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ANGLESEY, 1ST MARQUESS OF - LoveToKnow Article on ANGLESEY, 1ST MARQUESS OF He joined the Russell administration in July 1846 as master-general of the ordnance, finally retiring with his chief in March 1852. The general line of strike of the formations in the island is from N.E. to S.W. A belt of granitic rocks lies immediately north-west of the central pre-Cambrian mass, reaching from Llanfaelog near the coast to the vicinity of Llanerchymedd. Of the first marquess's brothers one, SIR CHARLES PAGET (1778-1839), rose to the rank of vice-admiral in the Royal Navy; another, General SIR EDWARD PAGET (i 775-1849), won great distinction by his skilful and resolute handling of a division at Corunna, and from 1822 to 1825 was commander-in-chief in India. www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANGLESEY_1ST_MARQUESS_OF.htm

British Army - Chapter Two Artillery and engineers fell under the control of the master general of the ordnance, marines under that of the Admiralty, and the militia under that of the lord lieutenants of the counties. The surveyor general, or master surveyor as he was called in his patent, examined the quantity and quality of all stores received into the storehouses and magazines of the department, took "remains," and noted issues and receipts. The board of commissioners by which it was governed was appointed by the crown, and consisted of the president of the council, the first lord of the Treasury, the secretaries of state, the paymaster general, the comptrollers of army accounts, and the governor and lieutenant governor of the hospital. www.americanrevolution.org /britisharmy2.html

Royal Ordnance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1927 these Royal Factories were transferred within the War Office from the Ministry of Munitions to the Department of the Master-General of the Ordnance. Royal Ordnance PLC, with the exception of ROF Leeds, was sold in 1987 to British Aerospace (BAe) for 180 million pounds; becoming known as Royal Ordnance Defence (RO Defence). Royal Ordnance was the name of the United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories which were privatised in 1984. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Ordnance

Online Etymology Dictionary Ordnance survey (1833), official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, was undertaken by the government under the direction of the Master-General of the Ordnance (a natural choice, because gunners have to be skilled at surveying ranges and distances). www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=ordnance

FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET, 1ST BARON RAGLAN - LoveToKnow Article on FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET, 1ST BARON RAGLAN In 1819 he was appointed secretary to the duke of Wellington as master-general of the ordnance, and from 1827 till the death of the duke in 1852 was military secretary to him as commandet-in-chief. In 1854 he was promoted general and appointed to the command of the English troops sent to the Crimea (see CRIMEAN WAR) in co-operation with a strong French army under Marshal St Arnaud and afterwards, up to May 1855, under Marshal Canrobert. But this hopefulness was a shining military quality in the midst of the despondency that settled upon the allied generals after their first failures, and at Balaklava and Inkermann he displayed the promptness and resolution of his youth. www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAGLAN_FITZROY_JAMES_HENRY_SOMERSET_1ST_BARON.htm

Chester Bronze Cannons Lord of the Admiralty (1807-1810) and Master General of the Ordnance (1810-1818). The post of Master General of the Ordnance was a Cabinet post always held by retired or semi-retired soldiers of senior rank. Sometimes, Master Generals decided to use their full armorial achievement ("coat of arms") but more usually, and certainly by the early nineteenth century, the Master General was symbolised by the initial letter of his title surmounted by the coronet appropriate to his rank in the peerage. www.newscotland1398.net /lunenco/chesbronzcann.html

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War Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A number of older institutions, notably the Board of Ordnance (which dates from the 14th century), were merged to form the War Office. An Army Council was created along similar lines to the Board of Admiralty, chaired by the Secretary of State for War, and an Imperial General Staff was established to coordinate Army administration. The situation was only remedied in 1904 when the post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished and replaced with that of the Chief of the General Staff. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_Office_%28UK%29

Master Gunner St James's Park When the Royal Artillery was formed in 1716 the Master-General of the Ordnance recommended the abolition of certain posts in the interests of economy, one of them being the Master Gunner of Great Britain, the title then in use. The Master Gunner, St James' Park, is selected by the Sovereign, our Captain-General, and acts as her deputy in Gunner matters. It was therefore logical to place a superior Master Gunner in overall charge, to inspect the various stations from time to time, and make sure the Master Gunners were doing their job, ie maintaining personnel and equipment in all respects ready for action. riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/stjames.htm

Major-General Bala Nanda Sharma Appointed Force Commander of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) As a General Officer, he had been the Master General of Ordnance, Director of the Military Training of the RNA and was a member of various Strategic Task Forces on National Security Policy. General Sharma joined the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) in 1969 and received his basic training at the Royal Nepalese Army Academy. He is a graduate of the Royal Military Staff College of Camberley (United Kingdom) and of the National Defence College of New Delhi (India). www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2004/sga862.html

