* Marquess of Lansdowne 1903 – 1912

* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1903 – 1916

Writing in 1921, Dunlop stated: " I was therefore forced to look for another plot, and after careful consideration chose the present Lansdowne Road one.

The Entente was negotiated between the French foreign minister, Théophile Delcassé, and the British foreign secretary, Lord Lansdowne.

" Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Lansdowne and British Foreign Policy 1901-1903: From Collaboration to Confrontation ", Australian Journal of Politics and History 43 # 2 1997. pp 122 +.

As the invading British army neared Washington in 1814 during the war, Dolley Madison ordered the Stuart painting a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, to be removed, as the White House staff hurriedly prepared to flee:

* Anonymous, De vita sanctae Edburgae virginis, preserved in the early fourteenth-century MS Lansdowne 436, f. 41v-43v ( British Library, London ), ed.

Most of his original materials have been preserved, and are included among the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum.

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 4 January 1845 – 3 June 1927 ) was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The great grandson of the British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne ( later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne ), and the eldest son of the 4th Marquess of Lansdowne and his wife, Emily, 8th Lady Nairne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice was born in London in 1845.

As British Foreign Secretary, he signed the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance at his London home ( now the Lansdowne Club ) and negotiated the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale with the French foreign minister, Theophile Delcassé.

The manuscript was in the hands of White Kennett, and as a result it is not with Aubrey's other collections in the Bodleian: it is in the British Library, as Lansdowne MS. 231.

William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC ( 2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805 ), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782 – 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS ( 2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863 ), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.

In many cases across the country, such as Lansdowne Centre in Richmond, British Columbia, Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Centre Laval, Laval, Quebec, Marché Central in Montreal and Promenades Saint-Bruno, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, and Sherway Gardens and the Toronto Eaton Centre areas in Toronto, Ontario, and in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador either the existing Future Shop location is in the same shopping centre as the more-recently opened Best Buy location or the two stores open in tandem in close proximity.

* William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ( later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne ), British Prime Minister ( 1782-83 )

* Lansdowne House entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses

The only older peerage titles in the British Isles are: Baron Kerry and Lixnaw ( 1181, held by the Marquess of Lansdowne ), Baron Offaly ( 1199, later creation held by the Duke of Leinster ), and Baron Kingsale ( circa 1223 ) in the Peerage of Ireland, and Earl of Mar ( predates 1115 ) and Earl of Sutherland ( 1230 ) in the Peerage of Scotland.

In Germany there was skepticism amongst senior ministers that anything would come of this apparent new friendliness, but serious negotiations for a formal alliance began between the French ambassador to London, Cambon, and the British Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Lansdowne.

For example, Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn used the Notes from the foreign press to advocate to the Marquess of Lansdowne in 1916 against bellicose claims and attitudes on the British side.

The first was signed in London at what is now the Lansdowne Club, on January 30, 1902, by Lord Lansdowne ( British foreign secretary ) and Hayashi Tadasu ( Japanese minister in London ).

Mirabeau saw him daily for a long time and introduced him to Lord Lansdowne, who highly appreciated him, and, when Mirabeau became a political leader, it was to Romilly that he applied for an account of the procedure used in the British House of Commons.

* Lansdowne Centre in Richmond, British Columbia

The first version is preserved in Lansdowne manuscript 204 in the British Library, and the best of the later versions in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch.

An interesting point about the Earls of Kerry is that one of the descendants, later Lord Lansdowne, who was born in Dublin but was largely reared in Lixnaw ( except when he was in Eton ), became British Prime Minister in 1782.

One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.

When Lansdowne prevaricated, von Hatzfeldt took firmer control of the negotiations, and presented a demanding invitation for Britain to join the Triple Alliance, in which Britain would be committed to the defence of Austria-Hungary.

Chamberlain had begun negotiations to settle colonial differences with the French Ambassador, Paul Cambon, in March 1901, although neither Lansdowne nor Cambon had moved as quickly as Chamberlain would have liked.

Lansdowne argued that although the electorate might prefer the Conservative party if the dropped food duties from their tariff reform plan, it would open them to accusations of bad faith and " poltroonery ".

Lansdowne revoked the Referendum Pledge, saying that the government had completely failed the agreement to submit Home Rule to a referendum, and that the agreement that tariff reform would also be submitted was null and void.

Lansdowne promised that when the Unionists took office they would " do so with a free hand to deal with tariffs as they saw fit ".

Smith, Austen Chamberlain and Lord Balcarres in December after two weeks of receiving negative letters from party members about the change, Law outlined that he would not be adverse to a return to the previous policy considering the negative feelings from the party, but felt that this would require the resignation of both Law and Lansdowne.

Law later expressed his fear to Lansdowne that Asquith would persuade the Irish Nationalists to accept Home Rule with the exclusion of four Ulster counties.

In August 1777, as General William Howe began his campaign to capture Philadelphia, American soldiers arrived at Penn's Lansdowne estate near Philadelphia and demanded that he sign a parole stating that he would do nothing to harm the revolutionary cause.

The Rough Riders would have hosted the game, but Lansdowne Park was undergoing extensive renovations at the time.

OSEG would concentrate on the stadium and commercial / residential precinct, and Ottawa would return the rest of Lansdowne Park to green space.

MacDonnell, who retained a patriotic wish to serve the interests of his native country, entered into lengthy negotiations with Lansdowne and the Chief Secretary, George Wyndham, regarding the terms under which he would accept the position ; he was not content to occupy the traditional role of an administrative civil servant, with little input into the formulation of policy.

Ireland needed only a draw at Lansdowne Road against Spain in the second last game to guarantee qualification, while a win would virtually guarantee top position in the group.

In November 1916 Lansdowne circulated a paper to the Cabinet, in which he argued that the war would destroy civilisation and that therefore peace should be negotiated on the basis of the status quo ante bellum.

Lord Lansdowne, in the absence of any alternative, remained the leading figure in the Whig opposition.

Ireland were set to host matches at Lansdowne Road for the 2007 World Cup, but due to scheduling conflicts with the reconstruction of the stadium, they decided they were not in a position to host any.