mecklenburg ( his maternal uncle, for whom The Earl of Bristol, Groom of the Stole, stood proxy ) and Princess Charles of Hesse-Cassel ( his first cousin once-removed, for whom The Viscountess Weymouth, Lady of the Bedchamber to The Queen, stood proxy ).

Her older half-brothers were the 7th Marquess of Bristol and Lord Nicholas Hervey, both deceased.

Lord Bristol married Elizabeth, sister and heir of Sir Charles Davers, 5th Baronet ( c. 1730 – 1763 ), and great-granddaughter of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn ( see the Baron Jermyn ).

Their son Charles succeeded as sixth Baron Howard of Walden on the death of his great-grandfather, Lord Bristol, in 1803 ( see Baron Howard de Walden and Baron Seaford ).

While the present Lord Bristol is involved in business, his two sisters are reality TV actresses and socialites whose lives feature in the popular press ( the latter being the " Face of Playboy UK ").

In the latter half of 1662, Ashley joined Sir Henry Bennet, the Earl of Bristol, and Lord Robartes in urging Charles to dispense peaceable Protestant Nonconformists and loyal Catholics from the Act of Uniformity.

In 1675, following the death of Sir Giles Strangways, MP for Dorset, Shaftesbury initially endorsed Lord Digby, son of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol for the seat, but, upon learning that Digby was a strong supporter of the court, he decided to back Thomas Moore, who was the chief supporter of conventicles in the county.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

As noted, twelve years before his death Oxford sold his interest in Castle Hedingham to Lord Burghley, in trust for his three daughters by his first marriage.

In July 16, 2008, after Zucker's death, the company was sold to NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity firm of Purchase, New York which already owned Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States.

* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

The castle remained the property of the Clarendons until 1937, when Lord Clarendon found the maintenance of the castle too expensive and sold Kenilworth to the industrialist Sir John Siddeley.

Edward ignored the law in favour of Despenser: when Lord de Braose of Gower sold his title to his son-in-law, an action entirely lawful in the Welsh Marches, Despenser demanded the king grant Gower to him instead.

Lord Francis sold the diamond for £ 29, 000 (£ as of ), to Adolph Weil, a London jewel merchant.

A competent if somewhat uninspired performer, the prototype was sold to Lord Apsley in 1932 but it was destroyed in a crash in 1934.

One, sold in 1933, crashed due to fuel-pump failure two months later but the second went to Lord Apsley as a replacement for the crashed Elf I.

It was then accerlerated by Lord John Russell's instructions that all lands out of town boundaries to be sold at only £ 1 per acre.

Battle Abbey remained in the Webster family until 1858 ; when it was sold by the sixth baronet, who died in 1853, to Lord Harry Vane, later Duke of Cleveland.

Bingley later sold the estate to Sir Edmund Wright, a future Lord Mayor of London, in 1629, and the current house was built of brick in 1638.

Together, they sold it on the following year to Sir Richard Garth who became Lord of the Manor.

During the 17th century the Cathedral sold the Manor to William Patten, who became the first Lord of the Manor.

On his death in 1677 the manor was sold on again to the Lord High Treasurer, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby.

Lord Stuart's grandson sold the estate to the Forest Service in 1980 and the Service set out the woodland habitat that exists today.

Another reference is from 22 January 1317 when Count William III of Holland sold the fiefdoms Capelle and Nieuwerkerk to Lord Jan van der Werve for 325 Dutch Pounds.

The first reference to the area is from 1233, when on April 20, Floris IV, Count of Holland, sold an area of peat lands along the Gouwe River for 200 Dutch pounds to Nicolas of Gnepwijk, Lord of Aalsmeer and Woubrecht.

Ironically, the Allendale Nativity caused the rupture in the 1930s between Lord Duveen, who sold it to Andrew Mellon as a Giorgione, and his expert Bernard Berenson, who insisted it was an early Titian.

In 1824 the Antrobus family acquired the estate and it remained in their hands until 1915 when, after the last heir was killed in France, Lord Antrobus sold the grounds –- including Stonehenge -– to private bidders.

Tattershall castle was recovered in 1560 by Sir Henry Sidney, who sold it to Lord Clinton, later Earl of Lincoln, and it remained with the Earls of Lincoln until 1693.

After Knox's death in 1873 the paper was sold to the widow of Sir John Arnott, MP, a former Lord Mayor of Cork and owner of Arnotts, one of Dublin's major Department stores.

Lord Carnarvon sold the property in the 1920s to pay for the Tutankanhem expedition.

In September 1959 Lord Bagot sold Blithfield Hall at an open auction held in the Shrewsbury Arms, Rugeley.