Instruction Chief Artillery Don Cossack Host 1844 Horse-Artillery batteries regulations Subordination to the Master General of Ordnance and the Government Ataman, §§ 27 and 28. He is chosen from Artillery Generals or Colonels and confirmed in his position by Highest Order, upon the recommendation of the Master General of the Ordnance. The Chief of Artillery of the Don Host is fully subordinate to the Master General of Ordnance in regard to matters of Artillery, and is directly under the Authority of the Government Ataman. home.comcast.net /~markconrad/DonCossackArt1844.htm

Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond Richmond sat in Rockingham's second cabinet as Master-General of the Ordnance; and in 1784 he joined the ministry of William Pitt the YoungerWilliam Pitt. Richmond died in December 1806, and, leaving no legitimate children, he was succeeded in the peerage by his nephew Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and LennoxCharles/, son of his brother, General Lord George Henry Lennox. In 1779 the duke brought forward a motion for retrenchment of the civil list; and in 1780 he embodied in a bill his proposals for parliamentary reform, which included manhood suffrage, annual parliaments and equal electoral areas. www.infothis.com /find/Charles_Lennox,_3rd_Duke_of_Richmond

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PEACE - Online Information article about PEACE The same year the commissariat office was transferred to the war department, and the Board of Ordnance abolished, its functions being divided between the commander-in-chief and the secretary of state. ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century) In the following year the secretary of state was appointed secretary at war also, and the duties of the two offices amalgamated. encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PEACE.html

The Colonial Powder Magazine, Spectacle Island In 1855 the responsibility for the administration of ordnance passed to the Secretary of State for War by royal decree "revoking the letters patent of the Master General, Lieutenant-General and Principal Storekeeper of the Ordnance". During the early days of the colony of New South Wales the Naval Ordnance and powder came, as was the case in Great Britain, under the control of the Master General of the Ordnance through the Board of Ordnance which existed between 1597 and 1855. The Master General of the Ordnance had both a military role, as commander of the Artillery and the Engineers, and a civil role, as head of the Ordnance Department. users.tpg.com.au /borclaud/spec_island/colonial.html

The British Army: 1 February 1793 The Board of Ordnance through the Master General of the Ordnance controlled the Engineers and Artillery, the Treasury Department controlled that of the commissary and the Government, through the Home Office, controlled the militia using the Lord Lieutenants of the Counties. There were no general officers assigned to command in South Britain, with the two senior staff officers, the Adjutant General and the Quarter Master General, exercising the command there. In the colonies, there were two general officers in the Canadas [the Governor as Commander-in-Chief and one subordinate on the staff with two Brigadier Generals in the Maritimes] and two general officers in the West Indies [one for Jamaica and one for the Leeward Islands and one Brigadier General]. www.napoleon-series.org /military/organization/c_britarmy1793.html

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington As brigade commander under General George Harris he impressed his superiors throughout the Seringapatam expedition and was made administrator of the conquered territory. That is the ground on which I stand in respect to the question in general of Reform in Parliament. I confess that I see in thirty members for rotten boroughs, thirty men, I don't care of what party, who would preserve the state of property as it is; who would maintain by their votes the Church of England, its possessions, its churches and universities. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwellington.htm

Board of Ordnance (Britain) The post of Master General of the Ordnance was abolished in 1855, but appears to have been resurrected as a title for the Fourth Military Member of the Army Board, which replaced the Army Council in 1964. I enclose another Army flag related to the Ordnance, the distinguishing flag of the Master General of the Ordnance. The Board of Ordnance were responsible for supplying the Navy and the Army with guns, ammunition, and military hardware in general. www.fotw.net /flags/gb-bordn.html

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia January, 1819 - The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Mulgrave as Master-General of the Ordnance. Liverpool, aware that his abilities were no more than moderate, generally stayed in the background, letting more brilliant subordinates like Lord Castlereagh, George Canning, the Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel, and William Huskisson, all of whom served under him, take leading parts. September, 1814 - William Wellesley-Pole, the Master of the Mint, enters the Cabinet. www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Robert_Banks_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool

Master Mason Definition / Master Mason Research Master Mason is the designation of a Freemason who has completed the Third Degree in Craft Masonry. A Master Mason is the designation of a FreemasonFreemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. See also: York RiteThe York Rite is one of the two main branches of Freemasonry in the United States which a Master Mason may decide to join for further exposure to Masonic knowledge, the other branch being the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. www.elresearch.com /Master_Mason

