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  Walter Hume Long Long - LoveToKnow 1911
"WALTER HUME LONG LONG, 1ST ViscouNT (1854-), English statesman, born at Bath July 13 18J4, was the eldest son of Richard Penruddocke Long, of Rood Ashton, Wilts., and Dolforgan, Montgomeryshire, and his wife, Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon.
Long was not very prominent in Parliament, though he took his share in the determined opposition to the Home Rule bill.
Long became First Lord of the Admiralty and had the difficult task of supervising the reduction to a peace basis of the gigantic navy which had been built up during the war.
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  Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Long on his father's side was descended from an old family of Wiltshire gentry, and on his mother's side from Anglo-Irish gentry in County Wicklow.
In 1880, Long was elected to parliament as a Conservative, serving in the Commons with a few breaks until he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long in 1921.
Long entered government for the first time in the second Salisbury administration as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, serving under Charles Thomson Ritchie, and became one of the architects of the Local Government Act 1888, which established elected county councils.
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 The History of Chitterne - The Longs
Walter Long first bought land and buildings in the village from the Methuen family, which passed to his son, Richard Penruddocke Long, in 1867 and subsequently his grandson, Walter Hume Long, in 1875.
Henry Long (of Whaddon) is recorded as a clothier in 1599.
Walter Hume Long was given a viscountcy in 1921.
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 How Long to Boil Lobster
Long, Long, Long - "Long, Long, Long" is a song written and sung by George Harrison, and recorded by the Beatles that is on the C-Side of the White Album.
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (13 July 1854 - 26 September 1924 was a British Unionist politician.
The Long, Long Trailer - The Long, Long Trailer was a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling the United States.
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 Walter Hume Long Information
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (13 July 1854 - 26 September 1924), the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, was a British Unionist politician.
Long on his father's side was descended from an old family of Wiltshire gentry, and on his mother's side from Anglo-Irish gentry in County Wicklow.
At the 1880 general election, Long was elected to parliament as a Conservative, serving in the House of Commons with a few breaks until he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long in 1921.
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 Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Long on his father's side was descended from an old family of Wiltshire gentry, and on his mother's side from Anglo-Irish gentry in County Wicklow.
At the 1880 general election, Long was elected to parliament as a Conservative, serving in the Commons with a few breaks until he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long in 1921.
Long entered government for the first time in the second Salisbury administration as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, serving under Charles Thomson Ritchie, and became one of the architects of the Local Government Act 1888, which established elected county councils.
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 golfsellers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (13 July 1854 - 26 September 1924), the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, was a British Unionist politician.
At the 1880 general election, Long was elected to parliament as a Conservative, serving in the House of Commons with a few breaks until he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long in 1921.
His eldest son Brigadier General Walter Long CMG, DSO was killed in action in 1917, and so was succeeded by his 13 year-old grandson Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long.
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 Arthur Balfour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Hume Long - President of the Local Government Board
March 1905 - Walter Hume Long succeeds George Wyndham as Irish Secretary.
Gerald Balfour succeeds Long at the Local Government Board.
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 Science Fair Projects - Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (1854-1924) was a British Conservative politician of the late 19th and early 20th century.
In Asquith's coalition ministry of 1915, Long was again President of the Local Government Board (1915-1916), and under Lloyd George he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies (1916-1919), and First Lord of the Admiralty (1919-1921).
He retired in 1921 and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long, of Wraxall in the County of Wiltshire.
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 Long Staats   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Long, Long, Long - "Long, Long, Long" is a song written and sung by George Harrison, and recorded by the Beatles that is on the C-Side of the White Album.
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (13 July 1854 - 26 September 1924 was a British Unionist politician.
The Long, Long Trailer - The Long, Long Trailer was a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling the United States.
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 Lord Long of Wraxall   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Long was born in Bath, the son of a member of Parliament.
Long is a respected elder statesman and a typical English country gentleman, with a great knowledge of agriculture.
The eldest son, Brigadier-General Walter Long, was killed in action in 1917 and his son, also Walter (b.1911; educated at Eton and Sandhurst), succeeds to the viscounty on his grandfather's death.
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 Steeple Ashton | British History Online
Another inscription in the church, copied from an earlier one, records that it was built between 1480 and 1500, the north aisle at the cost of Robert Long, the south aisle at the cost of Walter Lucas, and the rest of the church and steeple at the cost of the parishioners.
In 1495 Walter Lucas left a missal, a pair of vestments, and a chalice to the altar of St. John the Baptist in Steeple Ashton church.
In 1671 Henry Long left £20 for the benefit of the poor of West Ashton, which was used in 1725 to buy 1 a.
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 NPG x66510; Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall
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Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall (1854-1924), Politician.
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 Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - Politics.ie Wiki
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long was born in Bath in 1854, the son of an MP and a Wicklow mother.
When Arthur Balfour resigned as Conservative leader in 1911, Long was entered the race to succeed him but was challenged by the Liberal Unionist Austen Chamberlain.
Long returned to cabinet during the war coalition, serving as President of the Local Government Board again 1915-16, as Secretary of State for the Colonies 1916-19 and as First Lord of the Admiralty 1919-21.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1041 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Walter Francis David LONG [Parents] was born 14 Sep 1911.
