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  Toronto Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS (8 February 1790-7 February 1866) was a British Whig politician.
Spring Rice was the son of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard, County Limerick, and Catherine Spring, heiress of Thomas Spring.
Spring Rice was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later studied law, but was not called to the Bar.
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  Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (1790-7 February 1866), English statesman, son of S. Rice and Catherine Spring, came of a Limerick family, whose ancestor was Sir Stephen Rice (1637-1715), chief baron of the Irish exchequer and a leading Jacobite.
In 1820 he became Whig member for Limerick (from 1832 member for Cambridge); and after holding minor offices became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834 and in 1835-1839 Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He was disappointed in not obtaining the speakership, but in 1839 was created Baron Monteagle of Brandon (a title intended earlier for his ancestor Sir Stephen Rice), and made Controller of the Exchequer.
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 History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 2 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine Biographies, ...
It was in the spring of 1859 that Mr.
THOMAS J. Thomas J. McDonnell, who is a close student of engineering works and accomplished in his profession of marine engineering, is descended from a long line of patriotic warriors, and although himself too young to take an active part in the Civil war, the family was well represented in that struggle.
In the spring of 1892 he shipped as oiler in the steamer Neosho, remaining in her until May, 1893, being advanced to the position of first assistant engineer the second season and was then transferred to the Neshoto holding that berth until the fall of 1894.
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 Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (1796–1866) was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.
A Lord of the Treasury, 1830–1834, and a Secretary to the Treasury, June – November 1834 and 1835–1839.
He returned to the cabinet in January 1849, replacing Lord Auckland as First Lord of the Admiralty in Russell's cabinet and serving until its fall in 1852.
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 JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Spring Rice Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Thomas Spring Rice (1790-1866), 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, and his two sons, Stephen (1814-1865) and Charles (1819-1870).
Monteagle was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839, and Comptroller General from 1839 to 1865.
Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918) was a career diplomat who held posts in America, Japan, Berlin, Persia and Russia, before serving as Ambassador in Washington from 1913 to 1918.
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 Monteagle Emigrants
Thomas Spring Rice 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon held much of the land in this area was a MP for a number of years holding many government posts.
In 1839 he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Monteagle of Brandon in County Kerry.
Unlike many so called absentee landlords the Spring Rices were showed an important interest in improving the lot of their tenants.
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He was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under George Canning and Lord Goderich in 1827 and then served as joint Secretary to the Treasury from 1830 to 1834 under Lord Grey.
However, he was disappointed in not being elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 1835 and 1838, when the office was vacant.
Thomas William Spring Rice was the father of the diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.
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 Limerick School of Art
The meeting was chaired by Lord Monteagle, the former Thomas Spring Rice.
Weeks before his elevation to the peerage, Thomas Spring Rice MP, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the legislation to Parliament for the penny-postage scheme on 5 July 1839.
Lord Emly (1812-1894), the former William Monsell who was elected MP for Co. Limerick for the years 1847-1877 during which time he served as Postmaster General.
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 Robert Peel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was born in Bury in Lancashire to an industrialist and Member of Parliament (Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet), who was one of the richest textile manufacturers of the early Industrial Revolution, and educated first at Hipperholme Grammar School, then at Harrow School and finally ="/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford.
He resigned from this position after the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, was incapacitated, leading to his replacement by George Canning; Canning favoured Catholic Emancipation, and Peel had been one of its most outspoken opponents.
Lord Melbourne had been Victoria\'s confidant for several years, and many of the higher posts in Victoria\'s household were held by the wives and female relatives of Whigs; there was some feeling that Victoria had allowed herself to be too closely associated with the Whig party.
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 Chancellor of The Exchequer Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Two other officials are given the title of a Secretary to the Treasury, although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; the Permanent Secretary to the Treasuryis not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury.
While in the past both houses were private residences, today they serve as interlinked offices, with the occupant living in a small apartment made from attic rooms previously resided in by servants.
Because the House of Lords is excluded from Finance bills, the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Commons.
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 Ireland Old News
Lord Lurgan's next move is expected to be a Lieutenancy in the 7th Royal Fusiliers returning from Halifax.
Sub-Constable Thomas Crane, charged at Mountrath with forging additional figures and letters in orders for cash given by the Clerk of the Peace to crown witnesses, for their expenses in prosecuting larceny cases, is committed to Maryborough jail.
Lord de Vesci is assisting his tenantry in the Queen's county as much as possible in the growth of flax.
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 Details of NPG 54   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781-1851), Lord Chancellor.
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe (1798-1890), Politician.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), Historian, poet and statesman.
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Thomas Spring-Rice (1790-1866), 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839 and Comptroller General from 1839 to 1865, and Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (1859-1918) was an important diplomat in the early twentieth century.
Thomas Spring-Rice was an active liberal politician in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Some of the 1st Baron Monteagle's papers are held privately and by the National Library of Ireland, National Library of Scotland and the National Archives of Ireland.
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 Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
The Marquis of Waterford, Lord Templemore, the Earl of Antrim, Lord Monteagle, Sir H. Baron, Bart.
It was also urged upon the noble lord that many hundreds of working men would be thrown out of employment if the bill were passed, while it would inflict the utmost injustice upon the owners of the present fisheries, the total value of which was between two and three hundred thousand pounds per annum.
Lord Palmerston stated, in reply, that he was not aware of all the facts which the deputation had brought under his notice, but that their representations should receive the careful consideration of the Government.
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 rossmore.htm
Because the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Lords Rossmore were highly individualistic (the 2nd and 5th to the point of eccentricity), their papers contain some unusual and revealing material on democratic politics, both Green and Orange.
