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  Victoria of the United Kingdom
At the time, it was customary for appointments to the Royal Household to be based on the patronage system (that is, for the Prime Minister to appoint members of the Royal Household on the basis of their party loyalties).
One of the most significant acts of the new ministry was to bring the United Kingdom into the Crimean War in 1854, on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia.
As of 2005, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Queen of the United Kingdom (as well as her husband), the King of Norway, the King of Sweden, the Queen of Denmark, the King of Spain, the King of the Hellenes (deposed) and the King of Romania (deposed).
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
In later years, the titles were issued by the governor of the province, who received a small fee, as did the local officials who participated in the process.
This act was replaced by the Homestead Act of 1854, which reduced homestead grants to 160 acres and required a residence of three years.
The policy of homestead grants was continued under acts of 1866 and 1870 and under the Constitution of 1876.
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 Royal Arms, Styles, and Titles of Great Britain
And our will and pleasure further is, that the stile and titles aforesiad, and also the arms or ensigns armorial aforesaid, shall be used henceforth, as far as conveniently may be, on all occasions wherein our royal stile and titles and arms or ensigns armorial ought to be used.
Whereas an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to enable His Most Gracious Majesty to make an Addition to the Royal Style and Titles in recognition of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas," [Royal Titles Act 1901, 1 Edw.
And upon a Royal helmet mantled argent doubled gules the Crest, that is to say, On a wreath of the colours argent and gules a lion passant guardant or imperially crowned proper and holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf gules.
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent was born at Kensington Palace in London in 1819.
While Albert was of the Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it was not clear what his surname was, because like most imperial, royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs.
At the time, it was customary for appointments to the Royal Household to be based on the patronage system (that is, for the Prime Minister to appoint members of the Royal Household on the basis of their party loyalties).
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 Historical Figures - Queen Victoria
One of the most significant acts of the new ministry was to bring the United Kingdom into the Crimean War in 1854, on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia.
In 1876, encouraged by Disraeli, the Queen assumed the title "Empress of India", which was officially recognised under the Royal Titles Act 1876.
She was forced to accept his proposed electoral reforms, including the Representation of the People Act 1884, which considerably increased the electorate.
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 Hawaiian Kingdom - History of Land titles
The ancient system of land titles in the Hawaiian Islands was entirely different from that of tribal ownership prevailing in New Zealand, and from the village or communal system of Samoa, but bore a remarkable resemblance to the feudal system that prevailed in Europe during the Middle Ages.
The "Act to organize the Executive Departments," which was passed in 1846, provided among other things for the appointment of a "Board of Commissioners to quiet Land Titles," which was to consist of five members, one of whom should be the Attorney-General of the Kingdom, and which was to exist for two years.
The Royal Patents issued to purchasers of Government lands are styled "Grants," and are recorded to purchasers of Government lands are styled "Grants," and are recorded by themselves in a distinct series of volumes from the Royal Patents in Confirmation of Land Commission Awards.
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom Online Research :: Information about Victoria of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At the time, it was customary for appointments to the Royal Household to be based on the Patronage (that is, for the Prime Minister to appoint members of the Royal Household on the basis of their party loyalties).
As of 2004, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Harald V of Norway, the Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the Margrethe II of Denmark, the Juan Carlos I of Spain, the Constantine II of Greece (deposed) and the Michael of Romania (deposed).
At birth Victoria was a granddaughter of a monarch (George III) through the male line and as such held the style and title of a Royal Highness and Princess of the United Kingdom and was styled Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent (as the daughter of the Duke of Kent and Strathearn).
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These acts, seen from the perspective of the giver of nazar and the acceptor of the khelats, were acts of obedience, pledges of loyalty, and the acceptance of the superiority of the giver of the khelats.
The royal tours were not only significant in India in terms of the representation of the bond between the princes and peoples of India and their monarch, but were extensively reported in the British press.
Thornton, acting foreign secretary of the government of India who was to be responsible for relations with the Indian princes and chiefs, and Major General (later Field Marshal) Lord Roberts, quartermaster general of the Indian army, who was in charge of the military planning of the assemblage.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Hanoverians > Victoria
After the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown with the position of Governor General upgraded to Viceroy, and in 1877 Victoria became Empress of India under the Royal Titles Act passed by Disraeli's government.
This was demonstrated by her mediation between the Commons and the Lords, during the acrimonious passing of the Irish Church Disestablishment Act of 1869 and the 1884 Reform Act.
After the Second Reform Act of 1867, and the growth of the two-party (Liberal and Conservative) system, the Queen's room for manoeuvre decreased.
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 House Of Lords Act 1999
It also removes the existing disqualifications of a hereditary peer, unless he is excepted under section 2 of the Act from the general exclusion from the House of Lords, to vote in elections to the House of Commons and to stand as a candidate for, or be a member of, the House of Commons.
