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Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
He became a schoolmaster, at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 1856 went to India as Principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, a post which he held for seven years, which includes a period during the mutiny of 1857, when he was able to render services for which he was publicly thanked by Lord Elphinstone in the Bombay Council.
Of his daughters: Isobel married John, 8th Lord Elphinstone, and Mary married Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk.
This was when Lord Keith was still Captain Elphinstone, therefore pre-1797.
However, the Elphinstone Road railway station and the Elphinstone Circle, both in Mumbai city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, Lord John Elphinstone, who also later became Governor of Bombay in the 1850s.
When John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic " Letter " ( 1635 ) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings.
* 1605 – 1609: James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino
* Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Elphinstone
Lord Elphinstone, of Elphinstone in the County of Stirling, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, second son of the eleventh Lord.
William Elphinstone, third son of the tenth Lord.
Lord Elphinstone is a third cousin of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
Other members of the Elphinstone family include James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerinoch, younger son of the third Lord Elphinstone.
Lord Balmerinoch's younger son was James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Coupar.

Lord and sat
Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.
" He recalls :... while I sat alone staring at the sea I love, words I had not been certain I could understand or say fell from my lips: " Lord Jesus, I believe in You.
Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.
Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.
Godfrey Paine, who served in the newly created post of Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation, sat on the board and this high level representation from the Navy helped to improve matters.
Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his body in his hand to distribute, and that “ if every host consecrated at the altar were the Lord ’ s body, then there be 20, 000 Gods in England .” A further court in St Paul ’ s, London, presided over by Archbishop Thomas Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smithfield, the tournament ground just outside the city walls.
Referring to Mark 16: 19 (" So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Lord Gardiner ( Lord Chancellor from 1965 to 1970 ) sat on four days, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone ( 1970 to 1974 and 1979 to 1987 ) on eighty-one days, Lord Elwyn-Jones ( 1974 to 1979 ) on eight days, Lord Havers ( 1987 ) never, Lord Mackay of Clashfern ( 1987 to 1997 ) on sixty days and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( 1997 to 2003 ) on eighteen days.
Here he sat in meditation of the name of Lord Shiva.
Lord Edward Cavendish, fourth and youngest son of the seventh Duke, sat as Member of Parliament for several constituencies.
An anecdote relates that Munthe was discussing publication of The Story of San Michele with his publisher, John Murray, in the garden at Southside, and Murray related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with Lord Byron, discussing publication of Byron's works.
He served as Lord High Admiral of Scotland and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1707 to 1710.
The Master of the Rolls assisted the Court's judges in forming judgments, and regularly sat in place of the Lord Chancellor.
: And as Lord Jesus sat at the table
The Master of the Rolls sat there between 1717 and 1724 while the Rolls Court was being rebuilt, and Lord Talbot used it as a court in 1733.

Lord and House
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".
Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.
The first opportunity for the protectionist Tories under Disraeli and Stanley to take office came in 1851, when Lord John Russell's government was defeated in the House of Commons over the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851.
Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.
Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The current Lord Luke is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom after its 1999 reform.
At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.
It is presided over by the Lord Mayor, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in Mansion House.
" David leaves his lamentations, dresses himself, goes to the House of the Lord and worships, and then returns home to eat.
These included: Sultan, Khan, Sovereign of the Imperial House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, Protector of the Holy Cities of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianopole and Bursa as well as many other cities and countries.
Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.
* 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
* Lord Saint-George – Lord Peter's nephew, an undergraduate at The House
It was founded by a mysterious figure Grandfather Paradox, who it is believed was once a Time Lord from the House of Lungbarrow.
Lord Dunrossil ( as William Morrison ) was Speaker of the UK House of Commons.
In December 1805 Lord Aberdeen took his seat as a Tory Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords.
Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.
If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).
The differences between this court and the House of Lords are that in the House all of the peers are judges of both law and fact, whereas in the Court the Lord High Steward is the sole judge of fact and the peers decide the facts only ; and the bishops are not entitled to sit and vote in the Court.
The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole (" For the Lord shall smite Israel ..., and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river ") might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass ( this position is a secular or non-literal approach to scripture ).

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