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  Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Information
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (24 September 1887 - 5 January 1952) was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.
His twin, John Hope, became a Conservative statesman and was made 1st Baron Glendevon.
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  John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, he was the younger son of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner.
Hope was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and served in the Second World War in Norway and Italy with the Scots Guards, achieving the rank of temporary Major and twice mentioned in dispatches.
Hope served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1956, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations from 1956 to 1957 and as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1957 to 1959.
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Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow b.
John Adrian Hope, son of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner, on 21 July 1948.
She is the daughter of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner.
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 Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (24 September 1887 - 5 January 1952) was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.
Hope's oldest son, Charles Hope, succeeded as Marquess.
His twin, John Hope, became a Conservative statesman and was made 1st Baron Glendevon.
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 Search Results for "Hope"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Overview of Victor Alexander John Hope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hope succeeded to the Marquessate of Linlithgow following the death of his father in 1908.
Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1936-43), he was regarded as a safe pair of hands, promoting a greater level of Indian democratisation and ensuring support for the war effort during the early part of World War II.
Hope became Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh (1944 - 1952).
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Hi-Hu
His, father, John Higgins, was a Methodist minister, whose wife, Anne Bournes, was the well-educated daughter of a county Mayo landholder.
In this way he hoped to prevent scrambling for office or working for money to be spent for the benefit of the member's district.
He was given a public luncheon and a presentation from his admirers, and speaking at the luncheon, with characteristic generosity, asked that the Nationalists should extend every consideration to John Storey (q.v.) the new Labour premier.
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 Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2d marquess of - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2d marquess of - HighBeam Encyclopedia
LINLITHGOW, VICTOR ALEXANDER JOHN HOPE, 2D MARQUESS OF [Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2d marquess of], 1887-1952, British statesman, viceroy of India.
Linlithgow was civil lord of the admiralty (1922-24) and held numerous other public positions.
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 Casino News & Articles - February 9, 2007
The organisations hope to merge their current codes to provide a framework to be tabled at an international summit later in the year.
New CEO Alexander was, most recently, managing director of Sportingbet PLC's European operations where, "under his leadership the business became one of the most profitable gaming operations in Europe," added Smith.
The Alexander commission's website has copied verbatim some of Kahnawake's stated basic principles, "that the games offered are fair to the player" and "that winners are paid." The reserves' data-hosting firms are Alexander Internet Technologies and Mohawk Internet Technologies, respectively.
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 Governor-General of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Of those that were not, Sir John Shore was a baronet, Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence was a knight, and The Lord William Bentinck was entitled to the courtesy title "Lord" because he was the son of a Duke.
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1894–1899)
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1936–1943)
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 AllRefer Encyclopedia - South Asian History, Biographies Encyclopedia
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 Casino News & Articles - October 6, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Most industry observers were hoping that the fear and speculation so evident on Monday would give place to more rational and considered assessments and a calmer market today.
Distraught US online gamblers hoping for a reversal of the proposed US law disrupting online gambling financial channels were discussing protests directed at political representatives and an unusual and uncertain avenue called the President's Line Item Veto today.
The proposal that the President be given this power in addition to the overall authority of a veto has been a cause for some political and Supreme Court argument in the past.
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 Casino News & Articles - March 9, 2007
Legal Week reports that John Carroll and Warren Feldman will be NETeller's counsel in the United States, with David Lewis and Jenine Hulsmann working on the case on the other side of the Atlantic in the UK.
John Thain, chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, said in January that AIM "did not have any standards at all and anyone could list".
Officials with the Alexander band did not return phone calls, but have said in the past that they view themselves as a sovereign nation with the power to offer gaming licences.
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 Greater India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, E of Lytton (acting) 1925-1926 d.1947
After the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took full political authority in India unto itself, and the Company was formally dissolved in 1873.
On his epic voyage in 1497-99, with four vessels, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, passed the easternmost point reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, continued up the east coast of Africa to Malindi, and sailed across the Indian Ocean to Calicut.
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1927) 11 Oct 1894 - 6 Jan 1899 Victor Alexander Bruce, Earl of Elgin (b.
1925) 18 Nov 1905 - 23 Nov 1910 Gilbert John Elliot-Murray- Kynynmound, Earl of Minto (b.
1941) 18 Apr 1936 - 1 Oct 1943 Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow (b.
