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  William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC (May 31, 1847 –June 6, 1924) was a leading Irish shipbuilder and businessman.
In 1921 Pirrie was elected to the Northern Ireland Senate, and that same year was created Viscount Pirrie, of the City of Belfast.
A memorial to Pirrie was unveiled in the grounds of Belfast City Hall in 2006.
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 People
William Pirrie was born in Quebec, Canada on 31st May 1847.
William Parr was born in 1882 in Horwich, Lancashire, England.
William was employed in Harland and Wolff as a an apprentice joiner.
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 William James Pirrie - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
"WILLIAM JAMES PIRRIE, 1ST Viscount (1847-), British shipbuilder and engineer, was born at Quebec May 31 1847, and educated at the Belfast Royal Academic Institution.
From 1806 to 1897 he was Lord Mayor of Belfast, and in 1898 the freedom of the city was conferred upon him.
In 1 9 06 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Pirrie, and was for a time comptroller of the household of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and pro-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.
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 Duffin & Riddle
William Grimshaw, the ninth child of Nicholas and Mary (Wrigley) Grimshaw, who was born in Ireland in 1782.
William Grimshaw was the author of a number of books including one which sheds some light on the family and the history of County Antrim.
Pirrie was created a Baron in 1906 and a Viscount in 1921, but as his marriage was childless, the peerage would die out with his death.
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 Back to Titanic: Making Waves: History with Kelly: Thomas Andrews/Victor Garber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
(a politician) and Eliza Pirrie, married in 1870.
Thomas's mother, Eliza Pirrie Andrews, was the sister of Lord William James who was the owner of the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.
In 1906, Pirrie, was made a Baron and a Viscount in 1921.
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 STEAMSHIP LINES - Online Information article about STEAMSHIP LINES
WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. Ger.
Spence and Co. of Liverpool, in which William Inman (1825–1881) was a partner, and the sailings of the steamships were thenceforth for some years between Liverpool and Philadelphia.
The contract was renewed from time to time, that coming into operation on the 1st of October 1883 being for an accelerated service.
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'''William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie''', Order of St Patrick KP (May 31, 1847) - (June 6, 1924) was a leading Ireland Irish shipbuilder and businessman.
Pro-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast from 1908 to 1914, Lord Pirrie was also in the years before the World War I First World War a member of the Committee on Irish Finance as well as Lord Lieutenant Lieutenant for the City of Belfast (both 1911).
In 1921 Pirrie was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Senate, and that same year was created '''Viscount Pirrie''', of the City of Belfast.
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 Local History - non-London (manuscripts only)
William Burrows Buller (fl.1841), apothecary, Cambridgeshire: autograph letter from J.C. Davie M.R.C.S. of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, to the Court of Examiners at Apothecaries' Hall, London, stating that Buller is practising medicine and has obtained contracts with benefit societies at Wilburton and Stretham, despite having failed the Society of Apothecaries' examination.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), naval commander: facsimile of letter from Nelson to the Mayor of Norwich in 1797, presenting a Spanish Admiral's sword captured at St. Vincent.
William Roscoe M.P. (1753-1831), historian and botanist: ticket of admission, probably to Liverpool Royal Institution (of which Roscoe was the first President).
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 William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie, KP (May 31, 1847) - (June 6, 1924) was a leading Irish shipbuilder and businessman.
Born in Quebec, he was educated at the Belfast Royal Academical Institution before entering Harland and Wolff shipyard as an apprentice gentleman in 1862.
As well as overseeing the world's largest shipyard, Pirrie was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1896, and was re-elected to the office as well as made a Irish Privy Counsellor the following year.
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 Borough of Belfast
41 (1st August 1859), the Company obtained power to extend their line to Clones, 12 1/2 miles, and to raise further capital, consisting of £225,000, in ordinary shares (of which £40,000 may be subscribed to the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh line), and loans £50,000.
51 (1st August 1859), the Ulster Company is authorised to subscribe £30,000 to the joint undertaking of the Clones and Cavan Extension; the Dublin and Drogheda and the Dublin and Belfast Junction each, subscribing £20,000, and the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company, the remainder.
ANTRIM - Marquis of Hertford, Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, Viscount Templetown, Rev. Wm.
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 Members of the Northern Ireland Senate, 1921-72
It appears that if a member of the lower house was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast or Mayor of Londonderry he was obliged to give up his seat in the House of Commons - cf Rolston (1955) and Kinahan (1959).
There are several instances where a member of one house was elected to the other and resigned from the seat originally held.
William J. Morgan was elected to both the 1973-4 Assembly and the 1975-6 Constitutional Convention from North Belfast (having already been a member of both houses of the old Northern Ireland Parliament).
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 Index2
Son of William Arbuthnott, son of David Arbuthnott, Sr (Bone).
Dau of William Arbuthnott, son of David Arbuthnott, Sr (Bone).
Witness to the baptism of William Arbuthnott, bap Montrose 10.2.1674.
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 BBC - h2g2 - County Down, Northern Ireland
William III on his way to the Battle of Boyne was informed that the Royal course was not subsidised.
Also Viscount William James Pirrie who replaced Edward Harland as Chairman of Harland and Wolff was raised in Conlig.
, 1st Viscount Bangor, and wife Lady Anne Bligh, daughter of the 1st Earl of Darnley, could not agree on a style for their new home.
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Wit: William Capshaw, (jurat) David 3 CONT Capshaw, William Wash 3 CONT Capshaw.
Legacies to Thomas Holmes, 3 CONT John Williams and William 3 CONT godwin, Robert Bird, overseer.
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 Read A Blog - United Irelander - Where are all the great Irish women?.. 100 Greatest Irish People - The vote cont'd.. ...
