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  William Randal Cremer
Randal Cremer (he preferred to drop the William) was born to poor working-class parents in a small town in Hampshire, England.
At fifteen Cremer was apprenticed to a carpenter, and it was as a journeyman carpenter that at the age of twenty-four he came to London to seek his fortune.
Cremer was now in position to push the arbitration cause in "practical politics" in Parliament, where he came to be called the "member for arbitration." In 1888 the WPA was retitled the International Arbitration League (IAL) and its base of supporters was broadened with representatives from other levels of society.
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 Randal Cremer - Biography
Cremer used his power as a member of Parliament and his prestige as a labor leader to advance his passionate belief that peace was the only acceptable state for mankind and arbitration the method by which it could be achieved.
Cremer was elected vice-president of the Union and secretary of the British section.
Cremer was a lonely man: his first wife died in 1876, his second in 1884; there were no children.
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 William Cremer
William Cremer was born in Fareham, Hampshire, on 18th March, 1828.
Cremer was an active trade unionist and took part in the campaign for the nine-hour day in 1858.
Cremer was defeated in the 1895 General Election.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcremer.htm   (634 words)

  
 Peace Project: Biographies of Peace Prize Winner.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sir William Randal Cremer was born March 18, 1828, in London England.
In the beginning he was active in the British trade union but eventually he moved on to bigger things by becoming one of the most active advocates of the international arbitration.
William Randal received a great honor in 1907 by being knighted.
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 CREMER, SIR WILLIAM RANDAL. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1871 he became secretary of the Workmen’s Peace Association, a position he held until his death.
For his efforts in the cause of international arbitration Cremer was awarded the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize.
He gave most of the stipend in trust to the International Arbitration League.
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 William Randal Cremer
Randal Cremer (il n'utilisait pas le prénom William) est né de parents ouvriers dans une petite ville du Hampshire, en Angleterre.
Cremer pouvait enfin inscrire son plaidoyer pour l'arbitrage dans une "action politique concrète" au sein du Parlement où il devint bientôt le "député de l'arbitrage".
Cremer avait déjà commencé à oeuvrer au Parlement pour relancer l'idée déjà ancienne d'un traité d'arbitrage avec les Etats-Unis.
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 William Randal Cremer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Randal Cremer, (March 18, 1828 – July 22, 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was an English Member of Parliament and pacifist.
Cremer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903 mainly for his work in international arbitration, and particularly the 1897 Anglo-American arbitration treaty.
He co-founded the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Arbitration League.
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 Cremer James F. Cremer. Professor And Chair. 14d Maclean Hall. Computer Science Department. The Universi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cremer Engineering sells, installs and maintains NEC and Nortel Telephone systems, Dukane Nurse Call Systems, and is the designer of Prison Video Visitation Systems.
The life of Sir William Randal Cremer is something of a rags-to-riches story he went to work in the shipyards, Cremer made his way upward with his exceptional.
Erika Cremer was born in Munich, Germany, in May of 1900.
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 Cremer, William Randal
William Randal Cremer (March 18, 18281-July 22, 1908) was born in the small town of Fareham, England, not far from Portsmouth, into a working class family at a time when intense misery was the workingman's lot.
The resolution excited the interest of Frédéric Passy and other French deputies who invited Cremer and his colleagues to an exploratory meeting in Paris in 1888.
As a result of this meeting the Interparliamentary Union2 was formed and its first meeting held in Paris in 1889, with representatives from eight nations in attendance.
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 University of Puget Sound :: Class Speaker: Sarah A. Norris '04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1903, Sir William Randal Cremer won the Nobel Peace Prize for his life-long work in creating an International Arbitration League, aimed at resolving international disputes civilly and democratically in sovereign courts of law.
Apart from his international efforts, Cremer was a member of the British Parliament, had rallied 70,000 workers in protest at workplace conditions, and formed an Inter-parliamentary Union between France and the UK that exists to this day.
While Cremer won the Nobel in 1903 for international efforts, Ebadi won the Nobel for her courageous work representing underprivileged, discriminated native intellectuals in Iran.
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 Special Session on Children - UNICEF
The Union was founded in 1899 by William Randal Cremer, a British member of Parliament, and Frédéric Passy, a French member of Parliament.
By meeting together as representatives of democracies, Cremer and Passy believed, parliamentarians could arbitrate disputes in international politics, as well as promote free trade and facilitate the signing of treaties between states.
Cremer and Passy's vision turned out to be a success.
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 pacifism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1828 William Ladd, one of the early pacifists, welded the many local societies that had been established in the United States into the American Peace Society.
Soon more radical pacifists came to the fore, and the peace movement in the United States became connected with other causes under the leadership of such men as Elihu Burritt and William Lloyd Garrison.
The efforts of Frédéric Passy in France and of Sir William Randal Cremer in Great Britain led to the foundation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1892.
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 Cremer, Sir William Randal - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
CREMER, SIR WILLIAM RANDAL [Cremer, Sir William Randal], 1828-1908, English pacifist.
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 sociology - WRC
The World Rally Championship, a series of automobile rally races and World Rally Car - the class of cars involved in them.
The Worker Rights Consortium, a college and university organisation dedicated to ensuring that factories producing clothing and other goods respect the basic rights of workers.
William Randal Cremer, a nobel-prize winning English pacifist.
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 Invasion force will use English pacifist and trade union activist Sir William Randal Cremer in order to advance the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Invasion force will use English pacifist and trade union activist Sir William Randal Cremer in order to advance the surrender of USA
He made the first arbitration treaty between the USA and Great Britain, he advanced the Interparliamentary Union, he fought for the establishment of the Carpenters and Joiners Union - he fought for peace.
The forces to invade America believe so and is preparing a uniform dedicated to Sir William.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir William Randal Cremer (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
AllRefer.com - Sir William Randal Cremer (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir William Randal Cremer, British And Irish History, Biographies
Sir William Randal Cremer[krE´mur] Pronunciation Key, 1828–1908, English pacifist.
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 Sir William Randal Cremer Winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Peace
Sir William Randal Cremer Winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Peace
Biography of William Randal Cremer (submitted by Davis)
Sir Randal Cremer Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 1828 at Big Serving.com - Free Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Thesaurus and more.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
March 18 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d.
May 16 - William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (b.
December 22 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b.
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 Albert Gobat: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The pursuit of such objectives was to characterize Gobat's political activities throughout his mandate as Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The following year, the Union met in Berne and Gobat was asked to serve as Secretary General in spite of opposition from the British, who preferred one of their own men, Randal Cremer, and hoped that the headquarters might be closer to England.
Finally the Swiss won, as the French preferred the Union to be based in a neutral, republican country rather than in a conservative monarchy.
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 William Cremer - Heroes for a Culture of Peace
William Cremer - Heroes for a Culture of Peace
William Randal Cremer was a member of the British Parliament labor leader and pacifist who won the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to organize the International Arbitration League and for cofounding the Interparliamentary Union.
These Poster/Flyers may be distributed freely for non-commercial uses.
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JOHN HUME and DAVID TRIMBLE for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES (ICBL) and JODY WILLIAMS for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD CORRIGAN Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later
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 schonfield.org - IAL
The International Arbitration League was founded by Sir William Randal Cremer (1828-1908), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1903.
It's origins go back into the third quarter of the 19th century.
In this area we hope to publish all the documentation from the IAL archives in due course.
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 Sir William Randal Cremer — Infoplease.com
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 Nobel Peace Prize
1904 - Lord (John William Strutt) Rayleigh for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies.
1904 - Sir William Ramsay in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system.
1903 - William Randal Cremer, Member, British Parliament; Secretary, International Arbitration League
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