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 ''.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

The final straw for many in the Manifesto Group was the behaviour of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey at a meeting with them during the Labour leadership campaign to replace James Callaghan.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

He ran for Federal Chancellor in 2002, but his preferred CDU / CSU and FDP coalition lost against the SPD candidate Gerhard Schröder's SPD-Green alliance.

No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

Attlee's short list of Resignation Honours announced in November 1951 included an Earldom for William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor.

In addition, with the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, Chancellor Prince Metternich and his secret police enforced censorship, mainly in universities, to keep a watch on the activities of professors and students, whom he held responsible for the spread of radical liberal ideas.

In the late 1990s he criticized the incoming Chancellor Schröder for saying that he would work hard in the interest of Germans and people living in Germany.

During the Thirty Years ' War, Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna brought the Moravian Brethren refugee John Amos Comenius to Elbląg for six years ( 1642 – 48 ).

Serving previously as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government.

The Council of State is made up of the prime minister and the ministers for the various departments of the central government as well as an ex-officio member, the Chancellor of Justice.

The Council of State is made up of the prime minister and ministers for the various departments of the central government as well as an ex-officio member, the Chancellor of Justice.

There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges ( for an offence in office ) against the President of the Republic, the justices of the supreme courts, members of the Council of State, the Chancellor of Justice and the Ombudsman of Parliament.

Bacon, however, continued to receive the King's favour, which led to his appointment in March 1617 as the temporary Regent of England ( for a period of a month ), and in 1618 as Lord Chancellor.

In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government defined a new basis for German foreign policy by taking a full part in the decisions surrounding the NATO war against Yugoslavia and by sending German troops into combat for the first time since World War II.

On November 3, 2004, the Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suggested that the " Day of the German Unity " be celebrated on a Sunday, for economic reasons.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

His person was said to be deformed, and his want of mine or deportment was alleged as a disqualification for the office of Lord Chancellor.

However, the Earl of Derby appointed Benjamin Disraeli as the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the minority government.

In March 1933, one month after the Reichstag fire, the then president, Paul von Hindenburg, a retired war hero, gave Hitler ultimate power through Enabling Act of 1933, he remained at the post of Federal Government Chancellor ( though he called himself the Führer ).

Cyprus former President Makarios III at a state visit in Munich with the German Chancellor in 1962

* 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.

Generally believed to have been written in the Arbroath Abbey by Bernard of Kilwinning, then Chancellor of Scotland and Abbot of Arbroath, and sealed by fifty-one magnates and nobles, the letter is the sole survivor of three created at the time.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with former U. S. President George W. Bush at the White House in 2001

The 2012 Swiss Federal Council, the seven-member collective Head of State of the Switzerland | Swiss Confederation ( the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland | Federal Chancellor is also depicted, at the right )

There, he studied philosophy under Vitus Müller and theology under Jacob Heerbrand ( a student of Philipp Melanchthon at Wittenberg ), who also taught Michael Maestlin while he was a student, until he became Chancellor at Tübingen in 1590.

Instead, Hitler appointed Goebbels Reich Chancellor ; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who was at Flensburg near the Danish border, Reich President ; and Martin Bormann, Hitler's long-time chief of staff, Party Minister.

Major kept his economic team unchanged for seven months after Black Wednesday before he replaced Norman Lamont with Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer, after months of press criticism of Lamont and disastrous defeat at a by-election in Newbury.

Kaunda was appointed Chancellor and officiated at the first graduation ceremony in 1969.

The decision to continue was taken by Tirpitz in September 1905 and agreed by Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and the Kaiser, while Dreadnought was still at the planning stage.

The transfer to Poland decided at Potsdam in 1945 was officially recognized by East Germany in 1950, by West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt in the Treaty of Warsaw signed in 1970, and finally by the reunited Germany by the Two Plus Four Agreement in 1990.

Bismarck resigned at Wilhelm II's insistence on 18 March 1890, at age 75, to be succeeded as Chancellor of Germany and Minister-President of Prussia by Leo von Caprivi.

* The Kaiser vs. Bismarck: suppressed letters by the Kaiser and new chapters from the autobiography of the Iron Chancellor at archive. org

In 1404, to demonstrate his seriousness as a ruler, Owain held court at Harlech and appointed Gruffydd Young as his Chancellor.

He entered the Benedictine order as a boy, studied at the College de Sorbonne in Paris, and became successively prior of St. Baudil, Abbot of Fécamp, Bishop of Arras, Chancellor of France, Archbishop of Sens and Archbishop of Rouen.

During his evidence, he read from the letter he had written to the Chancellor, which included the statement that a notation of paid postage could be created "… by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash …".

The shapeshifter was successful at beginning the war with the Cardassians but inadvertently revealed himself to Odo ( who had been misled into believing that Chancellor Gowron was the shapeshifter ) at a Klingon award ceremony, and was quickly killed by the Klingons attending the ceremony.

The 2012 Swiss Federal Council ( the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland | Federal Chancellor is also depicted, at the right )

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

The concept of a " culture war " has been in use in English since at least its adoption as a calque ( loan translation ) to refer to the German Kulturkampf (" cultural struggle " or " struggle between cultures "; literally, " battle of cultures "), the campaign from 1871 to 1878 under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of the German Empire against the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

Since for at least the last two centuries the estate has been run by a deputy, the Chancellor has rarely had any significant duties pertaining to management of the Duchy itself.

It does not follow that the first Chancellor of the German Empire may not have been the first Chancellor of the German Empire — that is ( at least according to its surface-structure ) a contradiction.

Because Chancellor Bay died at least 3 years before this ' Irsu ', he can no longer be considered a plausible candidate for this historical figure.

He has been described, perhaps too harshly, as the least distinguished Lord Chancellor in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

From 1507, Sigismund I the Old decided that the title of Great Crown Chancellor would be rotated between secular and ecclesiastic nobles, and at least one Chancellor ( both in the Great and Deputy pair and in the Crown and Lithuanian one after the Union of Lublin ) was required to be a secular person.

Chancellor ’ s teams won at least 20 games 15 times, including a school-record 31 wins in 1978-1979.