* Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of England ( 1578 – 1640 ), Judge, Member of Parliament, and politician ( Specifically Soliticar General ( 1617 – 1621 ), Attorney General ( 1621 – 1625 ), and Lord Chancellor ( 1625 – 1640 ))

His great-grandson, Samuel Wright of Gunthorpe, married a daughter of Lord Coventry.

The pall-bearers were several of his clients: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ; George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry ; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ; David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield ; Lord Frederick Campbell and Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet.

Charles conferred with the House of Lords, and then had Lord Coventry deliver his reply ; that if the Commons did indeed trust the King, they should not request a public bill, and that Parliament would be prorogued on 13 May.

The first commission were: the Duke of Albermarle, Lord Ashley, ( Sir ) W Coventry, ( Sir ) J Duncomb and ( Sir ) T Clifford.

The 1st Lord Coventry.

Lord Coventry held the great seal for nearly fifteen years ( 1625 – 40 ), and was enabled to collect a large fortune.

Lord Coventry was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas ( a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of the City of London in the reign of Henry VI ), and of Margaret Jeffreys of Earls Croome, or Croome D ' Abitot, in Worcestershire.

Her poetry went through numerous editions in the 19th century ; Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Procter was " fabulously popular " in the mid-19th century ; she was Queen Victoria's favourite poet and Coventry Patmore stated that the demand for her work was greater than that for any other poet, excepting Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The King having obtained an opinion in favour of the legality of the writ from Lord Keeper Coventry and the Earl of Manchester, the writ was issued in October 1634 and directed to the justices of London and other seaports, requiring them to provide a certain number of ships of war of a prescribed tonnage and equipment, or their equivalent in money, and empowering them to assess the inhabitants for payment of the tax according to their substance.

The judges again, at Charles's request, gave an opinion favourable to the prerogative, which was read by Lord Coventry in the Star Chamber and by the judges on assize.

The charges were brought against Castlehaven on the complaint of his heir, who feared disinheritance, and were heard by the Privy Council, under the direction of Thomas Coventry, Lord High Steward.

On 25 February 1639, aged 19, Cooper married Margaret Coventry, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, who was then serving as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for Charles I.

Cooper's father-in-law Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry ( 1578-1640 ), who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1625-1640. Cooper first entered politics under Lord Coventry's tutelage.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

As I ministered to his needs, I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and nurse but also the Lord.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

`` We beseech thee, Lord Gord, to bless this food '' -- that was Victoria saying grace while the baby sprayed raisin toast on her plastic bib.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers.

Joshua, however, was admitted with his leader to the very presence of the Lord, while Aaron and Hur remained below to look after the people ( Exodus 24: 9-14 ).

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

Lord George Bentinck, Conservative leader in the commons 1846 – 48

Lord Palmerston's government collapsed in 1858 amid public fallout over the Orsini affair and Derby took office at the head of a purely ' Conservative ' administration.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics until 1852 ; this time, having differed from the policy of Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for Hertfordshire as a Conservative.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

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.

Lord Aberdeen as the leader of the Peelites was one of 38 Peelites elected to members of Parliament independently of the Tory / Conservative Party.

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

Historians portray Conservative prime Minister Lord Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 ) as a talented leader who was an icon of traditional, aristocratic conservatism.

The Conservative Leader Lord Derby became Prime Minister in 1858, but Gladstone – who like the other Peelites was still nominally a Conservative – declined a position in his government, opting not to sacrifice his free trade principles.

The Conservative Party had to replace Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare as their candidate when he was charged with perjury ; Steve Norris was elected as his replacement.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.

In 1987 he was nominated in the election for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford but lost to Roy Jenkins as a result of splitting the Conservative vote with Lord Blake.

After the 1970 General Election, new Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath appointed Lord Jellicoe in Lord Shackleton's place.