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Quintin Hogg ( 14 February 1845 – 17 January 1903 ) was an English philanthropist, remembered primarily as a benefactor of the Royal Polytechnic institution at Regent Street, London now known as the University of Westminster.
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In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS ( 9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham ( 1950 – 1963 ), was a British politician who was known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing.
Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.
His publicity-seeking antics at the Party Conference ( e. g. feeding his newborn baby in public, and allowing his supporters to distribute " Q " ( for Quintin ) badges ) were considered vulgar at the time, so in the end Macmillan did not encourage senior party members to choose Hogg as his successor.
* The Papers of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone are held at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge and are accessible to the public.
Quintin Hogg also served as alderman of the first London County Council, encouraging the founding of other polytechnics, or, as they were known then, working men's ( or mechanics ') institutes.
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* September – The Protestant reformer John Knox has a three-day debate in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland with Quintin Kennedy, commendator of Crossraguel Abbey, on transubstantiation.
* Quintin McGarel Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham ( 1907 – 2001 ) ( disclaimed 1963 ; created Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone 1970 )
* Saint Quentin ’ s Catholic Parish Church ( Pfarrkirche St. Quintin ), Dorfstraße 3 – Late Romanesque tower, two-level Gothic Revival pseudobasilica, 1908, architects Adam Rüppel, Bonn, and Josef Moritz, Müden
In the 1880s, a British land company with plans for a wheat empire purchased much of the San Quintin area from the U. S. – based International Land Company ; at the time, ILC owned most of northern Baja.
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After Gilmore was traded to the San Antonio Spurs for center Dave Corzine, the Bulls employed a high-powered offense centered around Theus, and which soon included guards Quintin Dailey and Ennis Whatley.
Until 1940 it was served by St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs, a station on the West London Line.
On 15 November, the squadron moved to Bahia San Quintin on the Chilean coast, where a ceremony was held to distribute 300 Iron Crosses second class, amongst the crew, and an Iron Cross first class to Admiral Spee.
40837 )-who was forced to bail out but was killed when his parachute failed to deploy completely and Flying Officer Perry St Quintin ( Hurricane P3724 ), who was forced to make a forced landing at Qasaba with a holed fuel tank.
Iain Macleod, Edward Boyle, Quintin Hogg and Robert Carr all threatened to resign from the front bench unless Powell was sacked.
Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet ( see Hogg Baronets ).
The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science, with Quintin Hogg as minister.
The initial distro utilized the GNOME desktop environment and contained new utilities mainly written by Quintin Beukes ( a shareholder in Cubit Accounting ) who was also employed by Andre Coetzee at the time ..
Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet, whose eldest son James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baronet was created Baron Magheramorne in 1887.
Following the surprise Conservative victory in 1970, a suitable Lord Chancellor had to be found-this was Quintin McGarel Hogg who was given the necessary peerage, removing him from the Commons and making him a member of the Lords.
This letter reported that a Mr. Dobsen had inoculated his cattle and had thus preserved nine out of ten of them, although this was retracted in the next issue as it was apparently a Sir William St. Quintin who had done the inoculating ( this was done by placing bits of material previously dipped in morbid discharge into an incision made in the dewlap of the animal ).
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