The Act does not affect the rights of holders of a hereditary peerage excluded from the House of Lords to keep all the other titles, rights, offices, privileges and precedents attaching to the peerage which are unconnected with membership of the House of Lords.
One of the effects of section 3(2) of the 1963 Act is to prohibit the issue of a writ in acceleration to the person entitled to succeed to a disclaimed hereditary peerage on the death of its present holder.
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 Royal Titles Act 1876 Definition / Royal Titles Act 1876 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
10) was an act of the British Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty).
As well as being queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she was additionally the first monarch to use the title Empress of India....
It is said Victoria's desire for such a title was motivated partially out of jealousy of the Imperial titles of some of her royal cousins in Germany and Russia.
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 Family Ancestry Queen Victoria Late Reign
The Reform Act of 1867 was passed by the Lord Derby ministry, thereby starting a whole new chapter in British politics.
By then, an imperialist sentiment was gaining endorsement by many and as a result, the Royal Titles Act 1876 was enacted.
Many royals were invited to attend the banquet but it was somewhat marred by The Jubilee Plot, a plan by Irish freedom fighters to blow up the Westminster Abbey which was timely discovered.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
When yet another constitution act was passed in 1850 the existing legislative council in New South Wales was empowered to enact the constitution of its successor.
In 1876 he was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of London and in 1881 a fellow of the Linnean Society.
In 1876 he was returned for the university of Sydney, and from 22 March to 16 August 1877 was attorney-general in the second Parkes (q.v.) ministry.
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In correspondence with the viceroy, the forms of salutation, the kinds of Indian titles which the British would use and the phrases used in the conclusion of a letter were all graded, and were seen as marks of approval or approbation.
A committee was established which included T. Thornton, acting foreign secretary of the government of India who was to be responsible for relations with the Indian princes and chiefs, and Major General (later Field Marshal) Lord Roberts, quartermaster general of the Indian army, who was in charge of the military planning of the assemblage.
The title drew criticism as being obscure from the distinguished Orientalist R. Caldwell, and Mir Aulad Ali, professor of Arabic and Urdu at Trinity College, Dublin, thought it was `preposterous' as it formed `the picture of a European lady, attired partly in the Arab.
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 John Relly Beard, 1800-1876. Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography.
In 1506, a royal decree consigned the remainder as slaves to the adventurers, and Ovando failed not to carry the unchristian and inhuman ordinance into full effect, especially in regard to those who were at work in the mines, four of which were very productive.
The former, either by themselves or by means of stewards, superintended the plantations, and consumed the produce in sensual gratifications; the latter, deriving immense revenues directly or indirectly from their colonial estates, squandered their princely fortunes in the pleasures and vices of the less moral society of Paris.
Jean François received the title of Lieutenant-General in that monarch's army; Biassou became one of his brigadiers; and Toussaint was honored with the same mark of confidence.
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 Queen of Australia
On those occasions when the Queen acts in her own capacity, such as in appointing the Governor-General, she also acts on the advice of Australian Ministers, rather than British ones, in accordance with the principle established at the Imperial Conference of 1926.
The Royal Style and Titles Act 1953 (Cth), therefore, for the first time referred to the Queen as 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Australia and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith'.
The phrases "under the Crown" in the preamble to the Constitution Act and "heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom" in covering cl 2 involve the use of the expression "the Crown" and cognate terms in what is the fifth sense.
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Under the New Zealand Royal Titles Act 1953 Queen Elizabeth II, is Queen of New Zealand, and is represented as head of state by the Governor General, Dame Silvia Cartwright.
Until 2004, appeals from decisions of the Court of Appeal could be appealed to Her Majesty in Council, who referred the case to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
In 2003 the Supreme Court Act was passed, abolishing appeals to the Privy Council, with effect from 2004 and setting up a Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington.
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 British Titles of Nobility
This she will not do until there is no question regarding the inheritance of the peerage and the peer is of age.
By the act for the Union of Ireland, 39 and 40 Geo.
All the foregoing regarding the Act of Parliament from the article on the Duke of Marlborough in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, which quotes the Act of 6 Anne (cap.
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 RedNova News - Health - The Curious Case of Dr Alabone-Heterodoxy in 19th Century Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in 1870 and was registered under the Medical Act (1858) by the Council of Medical Education and Registration, also known as the General Medical Council or GMC.
It was also resolved that, under the Medical Act, the Registrar of the GMC be informed of the removal of Alabone's membership.
In 1900 he was summoned under section 40 of the Medical Act for 'wilfully and falsely pretending to be a doctor of medicine and taking certain letters which implied recognition by the law as a practitioner of medicine' (Daily News 1 March).
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 The Last of The Royal Titles Act (The Nation, June 1, 1876)
The Last of The Royal Titles Act (The Nation, June 1, 1876)
This article presents information on the issue of the title of the Queen of England.
The question opened up after the Indian mutiny, when the Indian dependencies were transferred from the old trading company to the Crown, the question regarding whether any, addition should be made to the royal style as a recognition of the transfer.
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