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  Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton (1883–1964) was a British businessman and politician.
Woolton retained this position when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister the following month and was faced with the task of overseeing rationing due to wartime shortages.
Under Woolton many sweeping reforms were carried out and when the Conservatives returned to government in 1951, Woolton served in the Cabinet for the next four years.
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Woolton then passed to Isaac Green, through his daughter to her son Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall (MP for Liverpool 1780-96), and are presently owned by the Marquis of Salisbury.
Woolton today must surely be the most desirable district to reside, the area being surrounded by the parklands of Calderstones, Beechley, Allerton Tower, Woolton Wood, Black Wood, Clarke Gardens, Eric Hardy Nature Reserve, Camp Hill, Childwall Woods, Halewood Triangle Country Park, Reynolds Park, and the golf courses of Woolton, Netherley and Allerton.
The 'jewel in the crown' of Woolton is, without question, Woolton Hall, a Grade I listed building that was saved from demolition and now stands as the finest example of Robert Adam's work in the north of England.
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Serving under the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, Churchill dealt with the adoption of constitutions for the defeated Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony and with the issue of 'Chinese slavery' in South African mines.
Clementine's mother was Lady Blanche Henrietta Ogilvy, second wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier and a daughter of the 7th Earl of Airlie.
November 1943: Lord Woolton enters the Cabinet as Minister of Reconstruction.
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 NORTHERN DIVISION - Online Information article about NORTHERN DIVISION
earl of Chester held the district between the Ribble and Mersey.
The Bootle Wilbrahams, earls of Lathom, are, it is said, descended from John Botyll of Melling, who was alive in 1421, and from the Wilbrahams of Cheshire, who date back at least to Henry III.'s reign.
In 1828 the title of Baron Skelmersdale was bestowed on the head of the family and in 188o that of earl of Lathom.
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The Earl of Swinton and their two sons, John and Philip circa 1924 The first house built at Swinton Park was commenced in 1695 by Sir Abstrupus Danby (whose unusual christian name was bestowed on him...
The castle hotel is the seat of the Earl of Swinton and is set in 200 acres of parkland, lakes and gardens at the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
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 Earl of Woolton: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Category:Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Earl of Woolton: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The title of Earl of Woolton was created in the Peerage (Peerage: The peers of a kingdom considered as a group) of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom: A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) in 1956.
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HALIFAX, Earl of (1881-1959) British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1938-40 and Ambassador to Washington 1941-46.
Simon states that he will not be free to preside as the High Commissioner for India's address on Educational Developments in India in the Post-War period and explains that the House of Lords sits for public business on Wednesdays when he has to be on the Woolsack.
Woolton thanks his correspondent for their letter about the Royal Empire Society and adds that he will 'do my best to fall in with your suggestions for May or June'.
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A creation of the head chef at the Savoy Hotel, Woolton Pie combined carrots, turnips, parsnips and potatoes in an oatmeal stock, and was crowned by a pastry or potato crust and served with brown gravy.
It says much for Woolton's personal charm that he was remarkably popular with the public, even when singing the praises of rissoles without beef, cakes without sugar and tea without tea leaves.
Much of Woolton's success was due to his business skill -- he only rationed items of which he was certain he had enough to go around, however small the quantities.
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 LANCASHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on LANCASHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1229, how-ever, all the crown demesne between the Ribble and Mersey was granted to Ranuif, earl of Chester, and on his death in 1232 :ame to \Villiam Ferrers, earl of Derby, in right of his wife Agnes, sister and co-heir of Ranulf.
In 1828 the title of Baron Skelmersdale was bestowed on the head of the family and in I 880 that of earl of Lathom.
The Lindsays, earls of Crawford and Balcarres, are representative on the female side of the Bradshaighs of Haigh Hall, who are said to be of Saxon origin.
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Attlee led the party in opposition until 1955, when he retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.
The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the few hereditary peers elected to the House under an amendment to the 1999 House of Lords Act.
William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel Lord Listowel succeeds Lord Pethick-Lawrence as Secretary of State for India and Burma.
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 Torch - The Journal of the Ardwick Technical High School
The subject of this year's essay in The Lord Woolton Prize Competition is "New Towns or Multi-storey Dwellings"-surely a topical one, which should attract many entries.
A television set has been installed this year in the Lecture Theatre and it is intended to bring this into use for some programmes at the commencement of the new school year.
In 1945 Lord Woolton became Chairman of the Conservative Party whilst Ellen Wilkinson became Minister of Education in the Labour Government of that year.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 9556
She is the daughter of Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton and Hon.
She married Simon Frederick Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton, son of Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton and Hon.
She married, firstly, Simon Frederick Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton, son of Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton and Hon.
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 Walberton | British History Online
The manor of WALBERTON was held in 1066 by three free men, and William held it of earl Roger in 1086.
91) but in the early 16th century was the subject of controversy between Lord de la Warr as lord of the manor and the earl of Arundel as lord of the rape.
After arbitration in 1520 the Walberton view of frankpledge was defined as inferior to the hundred courts, the earl retaining 'the suit royal of the headboroughs and their tithings'.
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This was the first state funeral for a non-royal family member since that of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar in 1914.
The major influences on his historical thought, and his prose style, were Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Clarendon's history of the English Civil War, Edward Gibbon Gibbon's ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' and Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Macaulay's ''History of England''.
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Lord Alexander of Tunis succeeds Churchill as Minister of Defence.
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 Don Surber: It Is Churchill Time For Tony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Brits stiffened their upper lips and stomachs and ate this catastrophe.
They called it Woolton Pie after their minister of food.
It will take a while to see what this means, but the outcome is clear: A nation fed on Woolton pie will never give in -- "never, never, never, never," as Winston Churchill said.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 9554
Children of Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton and Hon.
She married Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton on 9 November 1946.
She and Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton were divorced in 1953.
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This work was a gift to Lord Woolton who served as the British wartime Minister of Food and in Churchill’s War Cabinet.
This is an extraordinary and very unique opportunity to acquire a magnificent work of art by one of the most important persons in world history.
A gift from the artist to The First Earl of Woolton (1883-1964) and thence by descent.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
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 Philip Cunliffe-lister, 1st Earl Of Swinton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, GBE, CH, MC, PC (1884-1972), known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s.
He was first elected as Member of Parliament for Hendon in the 1918 general election and would hold this seat until his elevation to the House of Lords in 1935.
When in 1955 Churchill retired, Swinton insisted on retiring too, and he was further enobled as the Earl of Swinton.
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September 15 1922), who has written a book on her parents.
Clementine's mother was Lady Blanche Henrietta Ogilvy (1852-1925), second wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier and a daughter of the 7th Earl of Airlie.
Lord Woolton - Lord President of the Council
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 The Royal Statistical Society - The List of Past Presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 BIFHS-USA: National inventory of documentary sources, 011
They are the Earls of Abingdon ------- 6025868 and the papers cover the 14th through 20th centuries.
Correspondence and papers ------ 6025914 of Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton (1883-1964).
0.011.050 3rd Earl of Selborne, (Roundell Cecil Palmer, ------- 6025908 1887-1971).
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