Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

* August 11 – Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, former Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor ( d. 2012 )

Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British Cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

10 Downing Street is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, and thus the residence of the British Prime Minister, as in modern times the two roles have been filled by the same person.

Also included were William Lowndes Secretary of the Treasury who had been significantly responsibility for re-minting the entire debased British coinage in 1696 and John Aislabie who represented the October Club, a group of around 200 MPs who had agreed to vote together.

The Treasury View refers to the theoretical positions of classical economists in the British Treasury, who opposed Keynes ' call in the 1930s for fiscal stimulus.

Smith in 1891, Balfour became First Lord of the Treasury — the last one in British history not to have been concurrently Prime Minister as well — and Leader of the House of Commons.

Most of Dickens ' other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net: industry and the treatment and safety of workers ; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury ( as figured in the fictional " Circumlocution Office " 1, Ch.

It has been shown to be a critique of HM Treasury and the blunders that led to the loss of life for 360 British soldiers at the Battle of Balaclava.

In response to the view handed down at the time of Ireland's Famine that “ The judgement of God … sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated ”( Charles E. Trevelyan-Permanent Assistant Secretary at the British Treasury with prime responsibility for Famine relief in Ireland ), Graham's song calls to task a vengeful God :-

Her Majesty's Treasury, or HM Treasury or informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy.

With his government low on funds, he resorted to issuing unauthorised bills on the British Treasury in 1842.

In 1931 the United Kingdom permanently abandoned the gold standard, at which point the bank's foreign exchange and gold reserves were transferred to the British Treasury.

In 1839, the British Treasury announced a competition to design the new stamps, but none of the submissions was considered suitable.

300 members of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings were dispatched to prepare the list under the supervision of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, with funding from the Treasury.

He devised an estimate of British casualties over the first year of any future major war into three categories ; 25 % caused by enemy action, 25 % by indifferent generalship and accidents of war, 50 % by the Treasury.

Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan — Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of the Treasury Board.

In British politics, the Chief Whip of the governing party in the House of Commons is customarily appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury so that the incumbent, who represents the whips in general, has a seat and a voice in the Cabinet.

Now the title First Lord of the Treasury is the official title of the British Prime Minister.

Officials in the Irish Finance department, who had an excellent relationship with the British Treasury and thought a decoupling would isolate Ireland and discourage investment, resisted.

In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and in 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and honored with the Norbert Wiener Award, which is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

According to Fyfe, " it was estimated in 1789 that 74, 000 slaves were exported annually from West Africa, about 38, 000 by British firms.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

The Leeds Shakespeare Festival, performed by the British Shakespeare Company, took place annually in the cloisters from 1995 until 2009.

Laughton's voice first appeared on 78-rpm records with the release of five British Regal Zonophone 10-inch discs entitled Voice of the Stars issued annually from 1934 to 1938.

The Carnegie Medal in Literature, or simply Carnegie Medal, is a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults.

In August 1979 Norman made his first of his four appearances at the Greenbelt Festival, a British Christian festival of " arts, faith and justice " held annually since 1974, that was held that year in the grounds of Odell Castle in Bedfordshire, Norman took Randy Stonehill with him, and introducing him to his own established audiences.

The majority of British lightvessels were decommissioned during the 1970s-1980s and replaced with light floats or LANBY buoys, which were vastly cheaper to maintain: at the time of Trinity House's original project to develop LANBY buoys, a lightship cost £ 30, 000 annually ( at 1974 prices ) to maintain, whereas a buoy cost £ 3, 000.

By 1770 British traders were exporting 40, 000 to 60, 000 slaves annually.

The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, is held annually the day before Remembrance Sunday.

The largest British ( and European ) travelling fair is The Hoppings on Newcastle Town Moor, which is held annually in the last two weeks of June.

PEN / Ackerley Prize ( or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography ) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year.

The British Academy awards a total of 12 Prizes and Medals, most of them awarded annually.

The British Monarchy Media Centre, however, denies these controversial reports and states that, " The Queen is paying the rent for Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's apartment at a commercial rate of £ 120, 000 annually from her own private funds ...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) annually hosted the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for multimedia entertainment between 1998 and 2003.

The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1, 000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989.

The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association ( BSFA ) to honour works in the genre of science fiction.

Beaconsfield is also home to the Chiltern Shakespeare Company, which annually holds amateur performances of Shakespeare plays, Beaconsfield Theatre Group, now over 60 years old, Beaconsfield Operatic Society that has just celebrated its centenary, and to The Young Theatre ( at Beaconsfield ), a theatre company " run by young people for young people " and winners of the All British Festival of One Act Plays in 2004.

It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ).

British Columbia ’ s low income credit is mailed out to 1. 1 million British Columbians every three months and amounts to up to $ 230 annually per individual.

In 1946, the town of Mission, British Columbia acquired the rights to the Western Canada Soapbox Derby Championships and the Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce, previously named the Mission City & District Board of Trade, organized the event annually until 1973.

The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held annually in the United Kingdom, which is attended by senior members of the British Royal Family, usually the reigning monarch.