Walter LONG Brig.Gen. [Parents] was born 26 Jul 1879.
Walter LONG Brig.Gen. was born 26 Jul 1879 and died 27 Jan 1917.
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 Long Wharf Resort
Long Wharf is a waterfront district and neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
Long Wharf is also the home port of a life-size replica of the historical Amistad slaveship, and has recently become host to an IKEA super-store which atrracts shoppers and visitors from around the state.
In this role, Long was criticized as too radical for his support of the Unemployed Workmen's Act of 1905, which created an uenmployment board to give work and training to the unemployed.
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 thePeerage.com - Ida Agnes Eleanor Forbes and others
Victoria Florence de Burgh Long, daughter of Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long and Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle, on 26 November 1901 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England.
She was the daughter of Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long and Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle.
She married Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, son of Richard Penruddocke Long and Charlotte Anna Dick, on 1 August 1878.
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 Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
In 1880, Long was elected to parliament as a Conservative, serving in the Commons with a few breaks until he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long in 1921.
Long was best known, however, for his involvement with the Irish question.
Following the Unionist fall from power in December 1905, Long became one of the leading opposition voices against the Liberals' plans for home rule in Ireland, helping to found the Ulster Defence League in 1907, although he never openly supported the most militant Unionists.
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 Long Sweater
The Book of the Long Sun - The Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun.
The first two volumes are published together as Litany of the Long Sun and the last two as Epiphany of the Long Sun.
Yuen Long - Yuen Long or Yuen Long Town (Chinese: 元朗, formerly, Un Long) was a traditional market town in the area known as Yuen Long Kau Hui in present-day, within the Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong.
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 South Wraxall, Wiltshire
In Asquith's coalition ministry of 1915, Long was again President of the Local Governement Board (1915-16) and under Lloyd George he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies (1916-19) and First Lord of the Admiralty (1919-1921).
The 2nd Viscount was the son of Brigadier General Walter Long, son of the 1st Viscount.
He was succeeded by his second son, Richard Gerard Long as the 4th Viscount as the eldest son, Lieutenant Walter Reginald Basil Long was killed on active service in Greece in 1941.
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 thePeerage.com - Ida Agnes Eleanor Forbes and others
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long and Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle, on 26 November 1901 in St.
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long was born on 13 July 1854.
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, son of Richard Penruddocke Long and Charlotte Anna Dick, on 1 August 1878.
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 UK Parliament - Sport and Parliament
During the First World War football was used as a tool to encourage men to sign up, playing on its principles of comradeship and sportsmanship.
A letter from Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, shows this shift in opinion as he writes in September 1914 of his approval of football being used as a means of stimulating recruitment (Parliamentary Archives BLU/1/13/LONGW.8).
Members and staff of both Houses were soon not just taking an interest in sport, but also actively participating and holding positions of influence.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Home Rule Act 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As to how long the period of partition was to last, due to the ambiguities of the wording of the final document purposely intrigued by Walter Long to jeopardise Home Rule.
The outcome was the Anglo–Irish Treaty, signed on 6 December 1921, modelled on the foregone Fourth Home Rule Act, gave Ireland Commonwealth Dominion status under the British Crown, acknowledged partition, and abolished the (1916) Irish Republic.
After a long and acrimonious debate lasting some weeks, the Dáil ratified the Treaty on the 7 January 1922 by 64 votes to 57.
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 Online NewsHour: Cable News Wars -- Brit Hume   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BRIT HUME: Well, what it suggests is that he came in with a certain amount of burden on his shoulders, because there have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career.
BRIT HUME: Well, what I think about that, Terry, is this: that in the end -- and the 9/11 situation has proved it -- you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
BRIT HUME: It says I'm an American at a time when America is under attack, and it is a gesture of solidarity with my fellow citizens of this country.
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 Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long . Enpsychlopedia
ibid p.154. At the same time, Long was one of the more free trade oriented Unionists, and opposed last ditch resistance to the Parliament Act 1911.
Carson, in a bitter reposte, said of Long "The worst of Walter Long is that he never knows what he wants, but is always intriguing to get it.ibid.
p.193. Austin Chamberlain, in 1911, was similarly critical of Long, saying he was "at the centre of every coterie of grumblers."ibid.
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 Long of Rood Ashton, Potterne and Wraxall
The family of the Longs of Wiltshire was settled at a very early date at South Wraxall.
A110 Walter Hume (the Viscount Long), of Wraxall, Co. Wilts, in the United Kingdom: hon.
1854; raised to the peerage as Viscount Long of Wraxall, Co. Wilts, 1921.
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 The History of The Round House, Chitterne
The Round House was amongst estates in Chitterne bought by Walter Long of Rood Ashton.
map Charles Morris is noted as the leaseholder of The Round House, under Walter Long Esq.
Walter Hume Long inherited much of Chitterne including the Round House.
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 Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise
The Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise has made a multi-year commitment to provide assistance to the community of Katete, Zamiba.
It is with deep sadness that we note the death our club member Carmen, who passed away after a long illness on 8/30/2007.
Carmen is a Charter Member of our club and has been a vibrant member supporting our Rotary projects and mission.
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