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3 giorni fa · The burgeoning influence, assisted by the BBC, of socialists like Attlee and Haldane caused dread to British conservatives including Harold Harmsworth, the first Viscount Rothermere, who owned newspapers including the popular Daily Mail and who had opposed universal suffrage and the growth of the Labour Party. 12 Rothermere supported ...
4 giorni fa · Anne Charteris was Fleming’s wife, whom he married in 1952 after her divorce from the 2nd Viscount Rothermere due to her affair with Fleming. They had a son named Caspar. What personal habits of Fleming contributed to his declining health? Fleming’s heavy smoking and drinking habits contributed to his declining health.
1 giorno fa · Harmsworth of Horsey: 14 July 1910: Viscount Rothermere: 903: Tuck of Park Crescent: 19 July 1910: 904: Ebrahim of Bombay: 20 July 1910: 905: Baring of Nubia House: 4 February 1911: 906: Graaff of Cape Town: 6 February 1911: 911: Younger of Auchen Castle: 14 February 1911: 912: Ward of Wellington: 20 June 1911: Vacant since 2021. 913 ...
2 giorni fa · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
5 giorni fa · Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 9, Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1815-1870.Originally published by University of London, London, 1984.
4 giorni fa · In 1716 he was made vice-admiral and on several occasions was in command of a fleet, notably in 1727–8 when he blockaded Cadiz. In 1731 he was promoted to be admiral. Two years later he was made a privy councillor and first lord of the admiralty, (fn. n90) a position which he held until 1742. He died in 1743.
2 giorni fa · Victory Medal. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
