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The Queen's commission for the governor general-designate is then read aloud by the Secretary to the Governor General and the required oaths are administered to the appointee by either the chief justice or one of the puisne justices of the Supreme Court ; the three oaths are: the Oath of Allegiance, the Oath of Office as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief, and the Oath as Keeper of the Great Seal of Canada.
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The salute is given to acknowledge the Queen's commission.
It was on December 14, 1989 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's choice of Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as the Queen's representative.
* In 2004, the British rock group Subterraneans produced new soundtracks for six of Deren's short films as part of a commission from Queen's University Belfast's annual film festival.
Although the works are lost, Jordaens was commissioned in 1639-40 by Charles I to finish decorating the Queen's chambers at Greenwich, a commission which was originally given to Rubens, who was unable to execute due to his poor health.
It was announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on November 22, 1994 that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's choice of LeBlanc to succeed Ray Hnatyshyn as the Queen's representative.
It was on December 28, 1978 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Schreyer to succeed Jules Léger as the Queen's representative.
By January 1989 the commission obtained legal opinions from two Queen's Counsel.
It was on October 5, 1973 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Léger to succeed Roland Michener as the Queen's representative.
The appointment of Vanier as governor general was announced on August 1, 1959, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during a meeting of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at which Queen Elizabeth II was present and, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved of Vanier as her representative.
With three sons already in the army and another already put up for the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Byng's father did not think he could afford a regular army commission for his youngest son.
* The Pilgrim's Progress for solo voices, chorus and orchestra ( 1928, BBC commission, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra and Choral Society / composer, 1928-29 season, 23 November 1928 ; this was the first appearance for the Choral Society )
Allward's first commission was for the figure of Peace on the Memorial of the Battles in the North-West ( 1895 ) in Queen's Park, Toronto.
The commission, under William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Francis Walsingham, and Drake, concluded that there was no undue corruption, and that the Queen's Navy was in first-rate condition.
" The commission had three members: Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard ( the Deputy Earl Marshal ), Sir William Alexander ( Queen's Counsel ) and Edward Bellasis ( a Sergeant at Law ).
In 1904 he received a commission into the Queen's Own Western Kent Regiment, and was stationed for several years in India.
Smith had joined the Territorial Army by commission into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, in which Churchill was already an officer, in 1913, and was Captain in the regiment before the outbreak of the First World War.
In June 1916 he was awarded a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and was sent to the Battle of the Somme.
' My father, Paul Ernest Prince, was an officer in the Queen's own Madras Sappers and Miners, his commission signed by Victoria's own hand.
John Brunt joined the army when he left school, training as a Private with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1941, and got his commission on 2 January 1943 and was posted to North Africa.
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In 1838, the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College ( named for Queen Victoria ).
It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".
The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.
Category: Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Queen's Printer for Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.
On 28 January 1967 Campbell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct For courage and determination in attacking the world water speed record.
Category: Recipients of the Queen's Commendations for Brave Conduct
The King did not announce the arrest publicly ; for the next year, the Queen's whereabouts were unknown.
The Queen's friendship with Dudley lasted for over thirty years, until his death.
But just as quickly, late in 1580 he denounced a group of Catholics, among them Charles Arundel, Francis Southwell and Henry Howard, for treasonous activities and asking the Queen's mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.
In the spring of 1591 the plan for the purchasers of his land to discharge his debt to the Court of Wards was disrupted by the Queen's taking extents, or writs allowing a creditor to temporarily seize a debtor's property.
In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.
The arrangement was stated to be for the benefit of Francis ' sister, Elizabeth Trentham, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, whom Oxford married later that year.
Oxford expressed his grief at the late Queen's death, and his apprehension for the future.
The Queen's half-share of the cargo surpassed the rest of the crown's income for that entire year.
In the north and south walls of the Queen's Chamber there are shafts, which unlike those in the King's Chamber that immediately slope upwards, are horizontal for around before sloping upwards.
The most important power is found in section 58: " When a proposed law passed by both Houses of Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare ... that he assents in the Queen's name.
The governor grants Royal Assent in the Queen's name ; legally, he or she has three options: grant Royal Assent ( making the bill law ), withhold Royal Assent ( vetoing the bill ), or reserve the bill for the Queen's pleasure ( allowing the sovereign to personally grant or withhold assent ).
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.
* 2007 Botham was honoured as Knight Bachelor by HM Government in the Queen's Birthday Honours, again in recognition of his cricket achievements and his sustained efforts in raising money for Leukaemia research ( see above ).
* 1992 Botham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to cricket and for his charity work in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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