William Parsons - Cork-born father of Charles Parsons who built a telescope in Offaly which for many decades was the largest in the world.
William Rowan Hamilton - Brilliant mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Lord Kelvin - Born William Thomson in Belfast, Ireland.
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 Table 13
Witnesses: William Rait of Halgreen and William Arbuthnot.
William married second in Montrose, 22 September 1943, Mae Watt (born 22 July 1912; died Montrose 10 November 1990).
Married in Melbourne, ?.?.19??, Phyllis Jean Brown (born Melbourne 6 September 1923), daughter of William Brown and Florence, née Farrow.
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 colin glen, nifty erotic, uganda, jubba airways, lisburn, mandala airlines, guinee air service, belfast, londonderry, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Founded in 1833 by William Crolly, St. Malachy's College is one of Ireland's oldest Roman Catholic Grammar School.
St George's Market, built between 1890 and 1896, is Belfast's last surviving Victorian architecture covered marketplace.5 million in 1997, and hosts regular Friday and Saturday markets.
Belfast City Cemetery contains the graves of many notable Belfast residents including William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie and Sir Edward Harland.
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 Other Information of- Akkad.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Harland made a success of the business through several innovations, notably replacing the wooden upper decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships; and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer section, which increased their capacity.
When Harland died in 1894, William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie became the chairman of the company until his death in 1924.
It was during this period that the company built the RMS Titanic and her sister-ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic between 1909 and 1914.
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 Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music - Wi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford
William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland
William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire
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 National Portrait Gallery | Search the collection | Photographs Collection | Collection holdings albums
Sitters include: 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Baron Cranworth, 2nd Earl Granville, 8th Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Bt, 1st Earl Russell, Viscount Cardwell, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 1st Viscount Halifax, Gladstone, 2nd Baron of Alderley, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Thomas Milner-Gibson and Charles Pelham Villiers.
Includes 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1st July 1860 by Mayall to Lord Randolph Churchill in 1862 by A.Ken and an interesting outdoor group photograph of the 7th Earl of Carlisle and the Civil Service Cricket Club at the Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, 18th August 1863.
Lillie Langtry in The Lady of Lyons, William Terriss as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Jessie Bond, William Hill and William Sydney Penley, Eleanor Calhoun, Thomas Thorne, Ada Cavendish, Sir George Alexander, Kate Phillips, Zeffie Tilbury, Maude Millett, George Grossmith.
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 Car Parts For 1999 Ford Escort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 Pe
of Leggygowan; daughter of William Peak, a farmer; married Samuel Bailie of Leggygowan 5 Nov 1868 at Linenhall Presbyterian Church, Belfast;mother of Margaret Jane b.
Lisburn; wife of William Harrison; mother of Nathaniel b.
of Cahard; a labourer; son of William; married Sarah Jane Nixon on 22 Nov 1866 at Magheradrool Church of Ireland by Rev. Henry Stewart; witnesses were Jane Nixon and Ellen Harrison; father of James Nixon Peddlar b.
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 Research and Special Collections Available Locally (NI) - RASCAL Northern Ireland ::Site Search
Letts, Professor E.A. Leveson Gower, Francis, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Chief Secretary of Ireland, 1829
Paget, Henry William (1768-1854), 1st Marquess of Angelsey
William of Orange (1650-1702), King of England, 1689-1702
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 Julian Morgan - Book Catalogue
1st edition in English, translated from German by Chas Salter.
DW is intact but has a large tear at the front top.
Covers are slightly grubby and there are one or two marks on the front cover.
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 Notable Belfast People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and politician
William Frederick McFadzean, soldier and posthumous VC recipient
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
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Marquis of Donegall - Chairman, The Mayor of Belfast, Rev. Lord Edward Chichester, William Boyd, Robert Boyd, Robert McDowell, Samuel Thompson, George McTear, William Cairns, Thomas Corbitt ~ vacates in 1844, James Steen ~ vacates in 1844, Valentine Whitla ~ vacates in 1844, Robert Langtry ~ vacates in 1845, Hugh Magill ~ vacates in 1845
William Cairns, John Rowan, John McNeile, Robert F. Gordon, R. Tennent, Robert Thompson, and George G. Dunbar.
William Gray - Belfast Thomas McCammon - Belfast
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 House Party at Stormont Castle.
(2) James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon (1906-1974); eldest son of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Ist Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Occasion: House party given by Sir James Craig, (1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) on the occasion of the official state entry into Belfast of James, 3rd Duke Abercorn as first Governor of Northern Ireland.
Occasion: The Belfast Weekly News, 1st March 1923, pp 5 and 7-8; The Belfast Weekly Telegraph, 3 March 1923, pp 9-12.
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 Thomas Andrews
Andrews was born to a fairly prominent family in Belfast, Ireland in 1873.
His father was a local politician, and his mother was the sister of William Pirrie, the controlling owner of the Harland & Wolff shipyard.
Pirrie had worked his way up through the shipyard starting as an apprentice, but was a partner at age 27.
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 rms_titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
''Titanic'' was designed by Harland and Wolff chairman [[William Pirrie, 1st Viscount PirrieLord Pirrie]], head of Harland and Wolff's design department [[Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)Thomas Andrews]] and general manager Alexander Carlisle, with the plans regularly sent to White Star Line's managing director [[J. Bruce Ismay]] for suggestions and approval.
Murdoch (who had now already seen the iceberg) ordered an abrupt turn to [[port (nautical)port]] (left) and full speed astern, which stopped and then reversed the ship's reciprocating engines driving the wing propellers (the center shaft stopped as the turbine was not reversible.
[[John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount MerseyLord Mersey]] was appointed to head the [[Board of TradeBritish Board of Trade's]] inquiry into the disaster.
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