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 Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Subsequently he seems to have abandoned his religious vocation for a military career, and in 1650 he was scout-master-general of Cromwell's forces in Scotland, and as such received in 1657 a salary of 365 and 300 as a teller of the exchequer.
The same year he was again sent to Holland to replace Sir William Temple, to break up the policy of the Triple alliance and incite another war between Holland and England in furtherance of the French policy.
Downing was undoubtedly a man of great political and diplomatic ability, but his talents were rarely employed for the advantage of his country and his character was marked by all the mean vices, treachery, avarice, servility and ingratitude.
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 Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet (1 June 1792 - 25 October 1861) was a British statesman.
In the same year he published a pamphlet entitled Corn and Currency, which brought him into prominence as a man of advanced Liberal opinions; and he became one of the most energetic advocates in parliament of the Reform Bill.
On the formation of Earl Grey's administration he received the post of First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet.
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Sir Frederick Morton Eden - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sir Frederick Morton Eden.
Sir Frederick Morton Eden (June 18, 1766 - November 14, 1809) English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator.
His father was created a baronet in 1776 and Frederick inherited the title.
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 History of the Grey House of Knights
She was the daughter of Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset (later duke of Suffolk), and Frances Brandon, daughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary.
Charles Grey was a distinguished Commanding Army Officer during the American Revolutionary War (1777), and also served in the war with France (1794) and raised to the Peerage in 1801 as Baron Grey of Howick.
Grey was president of the League of Nations Union from 1918 and served (1919-20) as a special ambassador to the United States.
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 George Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the British politician, see Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet.
For the British colonial governor (and later Premier of New Zealand), see George Edward Grey.
See also George Gray, for individuals using a variant spelling.
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 Secretary of State for the Colonies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1854, military reforms led to the War Office and Colonial Office being split up, and the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies was recreated.
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet (June 12, 1854 - February 8, 1855)
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (August 18, 1892 - June 21, 1895)
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 Entry into politics. (from Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Grey wrote more than 80 books during his career and is credited with helping to mold the literary genre known as the Western.
One of the ablest 19th-century administrators in the distant colonies of the British Empire, Sir George Grey tried to deal fairly with the struggles of native peoples to protect their land from British settlers.
She was the innocent victim of conspiracies by her father and other nobles to secure power for themselves by putting her on the throne.
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A relative of the 2nd Earl Grey, a former prime minister, Edward Grey was reared in a strong Whig-Liberal tradition.
During the prime ministry of his father, the 2nd Earl Grey, he served as undersecretary of state for the colonies (1830-33) and resigned when the cabinet refused to bind itself to undertake the immediate abolition of slavery.
Grey, who was knighted in 1956, was appointed deputy governor-general in Nigeria in 1957, serving until 1959.
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 Secretary of State for the Colonies - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Letters on the political condition of the Gold Coast since the exchange of territory between the English and Dutch governments, on January 1, 1868;: Together...
Annexation of the Transvaal: Correspondence between Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Bart., Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Transvaal delegates, to which...
British America: To the Right Honourable Sir George Murray, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c.
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 Category:Baronets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This category contains no articles directly; rather, it organizes all of the articles on British baronets.
Please do not add people to this category; add them to the respective subcategory (Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for example).
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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Sir Joshua Jebb, 1793 - 1863, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1812, serving in Canada and the USA, and by 1837, he had been promoted to 1st Captain.
Sir George Bowles regarding the Master of the Queen's household and the Queen's acknowledgement of a publication of some sort, 19 June 1849.
Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps to Sir George Grey, 29 December 1861.
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Portrait of Sir Thomas Gladstone of Fasque, 2nd
Description: A study for the large group portrait of the House of Commons, 1833 (includes George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; William Ewart Gladstone; Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; Sir George Hayter; John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst; William Lamb, 2nd...), currently on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
Sir Thomas Gladstone of Fasque (1804-1889), the second baronet, was conservative M.P. for Queenborough 1830, for Portarlington 1832-5, and Leicester 1835-7.He was the elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister.
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Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet was a British statesman.
Table of contents 1 Early Life 2 Tory Years 3 References Early Life He was born at Naworth, Cumberland, and was educated at Westmin...
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 Additional Reading (from Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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 The collection of Jebb, Sir Joshua, 1793-1863, Knight Surveyor General of Convict Prisons held at the British Library ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The collection of Jebb, Sir Joshua, 1793-1863, Knight Surveyor General of Convict Prisons held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Below is the table of contents for the collection of Jebb, Sir Joshua, 1793-1863, Knight Surveyor General of Convict Prisons held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.
Letters by Sir Joshua Jebb (personal), c1810 - 1858.
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 Secretary of State for the Colonies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1854, military reforms led to the WarOffice and Colonial Office being split up, and the office ofSecretary of State for the Colonies was recreated.
George Robinson, 1stMarquess of Ripon (August 18, 1892 - June 21, 1895)
George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (May12, 1940 - February 8, 1941)
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Sir George Grey, of Fallodon, 2nd Baronet (1799-1882) was a perennial Whig cabinet minister in the mid-19th century, serving in the cabinets of Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, and
Siaka Probyn Stevens (August 24, 1905 - May 29, 1988) was a President of Sierra Leone (1971 - 1985).
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Sir William Henry Clinton (1769-1846; army officer and administrator)
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845; Prime Minister)
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788-1850; Prime Minister)
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Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford and Elizabeth Howland
Child by (a) Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, son of Sir
George Fitzroy, son of Lord Charles Fitzroy, General and
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 George Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zane Grey's "George Washington, Frontiersman" was, sadly, a large disappointment for me. As a avid reader of all things to do with the French and Indian War and the Eastern Frontier, I was excited to come across this "lost" Grey novel about George Washing...
For pure reading pleasure of an outdoors nature, noone can beat the wit, wisdom, and writing style of Zane Grey.
Synges: The Aran Islands of a World of Grey (The Princess Grace Irish Library Lectures, 8)
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 GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE - Online Information article about GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE
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1768: Charles Gould (knighted 1779; created a baronet and assumed the name of Morgan 1792)
25 June 1817: John Beckett (succeeded as 2nd Baronet 1826)
22 December 1834: Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet
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