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St Lizier, in ancient times one of the twelve cities of Novempopulania under the name of Lugdunum Consoranorum, was later capital of the Couserans and seat of a bishopric (sup-pressed at the Revolution) to the holders of which the town belonged.
St L6 is the seat of a prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a training college for masters, a school of drawing, a branch of the Bank of France, a chamber of arts and manufactures, and a government stud.
The population of St Louis in 1840 was '6,469; in r85o it was 77,86o (seventh in size of the cities of the country); in 186o, x60,773; in 1870, 3'0,864 (third in size); in 188o, 350,518; in 1890, 451,770; in 1900, 575,238; and in 1910, 687,029.
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 Edward
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 Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor is de facto speaker of the House of Lords.
The Lord Chancellor is a member of the Cabinet and heads a department known as the Lord Chancellor's Department, responsible for the administration of the courts, the appointment of judges, etc.
Although the Lord Chancellor is usually a senior lawyer rather than a judge, he upon appointment becomes president of the Appellate Committees of the House of Lords (which is a court and a house of Parliament) and (conventionally) of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the highest courts that exist in the United Kingdom.
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 conservative party (uk) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Although the Liberals were able to force through the Lords reform with the Parliament Act of 1911, their advocacy once again cost them support, so that by the time of the outbreak of World War I, a Unionist victory in the next elections looked imminent.
The Tories capitalised on the Winter of Discontent and the growing inflation rate, not to mention the humiliating bailout of the UK economy by the IMF in 1976, and won the 1979 general election with a majority of 43, Thatcher becoming the UK's first woman Prime Minister.
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 Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor is one of the oldest offices of state in the United Kingdom.
The Lord Chancellor was once also the presiding officer of the Chancery Court in London.
In 2003 the governmental responsibilities of the Lord Chancellor will be transferred to a new Department of Constitutional Affairs[?], with an independent judicial appointments commission being set up to appoint new judges and and the Lords getting a new speaker, who will not be a minister.
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 Lord Chancellors
Arfastus or Herefast, chaplain to the king (William the Conqueror) and bishop of Elmham, was lord chancellor in 1067.
For the medieval Parliament, the Woolsack was a symbol of the prosperity of the realm.
Lord Anthony Ashley (1621-83, later the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury), Lord Chancellor 1672-73, chancellor of the exchequer 1661-72.
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 II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators: Bibliography. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...
A catalogue of certain sections of Lord A.’s library, now in the university library, Cambridge, is published in the C. Bulletin, Acton Collection, 1908–10.
Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II.
Letter to Lord Denman upon the legislation of 1850 as to amendment of the law.
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 Wikinfo | Lord Chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Originally, the Lord Chancellor was the officer responsible for keeping the Great Seal of England, the king's right hand man, and was usually a clergyman.
He exercises the same function in relation to livings under the patronage of the Duchy of Cornwall when the heir to the throne is a minor.
Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards 1852
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 thePeerage.com - Caroline Hales and others
Augusta Sudgen, daughter of Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards and Winifred Knapp, on 14 August 1845.
Augusta Sudgen was the daughter of Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards and Winifred Knapp.
     Lord Hervey writes "he was a man of great family and great quality, rough, proud, hard, and obstinate, with excellent good natural parts, but so uncultivated that he was totally ignorant of every branch of knowledge but his profession.
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 thePeerage.com - Winifred Knapp and others
She married Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, son of Sir Edward Villiers and Lady Frances Howard, on 17 December 1681.
She married William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey, son of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey and Barbara Chiffinch, on 22 March 1704/5.
She is the daughter of Colonel Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil and Violet Georgina Maxse.
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 Department for Constitutional Affairs - Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers: past and present
In addition, it should be noted that the nature of the historical office of Lord Chancellor is very different from that of today, and it would be misleading to suggest the roles are the same.
The titles given are those held by both Lord Chancellors and Lord Keeper at the time they held the Great Seal.
Henry Wingham, dean of St Martin's-le-Grand, bishop of London 1259-62.
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 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1927) 1905 - 1916 Sir Edward Grey (from 27 Jul 1916, Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon) (b.
Lord Chancellors 1693 - 17 Apr 1700 Sir John Somers (from 1697, John Somers, Baron Somers) (b.
Lord Presidents of the Council 1699 - 1702 Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1st time) (b.
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 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details
Abbot, Charles (1757-1829) 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons (20)
Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw (1791-1875) 1st Baron St Leonards, Lord Chancellor (10)
Wedderburn, Alexander (1733-1805) 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (15)
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 Index of officials | British History Online
Ashley Cooper, Anthony, styled Lord Ashley 1811-51 (succ.
Bourke, Richard Southwell, styled Lord Naas 1849-67 (succ.
Maur, Edward Adolphus, styled Lord Seymour 1804-55 (succ.
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