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Torrington took up his seat in the House of Lords, but William refused to see him and dismissed him from the service on 12 December ( O. S ).
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It was during his tenure that the first post-war Liberal revival took place: under Grimond the Liberals doubled their seats and won historic by-elections at Torrington in 1958, Orpington in 1962, and Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965.
At 16, during the Great Depression, he took a job as a needle mechanic at the Torrington Company, a knitting needle manufacturer, where he soon developed new ideas for the automatic needle manufacturing industry.
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Mayfair is an annual folk festival believed to date back to 1554 in which the children of Torrington dance around a maypole set up in the town square.
One example at Annery in North Devon, England, near Great Torrington, was made up of three kilns grouped together in an ' L ' shape and was situated beside the Torrington canal and the River Torridge to bring in the limestone and coal, and to transport away the calcined lime in the days before properly metalled roads existed.
Unable to proceed to the westward to link up with Shovell and Killigrew ( who was on his way home ), Torrington announced his intention of retreating before the superior French fleet to the Straits of Dover, believing the loss of the ' fleet in being ' would strategically be too great.
As the two fleets moved slowly up the channel ( with Torrington keeping carefully out of range ), Russell drafted the order to fight.
Channel 30 itself made up for the shortfall in its market coverage by operating two low-power translators ( starting in 1971 ): W79AI ( channel 79 ) in Torrington and W59AA ( channel 59 ) in New Haven.
Torrington and seat
Its county seat is Torrington.
Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States.
When Goshen County was created from part of the northern end of Laramie County in 1911, Torrington and Lingle competed for the title of county seat.
In 1964, he contested the Torrington seat as the Labour candidate against the Conservative Party incumbent, losing in what was a traditional Conservative-Liberal marginal.
Downtown Torrington is home to the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, which trains ballet dancers and whose Company performs in the Warner Theatre, a 1, 700 seat auditorium restored in 2002 to its original 1931 glory.
It was in 1958 that the Torrington by-election was called in a safe Conservative seat, and Bonham Carter became the Liberal candidate.
Torrington and House
The head office in later years was Mullard House in Torrington Place, Bloomsbury, which is now part of University College London.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by Torrington, which Lambert continued to serve until his father's death in 1958, at which point he joined the House of Lords.
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Nottingham accused Torrington of treachery, informing William on 13 July " In plain terms ... Torrington deserted the Dutch so shamefully that the whole squadron had been lost if some of our ships had not rescued them.
William Johnson Cory ( January 9, 1823 – June 11, 1892 ), born William Johnson, was an educator and poet, born at Great Torrington, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed Tute ( short for " tutor ") by his pupils.
The manor was then united with Torrington in Devon passing in 1212 to William Briwere.
Torrington and him
Curtis and named by him for his home town of Torrington, Connecticut.
Charles also raised him to the Peerage as Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Torrington, in the County of Devon, Baron Monck, of Potheridge in the County of Devon, Baron Beauchamp, of Beauchamp in the County of Devon, and Baron of Teyes, in the County of Devon, and he received a pension of £ 7, 000 a year.
In Torrington, Connecticut there is a school named after him Oliver Wolcott Technical High School.
Nevertheless, Torrington burnt seven more badly-damaged Dutch ships and one English ship to avoid capture before gaining the refuge of the Thames ; as soon as he was in the safety of the river, he ordered all the navigation buoys removed, making any attempt to follow him too dangerous.
A team of Scandinavian glass blowers came with him to Torrington, some of whom are still there to this day, and the factory opened in June 1967 under the name of Dartington Glass.
In 1939, Torrington transferred him to Philadelphia and promoted him to manager, and he enrolled in Drexel University's Mechanical Engineering evening school.
The stories that Torrington was not a popular commander, because of his reputation of being a drunk and his habit of taking several prostitutes with him to sea, are in fact untrue.
The latter bill lapsed owing to an early prorogation, but Herbert's estates were sequestrated, the royal palace of Oatlands, Weybridge, Surrey, which had been granted to him by James shortly before his abdication, being given to his brother Arthur, Earl of Torrington, who had taken the opposite side in politics.
At the 1945 general election, his son George replaced him as MP for South Molton, later Torrington and succeeded him as Viscount Lambert.
Torrington Road in Portsmouth is named after him.
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) Payton " brought the house into great vogue " though Byng in 1792 complained that " at the noted White Lion, I met with nothing but incivility " ( cited from Torrington Diaries ( ed.
The Council came about from a name change of Torrington Council in 1929.
Tunxis Council # 079, headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut, came about from a name change of Northern Litchfield Council in 1947.
A map of Great Torrington from 1937
Some residents feel that the existence of the common has protected Great Torrington from over development.
Torrington Golf Course is situated 1. 5 miles from the town centre and has 9 holes.
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The regular daily milk train was from Torrington, but milk trains from all over the West Country would stop at Clapham Junction in the evening, and reduce their length by half so that they did not block Vauxhall station while unloading.
Torrington sailed from the Nore already convinced the French would be stronger – much of the Royal Navy had been diverted to protect their maritime commerce from privateers, and the Allied fleet now only had 56 English and Dutch ships of the line, totalling 4, 153 guns, to Tourville's fleet of 4, 600 guns.
In the winter of 1645-46 the town was used as a base by Thomas Fairfax and the New Model Army from where they marched on the Royalist forces gathering in North Devon, and to where they returned on 29 March 1646 after success both at the Battle of Torrington and in overturning the siege of Plymouth.
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The road from Torrington to Holsworthy and Launceston passes through the parish.
For ten years from 1992 the Beaford Centre ran The Plough arts centre in Torrington.
Today Dartington Crystal is the major employer in Torrington and a very important to the South West, some Dartington Crystal is still produced in Torrington meaning the factory is the only working hand-made tableware producing crystal factory left in the UK, however, the company also sources ranges and items of ( especially machine-made ) crystal from overseas.
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Taddiport viewed from Great Torrington in 1890.
The next year he commanded HMS Torrington, assisting in the protection of the convoy which brought reinforcements from Gibraltar to the newly captured fortress of Louisbourg.
Among these included the John Brown family, originally from Torrington.
Some notable areas settled by people from the Litchfield Hills include the Western Reserve of Ohio and Torrington, Wyoming.
Following graduation from law school, the Hathaways moved to Torrington, Wyoming, where Mrs. Hathaway taught mainly English at Torrington Junior High School while Hathaway established a law practice.
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