First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Noel Birch Following the war Birch was Director General of the Territorial Army in 1921 and later served as Master-General of the Ordnance. General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch (1865-1939) served as Sir Douglas Haig's chief artillery adviser in France from May 1916 until the armistice. The horse had little place on the Western Front (early experiments to the effect had demonstrated the point). www.firstworldwar.com /bio/birch.htm

Spencer Perceval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May, 1810 - Lord Mulgrave succeeds Lord Chatham as Master-General of the Ordnance. He was appointed Solicitor of the Ordnance in 1798. He was therefore promoted in Addington's government to be Solicitor General from 1801, and then to Attorney General from 1802. www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Spencer_Perceval

General, The Earl of Mulgrave GCB 1793-1831 He was appointed Master General of the Ordnance on 5th May 1810, and held that appointment until 31st December 1818. General The Earl of Mulgrave GCB 1793 - 1831 Lord Mulgrave served in America from 1776 to the end of 1778; in the West Indies in 1780: he commanded at Toulon in 1793; in New Zealand in 1794; and in 1799 his Lordship was employed on a military mission to the Archduke Charles and Marshal Suvaroff. www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /colonels/054.html

Ordnance Factories: Whither self-reliance? The second answer relating to the ordnance factories is astonishing, considering the gargantuan establishment they form, when most of the Army's requirements in the last five years were met from the private sector and imports. Thus, the ordnance factories continue to produce Second World War vintage stores (hand-grenades are a case in point) or equipment under licence agreements, which are in driblets after the Bofors episode in 1986. The senior officers of the Army HQ who initiate proposals for re-equipping the armed forces are also temporary residents of their office suites _ not as bad as in the case of civilians cited but bad enough to adversely impact on consistency in thought and action. www.hinduonnet.com /businessline/2000/05/30/stories/043020su.htm

GAO: B-295987; B-295987.2, General Dynamics-Ordnance & Tactical Systems, May 20, 2005 General Dynamics-Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc. (GD-OTS) protests the Department of the Navy's award of a contract to Alliant Techsystems, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00164-04-R-4217 for the purchase of MK 244 ammunition. Generally, where, as here, a solicitation contemplates the award of a fixed-price contract, the agency is not required to conduct a realism analysis. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. www.gao.gov /decisions/bidpro/295987.htm

Defence At the Army Headquarters in New Delhi, the Chief of the Army Staff is assisted by the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff and seven other Principal Staff Officers, namely, the two Deputy Chiefs of the Army Staff, Adjutant General, Quarter-Master General, Master General of Ordnance, Military Secretary and Engineer-in-Chief. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief commanding an operative command is the commander of demarcated geographical area and has both field and static formations under the command. The major field formations are Corps, Division and Brigade commanded by a General Officer Commanding of the rank of Lieutenant General, a General Officer Commanding of the rank of Major General and Brigadier, respectively. www.goindiago.com /general/defence.html

BBC News UK General criticises defence exports General Beach, former Master General of the Ordnance, is a member of the group campaigning against anti-personnel mines and Admiral Eberle is a former director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. General Rose's criticism is likely to come as a blow to the government, which made political capital out of errors involving arms exports during the 1980s under the Conservatives. The letter, jointly signed by two other retired officers, Admiral Sir James Eberle and General Sir Hugh Beach, accuses ministers of failing to strengthen Britain's arms export code despite the problems revealed by the Scott inquiry. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/57039.stm

Ordnance Survey Maps of Hampshire at Hampshire Record Office The origin of the Ordnance Survey lies in the appointment of a Trigonometrical Survey in 1791, to provide a complete cartographical survey of the country for military purposes. From the mid 19th century, the Ordnance Survey began to compile County Series maps at 6 inches and 25 inches to the mile. The first edition 1 inch OS maps for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were published in 1810-1811 and 1811-1817. www.hants.gov.uk /record-office/maps/os.html

Part 01 - Arms of the Board of Ordnance The title of "Master General of the Ordnance" appears to have been first used in 1603 and is used to this day, the present holder of the office still being responsible for the administration of the Board. By the beginning of the 19th Century, The Board of Ordnance was the second largest Department of State, next only to the Treasury, and the Master General had a seat in the Cabinet. In 1855, in the absence of Load Raglan, the Board, and the office of the Master General were abolished and the responsibilities were passed to the Secretary of State. free.hostdepartment.com /o/ordnance/01.htm

Fitzroy James Henry Somerset: Lord Raglan (1788--1855) Wellington was then made Master-General of the Ordnance, and Raglan continued as his secretary, accompanying Wellington to the Congress of Verona in 1822. 18 June 1855 was chosen for the general assault on Sebastopol: the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. It was to be preceded by a two-hour cannonade but the French commander decided at the last moment to attack at daybreak, a decision that Raglan reluctantly accepted. www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/raglan.html

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