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  Admiral
Charles took this occasion of reserving for his own use all the droits and perquisites claimed by the lord high admiral.
This sum, by 1st George II., was divided equally among seven commissioners, an arrangement which continued from that time, except that the pay of the commissioner who stood first in the patent was made up from other funds to 3000 pounds a year, and in the year 1806 was further increased of 5000 pounds a-year.
Under the departmental boards things certainly improved from what they were in the time of Charles II, but they fell far short of what was desirable, and, by the vagueness of their administrative principle opened a door for irresponsible wrong-doing, which in the end made them exceedingly bad instruments of government.
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 Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800 - 1885) was an English statesman.
A Liberal, Wood served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord John Russell's government (1846 - 1852) and as Secretary of State for India under Lord Palmerston (1859 - 1866).
Their son, Charles Lindley, was a prominent Anglican.
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 Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax - Linix Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, known as Lord Irwin from 1926 until 1934, (1881-1959) was a British Conservative politician.
Halifax himself was born with a withered left arm with no hand, a disability that in no way affected his riding, hunting or shooting.
Halifax had severe doubts during the lead up to the complete occupation in March 1939 but he made little effort to alter British policy fearing Britain's military unpreparedness to meet the Nazi threat and allowed himself to be sidelined as Chamberlain attended fruitless conferences in Germany (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich) without him.
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 Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Liberal, Wood served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord John Russell's government (1846 - 1852), as President of the Board of Control under Lord Aberdeen (1852-1855), as First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Palmerston's first administration (1855-1858), and as Secretary of State for India in Palmerston's second government (1859 - 1866).
Their son, Frederick George Lindley Wood, was a prominent Anglican.
Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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 Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl of, Viscount Sunbury --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl of, Viscount Sunbury...
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Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 Earl of Halifax - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The present title was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1944 for Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax, the former Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India.
The present earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Halifax (1866) and Baron Irwin (1925), both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and is a baronet of Great Britain (1784).
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959)
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 Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax''', known as '''Lord Irwin from 1926 until 1934, (1881-1959) was a United KingdomBritish Conservative Party (UK)Conservative politician.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Halifax and appeasement
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 Timeline 1811-1820   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A map drawn by Charles Joseph Minard plots six variables to depict the march over time: the size of the army, its location on a 2-dimensional surface, the direction of the army’s movement, and temperatures on various days during the retreat from Moscow.
This was the 1st major land battle in the War of 1812.
Viscount Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington represented Britain.
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 Charles Witney - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Witney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Witney - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Witney.
Charles H. (Buck) Witney (born July 12, 1919 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, died May 21, 1991) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir.
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 Lord Privy Seal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax 1870 - 1874
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 1876 - 1880
Charles Wyn Carrington, 1st Earl Carrington 1911 - 1912
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Charles the Good, in turn, is murdered himself, and the County passes to a second cousin, William Clito of Normandy, the great grandson of Baldwin V through his daughter Maltilda, who had married William the Bastard, later William the Conqueror, of Normandy.
As Charles the Bold tried to effect the Burgundian conquest of Lorraine, he was defeated and killed in the Battle of Nancy in 1477 -- a battle counted as one of the first modern battles, since it was won by an infantry of Swiss pikemen, i.e.
Anjou was revived as a Duchy for Charles, the brother of King Louis IX of France, in 1246.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cistercians
Charles de Visch, in his "Bibliotheca Scriptorum Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis", published in 1649, devotes 773 historical and critical notices to authors who belonged to the Cistercian Order.
February 1st, 1647, a Brief of the same pope re-established all matters in the condition in which they had been before the sentence of Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld.
The Rev. Father Charles Nerinckx, in a letter to Bishop Carroll, is not sparing in his praises of the Trappists, though he blames certain details of administration which were the cause of their failure at Casey Creek.
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 Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Wood was married to Mary Grey, daughter of the Earl Grey.
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I told him I thought it was no difficult matter to of Barton, and that in all likelihood my lady Griskin acted as endeavours to convert him to methodism; an event which would a matrimonial union.
