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 Samuel, Herbert Louis - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Samuel, Herbert Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Re-elected to Parliament in 1929, Samuel held the Liberal leadership 1931–35, which is to say that he led the main faction of a fragmented and fast-declining party.
Although its recommendations were unacceptable to pit owners and miners alike, Samuel played a part in resolving the General Strike of 1926.
After losing his seat in the 1935 general election, he was given a peerage in 1937 and led the Liberals in the House of Lords 1944–55.
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 Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Samuel (of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth), Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount
Samuel was a social worker in the Whitechapel…
U.S. public utilities official Samuel Insull was born in London, England, on Nov. 11, 1859.
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 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He played an important role in negotiating an end to the general strike of 1926.
In the Commons again (1929–35), Samuel was home secretary (1931–32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931–35).
Samuel’s writings include Practical Ethics (1935), Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy (1937), and In Search of Reality (1957).
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 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com
SAMUEL, HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL, 1ST VISCOUNT [Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount] 1870-1963, British statesman.
In the Commons again (1929-35), Samuel was home secretary (1931-32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931-35).
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 Archives - Overview Private | Houses of Parliament
Herbert Samuel (SAM) -  Papers of Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel.
The Samuel papers cover his life and career from his childhood until the year of his death.
The principal gaps in the collection at the Parliamentary Archives are Departmental Papers (few of which Lord Samuel retained) and Cabinet Papers which, with a few exceptions, he returned to the Cabinet Office.
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 Samuel
In both the books of Samuel and of Kings, the prophets represent the claim of the divine over human kingship.
Samuel became a national hero and eventually a popular figure of Jewish legend.
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount - Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, 1870–1963, British statesman.
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Churchill lost his Manchester seat to the Conservative William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford William Joynson-Hicks but was soon elected in another by-election at Dundee.
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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 Samuel
Samuels, Howard - Samuels, Howard horse racing soccer Birthplace: New York City Born: 1920 Died: 1984 Information...
Composer Rhian Samuel: the female viewpoint and welsh influences in her vocal music.(Critical Essay)
Identifying "R.S.W." and "Ricardus": Richard Samuel White and Ralph Bernal in the European Magazine and the Gentleman's Magazine.
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 carson.htm
In 1900, however, having been sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1896, he became Solicitor-General for England, an office which involved a knighthood and which he held until the fall of the Unionist administration in December 1905, when he was sworn of the [British] Privy Council.
In January 1910 he was chosen as leader of the Irish Unionists in the House of Commons on the retirement of W.H. (afterwards Viscount) Long from that position.
On the resignation of Balfour himself from the leadership of the opposition in the next year, Carson was one of the four men canvassed as possible successors, but he refused to allow his name to go forward, preferring to devote all his energies to the service of Irish Unionism.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : J/JA/JAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He had served as a Captain in the 42nd Foot before being made aide-de-camp to General Amherst in 1759, and was promoted to the grade of lieutenant colonel in 1770.
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (7 November 1776 - 17 April 1858), Speaker of the British House of Commons 1835-39, was the third son of General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess and 10th Earl of Dalhousie (April 22, 1812 - December 19, 1860) was a British statesman and Indian administrator.
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NPG 5468; Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870-1963), Politician.
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 AllRefer.com - Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount 1870–1963, British statesman.
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 Lord Sydney - Thomas Townshend 1733-1800
As it is, his name would be well-nigh forgotten were it not for a compliment which was paid to him in a then remote corner of the globe....a newly discovered cove, and destined convict station, in Australia was named after him.
THOMAS TOWNSHEND, baron Sydney of Chiselhurst; one of his majesty's most honourable privy council, one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, president of the commission for the control of the affairs of the East India company, one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, and a governor of the Charter House.
Thomas Townshend (1733 - 1800), 1st Viscount of Sydney, was the;
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Henry Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 2nd Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent
Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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 Faculty of Chemistry - History
[Chaim Weizmann served simultaneously as the 1st President of the State of Israel and as the (honorary) first President of the Weizmann Institute.
After the death of Gerhard Schmidt in 1971, David Samuel (3rd Viscount Samuel, grandson of Herbert Samuel) took over as the Dean.
Samuel was succeeded as Dean by Shneior Lifson in 1975, in turn succeeded 1980-1985 by Zeev Luz (Izchak Z. Steinberg briefly served as Dean in 1984), in turn followed 1986-1988 by Joel R. Gat, and finally by Itamar Procaccia.
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 thePeerage.com - Name Index 579
George, 1st and last Earl of Dunbar b.