By 10 March 1829 he was writing to Lord Rossmore about finishing the new reception rooms and porch, enclosing "a sketch of the manner in which I propose to connect the new and old parts of the house".
Lord Melbourne had promised at some future date that an earldom should be given, and when the late Lord R. claimed it, Lord M. begged they would not then press, as it would hamper him at that time.
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 OSBORN 18TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS
House of Lords "Remembrances for order and decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords, when His Majesty is not there": anonymous MS ca.
Wilkins, Chaplain to Lord Orford and holder of the living of Hurstbourne Tarrant, near Andover, Hampshire; the letters are concerned mainly with domestic matters.
Lord Northington's correspondence while Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; includes copies of letters, among others, to and from: Frederick North, 2nd earl of Guilford (1732-1792); Thomas Townshend, 1st viscount Sydney (1733-1800); George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813); Sir Evan Nepean, 1st bart.
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 John Major Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Major presented only one budget (the first one to be televised) in the spring of 1990.
He publicised it as a budget for savings and announced the TESSA (Tax Exempt Special Savings Account) arguing that measures were required to address the marked fall in the household savings ratio that had been apparent during the previous financial year.
He stood down from Parliament at the 2001 general election and has so far declined the customary life peerage and seat in the House of Lords that is given to former Prime Ministers.
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 Limerick School of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bishop Griffin first heard her singing in Lord Limerick's garden, which adjoined the Palace, Henry -street, and generously gave her the musical education which enabled her to become world famous.
Spring Rice (MP for Limerick and later Lord Monteagle), Lord Bishop of Limerick, Right Hon.
Sir Thomas Cleeve, JP is the President of the society.
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 From King's County to Quinnsland - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
For this purpose, from the spring of 1857, Digby engaged the services of William Steuart Trench of Essex Castle, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan already agent for the Marquis of Bath in that county as well as for the Marquis of Lansdowne who had extensive Co. Kerry estates.
Thomas Trench wrote to his father attributing a fire on the estate to agitators although it was later proven that one of his own staff had started the conflagration.
Lord Ashtown was a cousin of William Steuart Trench.
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 dunraven.htm
He particularly admired the Pompeo Batonis of Lord Dartrey and 'Mr Quin Junior', the latter of whom was Valentine Richard Quin, later 1st Earl of Dunraven (1752-1824), who was on the Grand Tour in the 1770s and recorded as being in Florence in 1773.
The title to most of the Co. Limerick estate, in and around Adare and elsewhere in the county, is piecemeal and exceedingly complicated, and no doubt had to be made deliberately obscure after the passing of the Act to Prevent the Further Growth of Popery, with its swingeing restrictions on Catholic landownership, in 1704.
However, the surviving papers of Thady, Valentine and Windham Quin of Adare, 1678-1769, and of Valentine Richard Quin, later 1st Earl of Dunraven, 1770-1824, are all really estate papers, consisting of bonds, case papers, schedules of deeds, accounts, receipts, tenants' proposals (particularly for the period 1804-1814).
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 Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle - Definition, explanation
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (1790-7 February 1866), English statesman, son of S. Rice and Catherine Spring, came of a Limerick family, whose ancestor was Sir Stephen Rice (1637-1715), chief baron of the Irish exchequer and a leading Jacobite.
In 1820 he became Whig member for Limerick (from 1832 member for Cambridge); and after holding minor offices became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834 and in 1835-1839 Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He was disappointed in not obtaining the speakership, but in 1839 was created Baron Monteagle of Brandon (a title intended earlier for his ancestor Sir Stephen Rice), and made Controller of the Exchequer.
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 Portraits
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (1790-7 February 1866), English statesman, John Linnel was an English painter who made a good living as a fashionable portraitist, but preferred to paint landscapes.
Who was a Lord of the bedchamber, Master of the harriers and Foxhounds, and a strong supporter of the Ministry in the House of Lords.
He was arrested but at a court hearing the Lord Chief Justice ruled that as an MP, Wilkes was protected by privilege from arrest on a charge of libel.
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 About The Nineteenth Century - Books on Ireland Title List
Digest of the evidence, before the committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons, in the year 1837.
A vindication of the Most Rev. John Thomas Troy, D.D., Roman Catholic archbishop in the Church of Dublin.
Substance of a speech delivered in the House of Lords, on Friday, the 26th of March, 1847.
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 thePeerage.com - Theodosia Alicia Ellen Frances Charlotte Spring-Rice and others
Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon b.
     Theodosia Alicia Ellen Frances Charlotte Spring-Rice was the daughter of Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon.
     Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon was born on 8 February 1790.
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 Chancellor_of_the_exchequer info here at www.beatout.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The office should not be confused with those of the Lord High Chancellor or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, both Cabinet posts, the Chancellor of the High Court, a senior judge, or the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a defunct judicial office.
As Second Lord, his official residence is Number 11 Downing Street in London, next door to the residence of the First Lord of the Treasury (a post usually though not always held by the Prime Minister), who resides in 10 Downing Street.
Because the House of Lords is excluded from Finance bills, the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Database.
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 Women, Education and Literature - The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849
MS 13346: Monteagle Papers: Correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Spring Rice (1st Lord Monteagle) 1824-1850.
MS 21736: Portion of a letter of Maria Edgeworth [to a bishop or peer?] mentioning the Bishop of Llandaff, the second volume of her father's memoirs, and Monsieur Dumont, 22 March 1818; also a letter of Marilyn Butler commenting on the Edgeworth letter, 7 May 1965.
MS 26744: Letters between Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Henry Lister in which she discusses his novel Granby and advises him on practical aspects of publishing, January-April 1826.
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