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 Lord Privy Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1858-1859)
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1922-1924)
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (1935-1937)
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 Charles Wolfe - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Wolfe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Wolfe - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Wolfe.
Charles Wolfe (1791 - 1823) was an Irish poet.
He is remembered for his poem The Burial of Sir John Moore written in 1816.
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 1800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, English statesman (died 1875)
Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, French historian (died 1875)
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, English statesman (died 1885)
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st marquess of
Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st earl of
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 Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax - guideofcasinos.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 1800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
January 1 - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died 1857)
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1873)
June 14 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, French military leader (born 1768)
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 Hickleton Papers, The: Political and Official Papers of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, 1800-1885
Hickleton Papers, The: Political and Official Papers of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, 1800-1885
Notes: The Hickleton papers form an archive which has accumulated naturally through the activities, public and private, or successive members of the Wood family of Hickleton and Garrowby, York.
The documents were kept at Hickleton Hall until 1957 when the Earl of Halifax moved them to the muniment Room which he had prepared at Garrowby.
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 Earl of Halifax - TheBestLinks.com - 1661, 1912, 1944, 1980, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Earl of Halifax, 1661, 1912, 1944, 1980, 1959, 1866, 1885, 1881, 1925, 1695...
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 Sources for the study of Afghanistan, 1843-78
Wood Collection: papers of Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-85) as President of the Board of Control 1853-55 and Secretary of State for India 1859-1866.
John Lawrence Collection: papers and correspondence of Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-79), Bengal Civil Service 1830-59; Member, Board of Administration of the Punjab 1849-53; Chief Commissioner of the Punjab 1853-59; Member, Council of India 1859-63; Viceroy of India 1864-69.
Lyveden Collection: correspondence and papers of Robert Vernon Smith, 1st Baron Lyveden (1800-73), as President of the Board of Control 1855-58, relating in particular to the Persian Campaign 1856-57 and the Indian Mutiny 1857-58; also papers, dated 1898-1900, relating to the service and death of Capt Ronald James Vernon in the Boer War.
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 I23336: Charles Wood 3rd Bart. And 1st Viscount Halifax (Sir) (20 DEC 1800 - 8 AUG 1885)
And 1st Viscount Halifax (Sir) (20 DEC 1800 - 8 AUG 1885)
Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey (13 MAR 1764 - 17 JUL 1845)
And 1st Viscount Halifax and Lady Mary Grey
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 Charles Wood - The Info Page
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Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 January 1839 - 19 January 1934).His wife, Lady Agnes Courtenary, was the daughter of the Earl of Devon.His father, Charles Wood, was a prominent Whig politician.His third son, Edward, was Foreign Secretary on Neville Chamberlains government.He himself seems to have been rather undistinguished.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: LOYD, Samuel James Jones, 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883)
LOYD, Samuel James Jones, 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883)
1st Baron Overstone of Overstone and Fotheringhay
1st Baron Overstone of Overstone and Fotheringay
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Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 3 January 1891.
The 4th Earl of Balfour, who died on June 27 aged 77, was once the only viscount to be an able seaman in the Merchant Navy.
By the time he published his memoirs in 1931, Rostron was referring to his award as the Congressional Medal of Honour (sic) and this is probably the origin of the confusion.
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 cdv Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount of Halifax
cdv Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount of Halifax
Sir Charles Wood, 1st viscount of Halifax (1800- 85).
Mount with a bump at right upper corner.
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Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, son of Charles
Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax and Lady Mary Grey
Died 10 October 1912 40 Charles St., Berkeley Sq.
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• Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of
• Hamilton, James Hamilton, 3d marquess and 1st duke of
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 I23341: Richard Molesworth 3rd Viscount Molesworth ( - )
Descendants of Richard Molesworth 3rd Viscount Molesworth and ???
1 Charles Grey = Caroline Eliza Farquhar VA
3 Mary Grey = Charles Wood 3rd Bart.
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