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 Casino News & Articles - September 29, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Associated Press reports that Republican leaders in the House and Senate were blocked Wednesday by a senior GOP senator in their efforts to add immigration, handgun and Internet gambling measures to a defense bill.
John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, rejected appeals from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert to use his bill on military pay raises as a vehicle for their pet measures.
The hope of many online operators rests in several European Commission investigations into the activities of countries that seek to maintain their gambling monopolies at the expense of EU-domiciled online competitors.
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 thePeerage.com - nil and others
     Richard Henry Alexander Southby was born on 4 August 1941.
Patrick Henry James Southby and Lady Anne Adeline Hope.
He married Lady Joan Isabella Hope, daughter of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner, on 22 April 1952.
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 Casino News & Articles - July 14, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pikerplayer beat the nine final table players to collect a reward of $45 000, with his last opponent, Noonan taking $27 000, and the first man to be eliminated from the final table picking up $2 000.
It is an unfortunate fact that this sort of questionable conduct by "skins" on a network reflects adversely on the network itself, and it is to be hoped that a reputable company like Ongame will conduct an investigation and act appropriately on its results.
The industry is now hoping to get smaller players to report under the new KPI regime.
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 India Political Impasse and Independence - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Skillfully, he succeeded in unifying various regional Islamic organizations and factions in Punjab and Bengal under the umbrella of the Muslim League.
Electoral gains by the Congress in 1937 were rendered ephemeral as its leaders ordered provincial ministries to resign in November 1939, when the viceroy (Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquis of Linlithgow--1936-43) declared India's entrance into World War II without consulting Indian leaders.
Jinnah and the Muslim League welcomed the Congress withdrawal from government as a timely opportunity and observed a day of thanksgiving on December 22, 1939.
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 India
18 Apr 1936 - 1 Oct 1943 Victor Alexander John Hope, (b.
Apr 1786 - Apr 1787 John Michie (d.
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 Find in a Library: The Viceroy at bay: Lord Linlithgow in India, 1936-1943
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 Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquis - A Dictionary of British History - HighBeam Research
Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquis - A Dictionary of British History - HighBeam Research
Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquis (1887–1952).
Linlithgow was born in Scotland and educated at Eton.
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 Casino News & Articles - March 1, 2007
Gibraltar-based 888.com is the latest to issue a statement on the meeting, confirming that non-executive director and former chief executive John Anderson had been asked to attend the interview with the French gaming authorities.
The Guardian article opines that France's position appears to be at odds with European Union competition rules on gambling, which many offshore operators hope will be strengthened next week with publication of a landmark judgment from the European court of justice.
London-listed 888 Holdings confirmed Guardian reports that non-executive director John Anderson, who was chief executive of the business until the end of last December, had received a request from the French authorities.
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 A Passage To India - London location-notes for the David Lean film
However, this is no clue, as the PandO steamers left Southampton for Bombay every Saturday, and I have not been able to locate a list of Viceroy's travel movements.
Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton
The shipping clerk does, however, say that Mrs Moore is booked to return on the ship 'Rawalpindi' on May 12th.
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 Casino News & Articles - November 3, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
British culture secretary Tessa Jowell, hosting the 32 nation summit charged with discussing the regulation of Internet gambling (see previous InfoPowa reports) reiterated her view that the USA was going in the wrong direction in seeking to prohibit instead of regulate, and claimed that there is a real appetite for international cooperation on the subject.
Speaking at a pre-conference press briefing, Jowell said she hoped to agree a set of principles guiding the regulation of internet gambling in 32 nations as research showed that bets placed on the web doubled in the last five years.
The Beeb pointed out that in the borderless world of Internet gambling, where national laws can have only a limited effect, delegates were pinning their hopes on the much more ambitious route of an international agreement based on the principles of the UK legislation.
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 Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887-1952), Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1936-43
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887-1952), Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1936-43
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
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 Linlithgow Report | TIME
Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status.
First came the report of the Royal Commission under Sir John Simon (TIME, June 30, 1930).
That was largely junked after the unexpected declaration of India's reigning princes at the First India Round Table Conference that they were willing to enter an All-India Federation with the plebeian native states (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930).
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Arizona Sen. John McCain, almost certainly a contender for the White House in 2008, wants you and me to believe that he is a straighttalker.
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 Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow information - Search.com
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Hope's oldest son, Charles Hope, succeeded as Marquess.
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 January 5 Deaths in History
January 5, 1991 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
January 5, 1952 Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
January 5, 1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
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