Alexander, 1st Viscount Bridport of Cricket St. Thomas b.
Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson, 3rd Viscount Bridport of Cricket St. Thomas b.
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 Janus: The Papers of 1st Viscount Margesson of Rugby
Henry David Reginald Margesson was born in 1890, the son of Sir Mortimer Margesson.
From 1940-42, Margesson served as Secretary of State for War, after which he was made 1st Viscount Margesson of Rugby.
Includes correspondence with Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] and Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] on Singapore and North Africa.
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 Archive Record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The long and detailed letters to Helen’s mother from Jerusalem, 1919-1932 document the history of the British Mandate as well as the evolution of Helen’s personal attitude towards Palestine, Jerusalem and the Jewish nation itself.
There are frequent references to the political situation and to figures such as Balfour and Herbert Samuel, along with personal observations about every-day life.
Franklin family papers are held at Southampton University Library (MS 120) and papers of Herbert Samuel relating to Palestine and Zionism are held at the Israel State Archives.
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 thePeerage.com - Index to Parliament
Banbury, Frederick, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam (1892-1906), Conservative 
Sturt, Henry Gerard, 1st Baron Alington of Crichel (1847-1856) 
Sturt, Henry Gerard, 1st Baron Alington of Crichel (1856-1876) 
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 HOOD, SAMUEL HOOD, VIS... - Online Information article about HOOD, SAMUEL HOOD, VIS...
admiral, was the son of Samuel Hood, See also:
SANDWICH, EDWARD MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST EARL OF (1625–1672)
Britain was conferred on his wife as Baroness Hood of Catherington in 1795, and he was himself created Viscount Hood of Whitley in 1796.
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 What did Bush mean? by YISRAEL MEDAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition to the destruction caused by the fighting, the population was devastated by famine, epidemics, and Ottoman punitive measures against Arab nationalists.
Major battles took place at Gaza before Jerusalem was captured by British and Allied forces under the command of General Sir Edmund (later 1st Viscount) Allenby in December 1917.
Following the confirmation of the mandate at San Remo, the British replaced the military administration with a civilian administration in July 1920, and Sir Herbert (later Viscount) Samuel, a Zionist, was appointed the first high commissioner.
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 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate: corresp and papers
John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson: corresp and papers
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel: corresp and papers
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 The S.L.A. Marshall Papers
Samuel Lyman Atwood (Slam) Marshall, military historian, was born on July 18,1900, in Catskill, New York, son of Caleb C. and Alice Medora (Beeman) Marshall.
A few years after his birth the family moved to Boulder, Colorado, and subsequently to Niles, California, where young Marshall worked for a while part-time as a child actor with the Essanay Motion Picture Company.
Lloyd L. Leech, Jr., "Tribute to Samuel L.A. Marshall," Password, Winter 1989.
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 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st viscount - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, 1870-1963, British statesman.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: BARING, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917)
AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: BARING, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917)
Administrative/Biographical history: Evelyn Baring was born on 26 February 1841 at Cromer Hall, Norfolk He was educated at the Ordnance School, Carshalton; Woolwich, 1855-1858.
Baring was created Baron Cromer in 1892; Viscount Cromer in 1899 and Earl of Cromer in 1901.
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 RAWSON MSS.
The collection is made up partly of letters to other persons, which she appears to have collected mainly because of a common interest in reform and philanthropy.
Ann (Taylor) Gilbert; Herbert John Gladstone, viscount Gladstone; Sir Dan Godfrey; Elizabeth (Brodie) Gordon, duchess of Gordon; John Bartholomew Gough; Matthew Habershon; George Hadfield; John Vine Hall; Mrs.
Included are Edward Baines; Samuel Bowly; John Bright; Mary Carpenter; Joseph Chamberlain; Richard Cobden; Christopher J. Davies; Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of Derby; Henry Howard, 2nd earl of Effingham; Ebenezer Elliott; Mrs.
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— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1930)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1930)
Although Lawrence was paid a considerable sum to accept Harlow into his studio he did not formally teach him; instead he allowed the young man to copy and occasionally help with his work.
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 Details of Dundee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Today, D.C. Thomson is one of the largest employers in Dundee and the only major magazine and newspaper house in Scotland to be controlled by Scots in Scotland.
Dundee was the birthplace of the historian Hector Boece (c.1465-1536), Admiral Adam Duncan of Camperdown (1731-1804), John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (c.1649-89) and the doggerel poet William MacGonagall (1830-1902).
Dundee's port, dock and industrial estate facilities are important to the North Sea offshore oil industry and the city is served by a small airport situated to the west of the city centre.
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